Bo Derek Bo Derek Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins; November 20, 1956) is an American film and television actress, film producer, and model perhaps best known for her breakthrough role in the 1979 film "10". The film also launched a bestselling poster for Derek in a swimsuit, and subsequently she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1980s. She was directed by husband John Derek in "Tarzan, the Ape Man" (1981), "Bolero" (1984) and "Ghosts Can't Do It" (1989), all of which received negative reviews. A widow since 1998, she lives with actor John Corbett. Now in semi-retirement,
The Countess Cathleen a Young Man". Werner Egk wrote the libretto for his 1955 opera "Irische Legende" based on Yeats' work. The play is also seen as anti-English: "The anti-English tendency underlying the play is evident, the merchant-demons being the English landlords." The Countess Cathleen The Countess Cathleen is a verse drama by William Butler Yeats in blank verse (with some lyrics). It was dedicated to Maud Gonne, the object of his affections for many years. The play was first published in 1892 in "The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics" (the spelling was changed to "Cathleen" in all future editions). Its