 The
actress best known as Daisy Duke is the first to admit it:
Her duties on The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-85) were largely ornamental.
Most of the time, she just stood there in a skimpy outfit and looked
beautiful.
Nevertheless, Bach did grow weary of being a sex symbol, an image with
which she was never comfortable. "The whole time that Dukes of Hazzard
was on the air, I didn't have one mirror in my house, not even to brush
my teeth. I guess it might sound a little strange, but every time I
went to work I had to look at myself and I got sick of it. So I took
every mirror out of my house for some time."
In fact, her desire to break free from her Dukes of Hazzard fame
reached the point where she took a trip to China, believing no one
would recognize her there. "I figured they don't have Dukes of Hazzard
in China. So I get to China. I went to the hotel checked in. And what
did I hear in the lobby of the hotel? 'Just good ol' boys...' And I'm
saying, 'Oh, my God! I'm in China! I can't believe I'm hearing Waylon
Jennings on the TV!'"
Don't get the wrong idea, though. Bach, an Ohio native who turned 44
this year, is very fond of the show. In fact, she was the driving force
behind the 1997 Dukes TV movie, Reunion in Hazzard, which reunited cast
members for the first time since the series ended its seven-year run in
1985. Yet Bach, who also costarred with Robert Mitchum for three
seasons in African Skies (1992-1994), works relatively little today
because of marriage and motherhood.
She and her husband, Peter Lopez (an entertainment lawyer who, among
other things, manages musician Glenn Frey), make their home in Los
Angeles with their two-year year old daughter.
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