I have nothing of interest to add to the OP… I just wanted to say…
I work at a cable company. Premium channels put up posters all the time from movies that are going to be playing on their channels shortly. On my boss’ cube is a poster from Undercover Brother. She’s facing away from the camera and looking over her shoulder. It is all I can do to keep from caressing her ass everytime I walk by that damn poster.
Her acting seems to actually de-evolve and get worse over time. I thought she was passable (but gorgeous) in Starship Troopers, quite good (and gorgeous) in Wild Things, and then progressively worse in TWINE and Valentine and the other stuff I’ve seen her in.
But I’d still lick her stem to stern and come up smiling…Timmy
Wellllll, never mind about that DSL question. Someone just informed me.
Care to inform the rest of us? I still don’t know… (though I can make a general guess) 
Okay, it stands for Dick Sucking Lips. Apparently, this is a convenient abbreviation you can mumble when Angelina Jolie is standing there without her catching on.
It reminded me of FLK, an old medical term for Funny Looking Kid....While I admire her mattressable physique, I haven’t seen anything which indicates any sort of acting ability.
Who on earth cast her as a nuclear physicist in Tomorrow Never Dies? (Its almost as bad as Nicole Kidman as a brain surgeon in the horrible Days of Thunder.)
DSL has already been answered. . .
She ain’t that bad of an actress. Hell, I’ve seen worse (KISS comes to mind, but at least they had a musical backup).
Yeah, the cleavage helps (as it helped me through many a night), but I think if she’s given more challenging parts, she’d grow into 'em and not be that vapidly blank brunette we all know and love. . .
Tripler
Just my $0.02, along with some good memories. 
So to recap, we’ve learned:
Much of Ms. Richards’ appeal is based on her perceived “lickability.”
What DSL stands for.
Hi, Opal!
I was confusing the beauty-pageant-themed romantic comedy Miss Congeniality, which starred Sandra Bullock, with the beauty-pageant-themed indy satire Drop Dead Gorgeous, which starred Denise Richards.
The IMDB says that Ms. Richards did appear in Loaded Weapon 1, and I trust them.
Ms. Richards did begin her career as a model.
Ms. Richards is engaged to Charlie Sheen, who has proven in Hot Shots and “Spin City” that he doesn’t take himself too seriously, but you’d still be hard-pressed to call him a brilliant career-savvy thespian.
So my conclusion: she’s probably not the mega-mastermind I made her out to be in the OP, but she’s probably not as dumb as she looks, either. She’s a fair-to-middling actress who, I still maintain, is Hott with Two T’s, and has managed to give her career a little more depth than your typical Gena Lee Nolin and Pamela Lee types, by choosing roles where she can make fun of her vapid bimbo image. But still, we’re talking Kathy Ireland/Kirstie Alley/Heather Locklear-level self-parody here, not anything like Being John Malkovich.
And I still maintain that she was more aware of her surroundings in Starship Troopers than her australopithecan co-star Casper Van Dien. And that she couldn’t possibly have been playing The World Is Not Enough as anything but camp.
Well, that’s exactly what I was expecting to happen, if only because it would’ve somewhat justified the totally gratuitous shot of Kevin’s bacon. (The only other reason I can think of is that they wanted to dump cold water on all of us straight guys so we would be able to comfortably leave the theater when the movie ended a few minutes later.)
But ultimately that would’ve been a pretty lame choice to end it with – it worked well enough as an “Oh I bet that’s what’s going to happen!” moment, and still let them shove a few more “surprise” twists in there.
Go right ahead! The whole idea of this was so that I could get more data points for my theory without having to actually watch any more Denise Richards movies.
After reading this thread and trying to remember her filmography, I realized that I have Denise Richards chronically confused with Shannon Elizabeth. Am I the only who sees a resemblance?
I don’t remember much what she looks like. Is it evident she had a boob job? A fact?
Denise Richards even gets out-acted by a large fake dinosaur in the mid-90s “comedy” Tammy And The T-Rex. She may or may not be aware that her entire career is based on being eye-candy, but she still can’t act. I won’t believe differently until I see her in roles that don’t depend solely on her looks for her to project any presence on screen.
SolGrundy writes:
> Ms. Richards is engaged to Charlie Sheen . . .
They got married on June 15th of last year.
I agree with the above assertion that what she does for entertainment isn’t really acting, or art for that matter, at all. She’s a relatively accomplished dish. come to butthead
It was pretty widely discussed at the time that the movie came out that Ms. Richards’s posterior was computer-enhanced for the Undercover Brother posters and billboards. She discussed this herself on The Tonight Show, exclaiming her surprise when she looked up and saw herself “with this giant butt!” on a billboard above Sunset Boulevard. Sorry to burst your bubble.
As for her acting ability, Christmas Jones was the only role that I thought she was moderately good about. It wasn’t that we were to necessarily believe that she was a scientist, and I personally didn’t, but the role wasn’t contingent upon that belief. It was a fact tossed in almost for laughs, and to conveniently provide for someone to explain the methodology for disarming the nuclear weaponry which was the item of contention in the plot. (Bond can’t know it all, after all. There’s no fun in that.) Her main job in the film was too look sexy and keep up with Bond physically. She did. I also agree with the assessment that she was pretty well suited to her role in Drop Dead Gorgeous - the character was vapid, so is Richards.
In that, could she be more perfectly suited to be anyone’s wife than Charlie Sheen’s?
Me too, Me too! I’ll even take sloppy 25623423rds!
What is it about these insanely hot girls that they only seem to marry guys like Charlie Sheen, David Arquette, and Bobcat Goldthwait? 
In defense of ol’ Pammy, she does make fun of her vapid bimbo image. I think she’s in on her own joke. Sometimes I think she actually is a mastermind, but then she keeps on hooking up with washed up creeps like Tommy Lee and Kid Rock…
But as far as Denise Richards:
I think she’s funny lookin’. Something about her coloring is off. And those boobies are so fake it hurts.
She was great in Drop Dead Gorgeous. But she really didn’t have that much screen time, and her character was supposed to be a bad actress, so it’s unclear as to whether she was really good at the part or whether it was just serendipitous casting.
Here’s my Denise Richards story!
A few years ago, my sister calls me and says, “Hey, did you know we’re related to Denise Richards?”
“Get out!” I say. “How?”
“Blah blah blah.” I don’t remember exactly how. Some way through my mom, she turned out to be something of a cousin. My sister had heard this from my aunt.
“That’s pretty cool,” I say. I get off the phone. Over the next few weeks, I was out with some friends, she came up, and I told them she was my cousin. Everyone was somewhat impressed. I can count on one finger the number of movies I’ve seen her in (Starship Troopers) but what the hell, she’s hot, she’s famous, she’s my cousin.
A few months later I’m visitng my relatives, including my aunt. I say, “Aunt, tell me about Denise Richards. Are we really related to her?”
“Oh yes!” says my aunt. “She’s so-and-so’s daughter. Her real last name is Richard (pronounced, Louisiana style, as Ree-shard) but she goes by Richards onscreen. She went out to Hollywood and got some plastic surgery and is passing herself off as a younger woman!”
“Indeed,” I say, suddenly a little thrown off. “She does a pretty good job as portraying a younger woman. How old is she?”
“Well,” says my Aunt, “Let me see. She was born a couple of years after Mary, so she must be in her early 40s.”
I start laughing. “Aunt, have you SEEN Denise Richards? She’s not 40.”
“Oh yeah! She got a face lift and stuff and is passing herself off as twenty-something.”
I stopped at that point. Later I looked up Denise Richards and she seems to come from Illinois or so, not Louisiana. I’m not sure who’s lying to who along the way, but my aunt still believes she’s related to Denise Richards, who is 40-something years old. I had to sheepishly tell my friends that I had been duped, but they still joke about it. “That’s Lego’s cousin!” they’ll say if they see a trailer with her in it.
I think DR is hot as hell and I would eat her anus if she told me to.
BUT, for those that don’t like DR and have avoided Drop Dead Gorgeous because she is in it you are doing yourself a huge disservice. That is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen and you can buy it on DVD at BBuy for like 7 dollars. That movive is GREAT and I laughed my ass off thru the whole thing. It deshelved CLERKS as the funniest movie I had ever seen.