[oh8eleven]

Oh yeah, growing up in the 50s and 60s with Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Gina Lollobrigida, Anita Ekberg, etc.
It was heaven.

[7thson]

I have wondered about this lately. We use to have such gorgeous and classy looking leading ladies. Now what does the media throw out to the masses - Lena Dunham and Sandra Fluke. What has happened? How did we twist beauty on its head like this?

[HandyDandy]

I'll take BB over all of them any day of the week. She was the inspiration for the phrase "sex kitten". She was also the impetus for the entire genre that came to be known by the coquettish phrase "foreign film". Granted, I am recently back in her thrall having caught "Contempt" on the TV recently. I sort of understand too that I am actually speaking about her on screen persona. But I was definitely smitten by the kitten recently, and just keeping her in mind is what got me through a whole day of raking leaves. The thing of it is, that a woman like that is the entire and only measure of a man. Maybe that is what she means by being a "masculinist". I don't regret never having been around to see Cleopatra, or Helen of Troy. We had BB. I highly recommend the movie. Her man made one tiny mistake in his treatment of her, and was doomed. And I think anyone can relate to it. His minor error led to her utter contempt for him, forever.

And with that, I have now found the inspiration to grovel in the act of another day of raking leaves. Sigh indeed.