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"... She is starting to remind me of Jayne Mansfield at the end of her career... "

This was Clintonfatigued's quote.

So my response was that I doubted he was hip enough to know what was going on with Jayne Mansfield's career before she died.

Without googling it, and I was not even IN school when she died, I recall she had divorced Mickey Hargitay, married some promoter, was adrift after Marilyn Monroe died (MM was her biggest competitor and she swam in MM's wake) and the age of sleaze and I AM CURIOUS YELLOW had hit Hollywood, making her cutsey 50's era posing revoltingly passe, and that she was in between divorces on a night club tour with her two children; now the famous TV actress Mariska Hargitay on LAW AND ORDER SVU (my fave show, even though producer Dickie Wolf is so leftwing it hurts) were in the back seat of that car when she and her latest beau died horrifically in the accident.

She had been doing the equivalent of indie peek a boo porn films, not making any money, sold her Bel Air or Bev Hills mansion (a pal of mine used to live in the one off Benedict Canyon) and was struggling to make ends meet at the time of her death.

Three year old Mariska was asleep with her brother in the back seat when the car hit the back of a truck on a lonely Southern road somewhere; the kids came out of the accident without a scratch. The reports that Mansfield was decapitated was because of a wig she had been wearing that was stuck on the windshield or something; soon after her death, a law was instated that required trucks to have the rectangular bar on the back of the truck so that if you rear ended one, you the trailer would not slide over the hood of the car and kill you. Mansfield's car hit the back of a truck.

That's what I remember, without Googling, what Mansfield was doing at the end of her career. I have no idea what Clintonfatigued meant by comparing Mansfield to Katherine Harris, of all people.

Maybe Mamie Van Doren? But Freeper chauvinism knows no bounds, I suppose.