The later bio quote is from the place where you learn all about movies, IMDB. Probably my "most visited internet site". LOVE IT!
Or as I like to say, "films". Well, now we have both. But back in the day there was a certain distinction between art films and entertainment business movies. The "both" is hard to discern in this current Hollywood blockbuster-era that we are stuck in. But sometimes, late at night, on IFC you can still find "films", current ones at that. Or get you can get your butt signed up with Netflix or Blockbuster and you can find anything your little heart desires. Ahh, the power of escapism via moving pictures. Pure bliss!
It just so happens that my birthday (eh, birthdays are weird for me because I always feel older than I actually am, but that's a whole other blog...) anyway, back on track...on my "special day" there was a 24 hour run of Jean Seberg films on TCM. Even though Ted Turner owns most of the universe and I can't really stand that (except for the fact that he donated a ba-million-ga-gillian bucks to the UN, stating that "one man should not have as much money as him",) I am somewhat proud of his older-films/movies-all-the-time channel. This was a monumental event for ACTUAL GOLD, considering it was the first time Jean Seberg's movies had been featured on TV.
I wonder...a connection? Her sailor style meshed perfectly with faux-French sensibilities. The chain smoking. The half-smile. And of course, her signature shorter than short hair-do. HAIRSPIRATION ALERT!!! I love her. I love "Breathtless" most of all, but "Lillith" comes in second.
"Educated at Iowa University, this blonde actress landed the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. The failure of that film and the only moderate success of her next, Bonjour tristesse (1958), combined to stall Seberg's career, until her role in Jean-Luc Godard's landmark feature, À bout de souffle (1960), brought her renewed international attention. Seberg gave a memorable performance as a schizophrenic in the title role of Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) and was directed by husbandsFrançois Moreuil, in La récréation (1961), and Romain Gary, in Les oiseaux vont mourir au Pérou (1968).
Later in her life Seberg became involved in anti-war politics and was the target of an undercover campaign by the FBI to discredit her because of her association with several members of the Black Panther party. She was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Paris suburb in 1979."
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