holy shit
when i got my hair cut last night, the woman must have somehow tuned into my very hesitant, unspoken "i would like a jean seberg hairstyle" thoughts, because she went a little scissor-happy. no problem, this:
is a style i'm happy to bite.
on the JS tip, in my boredom at work, i found a biography of her online. get this:
In the late 1960s, actress Jean Seberg became increasing active in left wing political groups. Her support for the anti-racist movement the Black Panthers was well known. But such was Seberg's influence, esspecially in Europe, that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover considered her a genuine liability, and, in 1970 when she was seven months preganant, issued instructions that Seberg be "neutralised".
Thus it was that a fake letter was "leaked" to the Hollywood gossip columns, suggesting that the father of the child was not Gary, but a member of the Black Panthers. The reaction so traumatised Seberg that she gave birth prematurely, and the child was stillborn. The next day Seberg called a press conference, where she presented shocked journalists with the body of her dead white child. The measure, though extreme, put an end to the rumours, but the FBI continued to hound Seberg until she eventually moved back to Paris.
the thought of a celebrity presenting a DEAD BABY at a press conference today makes my head spin, so i can't even imagine how it went over in 1970. incredible.
edit: hmm, after searching a bit more, there are conflicting reports about how she flaunted the ethnicity of her dead baby. one says the showed a picture of the fetus, another says she buried it in a transparent coffin. either way, i think the "holy shit" stands.
is a style i'm happy to bite.
on the JS tip, in my boredom at work, i found a biography of her online. get this:
In the late 1960s, actress Jean Seberg became increasing active in left wing political groups. Her support for the anti-racist movement the Black Panthers was well known. But such was Seberg's influence, esspecially in Europe, that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover considered her a genuine liability, and, in 1970 when she was seven months preganant, issued instructions that Seberg be "neutralised".
Thus it was that a fake letter was "leaked" to the Hollywood gossip columns, suggesting that the father of the child was not Gary, but a member of the Black Panthers. The reaction so traumatised Seberg that she gave birth prematurely, and the child was stillborn. The next day Seberg called a press conference, where she presented shocked journalists with the body of her dead white child. The measure, though extreme, put an end to the rumours, but the FBI continued to hound Seberg until she eventually moved back to Paris.
the thought of a celebrity presenting a DEAD BABY at a press conference today makes my head spin, so i can't even imagine how it went over in 1970. incredible.
edit: hmm, after searching a bit more, there are conflicting reports about how she flaunted the ethnicity of her dead baby. one says the showed a picture of the fetus, another says she buried it in a transparent coffin. either way, i think the "holy shit" stands.