Word: bardot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doting spreads in the major women's magazines; last month Cosmopolitan even named her a contributing editor (job description: "providing trend updates, supplying party reports"). "Her designs are like Barbie-slash-Hello Kitty with Liberty of London mixed in," gushes designer Betsey Johnson. "Kind of Brigitte Bardot and beyond." Translation: low-cut frocks made of girlish fabrics such as dotted swiss and gingham, in pale pinks and blues that run completely counter to minimalist chic. Even her ex is applauding her new venture. "I'm a big fan," Seinfeld told TIME...
...that "cinema replaces our gaze with a world in harmony with our desires" (the same line is quoted in For Ever Mozart). A French playwright (Michel Piccoli) is hired for a rewrite job by an American producer (Jack Palance) who has eyes for the writer's sexy wife (Brigitte Bardot). With its polyglot cast and mixed-doubles leering, Contempt gets the Babel and Babylon of filmmaking down perfectly...
...film's own behind-the-scenes story is also instructive. When producer Carlo Ponti saw the finished film, he was upset at the absence of Bardot nudity. Godard then shot the famous opening scene, of Bardot asking Piccoli if he likes her eyes, breasts, ass--a catalog that commercializes her body, just as Ponti demanded--and Piccoli replying that he loves her "totally, tenderly, tragically...
...Georges Delerue, his violins sawing and soaring like Philip Glass in ecstasy). And, always, pretty women. A Ziegfeld of the Left Bank, Godard reinvented Jean Seberg and discovered Anna Karina, Juliet Berto, Maruschka Detmers, Myriem Roussel, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy--glories of Gallic cinema. In Contempt he saves Bardot from cheesecake notoriety. She's smart, sensitive, brutal, doomed...
...Brigitte Bardot, no stranger to on-screen nudity, owes her family a lot. Literally. In her 1996 biography Initiales B.B., she lambastes ex-husband Jacques Charrier as a "gigolo" and says that while pregnant, she regarded son Nicolas as "a tumor." Last week a French court granted the maligned duo $43,000 but refused to order the pages excised...