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Bridgette Bardot has finally found it. Not the perfect man (Mon Dieu, c'est im possible!), but something else that has al ways eluded her: the perfect role. After purring and pouting her way through countless films as the sultry femme fatale who could resist anything but temptation, Bardot has turned herself into another French institution, the wise and slightly world-weary philosophe. Voila! At 48, the sex object has become...
Each Sunday night for the past three weeks, millions of French viewers have tuned in to a three-part, three-hour documentary in which Bardot bares herself for the first time while keeping her clothes on. Titled Brigitte Bardot Quelle Telle (As She Is), it splices together old photos, newsreel footage and film clips along with Bardot's own reminiscences and observations on the legend of B.B. In her finest performance, the woman of the world reveals an otherworldly quality of wistfulness and sadness...
...Bardot recalls her early childhood as the proper jeune fille of an affluent father who once whipped her 50 times. ("I felt like a stranger in my parent's house. That's perhaps why I have had so many houses, houses I have bought myself, to feel at home.") It was Roger Vadim who first saw an international sex symbol in the guise of an ingenue of 15. He became her husband and Svengali. ("I was not used to such handsome men ... I was so shy, a little girl still. I wore white socks and a sophomoric white...
...mothered her children, took up good works, supported a league that promoted breast feeding and saw to the rebuilding of the hospital in Monte Carlo that bears her name, and in which she died. Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York called her "a lesson in Catholic motherhood," and Brigitte Bardot called her "l'Altesse Frigidaire"-Her Majesty the Frigidaire. She is widely credited with giving Monaco the dignity and luster, and of course the splendid tax loophole, in the person now of Prince Albert, the heir apparent, that have helped to bring the once dilapidated old clip joint...
Luongo is on more demonstrably safe ground in naming Ocean Spray as the No. 1 purveyor of cranberries ("Brigitte Bardot reportedly bathes in them and considers them something of an aphrodisiac") and the Boeing 747 as the best jet (it is, Luongo points out, fast, safe and comfortable and guzzles the least fuel per passenger of any commercial aircraft). Similarly, he endorses the best lobster as coming from Maine, the best mushrooms as Pennsylvanian and the best mules as Missouri's. The best veal, according to Luongo, comes from Delt Blue Provimi Inc., in Watertown, Wis.; the best steaks...