Obit: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)

Subject: BS: Brigitte Bardot
From: bradfordian
Date: 29 Dec 25 - 08:05 AM

RIP Brigitte Bardot (91)
C’mon She was every boys pinup dream!

Subject: RE: BS: Brigitte Bardot
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Dec 25 - 03:05 PM

Along with a pretty unattractive political profile. As an academic friend remarked on Facebook today: "If you ignore the bigotry, hate-mongering, homophobia, and flirtations with fascism, why, she was a lovely woman."

Subject: RE: BS: Brigitte Bardot
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 25 - 04:33 PM

She loved animals more than people.

Subject: RE: BS: Brigitte Bardot
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Dec 25 - 03:34 AM

C’mon She was every boys pinup dream! quote
not mine

Subject: RE: BS: Brigitte Bardot
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Dec 25 - 03:35 AM

she may have loved animals , but she was also a racist

Subject: RE: BS: Brigitte Bardot
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 26 - 09:39 AM

And for what it's worth
she adored the Gipsy Kings for many years.

Subject: RE: Obit: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Jan 26 - 07:37 AM

I didn't know she was racist. Which races wasn't she keen on?

Subject: RE: Obit: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 26 - 11:52 AM

Al, just Google an obituary of her and no doubt you'll find the discussion of the years after she left film and when she started the animal rights stuff. From there she spun off into human topics and was not a very nice human being herself.

Subject: RE: Obit: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Jan 26 - 05:08 PM

Well live and let live.
You've got to remember ....she WAS French.
They're a bit like the Irish, they're not really keen on us. They can be brusque with each other.

Subject: RE: Obit: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 26 - 08:37 PM

Le Monde obit in English.
'From sex appeal to the far right': Brigitte Bardot's death in the international press
International media outlets paid tribute to Bardot, who died on Sunday, celebrating her film career and her social influence from the 1950s onward, yet also calling out her political choices, which later drifted toward the far right.

You can only read a bit of it since it is a subscriber journal.

The Guardian
Brigitte Bardot obituary
Film star who shot to fame in And God Created Woman in the 1950s and later became a campaigner against animal cruelty

A snippet from that one:

On rainy afternoons in these places, over many years, she wrote her memoirs. Initiales BB (1996) became a million-seller, as did its sequel, Pluto’s Square (1999); in them she was frank about the many discarded lovers, the abortions and the despair, but she was also an incorrigible social conservative about race, homosexuality and immigration. In 1992 she had married Bernard d’Ormale, adviser to the National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. As usual, it was romantic love at first sight; they wed impromptu in a remote Norwegian church. Their shared views lent durability to the union, and Bardot later endorsed Marine Le Pen’s runs for the presidency.