'Breathless'

I just wanted an excuse to post a photo of Breathless star Jean Seberg.

Seberg died at the age of 40. Details are considered sketchy. She was found 11 days after going missing in the back of her car with enough barbituates and booze to stun a mastodon. It was a ruled a suicide, but many wondered how she could operate a car so drunk and without her driving glasses.

The questionable circumstances around her death only matter because she got the attention of the FBI by being a strong supporter of the Black Panthers. So much so, that the FBI started a rumor that her child was a result of an affair with a Black Panther member. That daughter died days after she was born due to Seberg's overdose of sleeping pills. In order to prove the daughter was no the Black Panther's, she showed the media the baby's body.

Seberg was just a little girl from Iowa. She lived all over the world. Made films. Made loved to French directors, Russian novelists, Clint Eastwood and probably a dozen or so of other people that we'd all die to get a crack at in the sheets.

However, I think she's breathtakingly beautiful. And it was a joy to watcher her for 90 minutes.