It's true! Blondes really do have more fun! Or, at the very least, their lives of pamper and pleasure are never boring. Consider the late, flaxen-maned ingénue Jean Seberg, celebrating a deathday today (August 30, 1979). In addition to her starring movie turns — “Breathless,” “Paint Your Wagon” and “Lilith” — the American expatriate (France by way of Hollywood by way of Marshalltown, Iowa, home of Hy-Vee® Grocers, "Where there's a helpful smile in every aisle™." Brilliantine!!) Seberg was many times a wife, model and mother. She was also a woozy, self-medicating sort who was said to have attempted suicide on every anniversary of her daughter Nina’s death — even surviving hurling herself under a Paris Metro train! Now that's letting the good times roll! At the time of Ms. Seberg’s passing, she had attracted the attention of the FBI for her involvement with the Black Panthers™, a connection that did not serve her well in the public’s eye. (Some even believed her association with the fist-pumping ruffians attributed to her death, which just goes to show that cougars and panthers should eye one another with caution.) Alas, the platinum pixie eventually succumbed to an overdose of Barbie-tuates and pink martinis. She was found dead in the back seat of a spacious, leather-appointed automobile in a lovely Paris suburb, though her body wasn’t discovered until eleven days later. What a life...and only 40 years young! A most Happy Anni-hearse-ary™ to the original Blondie, film starlet Ms. Jean Seberg. Off to meet the great colourist in the sky.
