Brigitte Bardon, who has died at 91, rose to fame with her starring role in “And God Created Woman,” a film that got banned throughout the United States, and a film I tried to watch but could never finish. Frankly, it wasn’t very exciting, sexually or otherwise, as time passed it by.
At any rate, Bardot was no stranger to creating excitement … and scandal. Her later years were spent doing what I would love to do — devoting herself to the welfare of animals, and her foundation was quite successful at fulfilling her vision.
She was perhaps more well known, at least in France, for statements she made that were deemed homophobic, and for her support for Marine le Pen, the conservative force in French politics who proved so threatening to the establishment that they found a way to get her banned from politics.
I salute Bardot for her glorious, fun-filled and accomplished youth, and for her devotion to animals in the latter decades of her life. On top of that, she was a French MAGAista, and I have to salute her for that as well.
