Rest in peace, sex kitten

My goodness, Brigit Bardot has died at the super-age of 91. I wonder if she, like me, ever had occasion to say, "Ah, to be ninety again!"

She was of course the prime sex object of my hormonal years. Such a face! Such a body! Such a saucy minx! She even melted the frosty eminence of Charles de Gaulle, who in 1969 chose her as the new "Marianne," the mythical French Amazon who has symbolized the country since the Revolution of 1789. ("Her sculpted bust" -- what else? -- "is displayed in town halls across the country," the Wall Street Journal solemnly tells us.)

At the age of 39 she transferred her affections from men to animals, not such of a change. "I am very, very alone, and I like it,” she said in a 2014 interview. “I am not happy.... But I’m not unhappy either... I have no regrets or remorse over anything,”