...the flame you can't touch, but whose heat you can still feel long after it has been extinguished?
 
She once said, "I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it will be with a knife."
 
Today I watched G.W. Pabst's 1929 German classic, "Pandora's Box" again. Louise Brooks stars as Lulu, a young vaudeville performer so sexy everyone is doomed when they fall for her. The ending is a real tough one. You just can't be nice to Jack the Ripper! Amazing film!
 
Then I watched this great documentary about the silent film legend narrated by Shirley MacLaine and produced by Hugh Hefner for TCM:
 

 
She was born Nov 14, 1906(1906-11-14)in Cherryvale, Kansas, sexually abused at 9 causing her to be incapable of love, and that incident as she said, "must have had a great deal to do with forming my attitude toward sexual pleasure." When she told her mother what had happened, her mother believed that it must have been Louise's fault for "leading that poor man on." How horrible is that?
 
She became a huge International Star, doing what she wanted to do when she wanted to, could have had it all, but threw it all away. Then Hollywood wanted her no more and she moved back to small town Kansas to operate a dance studio, it didn't work out so she went to New York City and then after a brief stint working in radio, became a prostitute and tried to kill herself.
 
Then French film historians and film fans rediscovered her and she turned it all around by becoming a really great writer. She really changed the world in many ways. She influenced so many people.
 
My whole day was spent watching movies and reading books. I made PB&J's and ate in my PJ's. When my eyes grew tired, I closed them and listened to Michel Thomas teach me French. Parlez lentement.
 
It was a good day for me!