Brigitte Bardot is a French actress, former fashion model, singer, animal rights activist and believe it or not, she was considered very attractive, and even deemed a sex kitten in the 1950s and 60s.
Screen legend Brigitte Bardot marked her birthday on Monday with a call for her "splendid twin" Sophia Loren, who like her turned 75 this week, to give up fur once and for all. Both the broody former French "sex kitten" Bardot and the sultry Italian Loren took the prudish 50s by storm, becoming icons of the sexual liberation that shook the Western world in the decades to come. But Bardot abandoned her film career in 1973, aged just 39, becoming a reclusive animal rights crusader and making... Read Full Story
Screen legend Brigitte Bardot marked her birthday on Monday with a call for her "splendid twin" Sophia Loren, who like her turned 75 this week, to give up fur once and for all. Both the broody former French "sex kitten" Bardot and the sultry Italian Loren took the prudish 50s by storm, becoming icons of the sexual liberation that shook the Western world in the decades to come. But Bardot abandoned her film career in 1973, aged just 39, becoming a reclusive animal rights crusader and making... Read Full Story
French film legend Brigitte Bardot renewed her protest of Canada's commercial seal hunt Thursday by calling for a boycott of Canadian maple syrup. "Massive ethical reactions from consumers can sometimes convince a government or a corporation to change the way that it does business," Bardot wrote on the website of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). "That is why I am supporting PETA's boycott of Canadian maple syrup until the Canadian government agrees to ban the slaughter of... Read Full Story
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (French pronunciation: (born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, singer and animal welfare/rights activist.She has donated more than $140,000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000. She is planning to house many of these stray animals in a new animal rescue facility that she is having built on her property. Here is Brigitte Bardot hot and sexy photo / picture... Read Full Story
Former screen goddess Brigitte Bardot on Friday asked the Bosnian government to grant her a birthday wish by helping to rescue rescue two endangered bears held in captivity in the Balkan country. Bardot, who will celebrate her 75th birthday on Monday, wants the bears to be transported to a shelter in Germany. "We ask for your help to obtain authorizations necessary to transport these bears to a shelter that could accept them," Bardot said in a letter to Agriculture Minister Damir Ljubic. She... Read Full Story
BRIGITTE BARDOT Love Is My Profession Une Parisienne 2009 issue UK 30 track CD album 1957 and 1958 were pivotal years for the young Brigitte Bardot. Hard on the heels of her breakthrough with And God Created Woman they involved an idylliccomic role in the popular Une Parisienne opposite Henri Vidal and Charles Boyer followed by arguably her most scandalous film En Cas de Malheur Love is My Profession which had the Catholic Legion of Decency up in arms. This compilati on also includes both of... Read Full Story
Brigitte Bardot, the French sex symbol turned animal rights campaigner, praised Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the "president of my heart" Thursday after he banned the hunting of young seals. "I really want to thank you and congratulate you for your willingness to denounce the hunting of young seals that you rightly call a bloody practice," Bardot wrote in a letter to Putin, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. The letter was sent one day after Russia's government banned the... Read Full Story
Brigitte Bardot has said some bigoted things about French Muslims and gay people, but on the subject of Sarah Palin she gets it right for a change. Bardot is incensed by the 'disconcerting stupidity' displayed by Sarah Palin. In an open letter to Palin, she doesn't pull any punches: "I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world. By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly... Read Full Story
One thing I never understood about Little Miss Sunshine was its supposed freshness. To me, it seemed a slight variation on every quirky what-random-personality-twist-can-think-up-next indie comedy that had come before. Indeed, forty years earlier, the venerable James Stewart appeared in an early entry into this genre. You think Little Miss Sunshine is precious and eccentric? Dear Brigitte features Stewart as a scatter-brained professor and poet who lives on a houseboat with his his wife... Read Full Story
Legendary sex symbol Brigitte Bardot has been fined £12,000 for inciting racial hatred against Muslims. Animal rights campaigner Bardot argued that Muslims should stun animals before slaughtering them during the Aid al-Kabir holiday In December 2006 the retired French film star-turned-animal rights activist wrote a letter to France’s then interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, arguing that Muslims should stun animals before slaughtering them during the Aid al-Kabir holiday. She outraged anti... Read Full Story
