Oct 06 2009
T & A Tuesday..Sweet Jane.
I always thought of her as the straight mans version of Marilyn Monroe, Or that girl that you knew in high school that seemed like she was 30. She usually was wearing lipstick and those sweet, tight sweaters that fit like a second skin. Underrated broad.
She was built dangerous…a stone cold fox of a broad…….the kind of broad who with just the right look could get you in a lot of trouble very, very quickly.
This broad had a trunk on her that would make a brother stand up and take notice. She was like chocolate covered cheesecake……..after eating a 42 ounce Porterhouse at the illustrious big city night club The Bastards…………………and wash her down with a Boilermaker!
“A straight man’s version of Marilyn Monroe.” That is one of your best insights and lines yet. So true. Mansfield seemed earthy and attainable while Marilyn seemed untouchable and etherial (except of course to Joe DiMaggio and her last husband, the great writer Arthur Miller, which for all time gives hope to geeky-looking Jewish dudes who write plays).
Sadly, Manfield’s death is more interesting than her career. Her involvement and exit from Anton LeVey’s Church of Satan in Cali gave fuel to the myth that her fatal car accident (in which she was beheaded) was a curse. Macabre, interesting stuff…