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Tim Lucas on an overlooked Brigitte Bardot box-set showcasing some of the French screen icon's less familiar films Brigitte Bardot 5-Film Collection; Michel Boisrond/Roger Vadim/Serge Bourguignon/Jean Aurel; France 1956-69; Lionsgate/Studio Canal Region 1; Features: Bardot documentary featurette, English and Spanish subtitles Brigitte Bardot has ...

A 50 year-old Russian coal miner suffering from lung disease is seeking a buyer for his prized possession, a signed photograph of sultry Brigitte Bardot, to pay for an operation, a popular tabloid reported on Wednesday.

America had Marilyn. France had BB. The two blonde stars symbolised the post-war era before they disappeared from the scene decades ago.Marilyn Monroe died in 1962 but Brigitte Bardot lives on.

Brigitte Bardot, the original French "sex kitten," turned 75 on Monday, Sept. 28. Happy belated birthday greetings, Brigitte.

Screen legend Brigitte Bardot marked her birthday on today with a call for her 'splendid twin' Sophia Loren to give up fur once and for all.

Today marks the seventy-fifth birthday of legendary sex symbol Brigitte Bardot. An international phenomenon and symbol of sexual liberation from the fifties through the seventies, the French icon has spent much of the last thirty-five years living in seclusion in Saint Tropez, working for animal rights and getting into trouble with the law.

The original sex kitten movie star celebrates her 75th birthday tomorrow. But this icon of the '50s and '60s hasn't spent her retirement as a recluse.

It is said that a particular Brigitte Bardot postcard, with her in a white corset, outsold those picturing the Eiffel Tower.

She hit the silver screen as a sultry temptress in "Et Dieu crea la femme" in 1956, instantly making Brigitte Bardot the face that symbolized France -- and French women.

BRIGITTE Bardot, the 1950s sex goddess who became a feminist icon and symbol of sexual liberation, turns 75 on Monday with her native France at her feet and a very first exhibition in her honour.

Brigitte Bardot once said, a oeIta s sad to grow old but nice to ripen.a Next Monday, the pouty French sex kitten turns the ripe old age of 75.

Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren stripped off and pouted with an abandon that took the prudish 50s by storm and their sex goddess image endures even as both turn 75 this week.

Recorded in 2006, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn and singer-actress Scarlett Johansson's minimally produced duet album, Break Up, deserves its belated release.

Johansson lends cachet but no chemistry to 'Break Up' Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn are not a dream pairing.

Quickie CD Reviews: ScarJo and Yorn, Apples in Stereo and Juliette Lewis September 4, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Ivan Pena Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn Break Up Inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn teams up with actress Scarlett Johansson for Break Up , a sweetly-produced and easy-to-enjoy album.

Everybody fancied BB. Every man deliquesced into a lather of sweat at just the thought of being in the same room as her.

Repetto BB Patent in Taupe, $245; Repetto BB in Loden, $260; Repetto Suede in Opium, $245. Photo: Courtesy of Repetto Over 60 years ago, in a tiny Paris apartment, Rose Repetto made her first pair of shoes for her son, a dancer.

It was a movie that blasted through the 1950s like the Sputnik mission that was to follow a couple of years later.