JAYNE MANSFIELD...

Yeah, this was my kind of lady.  Bigger than life.  And when you think about it, isn't that always the right size?

When I was a child she fascinated me.  She was blond, buxom and breathy.  And I didn't even know what that stuff meant back then but lord, I loved it.  She was an odd mix of Marilyn Monroe, Mamie Van Duran and Mae West.  Put those three ingredients in a blender and you just never know what is gonna come splashing out.  And splash out they did...

Most of us remember her as a ditsy blond with big tits that she loved to show off.  And lord, she loved to show off those things.  She did it famously.  Just ask Sophia Loren.  The pictures are amazing.  Thank god for Google.

She was taken away too soon.  But when you die at the age of 34 then you will always be young.  And ageless.  I couldn't ask for a better fate.  Forever young.  From Hollywood to Broadway to television, she pretty much did it all.  Her career was actually pretty short but what it was bloody magnificent.   On her way "out the door" she reinvented herself several times.  If she could get a gig, she took it.  Hell, she'd call a news conference for a fart.  Open a new grocery store?  Hell yes!!!  Do a performance at a supper club?  Hell yes!!!  Sign autographs at a gas station???  Hell, yeah!!!  She was Jayne Mansfield and just trying to keep herself out there.  And support four kids.  Yep, my kind of lady...

Her death was horrendous.  She, her manager and her driver when killed late at night on an unlit Louisiana highway when they impacted the back of a semi trailer at a high speed and literally drove under the back of the trailer shearing off the top of the car.  The three in the front seat were killed instantly.  Her three youngest children, asleep in the back seat survived with little injury because they were laying down asleep and just thrown down into the floorboard.  Today, her youngest daughter, Mariska Hargitay is the highest paid actress on television.  Yeah, gene's don't die easy.

Here's some trivia on Jayne...

Amazingly intelligent.  IQ of about 165.  Proven.

Spoke 6 languages fluently.

Played piano, violin and viola like a virtuoso.

Couldn't see more than ten feet in front of herself with out "coke bottle" glasses.

Yeah, this was my kind of lady...