[lbo-talk] LBO Talk: A (personally tailored, incomplete, doubtless flawed and unavoidably idiosyncratic) User's Guide

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Mar 18 18:33:51 PDT 2009


On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Dennis Perrin wrote:


> Apparently, Veronica Lake wasn't that bright, but very arrogant, and her
> co-stars disliked her. Now, Rita Hayworth . . .

And don't forget Hedy Lemarr, who invented frequency-hopping:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Frequency-hopped_spread_spectrum_invention

besides being so wonderful in _Algiers_ with Charles Boyer, and making the first nordic sex art film with _Ecstasy_.

Michael



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