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Jean Seberg: Black Panthers
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Though plagued by personal problems, Seberg, who had most recently appeared in Airport, continued working, first in the 1971 Italian production Questa Specie d'Amore, then reuniting with Gary (whom she'd already divorced) in his 1972 thriller Kill. A year later she appeared in L'Attentat (aka The French Conspiracy), then married Dennis Berry, the son of the expatriate American filmmaker John Berry. On May 1, 1973, tragedy struck again when Hakim Jamal, a black activist to whom Seberg had previously been linked, was brutally murdered. As the decade progressed, she acted with greater infrequency, co-starring with Kirk Douglas in the 1974 television movie Mousey before returning to Europe to appear in a few other pictures not released to the foreign market. Die Wildente (aka Wild Duck), from 1976, was her last picture. Seberg was scheduled to appear in La Legion Saute sur Kolwezi, a project from Georges de Beauregard -- the producer of À Bout de Souffle -- but before filming began, she was found dead on September 8, 1979.
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Seberg grew out her blonde locks for what she considered her finest film, Lilith, in which she played a schizophrenic to Warren Beatty's hospital aide. Beatty's lefty leanings must've made a lasting impression: The FBI later labeled the actress a subversive for her support of the Black Panthers and authorized a false rumor that her unborn child wasn't fathered by her husband, Romain Gary, but by an African-American radical. Following a miscarriage and recurring bouts of depression, Seberg ended her life at the age of 41. Kirsten Dunst has said she'd like to star in a Seberg biopic, but perhaps casting agents should consider aspiring actress and model Mariacarla Boscono, who sparked a runway trend of her own with her peroxide-blonde pixie cut at the Fall collections.
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[T]he nigger-loving Seberg" presented the real threat to the American people, according to Hoover, who said she was giving money to "radical niggers" and sleeping with them. As far as Hoover was concerned, there was nothing worse than a "white woman giving her body to a nigger." Yet it was not so much the idea of sex between the lily-white Seberg and the Black Panthers that distressed Hoover, but the fact that people could be sympathetic to her.
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