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March 20, 2006
Jane Birkin on the secretion of milk through fur
Even if she weren't Charlotte Gainsbourg's mother, Jane Birkin, out thumping for a new album, is a timeless cinematic icon for several reasons. Aidan Smith has a gambol in the Scotsman, sampled here: "Birkin today looks fantastic. She's wearing a jersey, jeans, Ugg boots and a big, wide, full-lipped smile showing off the sexiest thing about her: the space between her front teeth. Her hair, tied at the back with a pencil, is flecked with the odd strand of grey and, of course, there are lines on her face. But it's hard to believe that this year... she will be 60... 
She's charming, if somewhat batty, company. She speaks without stopping to take in air, which is ironic, considering it was heavy breathing that made her name... The first woman to appear full-frontal in a movie - Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up in 1966 - Birkin was always too sexy for Britain... So who, Jane Birkin, is sexy these days? "David Attenborough, Jonathan Miller, someone who can tell me that bats have nipples under their arms. The other night I met a man, equally scientific, from whom I learned that the flat-billed platypus doesn't have nipples but secretes milk through its fur for its young to lick. That's sexy!"
Posted by pride at March 20, 2006 03:00 PM
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