Susan Sontag

Monday was Susan Sontag's birthday. The author of "Notes on Camp" which helped pave the way for thrift store fashions, flea market furnishings and "ironic" trucker hats. Susan Sontag, who lived in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war and directed a play in the midst of Milosevic's Seige, defying a tyrant with art. 'Course it was a pretty uninspired production of The Odd Couple with a woefully miscast George Plimpton and Norman Mailer--Mailer as Felix?!--but, still .... Susan Sontag with the shock of white in her hair well before There's Something About Mary. Susan Sontag who showed intelligence could be sexy ... so long as you were hot to begin with.