I am going to assume everyone saw the Hedy Lamarr Google doodle yesterday. I hope you did.  If you didn’t you should watch it here because it’s remarkable. Like on it’s own it’s just excellent but it did this thing that really only Google has the power to do and that is get the entire world talking about an actress who was at the peak of her fame 80 years ago.  Being the kind of nerd I am it isn’t that I hadn’t heard of Hedy Lamarr.  I had.  I knew she was beautiful.  I knew she looked glamorous (given she has a very famous quote about just how easy that is).  I have seen Samson and Delilah.  But she is a little early to hit my old movie sweet spot which really exists in the dark corners of noir in the 40’s and 50’s.  So I knew her, I knew she was good looking.  I thought she was German.  Well, Google helped correct my lack of knowledge and it turns out she was amazing.  First of all, I watched The Strange Woman last night because it’s in the public domain so it’s free all over the internet (boy, it has some interesting ideas about women).  Second, she doesn’t even quite sound real because if I boiled down her origin to you it would sound like a Golden Age comic book character.  Escapes an oppressive husband who works for the fascists, become a Hollywood Star while at night working on inventions to fight Hitler.  I mean she has a whip in publicity photos for The Strange Woman, she is just a tiny costume and a right cross away from being a masked avenger.  Anyway, there were a lot of article written about her yesterday and they can probably do a better job of explaining to you how her biggest invention impacts your ability to read this post right now, so Google her.  Today I want to fuck Hedy Lamarr.