Just because she was a nasty traitor doesn’t mean she wasn’t bodacious in the day, right? If she hadn’t gotten involved with Yves Montand and Simone Signoret (who also destroyed the life of the wonderful Jean Seberg) she might never have fallen into evil. But the Parisian villians were more like the characters in Les Liaisons Dangerouses than ordinary film stars. Then after they wrecked Seberg’s life and made Fonda an anathema, they turned into conservatives!
Barbarella aside...
It’s definitely worth a call to TCM (a station I do like) to let them know what you think of honoring a contemptible person who did a reprehensible thing by betraying her country and every single man who served in Vietnam fighting communist aggression.
“Bodaciousness” doesn’t now and won’t ever cover up what she did.
Truth be told, she wasn’t all that “bodacious”.
Now, if you’re talking Anne Margaret, or Sophia Loren, same time period, now THAT’S bodacious...