“She’s a member of the Lunatic Fringe?!”

Hollywood aficionados will immediately recognize Louise Brooks. Her beauty is timeless. She was an icon of the Jazz Age and the embodiment of the Flapper Girl. Of historical note, her bob hairstyle was out of the 1870s and was known as the “lunatic fringe.” The political term “Lunatic Fringe” was coined by Theodore Roosevelt in 1913 to imply the unhinged people ‘on the fringe’ of all political movements. Today, the fashion term for ‘lunatic fringe,’ is ‘bangs.’

While most Hollywood aficionados will recognize Louise Brooks in a glance, few can identify the man seated behind her: Charles Chaplin.

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

“She’s a member of the Lunatic Fringe?!”

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