A Girl Like I Author:Anita Loos When Anita Loos wrote her memoir A Girl Like I, she was in her seventies yet she sounds as young and gay as Lorelei from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Loos’ one great ambition never to be bored is evident. This is no tired senior citizen writing her memoirs but a gifted wit who has seen the best of many worlds. The sex in the... more » first flapper era of the twenties was pretty tame, she says, held up to the sixties. "How could any epoch boast of passion with its hit love song bearing the title 'When You Wore a Tulip, A Bright Yellow Tulip and I Wore a Red, Red, Rose?'" Although there were no four-letter words in the Loos opus, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, it was a shocker when it came out in 1926. H.L. Mencken was moved to say, "Young woman, do you realize you are the first American ever to make fun of sex?" Lorelei may prefer diamonds, but for Anita Loos, "A sense of humor is a girl's best friend."« less