![]() ![]() So naturally the first item on the agenda is a trip to the grisly museum followed by a three-hour bus tour of Hollywood death and tragedy. ![]() Since most of Glass’ life these days involves stewing in her basement, she wants to do something fun during the couple of days we spend together in Los Angeles. Contrary to urban legend, Glass whispers, Mansfield was not beheaded on impact, but scalped. Alice Glass and I behold it in silence in the musty back room of Hollywood’s Dearly Departed Museum. The Buick Electra in which the blonde bombshell, her lover, her driver, and two of her pet Chihuahuas were instantly killed in a 1967 highway crash was once blue and is now a rusted, vague shade of green. The roof of Jayne Mansfield’s death car is ripped back in a way that feels almost too casual, like a half-eaten candy bar wrapper made of metal. ![]()
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