Posted in Bettie Page on Dec 13th, 2008
Manola Dargis offers an appreciation of Bettie Page:
The art critic John Berger once wrote: “To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself.” I’m pretty certain he never met Bettie Page, naked, nude or otherwise.
In the 1950s Ms. Page, who died [...]
Posted in Bettie Page on Dec 12th, 2008
By Louis Sahagun
7:37 PM PST, December 11, 2008
Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.
Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental [...]
Posted in Bettie Page on Aug 18th, 2008
YouTube – Bettie Page 1950.
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Posted in Bettie Page on Dec 30th, 2007
Bettie Page went into the hospital this week for pneumonia. An update from Dov:
From Steve at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BettieScoutsofAmerica
Dear Scouts, Your prayers are working. I just got a call from the ospital 3:58pm cst 12/27/07. Bettie does indeed have pneumonia but her condition is stabilized. Her care giver said this is very good news! They are [...]
