Posted on 12/11/2008 9:21:57 PM PST by Nachum
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 institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler.
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RIP!!!!!
Here’s my tribute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBaivn0_Rxs
THAT is an awesome video clip!
Did you do that?
NICELY DONE!
When Ms. Page was young and pretty, having had a hard childhood she then was used for her beauty by those around her. Haven't we heard that scenario before? Those who used her may have made their coin off her; but her name, likeness and beauty will live on.
Bettie found peace and forgiveness in Jesus Christ (wasn't he the one who mentioned let those w/o sin cast stones...hmmm?) and rather than let the woman rest in peace...the Taliban shows up on the Internet to toss some verbal rocks. What a pity.
Christ's peace Bettie...any may the eternal light shine upon you.
Yep, made that a while back. thanx!
Rest in peace, Bettie, and thank you for showing thousands of us that it’s possible to be sexy and feminine, and strong and fierce at the same time.
That's kind of a low bar, though.....
It's pathetic how some people are wound so tight they have to diparage a dead woman whose worst crime in life was posing for innocent cheesecake shots.
There are some very small people out there. Don't be mad at them- feel pity.
So excuse me, but aren’t we being a bit PC here? Don’t want to objectify a woman who is proud of her work in front of the camera?
Pathetic.
The jihad is strong in this thread.
Hahaha
Was she the one who Elvira for ripping off her character?
Two words from Jesus
Sheep. Goats.
Yes, from WIKI:
In 1981, Nurmi was asked by KHJ-TV to revive her Vampira character for television. She worked closely with the producers of the new show and was to get an executive producer credit, but Nurmi eventually left the project over creative differences. According to Nurmi this was because the station cast comedic actress Cassandra Peterson in the part without consulting her. “They eventually called me in to sign a contract and she was there,” Nurmi told Bizarre magazine in 2005. “They had hired her without asking me.”[7]
The show was abruptly renamed Elvira’s Movie Macabre with Peterson playing the ghoulish titular host. Nurmi soon filed a lawsuit against Peterson. The court eventually ruled in favor of Peterson, holding that “’likeness’ means actual representation of another person’s appearance, and not simply close resemblance.” Peterson claimed that Elvira was nothing like Vampira aside from the basic design of the black dress and black hair; Nurmi claimed that the entire Elvira persona, which included comedic dialogue and intentionally bad graveyard puns, infringed on her creation’s “distinctive dark dress, horror movie props, and...special personality.”[8] Nurmi herself claimed that Vampira’s image was in part based on the Charles Addams The New Yorker cartoon character “Morticia Addams”, though she told Boxoffice magazine in 1994 that she had intentionally deviated from Addams’ mute and flat-chested creation, making her own TV character “campier and sexier” to avoid plagiarizing Addams’ idea.[9]
Two more words...Mary Magdalene. Gee...and just how did Jesus deal with her when she repented? Mercifully and with forgiveness. And I am guessing Mare and Bettie had a few things in common...
But please...keep on jihading against deceased 85 year old ladies...because you obviously know her heart and her relationship with the Lord from behind your keyboard.
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