Remembering Bettie Page

April, 2009

n/ erhaps the two most remarkable things about Bettie Page, the raven-haired sex siren who died last December at the age of 85, were, first, that people who didn't know her name could nevertheless instantly recognize her iconic image with the bangs and the expansive smile and the shapely leopard-skin-bikini-clad (or unclad) figure and. second, that so many people did know her name, enough that she was eulogized with long appreciations in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angele...

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