Friday, December 12, 2008

RIP Bettie Page

The woman who became an iconic representative of erotic exploration has passed away at the age of 85.

6 comments:

  1. The icon of naughty but nice.

    The little business office at the recording studio where we rehearse has three bobbleheads on the middle shelf above the desk. I always make note of them every time I'm there, as I was last night. They reflect something about one of the co-owners, a person who once wrote a song, a very good song, called 'Red Nails' -- two words that could signify, as they do individually in each of the of the song's three verses, religion, sex and drugs.

    Oh, the three bobbleheads? Jesus, Bettie Page and Keith Richards

    pssssst, psa. It's Bettie not Betty.

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  2. R.I.P Bettie Page

    I am 61 years old.

    I think you gave me my first boner when I saw your picture in one of those magazines in Uri's barber shop on St.Roch St. between Champagneur and Bloomfield avenues in Montreal July 1955.

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  3. That made me chuckle, Tablogloid. Wouldn't know the barbershop (I'm originally from The Point), but those co-ordinates are right by Jarry Park. And that's a whole other set of memories. :-)

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  4. Sigh. Another icon vanishes from the world.

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  5. thanks for the correction cc, that's what i get for posting before coffee.

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  6. Page starred in a few mainstream movies too, didn't she?

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