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RIP: Bettie Page

2008-12-12 20:13:21.833826+01 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Bettie Page, dead at 85:

I want to be remembered as I was when I was young and in my golden times,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 2006. “I want to be remembered as a woman who changed people’s perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form.”

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Nudity ]

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#Comment Re: made: 2008-12-12 21:34:05.283303+01 by: topspin [edit history]

Bettie Bettie where can you be

I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine

Bettie Bettie don't you understand

if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'



You came to New York City back in Jack and Neal's day

All the lights of old Time Square they flickered on the Great White Way

Straight from Tennessee and in the rarest beauty form

You walked before the Klaw and caused a nationwide storm

After he remembered you from 1952

All the boys down at the pool hall had a calendar or 2

40 odd years later you'll still up and going strong

But I can't help wondering just where it is you've gone



Bettie Bettie where can you be

I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine

Bettie Bettie don't you understand

if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'



Well now all the boys in boot camp had your picture on the wall

Thousands others saw you at their bachelor party brawl

But they don't see your smile like I do smilin' in their dreams

That jungle mistress, dark Madonna, leather booted queen



Bettie Bettie where can you be

I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine

Bettie Bettie don't you understand

if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'



Well now Brigette Bardot, Julie Newmar, Mary and Faye Ray

Mr Vargas pictures made me what I am today

But if I could see you one more time and not lose all my nerve

I'd gladly give the greatest of them all what she deserve



Bettie Bettie where can you be

I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine

Bettie Bettie don't you understand

if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'



--- BR-549

#Comment Re: made: 2008-12-12 21:12:07.10393+01 by: Dan Lyke

Woot! Way to tie the topics together, JT! Although, for various reasons, I hesitate to tag this post with "Woodworking"...

#Comment Re: made: 2008-12-12 20:30:18.964034+01 by: JT

Last night on the news she was described as being the cultural icon who spurred the sexual revolution. I remember seeing actual pinup posters of her in my Grandfather's shop where he did his welding and woodworking.