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The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/15/2006 11:23:08 AM

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Hello All

I just wanted to post this to let those who are Fans (and I am one of them) that there is a movie about the 50's Fetish Model Bettie Page. I have seen it and it something to watch even if you are not a fan of her.

I wish you well

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/15/2006 11:42:33 AM

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I read in taboo magazine that Miss Page denounced the movie stating it was lies and made her look like a victim. I'd still like to see it though...

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/15/2006 1:07:22 PM

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I heard about the movie, I wanna see it...

She did? Weird..

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/15/2006 1:12:51 PM

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http://www.collarchat.com/m_295583/mpage_1/key_bettie%252Cpage/tm.htm#295595

got ahead of ya.

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/15/2006 8:50:12 PM

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I read in taboo magazine that Miss Page denounced the movie stating it was lies and made her look like a victim. I'd still like to see it though...

~Ms. A~

Well considering Ms. Page is now a born again Christian......she has to say that, just as Linda Lovelace did after she left the porn industry...

Sir and i are both fans of Ms. Page's work and are looking forward to seeing the movie.......May I also say that the producers et al made a marvelous choice in the actress to portray Ms. Page

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 10:38:36 AM

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Here's some of the actual review, I was wrong though - she didn't say it made her look like a victim the review did.

"We recently had the somewhat surreal experience of attending a private screening for The Notorious Bettie Page...it was a rough night for Harron [the director]...owing to the presence of the outspoken octegenarian Ms. Page herself, who pronounced the film "a pack of lies," of which she never wished to speak again...

...the film is basically a leaden downer with a cipher as its nebulous nucleus. The real Bettie Page is an opinionated, somewhat ferocious personality bearing scant resemblance to the pitiable naif Harron makes her out to be. Harron's Bettie is little more than a hapless victim of her beauty and men's swinish exploitation of her of it throughout...

...Utterly absent from this murky feminist polemic are the ambition are the ambition and drive that sustained Ms. Page through two decades in front of the camera, as well as any real insight into the conservative political forces that brought her low, along with her patrons, the klaws..."
(Taken from Taboo magazine review by Ernest Greene)

It does give credit to Gretchen Mol (Bettie) and the recreations of the 50's photoshoots. I imagine those alone make the movie worth seeing.

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 10:47:33 AM

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This is a reply to the snippets of the review.

Just because someone today in her 80s is "an opinionated, somewhat ferocious personality" does not mean that she was that way in her 20s and 30s. People change over the course of their lifetimes and many women in their later years become stronger personalities as they get more confidence through living life. They also don't have to deal with the same social expectations of their youth.

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 10:55:01 AM

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thanks for posting this, i wasn't aware of this movie...i can't wait to see it!!! thanks again Nosathro!!!

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 10:56:37 AM

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My understanding is that Bettie was an enthusiastic participant on her photographic career. She even sewed and designed her own costumes-hardly seems the actions of a "victim".

Who is this reveiwing person- some sort of ultra pc mysognist?

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 11:00:21 AM

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From the reviews of the flick, I will wait for it to come out on DVD...

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 11:06:42 AM

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I haven't seen the movie yet so I don't know how accurate the review is but the review wasn't saying she was a victim it said the movie portrayed her as one.

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 11:37:32 AM

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I can't wait to see that movie. Its not playing in our local theater, so will have to go to nyc, but most likely worth the trip. Anyone see Kinky Boots, yet?

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/27/2006 1:40:42 PM

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what's Kinky Boots?

i saw the previews for the Bettie Page movie online and i started screaming. i was so excited and still am to see it. but our theaters probably won't get it for a while, like they did with Brokeback Mountain. we're not a small town but i don't know what you'd call us. we're just weird like that. you know, i always thought she was into that whole "vixen fetish chick" thing. i thought she did it willingly because she was just kinky like that but i guess not... awww

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RE: The New Bettie Page Movie - 4/28/2006 6:41:13 AM

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what's Kinky Boots?

i saw the previews for the Bettie Page movie online and i started screaming. i was so excited and still am to see it. but our theaters probably won't get it for a while, like they did with Brokeback Mountain. we're not a small town but i don't know what you'd call us. we're just weird like that. you know, i always thought she was into that whole "vixen fetish chick" thing. i thought she did it willingly because she was just kinky like that but i guess not... awww

Kinky Boots, is a true story of a traditional English men's footwear factory in Northamptonshire which turned to production of kinky boots for transvestites in order to save the ailing family business and safeguard the jobs of the local community.

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