Anyone for cheesecake?.A SEXY LADY shows too much skin in a conservative era and sets off a congressional investigation. No, it's not The Janet Jackson Story, it's HBO's The Ballad of Bettie Page Bettie Mae Page (though listed "Betty" on her birth certificate) born April 22, 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee, is a former American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. , which just began production. The film, based on the life of the legendary pinup pin·up n. 1. a. A picture, especially of a sexually attractive person, that is displayed on a wall. b. A person considered a suitable model for such a picture. 2. (played by Gretchen Mol Gretchen Mol (born November 8, 1972) is an American actress. Biography Early life Mol was born in Deep River, Connecticut where her mother, Janet, is an artist and teacher and her father is a school principal. ), will explore how her sexy snaps rocked 1950s America. Lesbian icon Guinevere Turner, who wrote the script with her American Psycho collaborator Mary Harron, says that part of Page's appeal came from her ignorance that she was being transgressive trans·gres·sive adj. 1. Exceeding a limit or boundary, especially of social acceptability. 2. Of or relating to a genre of fiction, filmmaking, or art characterized by graphic depictions of behavior that violates socially . "I think people who don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. her story assume that she was a self-consciously 'independent' woman of her era," notes Turner, "when in reality, she was fierce without knowing she was fierce. She did all of these radical things in terms of sexuality but was just a single gal trying to make a living who found office jobs boring. Which is revolutionary in itself." Of course, Turner notes there's more to Page's appeal: "People of all walks of gender orientation agree--the lady was hot!" |
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