Site Meter Reflections on Playboy: Bettie Page, Miss January 1955, 1923-2008

December 15, 2008

Bettie Page, Miss January 1955, 1923-2008

Bettie Page, 85, died of a heart attack last week in a Los Angeles hospital. Though her life story was troubled, it revealed a gloriously multifaceted human being. You don’t have to be René Descartes to notice the inherent difficulty of having both a body and a mind. Anyone who can seek to embrace both bondage photography and Jesus Christ so passionately within one lifetime is heroic. The Notorious Bettie Page, which I reviewed last year, hits all the right notes to honor her memory:


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