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...pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1990 movie version, and the cult was under way. A talking Bettie Page tattoo (voiced by Jodie Foster) anchored an episode of The X Files. Robert Foster, in his book The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups, wonders when the retro celeb will get her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's about time...
...Klaw's patrons had more elaborate ideas... John Rund, who would represent Bettie in the '90s, told Robert Foster that she recalled these fetishists without judging them: "She said, ?Irving used to get suggestions from his customers as to what kinds of pictures they wanted to see. A lot of Irving's customers liked to see me with a ball gag in my mouth.' Very matter of fact...
...teenager Armond Walterson, again to Billy Neal and finally to Harry Lear, a lineman for Florida Bell. Each marriage ended in divorce. But that was the least of her troubles - of the trouble she made for herself and those she lived with. Her rap sheet, as persuasively documented by Foster, is extensive, instructive...
...Bettie brandished a knife and forced Harry and the kids to pray before a portrait of Jesus. "If you take your eyes off this picture," she shouted, "I'll cut your guts out!" Foster reports that she was charged with breach of the peace and confined in Jackson Memorial, a state hospital, for four months. Then Harry took her back home...
...while also satisfying divisional requirements for students studying other fields. This flexibility must be commended. Tatar anticipates that between 15 and 20 of these courses will be developed, enabling course sizes to be small and instruction personal. The individual attention and student-professor interaction such courses are likely to foster will be a welcome change from the overwhelming size of many foundational courses. While many of these proposed courses are sure to be enticing––a class on odysseys to be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand...