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...artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1991 movie version, and the cult was under way. In a 1997 episode of The X Files, there was a talking Bettie Page tattoo, voiced by Jodie Foster. (See TIME's Top 10 Fleeting Celebrities...
...decades of her silence, all manner of rumors spread. She had run afoul of the Mob. She became a nun. She had kids and grandkids. She was dead. All these speculations were wrong. The truth, as revealed in Richard Foster's sympathetic and scrupulous book The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups, is even stranger...
...don’t think we will win the war if we make marriage the only issue.” McCarthy stressed that the LGBT community should show greater concern for adoption rights, as ballot initiatives in states like Arkansas are trying to prevent gays and lesbians from adopting foster children. “When you deny us the right to adopt children, that’s getting into the territory of prejudice that is more insidious than denying gay marriage,” McCarthy said. In addition, McCarthy spoke about the precedent of discrimination in America and the need...
...larger community.“Who is serving?” James asks. “We are serving, but it doesn’t end there. The way the UC should approach change is not by giving the administration a laundry list of things to change. It should foster student-based solutions, mobilize students behind the problem, and then lobby the administration.”James stresses that students should bring about change themselves instead of waiting for the slow-moving administrative process to run its course.One of the most important changes James and Wong hope to bring...
Channeling Henry Fonda's balky geezer in On Golden Pond (though he's robust where Fonda was frail), Walt is clearly destined for interracial rehab; the movie's story is the thawing of this great slab of mean. He warms to Tao, who could use some foster-fathering; to Tao's well-adjusted sister Sue (Ahney Her); and to their whole adorably folkloric clan. But Walt needs more than living among the Hmong. As a family elder tells him, "You're not at peace...