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...Irving Klaw had run a newsstand for several years before he noticed that girls looking at movie magazines were cutting out pages with their favorite stars. So he corralled thousands of the display photos that theater owners threw out after the movie had played and sold them in his store, now called Movie Star News...
...heaven knows, the moves. She did appear in three filmed burlesque shows: Striporama (1953), Varietease (1954) and Teaserama (1955). But for Bettie and her fans, a public exhibition couldn't compete with a private audience. As mail-order products for an audience of one-at-a-time, the Klaw films - which Irving produced and Paula, usually, directed - helped Bettie create an intimacy with...
...silent films, in black-and-white. But not the '20s of Hollywood features, with their pearly visual sophisticated and the actors' elegant miming. Really, Bettie's films have the feel of the first Edison documentaries, when the camera recorded ordinary events with ethnographic avidity. In most of the extant Klaw movies, all Bettie does is dance...
...Bettie was great, shaking her tush in those Klaw non-music videos. (Astonishingly, there was no music in the downtown lofts that made do as her movie sets; whatever she danced to was in her head.) But Irving had other aspirations than being the Busby Berkeley of schmutz. A businessman above all, he needed to please his clientele. Some wanted to see Bettie don leather frocks. That was fine with Klaw. He was open to suggestions, so long as there was no nudity; Irving thought that would keep him safe from the feds. And though Bettie posed nude for still...
...Nixon footage was turned down by NBC News President Reuven Frank, who judged it to be "not sufficiently new," and by ABC News, which apparently objected to the fact that Nixon was interviewed by a public relations aide. Some newspaper editors also questioned the arrangement. But Editor Spencer Klaw of the Columbia Journalism Review said, "It is hard to see how this differs from the common practice of newspapers and magazines to run excerpts of books...