{"id":6975,"date":"2008-12-12T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=6975"},"modified":"2008-12-12T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T08:03:00","slug":"bettie-page-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/bettie-page-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettie Page, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cxUyKFCg37g\/SUIbYT_wXKI\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/hxurPa5_BBo\/s1600-h\/bettiepage.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cxUyKFCg37g\/SUIbYT_wXKI\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/hxurPa5_BBo\/s320\/bettiepage.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278811817730137250\" \/><\/a>Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gormogons.com\/2008\/12\/forrest-j-ackerman-19162008-rip.html\">Forrie Ackerman<\/a>, another iconic cult figure passes from the scene. Bettie Page 1950s pin-up, Playmate, and under-the-counter-nudie-pix goddess has died at 85.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davestevens.com\/img\/art\/zoom\/comico_attractions_6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davestevens.com\/img\/art\/zoom\/comico_attractions_6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>When Page left the public eye in the 1960s and became a devout Baptist, a &#8220;whatever happened to?&#8221; mystery built around her and she became celebrated in all sorts of underground media in the \u201970s and \u201980s, perhaps most famously in the character of cheesecake model &#8220;Betty Page&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/mar\/13\/local\/me-stevens13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">late Dave Stevens<\/a>\u2019 comic <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Rocketeer<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Page herself apparently remained unaware of her fame as an icon of \u201950s underground sexuality until 1993, at the age of 70, when an interview with Robin Leach and an <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Entertainment Tonight<\/span> segment on her opened her eyes to the virtual subculture which had grown up around her. A biography that appeared four years later alleged that she had at least a few episodes of serious, violent mental illness in midlife, but Page disputed the author&#8217;s characterization of the incidents vigorously (not least in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/arts-entertainment\/features\/bettiepage\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the 1998 interview at bottom here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Although she preferred not to be photographed to preserve the image of her younger self, Page remained a beautiful woman into her \u201980s and died following a heart attack. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sondrak.com\/archive\/skpics2\/bettie_page_80s.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 369px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sondrak.com\/archive\/skpics2\/bettie_page_80s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Forrie Ackerman, another iconic cult figure passes from the scene. Bettie Page 1950s pin-up, Playmate, and under-the-counter-nudie-pix goddess has died at 85. 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