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"The Notorious Bettie Page" might be called a bio-pic devoted to a body--Gretchen Mol's body, which is seen in every degree of cladding, from full to scanty to blissfully naked. Mol plays Page, a real-life pinup queen of the nineteen-fifties, who appeared in coy nudie-cutie magazines like Bachelor and Wink and in highly unconvincing and frequently out-of-focus lesbian bondage movies with titles like "Sally's Punishment." As the naughty girl next door, in black lace and stiletto heels, she domesticated fetishism and flouted the postal laws. Page, who is still alive, was quite a celebrity in her day, until she abruptly ...