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EXPOSED.(The Notorious Bettie Page)(Movie review)
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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 ...
- `The Notorious Bettie Page'.
- Newspaper article from: Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA) April 17, 2006 700+ words
...most or all of "The Notorious Bettie Page," their inert...and pilgrimage to New York, where she meets...Harmless. "The Notorious Bettie Page" makes for a...knife. ___ THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE Grade: B-minus...
- Bio-pic glosses over sleaze; 'The Notorious Bettie Page' sanitizes the life of...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 14, 2006 700+ words
...The Christian Science Monitor "The Notorious Bettie Page" is directed by Mary Harron...Undaunted, Bettie boards a bus for New York to study acting and ends up, in what...M model. But the emphasis in "The Notorious Bettie Page" is almost entirely on the apple...
- The Notorious Bettie Page.(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Sicinski, Michael September 22, 2006 700+ words
...have a caption reading "New York 1955--Times Square...longer, we're back in "New York," only in "1949...the cinema, but in The Notorious Bettie Page these labeling titles...Bettie Page delivers "New York 1955--Times Square...
- Movie review: The Notorious Bettie Page ***: Stag-mag favorite becomes a sweet...
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) May 19, 2006 700+ words
...Borrelli May 19--Mary Harron's chipper biography The Notorious Bettie Page, which opens today in Toledo, wears white gloves and...favored white gloves. She wore them on her first trip to New York City to become an actress, and later, after she failed...
- Dermot Mulroney ('My Best Friend's Wedding'), Oscar(R) and Golden Globe(R)...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 6, 2008 700+ words
...Over Eighty Weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List...Gretchen Mol ("The Notorious Bettie Paige"). Based on...over eighty weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list...of 9/23/07, the New York Times Best Seller List...
- "THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE.(Weekend)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) May 25, 2006 700+ words
...guarantee of happiness. "The Notorious Bettie Page" uncovers the woes of the...Turner. THE DETAILS WHAT: "The Notorious Bettie Page." WHERE: Manlius. RATING...the title character in "The Notorious Bettie Page."
- Ready for her close-ups: Gretchen Mol makes a long-overdue comeback in the...
- Magazine article from: New York Edelstein, David April 17, 2006 700+ words
...Mary Harron's blithe biopic The Notorious Bettie Page, Gretchen Mol has a wonderfully...Who will be more outraged by The Notorious Bettie Page: the radical right or women...advent of Twiggy. By no means is The Notorious Bettie Page a pinup anthem. Its tone is...
- Skin deep: the notorious Bettie Page is shallow in all the right ways.(The...
- Magazine article from: Esquire D'Angelo, Mike May 1, 2006 700+ words
...distilled into a single fleeting facial expression. In The Notorious Bettie Page, Gretchen Mol, playing the legendary pinup queen...getting underneath it. That's not a criticism. The Notorious Bettie Page is the second biopic directed by Mary Harron; like...
