Mark Braun's original, underground Bettie Page page, now with neo burlesque links: Gossip and News
Farewell to Bettie Page: Dec. 16, 2008
This is a fan page; pwease wuv me (apologies to Mitch O'Connell: pwease don't sue me).
1. The overview of Bettie's troubled years is BETTIE DEMYSTIFIED, a couple of web pages into this site; Bettie Page's arrest photo is there and presented as part of her biography. 2. When stealing from Mark Braun's Bettie Page page, please give credit; I'll know, trust me. 3. Thanks to Mitch O' Connell; Louise B; DiDi Mau; Ron M; Sarah M; Steve Brewster; Nico; Chrissi; Ellsworth Boyd; the late-night calling late Art Amsie; the excellent folks at CMG, the yummy Dita von Teese, Belmont Burlesque and all of the Chicago burlesqe artists who've shared their news, the world-Famous Pontani Sisters and finally to "Jolly" DAVE HOLLE who kept up the cause even when all but he had fled. Dave, you are AWESOME! :) Okay, Professor: Let 'er rip...
There was a babe who was pretty nifty.
Her raven bangs became the rage;
Ladies and gentlemen: BETTIE PAGE!
The Death of An IconThe Associated Press has reported that Bettie Page has died Thursday, December 11, 2008 following a heart attack several days ago. The ailing Ms. Page was reported in a coma following her heart attack. She was 85, but will forever remain... ageless.Bettie Page will be interned next to Marilyn Monroe at Westwood Village Memorial Cemetary
December 16, 2008: Award-winning Producer Mark Mori has been a Bettie fan for over a decade, and along the way has interviewed Bettie, Amsie, bunny and others with a keen eye on getting it all right... AND approved by Bettie. She loved it; it's happening. Mark knows almost everybody and all of the right notes, so he's the right insider to correct Mary Herron's nice but missed the point flick. Here's the link on the banner above. Theatrical release and hoping for Bettie fans blessings. Way cool!
CSI Season 6, Episode 9 Atonement. Here are some stills, so you tell me. CSI Meets a Bettie Page!
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So, the mask comes off all the way. alex ross fans know some of the real faces behind his characters, and MARVELS oppressed main character had his roots in Norridge, Illinois. That's me, Mark Braun as Phil Sheldon and it fit quite well at the time. The real storyline was created by Ross with an intro by Steve Darnall. Steve, as well as a bunch of the Chicago gang at the time, became bit players in a Ross universe that was, and is, an honor and a privilege. Phil's family were my real-life daughters elizabeth and Laura, who get a bit older in that series. My wife Mary was the "body double" for Phil's wife, portrayed by Laurie Braddach whose gallery spun into a comic book publishing company featuring Joe Quesada's ASH, 33 BRIDES and PAINKILLER JANE. And yes, ladies, Frank Kasy's chest IS the size of Superman's.Alex recycled us here and there after that in other titles, and the phot sessions from MARVELS got recycled in a great story for ASTRO CITY. Cool, eh?
BPO: Bettie Page Rick Rack Louise B of BPO discovered the matching rick rack fabric that Bettie used to make her famous orange rick rack bikini.�
"Bettie has always maintained that she was the one who designed and sewed her suits herself.� Bettie says she shopped for the fabrics and trims at fabric shops and designed and sewed the suits herself on her sewing machine in her apartment.� However Bunny Yeager says no way, she's responsible for designing and sewing many of Bettie's suits.� And for the rick rack bikinis Bunny says she sewed "carded" rick rack onto the suits to make those wavy designs.� From a distance, yes, the suits look like rick rack could have been sewn on top but in high res scans Bunny's story falls apart.� The design was printed on, not sewn on. It's one thing to have nice scans backing up Bettie's story, it's something else all together to have a vintage example of this fabric on hand.� I believe this is a win for Bettie, and I'd consider it a favor if you'd share these pics everywhere you know.� Some people won't care but for those who are interested in getting Bettie's history right, this one matters."
Can do, Ms. B! Good catch!
Angie Pontani: Miss Exotic World 2008
Angie is the new crowned queen of Burlesque after her Las Vega win at the annual Hall of Fame awards! Congratulations to one-third of the world Famous Pontani Sisters! Angie, baby, you rock our world!
Kevin Daley: Mistaken for Bettie Page?Louise B, former Bettie Scouts member has started a new Yahoo group devoted to model Kevin Daley, the OTHER model with black bangs who was already well-established as a black banged model before Bettie Page. Shots of Kev have been mistaken for Bettie for a long time; hook up with the group and do some corrections on your naughty little jpeg collection!
DAVE STEVENS: July 29, 1955 - March 10, 2008March 11, 2008: It is heartbreaking to say that artist Dave Stevens died yesterday after a long battle with leukemia and tough health struggle that was a "publicly held secret" among both friends and fans. A talented and award-winning artist, Dave Stevens began his career working over Russ Manning's work, eventually creating THE ROCKETEER which relaunched the legend of Bettie Page. Dave's body of work was small but highly lauded and loved by fans (like me). He was terrific with fans and as much an icon as his model-of-choice, Bettie Page. Dave did an excellent CD interview with Bettie, still available everywhere. We wish he'd still be here and healthy, but if there's a Sunday comics section in heaven, its got a spectacular talent pool that this ol' fanboy is looking forward to.
Jenna Jameson does a PSA as Bettie Page?
Las Vegas has welcomed Bettie Page at the revamped Planet Hollywood Casino, aka the once-themed Aladdin on the strip. The Bettie Page store is a boutique of everything Bettie; a far cry from Ms. Page's world of fifty years ago when Estes Kefauver and his All-american witch hunting goon squad made her the target of crumbling youth control. But that's a lot of water under the bridge; Bettie's swingin' 50's style rocks on as casino shoppers can finally acknowledge what Bettie fans have always known: good girls go the heaven but bad girls go to Vegas, baby! :) And guess who was starring just down the strip from the Bettie Page boutique? Dita von Teese...
The final dinner will be Thursday, Sept, 10, 008 at the White Eagle, Niles, IL for $30 and all-you-can-eat. BE THERE for a place in history! The Old Timers Baseball Association of Chicago
O'Connell Did the Exotic World Official Poster! Here's the new poster design for 2008 by Mitch O'Connell hizzelf! Please don't sue me...
See more at Mitch's site (there's a link here somewhere<
Mitch O'Connell's TATTOOS Available in March!Tattoos on flesh, ahhhh. Mitch O'C's new book from Last Gasp highlights 250+ of his works on the human body. Visit LAST GASP or AMAZON.COM for ordering info; to view MOC's work, hit his website, linked above.
The NEW CITY 8-25-2006 edition had a feature on Michelle L'amour; here's the text:
)THE FORGOTTEN Bettie TV Interview!Forgotten no more! The RARE TV interview with Bettie is here above via YouTube! I've got the real, honest-to-god story on it and now YOU have it, too! Enjoy!!!
PRIVATE PEEKS Now Available online
Papericons, a leading dealer in rare erotic images has released the PRIVATE PEEKS archives of Bettie Page and other models. subscriptions are $49 a year and available through their site (link above). John Razin's concept offers 1500 dpi images capable of producing a decent print for collectors while maintaining an ongoing vault of priceless images and their historical backgrounds. Considered the "holy grail" of Bettie Page collections, PRIVATE PEEKS editions, now out of print, command high prices among collectors. An August 2006 exhibit with Xotique, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin dealer in classic pin up art, had issues three and four of the series offered for $150. AUG. 28, 2006: YouTube yanked a video or two, but it'll still get you to ML videos that exist, so go gah-gah! So, Joe Allen, former of founding guru of iToons, countless comic books, MTV ads and Reactor's "Virtual Valery" fame(s) and I took in some excellent burly. Chicago's BELMONT BURLESQUE is sweet, silly and some wonderful tease. Presented once a month, bring along something decent to drink (your master of ceremonies will be checkin' what ya got in the bag) and bring attitude. On the night that we were there, it was almost as if they knew there were a couple of real reviewers off to the corner (yeah, we were) and managed to squeeze into the tiny Playground Theater which ain't known for a massive floor plan. God's honest truth: Michelle L'amour, whose eye-popping appearance of NBC's stupid "America's got Talent" got David Hasselhoff to blush, performed her classy fan dance to perfection. The amazing Tomas, one hip slight-of-hand man is damned funny, and the girls are as cute as they are dedicated. About an hour; for ten bucks, you're in for a treat! We'll be back next month along with some of our hooligan friends! Here's Michelle L'amour as we saw her, live at the Belmont Burleque (Courtesy of YouTube and hopefully Franky Vivd won't kick my ass for reposting it) Joe and I, along with seven other friends with ages that run to from 35 to 80, keep goin' as regularly as a guy on a high fiber diet! Check out the cuties at the Belmont Burlesque here: http://www.belmontburlesque.com/
Friday, March 17th, 2006 had Bettie Page speaking to fans by phone on a live feed over her official website, courtesy of CMG, her management reps. Visit her at www.bettiepage.com and check out the archived webcast to hear a shakey Mark Braun speak to the Queen of Curves!
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Previous Betties have been seen in BETTY PAGE TALKS SIN: A LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION, written and directed by Herb Lichtenstein with Ariel Brenner as Bettie Page.
THE BETTY PAGE STORY in 1987 featured AMY OSBORN as Bettie Page. It ran for 23 weeks, It had a cast of 17, according to Flores, who had directed it for another theater group. Now, if anyone can just get me a copy of Mitch O'Connell's poster for one of those shows, I'd shut up as a happy fan :)
HBO and video junkies can catch a quick glimpse of Oas in CHEATERS, (the HBO drama about the real-life Steinmetz high school cheating scandal (Hey! I know that guy!).
Elisabeth Oas: one of Chicago's 1st Betties in a more-than-one-person show
Has she got the look or what? Elisabeth Oas boogied away from her Bettie stage role to do the hit movie "Save The Last Dance" and just keeps working. EO is the lady who carried the role of Bettie Page to Chicago. She's fled the whole Bettie
thing, but for DANCE fans, here's the link for SAVE THE LAST DANCE
PaperIcons' John actually knows the banged one personally, so expect only the best and the most authentic!John has the rights to photos from Art Amsie; get them from him and keep the "link" open from one Bettie supporter to another; remember that John and Artie give back to Bettie!
A brand new collection of photos surfaced for the first time since 1955! One of Bettie's former boyfriends rediscovered the cache of images, long thought lost, and Papericons has them available! Contact John for more information!
The Papericons site includes an eclectic assortment of vintage photos, postcards and art. Hey John, your site rocks!
Movie Star News is located at 134 W. 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, 212-620-8160. Individual 4 X 5s of Bettie Page are only $1 each. Selected 8 X 10s are available for just $5 each; enlargements of any others are $10 each. Helpful folks! $10 gets you a set their catalogs, which also have a vast library of movie and pop music stars; the Klaw library also includes a bevy of babes including Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr, Pam Gail, Dorian Dennis, and Tempest Storm. Tell them you saw it on Mark's site! Click here for Movie Star News Klaw loops on VHSLana Wood Is Alive and Well and I'm Still A Feeb For Her
I was astonished to discover former Bond and Playboy babe and object of countless fantasies, Lana Wood is appearing at autograph shows and has a pretty nice fan site. Can't make the shows? Order a photo from here. For countless guys of my generation, Wood was the babe of all babes; the kind of dream that you'd wish for but knew you'd never, ever get. Her book about her sister is doing well, and she was in THE SEARCHERS as a kid, but we'll never forget Plenty O'Toole from DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER even if most of her scenes got snipped (what WERE they thinking?) http://www.lanawood.net
BRINKE STEVENS
Scream-Queen deluxe! Brinke is the ex of Dave Stevens and boy, would I like to know what bombed over there! But Brinke is online and still fine!
http://www.brinke.com/
Renee Zellweger as Bettie
in W Magazine!TURA SATANA site features Mitch O'Connell art!VISIT TURA! Frame from the DVD BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED: the adorable Sarah Masters as Bettie and that creepy weirdo Mark Braun doin' an uncredited appearence as a photo club dork. Is that Bettie Page on an Alex Ross cover? From DC's Kingdom Come: Does the Blue Beetle has a Bettie behind him? Guess who was the Blue Beetle?
the-infectious-bettie-page.blog rocks!
