- Bettie Page was America s favorite pin-up model of the 1950 s, and achieved her greatest success as Playboy s January 1955 centerfold. It was her association with fetish photographer Irving Klaw, however, that would change her life forever and establish the cult icon status she enjoys to this day. Bettie Page Dark Angel recalls, in episodes, her last three years as a pin-up queen and faithfully re
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Title: Michael King: Wrestling with the Angel: a Life of Janet Frame.
Author: Simone Oettli
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76 Issue: 1 Page: 140(2)
Article Type: Book Review
Distributed by Thomson GaleThe Epic of Gilgamesh
Edited by Rob Simone
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic story from Babylonia and is among the earliest known literary works.
Scholars surmise that a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, thought to be a ruler in the 3rd millennium BC, were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem.
The essential story revolves around the relationship between Gi! lgamesh, a king who has become distracted and disheartened by his rule, and a friend, Enkidu, who is half-wild and who undertakes dangerous quests with Gilgamesh.
This story is often credited by historians as being one of the first literary work with high emphasis on immortality.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Edited by Rob Simone
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic story from Babylonia and is among the earliest known literary works.
Scholars surmise that a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, thought to be a ruler in the 3rd millennium BC, were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem.
The essential story revolves around the relationship between Gilgamesh, a king who has become distracted and disheartened by his rule, and a friend, Enkidu, who is half-wild and who undertakes dangerous quests with Gilgamesh.
This story is often credited by historians as being one of the firs! t literary work with high emphasis on immortality.
Studio! : Wea-de s Moines Video Release Date: 03/28/2006 Run time: 138 minutesCult Epics founder, Nico B., claims in his liner notes that he never thought heâd make a biographical film about Bettie Pageâs last three years as famed pin-up star, but finding look-alike Paige Richards to play the part in Bettie Page:Dark Angel changed his mind. This film recreates Pageâs trials and tribulations as an aspiring actress, by placing dramatized scenes from her life between faux bondage flicks that have the grainy, black and white quality of the long-lost real ones. Nico B. studied the remaining stills to imagine live action for these entertaining bondage films that, combined, take up over half of the movie. Scenes of Bettie (played by Paige Richards) crying to her boyfriend about her frustrations are benign as are most narrative scenes in porn. Rather, the best parts in Dark Angel are the vintage-looking fetish sequences that show Bettie as dominatrix, Bettie as a captive jungle! girl dressed in shredded furs, Bettie legs tied to a coffee tablesâ, and the most classic, Bettie as Pony-Slave. Of course, seeing the real Bettie would be preferable, but Richards looks uncannily similar, sharing the same sweet smile and inner radiance that made Bettie Page so famous. Plot-wise, Bettie Page:Dark Angel explains Bettie Pageâs sudden disappearance from the media during a scary sequence in which horny fans and an obscenities court case slapped against her agent, Irving Klaw, leave Bettie unsure about her own safety. The kitschy premise of the film makes Bettie Page:Dark Angel a fun homage to the Queen, and for future pin-up girls, the Two-Disc Limited Edition set offers Bunny Yeager, Bettieâs original photographer, interviewing Richards then setting out to various scenes for sexy photo shoots. --Trinie Dalton
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