beatnikdaddio: Robert Crumb on Bettie Page:“I know quite a bit about Bettie Page, actually. I had a
beatnikdaddio: Robert Crumb on Bettie Page:“I know quite a bit about Bettie Page, actually. I had a friend named Jeff Rund who was involved in trying to compensate her when she was old and broke and living in some trailer, in poor circumstances somewhere in the Los Angeles area, I believe. In the ‘80s, some people started putting out books of photos of her and everything, and Jeff dug her up and tried to make sure she got paid for all the books, cause you know, she went crazy in the ‘60s and '70s, I think it was the '70s, when she tried to kill somebody… So she was institutionalized for a while, and then she got religion. I think she just had her picture taken so much, that it drove her insane. But guess what? She had the most perfect body and the cutest face of all in that pinup era of the 1940s and 1950s. She was the gold standard. There was nobody superior to her physically. And her poses, she always looked cheerful and wholesome, she never looked sleazy. It didn’t matter if she was posing in a sadomasochistic setup with those high heel boots and whips, it always looks like it’s just a funny game to her, you know? She could have a ball-gag in her mouth and she looks like the girl next door just having fun. Isn’t this fun, playing at sadomasochism?’ [laughs] She always comes off as this wholesome, lighthearted gal. But God was she healthy. Omigod! Perfect proportions, her whole body. Can’t go wrong with Bettie Page. Every photo of her is good, she never took a bad photo. And they took thousands? tens of thousands? of photos of her. Poor woman. What a life!” -- source link