The Notorious Bettie Page
by Jackrabbit Slim
What's the level of interest for The Notorious Bettie Page? As someone who used to work in skin magazines, Bettie Page is close to goddess status and her story is pretty interesting. Director Mary Harron's track record doesn't thrill me. I hated American Psycho, thought I Shot Andy Warhol was so-so. But I'll probably see this. Also nice to see Gretchen Mol come back after being anointed a superstar, then slipping into complete obscurity.
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Loved American Psycho in both incarnations (hell, I've got a Pat Bateman action figure sitting on my desk).
The film doesn't particularly interest me but it bodes well that they're getting a theatrical release when it was originally intended to premiere on HBO. Missing from the poster: "From the writer of Bloodrayne".
I liked the novel American Psycho for it's gleeful carnage. I think the film missed the boat entirely, and I remember leaving the theater feeling like I had just been hit in the head with a bag of shit.
Speaking of "The Rules of Attraction" - I'm still wondering if we'll ever see Roger Avary's "Glitterati".
I've heard conflicting rumors over the past three years (rights problems, HBO is turning it into a series, it's still not completed, etc.) but nothing substantiated. The European Vacation section of ROA was absolutely phenomenal and I’m interested to see how it works at feature-length.
My introduction to Gretchen Mol was the Thirteenth Floor (a movie completely overshadowed by the Matrix and its phenomenon)...it was good. She was good.
Saw this over the weekend, not thrilled. I think the E! True Hollywood Story about Bettie Page was more compelling. Mary Harron seems to be interested in Page as a cultural artifact, but doesn't delve very far into who she is as a person. Perhaps that's because there really wasn't much there--just a simple country girl who retroactively became a cultural touchstone.
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