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Get an eyeful of THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another trailer up at Apple.com. Thanks to Negative Man for bringing it up in the Omen trailer talkback. I totally overlooked the trailer for the upcoming NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE. I've heard this film is fantastic and I really can't believe Gretchen Mol looks so damn perfect as Bettie Page. This is one I'm champing at the bit to see. Here's the trailer in glorious Quicktime!!! Enjoy!
CLICK IT HERE IF YOU DARE TO GAZE UPON THE FACE OF BEAUTY!!!
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Getting up at 9 AM has its advantages.
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Phew!!!
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Never was a fan of biopics though. I always feel like I'm being gipped out of something better, like a documentary.
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If someone is eager or anxious to do something, they are said to be champing at the bit, (not chomping at the bit. nor chomping on the bit).
CHAMPING: Repetitious, strong opening and closing action of the mouth which
produces sounds when the teeth hit together. Champing in swine may be a
threat signal, but also is performed by boars during courtship and
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Gretchen Mol showed her great breasts in that pedestrian sci-fi movie by the ID4 guy. I suspect she will show them again in this film. Anyway, it looks like a fun, harmless movie.
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...you are expecting WAY too much from the "writers" on this site to actually know and use proper vernacular and terminology.
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Jan 28, 2006 8:50:59 AM CST
Imagine Betty Page played by a mid-90's, pre-anorexia Jennif
by osmosis jones
Goosepimples.
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Just thought I'd throw that out there. I don't understand why she doesn't work more.
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"It's not weather (sic) the reviews are good or bad..." "Chronenberg (sic) did this better in "Shivers"" - "Interesting looking though. I might give this one a try. It's goota (sic) (be?) more interesting than "Hostle" (sic)"
Maybe someone shouldn't be throwing stones, eh? Give us a break. We're human. -
Was she really this much of an idiot?
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...so, like, where is this "Betty" page? The link just takes me to some movie trailer. I want meesa some "Betty" page !!!one.
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Now theres a woman I would marry. Where are all the cool girls? The adventure girls? The independent fearless girls? Oh right, they're all playing for the other side. *sigh* I wish i was a lesbian.
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Jan 28, 2006 10:11:47 AM CST
Why was this not in 1080p, dammit, and Quint, what did you think
by half vader
And I really mean not credible! Funniest thing I've seen all day.
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Why is it that chicks think if they dye their hair black, have it long with bangs that somehow makes them look like Betty Page? Betty Page had curves this chick doesn't.
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good to see she's still working.
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Shes a little thin, but i suppose that's just what happens when you make a movie about curvy 1950s pinups in the 2000's when women on film are much thinner
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I was pretty skeptical of Gretchen Mol being cast as Bettie...until now. Her resemblance is creepy. This trailer has changed my mind. I can't wait for this movie.
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...but for one thing, I am not writing a "professional" entry for the site as part of my JOB and using a spell check. I'm a talkbacker writing comments with no spell check and no editing. It really says something about your mentality that you would stoop to cutting down my grammer in order to defend yours. I wouldn't expect your quips on a talkback window to be error free, but when writing as part of the staff of this place I would expect better accuracy from you guys and so should everyone who visits the site.
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Jan 28, 2006 12:59:21 PM CST
Everyone who visits this site are anxiously awaiting...
by seppukudkurosawa
the next have a beer and cheets on his wife slip-up. We don't take kindly to good grammar and correctly spelt words around these parts. Them's for queer folks.
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It's "grammar". With an 'a'. I love when people misspell that word. The two tend to go hand-in-hand, you know?
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it's even in Harry's mission statement. Harry says he rarely proofreads or spell checks. Sure, it shows, but that's how they do it around here. And it's certainly nothing new. I wouldn't exactly call this site "professional," either. Enjoyable, sure, interesting, yes, informative, of course. But c'mon, the slipshod aspect of this site is endearing. The writers on this site don't use editors. Would they benefit from an editor, even one? Sure, of course. But this person would have to be paid, and there you go. Was Quint's retort pissy? Yes. Should the writers proofread and spell check? Yes. But don't expect them to or be surprised when they don't. There's no reason not to proofread/spell check your talk back comments, as well. You ARE on a computer and it's really not hard. At least Quint
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best.spank.material.ever.
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Jan 28, 2006 2:23:50 PM CST
Oh, and for you fags that slag off on people for their spelling
by manaqua
Fukk yoo up yore stoopid assez. Dont listen to 'em Quint. I already know you don't! M
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I saw the movie. Gretchen Mol will have your tongue dialing the fire department.
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...chase a prostitue through a hallway with a chainsaw while wearing nothing but sneakers?
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Great then I guess Quint should have ignored my talkback and moved on, but he didn't. Basically, if it's the mission statement then my original statement holds true, none of us should expect too much from the "writers" here. If Quints going to take offense to that and snip back about my own errors, hey I'm just in keeping with the "spirit of the site." On an actual topic related note: Betty Page chasing a prostitute down a hall with a chainsaw and nothing on but sneakers would be interesting to see!
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Great writing doesn't necessarily mean great spelling. Some of my favourite writers were border-line dyslexic. Here at AICN it's all about the news and the talkbacks, not so much about making everything shiny and vacuum-sealed. Dig it or dump it.
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Jan 28, 2006 4:33:40 PM CST
Who cares... The Notorious Bettie Page trailer is up on...er...o
by negative man
Naw, I don't think you over looked it, Quint. For some reason it was only initially posted on the QuickTime front page, but not on the main QT movie trailer page. It would be nice if the movie was encompassing enough to include her breakdown and the tragic events around her vanishing for many years. And it would be nice if they included her 'resurrection' during the 1980's/90's and how the people behind the Bettie Pages magazine and Dave Stephens' THE ROCKETEER brought her back to the public eye. I'm also happy to know that Bettie was found alive and well a number of years back and is no receiving royalties from all things 'Betty Page'. There's no model today, in my humble opinon, that is better than Bettie.
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Jan 28, 2006 4:36:22 PM CST
"...is NOW receiving royalties..." Had to correct that before t
by negative man
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....after surviving the curse of the premature Vanity Fair cover.
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Ye gods! It's catching! We all have it now! In the immortal word of Darth Anikin "kill the younglings" Vader-Skywalker "NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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You split an infinitive there. "you are expecting WAY too much from the 'writers' on this site to actually know and use proper vernacular and terminology."
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You tried to shit on Quint for misspelling a word that was actually correctly spelled. Then when he threw your atrocious grammar back in your face, you tried to hold yourself to some different standard, because -- why? -- because he writes on the same website you do?
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Jan 28, 2006 8:08:42 PM CST
That Vanity Fair cover is the only reason I know who Gretchen Mo
by 3 bag enema
She was declaired the new biggest star in the world, then disappeared off the face of the earth. Ha! She's completely wrong for this part, by the way.
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Jan 28, 2006 8:43:41 PM CST
My friends saw a screening of this last year. They said it was r
by mr. profit
I'll see it. Sounds interesting.
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...considering Mr. Williams has gone on to rip himself off with those new Jamie Foxx and Beyonce Knowles videos. I just assumed he liked the trick so much because he was so proud of thinking it up.
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He did that shit there too. (www.robinthicke.com) But my friends said Gretchen Moll was actually really good. They were shocked. I believe they were told by HBO execs that the reason for the delay in release was that they wanted to expand on her backstory about her relationship with her dad.
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At least I spelt bee correctly...it is spelt with two "ee"s right? Right!!?
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If your looking for boring,professionally written movie articles and news with no passion for the subject then go to "yahoo movies" or something cause your not going to find that type of mediocre crap here.
The guys on this site keep things on the ground level because they're just as big as fans as we are about these movies and not some hum drum reporter who's only writing what he's told to because he doesn't know jack crap about the subject of his own article.
The news articles here are written in the "To the fans from the fans" form and I like it like that. As does a lot of other people.It's actually more like reading an email from your friend rather than some movie article written by a forgetable, every day, boring ass reporter. Ain't It Cool's style of reporting movie news definitely makes more of a connection with us fans with them reporting news in this manner. So none of us really give a shit about grammar or mispelled words with that being the case. But apparently you don't understand that.
And as Quint pointed out your not exactly lil Mrs.Grammar yourself. So there was no need for you to be slagging on anyone else's spelling or style of writing. But as I already said,your missing the whole point of how they write their articles in the first place.
If Quint,Harry or whomever else wanted to write their articles the same way "Entertainment Weekly" does for example then i'm sure they could if they wanted to. But whats the point of that? To be like every other movie site out there?
And besides this is THEIR website so they can write THEIR articles any way they please. When you get your own movie site you can write your articles however you want. Until then take that broomstick out of your ass and loosen up a bit. -
...that seems kind of like a fallacy. You're saying that reviews can't be good unless they have bad grammar or incorrect spelling in them? You and I both know that's not true. Just because Yahoo!'s shitty reviews happen to have perfect spelling in them doesn't mean that has anything to do with why they're boring.
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...I don't even read Yahoo! reviews, so I don't know if they're shitty or not. So, sorry if I offended any Yahoo fans out there, I was just speaking hypothetically.
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Yors two, cagirl. Oned!
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I was a bit skeptical too until I watched the trailer. I think she does resemble the actual Bettie P. and is "lucious enough," as me Gaffer might say. ** Huh? NOONE has ever mistspellt anything at AICN and that'd be a frist!
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Anyone else with too much of an obvious resemblence would've seemed too obsessed to be taken seriously. (i.e. Rose McGowen)...And there's the lack of talent thing too...
Gretchen seems to be channeling her well.
And to the guy who wondered if she were stupid...She was Salutorian of her high school.
People who don't have open minds enough to explore the at the time, groundbreaking themes in her photos would be the stupid ones.
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Well, then every glossy retro pin-up look is a rip-off of Bettie Page?? Uhh, pin-ups were around before she was...She's just the most famous...And she DIDN'T take the pictures.
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Jan 29, 2006 12:46:08 PM CST
Thats not really what I was trying to say Ribbons, but oh well
by mace13
I was mostly trying to get across the way that the guys here write their articles. It's a completely different format than how yahoo or whatever else write theirs. So any mispelled words or grammar or whatever that might pop up from time to time is excusable because of the format they use.I don't care if a word is mispelled so long as they got their point across.If they wrote in the same way yahoo or msn does then ok you have an argument there cause I wouldn't be expecting to see any typographical errors in those type of articles which have been through an editor and proof read and other processes no doubt before being approved for press for a family friendly enviroment. These guys write their news story and post it themselves with no middlemen involved. They use slang and abbreviations and curse and all kinds of other ways to report their news story. Like I said it's a completely different format.
So cagirl making basically insulting remarks about the way articles are written here is comparable to someone bitching about how a person on myspace.com has misused or mispelled a word in their blog entry.That's just stupid. -
Jan 29, 2006 1:13:51 PM CST
Wow, a movie about the goddess Betty Page and all you can talk a
by oisin5199
Time to check your pulses. Anyway, I disagree that Gretchen Mol really captures Betty Page in any definitive way (the look, I mean). The picture on the beach looks most like her, but really, put any actress with a decent, not too skinny body into those costumes and that wig, and they'll look like Betty Page. She had a much more classic and innocent look that this actress doesn't really capture, in my opinion. Of course, the important thing is her performance, which I can't comment on yet.
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"You tried to shit on Quint for misspelling a word" Actually ribbons no, I commented about ANOTHER persons post who had mentioned that Quint had not mispelled a word but had used the wrong word in a sentance. If you're going to flame at me at least check your facts, ok? MY comment was that the OTHER poster was expecting too much from writers here if they were looking for completely proper vernacular ect...based on the sites own mission statement and comments by others here including Quint himself, it seems my suggestion to that other poster about expecting too much is accurate. Now, move on to the Bettie Page stuff.
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I agree with your long entry. I did feel that the guys who "work" for the site (I actually don't even know if they get paid for their stuff!)should be held to a higher level for at least spelling than those of us who post. My only reason for that is I ASSume (I know, bad thing) that they are writing their stuff on a word processing program that has spell check ect, where as me and you are writing on a talkback box with no such tools. I only mentioned THAT because Quint tried to counter my original comment with the fact that I make plenty of errors myself, which I sure don't deny. Give me a talk back with spell check and I promise I wouldn't have nearly as many. I agree though that I prefer the "fan to fan" style of writing here more than the slick "Ebert style" reviews anyday.
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that flags for improper "vernacular and terminology"? Or is 'chomping' not a word?
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Interesting that you claim to hold TalkBackers to a different standard than the editors because of the word processors that they may or may not use, but now you're implicating Quint alongside of us for "expecting too much" [...about spelling originally, now re-purposed to mean the quality of behavior, I suppose]. I apologize. I assumed that the original poster's comment about "champing at the bit" was in response to you, and I shouldn't have. But you're not going to convince me that your comment about the standards around here was anything less than hostile. Anyway... ************ Gretchen Mol looks quite lovely. She looks to have Bette Page down pat. I don't know whether blowing the doors off of Page's history is a worthy venture, regardless of how influential she is, but if the movie is supposedly getting good reviews it might be worth keeping an eye on, at the very least.
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You can't pick up a bloody dictionary? Spelling's not even a matter of personal pride, just basic proficiency in using the language. There used to be an argument on the boards that writing on the net 'doesn't count' which seems to have subsided because I'm guessing everyone finally regained lucidity and realised how full of shit that was. "Give me a talkback with spellcheck"?! Do you realise how lazy that sounds? Admittedly I don't rely on it myself partly because American spelling in automatic spellcheckers is rife (and I'm not American), but the point is I shouldn't be so illiterate that I NEED and RELY on one. I think it's pretty pathetic that people can get out of school with lousy grammar and spelling. I'm a Maths imbecile but I had to stand there the other day while the pizza chick searched for a calculator to work out my change. Couldn't do it in her head OR on paper! You go to school to learn how to read and write, right? That point of view doesn't make me a Nazi. You're all right that there's a lot of boring and substandard writing out there but it's got NOTHING to do with spelling, good or bad. Fair enough we all make mistakes (and me more than most), but it should be an automatic impulse to re-read before you post/email/whatever. Nobody really writes letters anymore, so I don't buy that the net doesn't matter". It's one thing to write as you'd speak and I do myself, but how the talkbackers here can be so clueless as to DEFEND their lazy and incompetent habits makes my jaw drop. Sorry I've been so heated about this but I just couldn't stand it anymore. The only thing that calmed me down and made me laugh was Panterarocks over in the Sundance/Wristcutters thread trying to convince Industrykiller that he/she could write. Supposedly it followed that because he or she had a degree that they were infallible (despite the bad sentence construction and redundancy). The funniest part was the avoidance of "you're" and "your". The whole thing is just surreal. "I'm writing about the opinion that I shouldn't have to know how to write" is what the general theme seems to be here. It beggars belief.__________________The one thing I'd probably agree on is that AICN sucks the proverbial for not having an edit function or italics at the very least. I do understand the time-honoured tradition of hitting the return button by mistake and the Homeresque D'oh that follows though. God knows. Finally, following Cagirl's advice let me just say that Bettie was a very clever girl for understanding how graphic (as in graphic design) a haircut can be.
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CknBLZ: I am pretty sure chomping is indeed a real word but if you had paid attention to the beginning of this mess or at least to my reply to ribbons you'd see that I wasn't the one who took issue with quint's use of the word, I mearly comented on ANOTHER poster who took issue with it. Half-vader: Wow, take a deep breath and calm down. A dictionary? Uh-huh, sure, for a talk back entry. The rest of your rant was just...ranting, you should be spanked by a Bettie Page look alike in leather! Oh wait...somehow I don't think most of you guys would concider that punishment. Anyway, have we all made our points? Rant away those of you who don't think it's all settled, I was over this yesturday and even kinda made peace with Quint on a different talkback.
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maybe we can talk about our favorite misspelled words. i'm torn between "sentance," "grammer" and "concider." tough choices, all.
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It's all me bud. I'm not the one who keeps bringing it up, it's over as far as I'm concerned BUT if someone (like you for example) just has throw their own barbs out there, I will answer to them. Want it to go away, then STFU about it.
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You California girls are just too clever.
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Bettie Page was one fine piece of glorious, leggy, do-anything-ya-want-to-her, kinky, era-defining ass. She's a zipper-buster...fer-sher. Oh, and "champing" or "chomping"...it doesn't matter, I'd spank it.
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You'll roo tha dhey that yoo evar maid it a pointe to direkt attenshun to sumboddies pooer gramur. And to the curmudgeons that keep belaboring the point ad nauseum, this is a story about Bettie Page! Bettie Page! See my previous post for good solid reasons why you should just concentrate on the T&A factor here, people. Sheesh.
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What a shocker! This actress really captures Bettie Page almost to a T.
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What I'm doing now is ANSWERING posts by people like you who just can't get over it and, as chaos731 put it very well, belabor the point ad nausium. If you drop it, I will, keep throwing barbs, I'll keep answering to them, see if you are clever enough to figure that out. By the way, this was never about a mispelled word, but you're too clever I guess to bother with the actual details. Drop it and so will I, it's that easy.
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No, really.
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SER, U PPLZ R SUCH HIPPOCRYTES! ITZ DA INTANET, NOT A FREEKIN CLASS ESSAY! U PPLZ R SOOOO MEEN N CRULE!!!!! OMG U GUYS!!! WHERE IS DA SOUTH OF NO-WHERE TALKBACK????!!!?!?!?!?!?! SPENSER N ASHLEEY 2 GETHER 4 EVER!!!! N WHEN DOES DEGRASSIE STARTS AGAIN? I WUNNA SEE PAGE AND ALEX KISS!! OMG ITZ GUNNA RAWK HARDER THAN YELLOWCARD N AVRIL!
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Anybody know if Dave Stevens is involved in any way? He seems to be right there for almost any kind of Page book. I think Dave putting her in "The Rocketeer" comics may have been the reason she's made a come-back of sorts. I always wondered why Jennifer Connelly didn't wear the B.P. bangs in the Rocketeer movie. And why she was named Jenny!!
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Lummy...the movie subject is Betty Paige as played by Gretchen Mol and the TB is about spell checking. Somewhere a black hole is choking... ** Thank'ee kindly for the Rocketeer connexion Blue Demon. I'll check it out.
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I misspellt her last naime!
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I think J. Connelly would have made a great Bettie Page back around the days she was doing "Rocketeer" I'm not so sure about now though.
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Jan 31, 2006 10:25:31 AM CST
I actually think Gretchen Mol looks more like Betty Paige than J
by ribbons
(ducks, shields eyes). Seriously though, I do.
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This whole spelling and grammar controversy seems like a bit of a tempest in a tea cup. This is basically a fan site for fans and by fans, and probably should be seen as only "quasi-professional" at most. Writing quality on the Internet is a valid topic, but this is still the free-wheeling, Wild West days of the Net, and AICN is more free-wheeling than many. This site is not Slate, Salon, or even Entertainment Weekly. It is AICN, a much more fannish and slap-dash affair than many others. Can we talk about movies now, please?*****The Rocketeer film was based on a comic book, as many of you know. For those that do not know, the character that Jennifer Connelly played in the Rocketeer film was from the comic book also, and the comic book character was visually inspired by Bettie Page. I do not recollect if the comic book character was named Jenny like the film character, but I believe so. Anyway, the comic helped to spark a revived "underground" interest in Bettie Page that persists to this day, and Bettie Page is now obviously an icon to those in the know. I'm not sure if her life story is compelling enough to make a decent film, but Gretchen Mol sure looks hot as Bettie, and that might be enough to make this flick a success, and least financially....
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...I think folks are placing Jen C. in the role out of sheer lust (and why not?). At the time Jennifer appeared in The Rocketeer, she was in the prime of her buxom youth and, like Bettie, was just flat out voluptuous. I think Gretchen is quite fetchin but isn't quite up there with Jennifer in the (admittedly it's an ephemeral yardstick) bodacious body department though a closer resemblance in the face...if you take my meaning {[:^)
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