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TRiViA ANSWERS: From page 7

5. The Firm

1. Known by her married name, she is Julia Child, the French Chef, and the film was Julie and Julia.

7. Musa—Moses

2. Las Vegas

9. Governor of Alaska

3. Whiskers help the cat judge the width of the regions they want to crawl through, especially in the dark. A cat’s whiskers are about as wide as the body.

10. 22.5π square inches = 70.68 square inches. Reason: lateral area = 18π, and top+bottom = 4.5π

6. 3 feet (.9 meters)

Movies in the county that Hollywood couldn’t tame…

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ew sex symbols have had the endurshe posed as naughty maids, jungle queens ing popular influence of Bettie Page. and whip-wielding girls next door. But afTwenty-first century comic books, ter the Senate-led hearings against Bettiefashion designers, music videos, even style erotica and Page herself was arrested postcards celebrate her sweet and naughty for indecent exposure (not to mention statuesque persona six decades after she her mini-career in bargain-basement stag entered, and suddenly departed, the plainfilms and her crowning as Playboy’s Miss paper-wrapper mainstream. The icon’s January of 1955), she disappeared at the unlikely career, tumultuous life and Garage of 34. boesque withdrawal from Page’s brief yet strikthe limelight are among ing career, her subsequent NOW PLAYING the topics of Bettie Page under-the-radar decades as Bettie Page Reveals All Reveals All, Mark Mori’s a fervent (if open-minded) opens Friday, Dec. 13, at inventive new documenChristian, two nervous the Rafael. Running time tary. breakdowns and 10 years at 101 minutes. Mori taped several hours Patton State Hospital as a of interviews with Page paranoid schizophrenic— in the late ’90s, 10 years and the concurrent growth before her death, and her gravelly, noof the black-bangs-and-bustier Bettie holds-barred reflections serve as the film’s Page cult—are vividly covered in a pulpy, compelling narration. Born in Nashville in kaleidoscopic montage of paperbacks, 1923, Page endured a childhood of poverty LPs, pinups, cartoons, silkscreens, comic and abuse before an amateur photograbooks, newsreels, snapshots and image pher took one look at her raven hair, ruby after image of Bettie in various stages of lips and lush physique and introduced unabashed unadornment, set to the tune her to the world of cheesecake modelof her honeyed, world-weary drawl. Hugh ing. Her exuberant, direct-gaze charisma Hefner, Laetitia Casta, Mamie Van Doren (“She smiled with her whole body,” says and the Reverend Robert Schuller are photographer Sam Menning. “I imagined on hand to discuss the woman and the the camera was my boyfriend,” says Page.) image—including the tattooed, purplehaired, postmodern reincarnations of coupled with an uninhibited sexuality Madonna, Beyonce and Katy Perry—and (she designed her own micro-bikinis and how this dirt-poor Nashville girl so thortranslucent lingerie) made her a sensaoughly and effortlessly infiltrated modern tion in the pages of Wink, Titter, Flirt and pop culture. Y other girly magazines of the 1950s, where


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