2008-12-12 19:13:21.833826+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments
I want to be remembered as I was when I was young and in my golden times,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 2006. “I want to be remembered as a woman who changed people’s perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form.”
[ related topics: Sexual Culture Nudity ]
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#Comment Re: made: 2008-12-12 19:30:18.964034+00 by: JT
Last night on the news she was described as being the cultural icon who spurred the sexual revolution. I remember seeing actual pinup posters of her in my Grandfather's shop where he did his welding and woodworking.
#Comment Re: made: 2008-12-12 20:12:07.10393+00 by: Dan Lyke
Woot! Way to tie the topics together, JT! Although, for various reasons, I hesitate to tag this post with "Woodworking"...
#Comment Re: made: 2008-12-12 20:34:05.283303+00 by: topspin [edit history]
Bettie Bettie where can you be
I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine
Bettie Bettie don't you understand
if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'
You came to New York City back in Jack and Neal's day
All the lights of old Time Square they flickered on the Great White Way
Straight from Tennessee and in the rarest beauty form
You walked before the Klaw and caused a nationwide storm
After he remembered you from 1952
All the boys down at the pool hall had a calendar or 2
40 odd years later you'll still up and going strong
But I can't help wondering just where it is you've gone
Bettie Bettie where can you be
I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine
Bettie Bettie don't you understand
if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'
Well now all the boys in boot camp had your picture on the wall
Thousands others saw you at their bachelor party brawl
But they don't see your smile like I do smilin' in their dreams
That jungle mistress, dark Madonna, leather booted queen
Bettie Bettie where can you be
I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine
Bettie Bettie don't you understand
if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'
Well now Brigette Bardot, Julie Newmar, Mary and Faye Ray
Mr Vargas pictures made me what I am today
But if I could see you one more time and not lose all my nerve
I'd gladly give the greatest of them all what she deserve
Bettie Bettie where can you be
I ain't seen the likes of you in Hustler magazine
Bettie Bettie don't you understand
if I had been taught by you I'd be a different man'
--- BR-549