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Summary: Wake up and smell the coffee
Review: This much debated-over book attempts to fill in the gaps of Bettie's "missing years" between her retiring from modeling and rediscovery in the late 80s. Foster paraphrases information from the Karen Essex book and Greg Theakston's The Betty Pages about Betties life during the 1950s. Then he draws from police records and witness accounts, detailing Betties deteriorating mental health and subsequent arrests for attempted murder.Many Bettie fans refuse to believe Foster, or put him down for revealing such personal details about a figure who has chosen to remain private. Foster is probably right when he states that if he didn't write the book, someone else would have. Maybe that someone would have been a better writer; Fosters tabloid style skills look weak even to a young writer like me. The back of the book contains a comprehensive index for Bettie fandom, or books, websites, magazines, videos and CD-Roms relating to Bettie. At least Foster is somewhat aware of the fact that the readers of this book are primarily Bettie's fans, so he abstains from putting her down or attempting to derail their persuit. He just states what he claims are the facts, and in the process makes some cash.
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