If this doesn’t show in a nearby ZIP code, I’ll be a really unhappy camper. Gretchen Moll looks perfect, and I heard Mary Harron give a great interview on Fresh Air today. Harron chose to shoot each half of the movie to match Page’s pictures from that period, i.e., the Bunny Yeager years are in color, and Klaw years are in black and white. Neat. Other interesting choices on Harron’s part were a demand that no actors be cast who’d had plastic surgery of any kind (”people didn’t do that in the 1950’s”) and using a ring light on Moll (”female leads in the 50’s seemed to glow”). A good interview and possibly an excellent movie.

Fresh Air : ‘Bettie Page’: The Making of a Pin-Up Sensation
Yahoo! Movies Preview : “The Notorious Bettie Page” ~

Did I tell you I’m reading The Catcher In The Rye? Well, I am. I started it several times when I was a kid but–shocker–I didn’t finish it. And I have to say that even though this book would be of the most use to someone about fourteen years old, it’s meaning won’t dawn on you until you’re a good bit older. There’s poetry on these pages, and I don’t mean somber sing song words that don’t mean anything. I mean the hidden density of being a teenager; the inexplicable anger, the unassuagable rage and cynicism and the unbearable loneliness. All that is obfuscated in plain sight, and to decode it you have to be able to remember what it’s like to be sixteen, something I have no trouble doing. ~