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7_6ecb.xml_14 | train | ent | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 28 | 29 | 172 | 182 | Tony Weeks | HUM17205901870880277 | Weeks | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee <m> Tony Weeks </m> to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee <m> Tony Weeks </m> to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_24 | train | ent | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 22 | 25 | 139 | 159 | early in the seventh | 10000000949 | seventh | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows <m> early in the seventh </m> for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows <m> early in the seventh </m> for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_20 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 5 | 5 | 41 | 47 | rounds | 10000000950 | round | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus <m> rounds </m> , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus <m> rounds </m> , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_22 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 15 | 15 | 98 | 103 | round | 10000000951 | round | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth <m> round </m> and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth <m> round </m> and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_23 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 18 | 18 | 113 | 120 | landing | 10000000952 | land | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then <m> landing </m> enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then <m> landing </m> enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_15 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 1 | 1 | 10 | 19 | dominated | ACT16877327968996780 | dominate | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko <m> dominated </m> Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko <m> dominated </m> Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_16 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 7 | 7 | 50 | 58 | knocking | 10000000953 | knock | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , <m> knocking </m> him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , <m> knocking </m> him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_17 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 21 | 21 | 133 | 138 | blows | 10000000954 | blow | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard <m> blows </m> early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard <m> blows </m> early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_18 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 31 | 32 | 186 | 193 | step in | 10000000955 | step | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to <m> step in </m> and call an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to <m> step in </m> and call an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_6ecb.xml_19 | train | evt | 7_6ecb.xml | 1 | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and call an end to it . | 34 | 34 | 198 | 202 | call | 10000000956 | call | ['klitschko', 'dominate', 'rahman', 'six-plus', 'round', 'knock', 'he', 'horribly', 'one-sided', 'sixth', 'round', 'land', 'hard', 'blow', 'early', 'seventh', 'referee', 'tony', 'weeks', 'step', 'end'] | Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and <m> call </m> an end to it . | The major heavyweight year ended much as it started , with Wladimir Klitschko owning the division against overmatched opposition , and with Hasim Rahman being nothing but a shell of the man that once shockingly knocked out Lennox Lewis .
Klitschko dominated Rahman over six-plus rounds , knocking him down in a horribly one-sided sixth round and then landing enough hard blows early in the seventh for referee Tony Weeks to step in and <m> call </m> an end to it .
That should just about do it for the 36-year old Rahman , who has n't scored an impressive or notable win since 2005 .
Since that win over Monte Barrett , Rahman has gone 4-2-1 with a no-contest , beating nothing but club fighters , and often not even looking good doing that .
He 's had a long , strange career , and it looks like it 's over at the top tier .
He was so thoroughly overmatched tonight and unwilling to fight Klitschko that he 's clearly got nothing left as a top fighter .
Klitschko will move on and fight Alexander Povetkin , Chris Arreola or David Haye sometime in March or April , I 'd wager , and he should be a heavy , heavy favorite against any of them .
Arreola was hurt by Travis Walker , Povetkin just does n't strike me as capable of being a truly top-notch guy , and Haye was shaken by Monte Barrett a bit even though he did basically dominate .
I 'd love to see Klitschko-Haye simply because I think Haye will make Wlad work .
I said during the fight that this was yet another case of Klitschko fighting up or down to his opponent .
Haye would make him fight up .
Rahman had him fighting down .
The fight as also yet another example of why people crap on heavyweight fighting .
It was n't interesting , was n't competitive , and you clearly had one guy ( Rahman ) not in shape to fight for more than five rounds .
And worse than that , he did n't even fight .
In the sixth , he landed one punch .
He spent a lot of time laying on the ropes starting in the third round , barely punching at all .
The HBO team today was Lampley , Kellerman and Lennox , and they did their usual bit when they watch a heavyweight fight with Lennox in the booth , which means they made verbal love to Lewis while Lewis agreed with their assessment of him as better than everyone fighting today .
They 're right , of course -- but we all know that .
There was even one round where Lennox decided , out loud , that he is better than Wladimir Klitschko .
As always , an interesting group that teaches me a lot about the fights I 'm watching . |
7_5ecb.xml_19 | train | ent | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 8 | 8 | 46 | 49 | WBO | HUM17205871056692833 | WBO | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and <m> WBO </m> heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and <m> WBO </m> heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_17 | train | ent | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 4 | 4 | 32 | 35 | IBF | HUM16796723158511251 | IBF | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko retained his <m> IBF </m> , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | Wladimir Klitschko retained his <m> IBF </m> , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_18 | train | ent | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 6 | 6 | 38 | 41 | IBO | HUM17205861524592233 | IBO | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , <m> IBO </m> and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , <m> IBO </m> and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_13 | train | ent | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | Wladimir Klitschko | HUM16795316441130196 | Klitschko | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | <m> Wladimir Klitschko </m> retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | <m> Wladimir Klitschko </m> retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_14 | train | ent | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 17 | 18 | 112 | 124 | Hasim Rahman | HUM16877278096136426 | Rahman | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of <m> Hasim Rahman </m> in Mannheim , Germany . | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of <m> Hasim Rahman </m> in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_15 | train | ent | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 19 | 22 | 125 | 146 | in Mannheim , Germany | LOC17205813074379238 | Mannheim | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman <m> in Mannheim , Germany </m> . | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman <m> in Mannheim , Germany </m> .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_16 | train | ent | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 10 | 10 | 62 | 68 | titles | NON17205826451033571 | title | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight <m> titles </m> with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight <m> titles </m> with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_11 | train | evt | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 2 | 2 | 19 | 27 | retained | ACT17205940907889930 | retain | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko <m> retained </m> his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | Wladimir Klitschko <m> retained </m> his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_5ecb.xml_12 | train | evt | 7_5ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round stoppage of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | 15 | 15 | 100 | 108 | stoppage | ACT16877327968996780 | stoppage | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'retain', 'his', 'ibf', 'ibo', 'wbo', 'heavyweight', 'title', 'one-sided', 'seventh-round', 'stoppage', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'mannheim', 'germany'] | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round <m> stoppage </m> of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany . | Wladimir Klitschko retained his IBF , IBO and WBO heavyweight titles with a one-sided seventh-round <m> stoppage </m> of Hasim Rahman in Mannheim , Germany .
Klitschko dominated from the outset against the former two-time champion , who chewed leather from the start and barely landed a blow on the Ukrainian .
Rahman , who took the fight at late notice after mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin pulled out through injury , looked a shadow of the fighter that floored Lennox Lewis to win the title in 2001 .
The American looked clueless as Klitschko continually pounded his face with a sharp left jab that had Rahman back on his heels as early as the first session .
By the third round it was clear that Rahman had nothing to offer and he could not even offload the big right hand that won him so many fights in the past .
Klitschko had him on the canvas early in the sixth round with a double left hook and , as earlier in the fight , Rahman merely retreated to the ropes to take more snappy shots , rarely throwing anything meaningful in return .
And it came to a merciful end in the seventh , referee Tony Weeks saving 'The Rock ' from further punishment just moments after warning his corner he would do just that if the challenger failed to show more intent .
Another clubbing left had Rahman off balance in a neutral corner and with further blows reigning down Weeks stepped in to wave it off .
The victory took Klitschko 's record to 52-3 with a remarkable 46 wins by knockout , taking his unbeaten run to 10 since losing to Lamon Brewster in 2004 .
`` Hasim Rahman really took some punishment and I have to pay tribute to him , '' Klitschko said .
`` I was surprised he stayed in there longer than I thought and I thought they would pull him out . '' |
7_10ecb.xml_14 | train | ent | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 4 | 4 | 32 | 35 | IBF | HUM16796723158511251 | IBF | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko defended his <m> IBF </m> heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | Wladimir Klitschko defended his <m> IBF </m> heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_10 | train | ent | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | Wladimir Klitschko | HUM16795316441130196 | Klitschko | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | <m> Wladimir Klitschko </m> defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | <m> Wladimir Klitschko </m> defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_11 | train | ent | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 9 | 10 | 66 | 78 | Hasim Rahman | HUM16877278096136426 | Rahman | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping <m> Hasim Rahman </m> in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping <m> Hasim Rahman </m> in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_12 | train | ent | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 15 | 17 | 100 | 112 | at SAP Arena | LOC16877340605170314 | Arena | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round <m> at SAP Arena </m> on Saturday . | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round <m> at SAP Arena </m> on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_13 | train | ent | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 6 | 6 | 48 | 53 | crown | NON16877350214539279 | crown | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight <m> crown </m> by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight <m> crown </m> by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_20 | train | ent | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 18 | 19 | 113 | 124 | on Saturday | TIM17205837943541085 | Saturday | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena <m> on Saturday </m> . | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena <m> on Saturday </m> .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_19 | train | evt | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 14 | 14 | 94 | 99 | round | ACT17205952890997761 | round | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh <m> round </m> at SAP Arena on Saturday . | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh <m> round </m> at SAP Arena on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_16 | train | evt | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 2 | 2 | 19 | 27 | defended | ACT17205940907889930 | defend | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko <m> defended </m> his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | Wladimir Klitschko <m> defended </m> his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
7_10ecb.xml_17 | train | evt | 7_10ecb.xml | 0 | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | 8 | 8 | 57 | 65 | stopping | ACT16877327968996780 | stop | ['wladimir', 'klitschko', 'defend', 'his', 'ibf', 'heavyweight', 'crown', 'stop', 'hasim', 'rahman', 'seventh', 'round', 'sap', 'arena', 'saturday'] | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by <m> stopping </m> Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday . | Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight crown by <m> stopping </m> Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena on Saturday .
Klitschko , who has not lost in more than four years , hit the shorter Rahman at will throughout , and after landing a left-right-left combination against the cornered American , the referee stepped in to end the contest. Rahman did n't appear upset .
Klitschko had knocked down Rahman in the previous round with successive left hooks .
The technical knockout in Klitchsko 's sixth defense of the IBF belt - and third this year - improved the Ukrainian-born fighter to 52-3 with 46 KOs .
Rahman , the two-time heavyweight champion who stepped in as a replacement opponent last month , struggled to get inside the taller Klitschko 's reach , and dropped to 45-7-2 .
The fighters started out fast and light on their feet , but it soon became apparent that Rahman was struggling to overcome the 3 1/2-inch height advantage enjoyed by the champion .
Rahman had to lean in drastically , and Klitschko easily fended off his punches .
Rahman did little more than lean on the ropes for a time and guard his face as Klitschko sought his opening .
Rahman looked reinvigorated in the fourth round , using his whole torso to make ambitious attacks , often connecting with Klitschko 's body .
But he rarely landed blows above Klitschko 's shoulders , and the consequences were clear when Klitschko dropped Rahman early in the sixth with two hard lefts to the side of his head .
Rahman got up but spent the remainder of the round in the corner , taking a sustained beating .
Another flurry at the opening of the seventh ended Rahman 's challenge .
Klitschko also retained the minor WBO and IBO belts .
Klitschko was originally scheduled to face Alexander Povetkin ( 16-0 ) , but the Russian pulled out with an ankle injury .
Rahman , who won the WBC and IBF belts from Lennox Lewis in 2001 and the vacant WBC belt in 2005 , arrived in Germany on Monday and declared he was in top shape .
On the undercard , former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe made a modest comeback with an eighth-round decision over Germany 's Gene Pukall .
It was just the third fight in a decade for the 41-year-old American and his first in three years .
Bowe ( 45-1 , 33 KOs ) had been training in Germany since September in an effort to get his stamina up and his weight down .
The work paid off in the ring , where he kept up with the 33-year-old Pukall ( 14-13-2 , 12KOs ) and bested him with a stream of careful head shots . |
4_3ecbplus.xml_1 | train | ent | 4_3ecbplus.xml | 1 | Esther Williams , who swam to stardom in the 1940's , dies at 91 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | Esther Williams | HUM16195623414690294 | Williams | ['esther', 'williams', 'swam', 'stardom', "1940'", 'die', '91'] | <m> Esther Williams </m> , who swam to stardom in the 1940's , dies at 91 | http : / / cir . ca / news / esther - williams - obituary
<m> Esther Williams </m> , who swam to stardom in the 1940's , dies at 91
JUNE 6 , 2013 11 : 34PM
Pinup girl Williams was the star of WWII - era "aquatic musicals" and helped make the sport of synchronized swimming popular . |
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Esther Williams , <m> who </m> swam to stardom in the 1940's , dies at 91
JUNE 6 , 2013 11 : 34PM
Pinup girl Williams was the star of WWII - era "aquatic musicals" and helped make the sport of synchronized swimming popular . |
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Esther Williams , who swam to stardom <m> in the 1940's </m> , dies at 91
JUNE 6 , 2013 11 : 34PM
Pinup girl Williams was the star of WWII - era "aquatic musicals" and helped make the sport of synchronized swimming popular . |
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Esther Williams , who <m> swam </m> to stardom in the 1940's , dies at 91
JUNE 6 , 2013 11 : 34PM
Pinup girl Williams was the star of WWII - era "aquatic musicals" and helped make the sport of synchronized swimming popular . |
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Esther Williams , who swam to stardom in the 1940's , <m> dies </m> at 91
JUNE 6 , 2013 11 : 34PM
Pinup girl Williams was the star of WWII - era "aquatic musicals" and helped make the sport of synchronized swimming popular . |
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Esther Williams , who swam to <m> stardom </m> in the 1940's , dies at 91
JUNE 6 , 2013 11 : 34PM
Pinup girl Williams was the star of WWII - era "aquatic musicals" and helped make the sport of synchronized swimming popular . |
4_9ecbplus.xml_9 | train | ent | 4_9ecbplus.xml | 3 | Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died . | 12 | 12 | 61 | 65 | icon | HUM16195623414690294 | icon | ['esther', 'williams', 'swimming', 'champion', 'actress', 'pin', 'icon', 'die'] | Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up <m> icon </m> , has died . | http : / / www . kpopstarz . com / articles / 30409 / 20130606 / esther - williams - dies - swimming - mourn . htm
Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up <m> icon </m> , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
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Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
<m> Williams </m> , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
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Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her <m> publicist </m> .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
4_9ecbplus.xml_2 | train | ent | 4_9ecbplus.xml | 3 | Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | Esther Williams | HUM16195623414690294 | Williams | ['esther', 'williams', 'swimming', 'champion', 'actress', 'pin', 'icon', 'die'] | <m> Esther Williams </m> , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died . | http : / / www . kpopstarz . com / articles / 30409 / 20130606 / esther - williams - dies - swimming - mourn . htm
Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
<m> Esther Williams </m> , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
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Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming <m> champion </m> , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
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Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , <m> actress </m> , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
4_9ecbplus.xml_36 | train | ent | 4_9ecbplus.xml | 5 | Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist . | 6 | 7 | 28 | 42 | early Thursday | TIM16195893828310568 | Thursday | ['williams', '91', 'pass', 'away', 'early', 'thursday', 'her', 'sleep', 'accord', 'her', 'publicist'] | Williams , 91 , passed away <m> early Thursday </m> in her sleep , according to her publicist . | http : / / www . kpopstarz . com / articles / 30409 / 20130606 / esther - williams - dies - swimming - mourn . htm
Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away <m> early Thursday </m> in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
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Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has <m> died </m> .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
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Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , <m> passed </m> away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
4_9ecbplus.xml_20 | train | evt | 4_9ecbplus.xml | 5 | Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist . | 10 | 10 | 50 | 55 | sleep | ACT16194784155470530 | sleep | ['williams', '91', 'pass', 'away', 'early', 'thursday', 'her', 'sleep', 'accord', 'her', 'publicist'] | Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her <m> sleep </m> , according to her publicist . | http : / / www . kpopstarz . com / articles / 30409 / 20130606 / esther - williams - dies - swimming - mourn . htm
Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her <m> sleep </m> , according to her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
4_9ecbplus.xml_35 | train | evt | 4_9ecbplus.xml | 5 | Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , according to her publicist . | 12 | 13 | 58 | 70 | according to | ACT16409632386175360 | accord | ['williams', '91', 'pass', 'away', 'early', 'thursday', 'her', 'sleep', 'accord', 'her', 'publicist'] | Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , <m> according to </m> her publicist . | http : / / www . kpopstarz . com / articles / 30409 / 20130606 / esther - williams - dies - swimming - mourn . htm
Esther Williams , Swimming Champion , Actress , Pin - Up Icon Dies ; Fans And Family Mourn
June 6 , 2013 3 : 05 PM EDT
Esther Williams , swimming champion , actress , and pin - up icon , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , 91 , passed away early Thursday in her sleep , <m> according to </m> her publicist .
Throughout WWII , she was a popular pinup for GIs , and her personality and self - deprecating wit kept her popular afterwards .
Fans and family mourn her passing , but Williams had a long , full life . |
4_9ecb.xml_12 | train | ent | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | people | 10000000958 | people | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many <m> people </m> were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many <m> people </m> were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_13 | train | ent | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 12 | 13 | 72 | 83 | Bettie Page | HUM16370179946350392 | Bettie | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon <m> Bettie Page </m> passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon <m> Bettie Page </m> passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_14 | train | ent | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 17 | 19 | 106 | 120 | in Los Angeles | LOC16369849809365357 | Angeles | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday <m> in Los Angeles </m> after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday <m> in Los Angeles </m> after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_23 | train | ent | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 16 | 16 | 96 | 105 | yesterday | TIM16370411076342322 | yesterday | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away <m> yesterday </m> in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away <m> yesterday </m> in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_15 | train | ent | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 26 | 27 | 151 | 157 | a week | 10000000959 | week | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for <m> a week </m> following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for <m> a week </m> following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_20 | train | evt | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 21 | 21 | 127 | 136 | lingering | 10000000960 | linger | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after <m> lingering </m> in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after <m> lingering </m> in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_22 | train | evt | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 7 | 7 | 41 | 46 | learn | ACT16370091819220058 | learn | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to <m> learn </m> that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to <m> learn </m> that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_16 | train | evt | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 3 | 3 | 17 | 24 | shocked | 10000000961 | shocked | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were <m> shocked </m> and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were <m> shocked </m> and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_17 | train | evt | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 5 | 5 | 29 | 37 | saddened | 10000000962 | sadden | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and <m> saddened </m> to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and <m> saddened </m> to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_18 | train | evt | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 14 | 15 | 84 | 95 | passed away | ACT16369833899538926 | pass | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page <m> passed away </m> yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page <m> passed away </m> yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_19 | train | evt | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 30 | 31 | 170 | 182 | heart attack | ACT16370025610067695 | attack | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a <m> heart attack </m> . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a <m> heart attack </m> .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_9ecb.xml_26 | train | evt | 4_9ecb.xml | 0 | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a coma for a week following a heart attack . | 24 | 24 | 142 | 146 | coma | ACT17394751298438673 | coma | ['people', 'shocked', 'sadden', 'learn', 'beloved', 'pin-up', 'icon', 'bettie', 'page', 'pass', 'away', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'linger', 'coma', 'week', 'follow', 'heart', 'attack'] | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a <m> coma </m> for a week following a heart attack . | Many people were shocked and saddened to learn that beloved pin-up icon Bettie Page passed away yesterday in Los Angeles after lingering in a <m> coma </m> for a week following a heart attack .
She was 85 .
Personally , I was n't surprised because I thought she died several years ago .
Page is best known by her fans for her risque bondage films and pictures , and her infamous sense of style , which continues to influence everyone from mortician Goth girls to rockabilly cholas in my high school to Dita Von Teese , who 's complete act is utterly ripped off from her .
To me , she 'll always be the kooky , naive Christian portrayed by Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page .
But more than that , she was trailblazer for sexy unconventional women everywhere .
Without her , the Suicide Girls would n't exist , although it 's questionable whether that 's a real loss .
I chose the above picture to memorialize her because everyone loves monkeys .
RIP Bettie !
I 'll drink a martini and listen to a Cramps song in your memory tonight . |
4_8ecb.xml_10 | train | ent | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | Bettie Page | HUM16370179946350392 | Bettie | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | <m> Bettie Page </m> , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | <m> Bettie Page </m> , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_11 | train | ent | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 16 | 16 | 88 | 92 | many | 10000000963 | many | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who <m> many </m> credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who <m> many </m> credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_14 | train | ent | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 34 | 37 | 190 | 212 | Thursday , December 11 | TIM16370411076342322 | Thursday | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away <m> Thursday , December 11 </m> , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away <m> Thursday , December 11 </m> , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_15 | train | ent | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 28 | 30 | 155 | 175 | the following decade | TIM16370130092510149 | following | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of <m> the following decade </m> , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of <m> the following decade </m> , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_17 | train | ent | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 12 | 12 | 65 | 70 | 1950s | TIM17394831772533035 | 1950 | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the <m> 1950s </m> pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the <m> 1950s </m> pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_18 | train | evt | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 25 | 26 | 134 | 151 | sexual revolution | ACT16370168587981935 | revolution | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the <m> sexual revolution </m> of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the <m> sexual revolution </m> of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_12 | train | evt | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 20 | 22 | 112 | 125 | paved the way | 10000000964 | pave | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having <m> paved the way </m> for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having <m> paved the way </m> for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_13 | train | evt | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 32 | 33 | 178 | 189 | passed away | ACT16369833899538926 | pass | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , <m> passed away </m> Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , <m> passed away </m> Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_8ecb.xml_16 | train | evt | 4_8ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many credit with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | 17 | 17 | 93 | 99 | credit | 10000000965 | credit | ['bettie', 'page', 'entertainment', 'original', 'sex', 'kitten', '1950', 'pin-up', 'queen', 'credit', 'having', 'pave', 'way', 'sexual', 'revolution', 'following', 'decade', 'pass', 'away', 'thursday', 'december', '11', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many <m> credit </m> with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 . | Bettie Page , one of entertainment 's original sex kittens , the 1950s pin-up queen who many <m> credit </m> with having paved the way for the sexual revolution of the following decade , passed away Thursday , December 11 , at age 85 .
Bettie Page died Thursday of pneumonia at a Los Angeles area hospital , longtime agent Mark Roesler said .
She had suffered a heart attack earlier in December and never regained consciousness .
He said he and Page 's family agreed to take her off life support .
Roesler described her as `` the embodiment of beauty , '' and enthused that she `` captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality . ''
Bettie Page 's signature raven-black long hair , her bangs , the red lipstick , her full , seductively rounded body and her provocative poses made her into a bona fide pin-up queen in the nineteen fifties .
Her fame endured throughout the decades , even after she retreated from the spotlight and struggled with mental illness , moved around the country and became a born-again Christian .
She was born Betty Mae Page on April 22 , 1923 in Nashville , Tennessee , in an impoverished family with six children .
Despite being confronted with an abusive father who eventually went to prison and having to live in orphanages at times , Page grew up a great fan of Hollywood movies and was successful in school , as salutatorian of her high school graduating class .
Her classmates voted her `` Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She received an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville and started modeling in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with her first husband .
They divorced in 1947 and Page continued her modeling work in New York .
As chance would have it , photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy .
This would forever change Page 's life , as she became on of the two-year-old magazine 's first centerfolds in the January 1955 issue .
Kneeling before a Christmas tree , wearing a Santa hat and a playful wink ( and that 's all ) and holding a Christmas tree ornament , Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described the layout as `` a milestone in the history of the magazine . ''
A few years later , Page modeled in bondage and sadomasochistic poses .
This caused great controversy , as the photographs were criticized by some as perversion and a congressional investigation was launched into pornography .
By the late 1950s , Bettie Page had virtually disappeared from the public eye , having retreated to focus on her own personal life .
She became a born-again Christian and worked for Billy Graham 's ministry , among others .
She married two more times yet both unions failed .
Beginning with the 1970s , she battled mental illness and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic .
During her retreat from the spotlight , Page was completely oblivious of the fascination she had ignited in the public .
She made a comeback almost two decades later , signing memorabilia at conventions and occasionally granted interviews .
She refused to have her photograph taken .
Page had no children .
A private funeral service will be held Tuesday , Dec. 16 , at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . |
4_13ecb.xml_4 | train | ent | 4_13ecb.xml | 1 | Bettie Page , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , died Thursday at age 85 . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | Bettie Page | HUM16370179946350392 | Bettie | ['bettie', 'page', 'notorious', 'southern', 'gal-turned-dominatrix-turne', 'pin-up-queen-turne', 'bear', 'christian', 'die', 'thursday', 'age', '85'] | <m> Bettie Page </m> , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , died Thursday at age 85 . | She was the wholesome face of America 's kinky secret -- even if no one saw that face for half a century .
<m> Bettie Page </m> , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , died Thursday at age 85 .
The details of her death are known:
She had been hospitalized in Los Angeles for four weeks due to pneumonia , only to suffer from a heart attack .
Far less is known of her life -- at least the last five decades of it .
In 1957 , Page disappeared from the flash of the cameras and the public spotlight .
She 'd found religion , became a recluse , and lost contact with friends and associates .
But in the short time she donned panties and garters , brandished a whip and a whip-smart attitude , she was the queen of kink .
Page , you see , was to erotica what Elvis was to rock 'n ' roll .
No , she was n't the first pin-up .
She was n't even the best looking .
But she had `` that thing '' that could take what was once a dark art form into the American mainstream .
Unlike Elvis , though , Page never got bloated .
She checked out in her prime .
She did n't even allow to have her photo taken .
She remained frozen in time .
Yet , her image continues to strut its black stilettos through pop culture .
`` Bettie Page '' remains short-hand for a haircut , an image and a cult that includes everyone and everything -- from designer Vivienne Westwood to rockabilly hounds to hot-rodders , comic books , Madonna , Goths , neo-burlesque performers and devil-may-care types .
The Nashville , Tenn. , girl never imagined she 'd ever stir such a fuss .
`` She looked so fresh and wholesome , '' said Bunny Yeager , whose photographs of Page appeared in virtually every men 's magazine in the nineteen fifties .
`` She was n't trying to be seductive ; she was the girl next door . ''
One big difference between Page and most neighbors , said Yeager:
`` She felt more comfortable in the nude than in clothes . ''
Her story of unintentional notoriety began in 1950 , when she boarded a Greyhound bound for Manhattan .
Within months , her innocent face and curvy body made her the hit of the `` camera-club circuit . ''
`` Back then , you 'd have a bunch of guys with cameras travel by bus to private houses to photograph girls , '' Yeager said .
An aesthetic was born , one that mixed mundane suburbia with raw sexuality .
By 1952 , Page was breaking taboos , posing with a ball strapped in her mouth , whip in hand and devilish look on face -- in photos and movies that featured stripping , spanking and faux lesbianism that straddled burlesque and pornography .
Page was hardly tawdry , though , Yeager said .
`` She was so at ease , so wholesome . ''
The traits made a Page a natural in natural settings captured by Yeager , who met Page in 1954 .
Yeager 's shots of her in a jungle swimsuit with two cheetahs are '50s exotica par excellence : a mix of the innocence and the wild that shot through the veins of American sexuality , not to mention pin-up art , hot-rod aesthetics and tiki culture .
Playboy magazine not only featured Page pictorials ; it adopted her `` girl next door '' charm as its manifesto .
Page 's good-girl-bad-deed notoriety turned her into a Marilyn Monroe with black , wicked hair .
Too wicked for the U.S. government , which condemned photos of her taken by Irving Klaw as `` obscene and lewd . ''
The controversy drove Page from modeling and into the arms of Jesus .
`` One night while walking the beach she saw a neon cross on a church and walked inside , '' Yeager said .
She never walked out : Page became born again , moved to California , and disappeared from the pages and the public eye .
But her image never stopped titillating .
You see it in rock clubs , roller derby games , fashion shows .
And you see it in an America 's own sexual conflicts -- a nation with a Puritanical past and a closet full of sin .
Even in death , Bettie Page is the missing link between the two . |
4_13ecb.xml_6 | train | ent | 4_13ecb.xml | 1 | Bettie Page , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , died Thursday at age 85 . | 13 | 13 | 114 | 122 | Thursday | TIM16370411076342322 | Thursday | ['bettie', 'page', 'notorious', 'southern', 'gal-turned-dominatrix-turne', 'pin-up-queen-turne', 'bear', 'christian', 'die', 'thursday', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , died <m> Thursday </m> at age 85 . | She was the wholesome face of America 's kinky secret -- even if no one saw that face for half a century .
Bettie Page , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , died <m> Thursday </m> at age 85 .
The details of her death are known:
She had been hospitalized in Los Angeles for four weeks due to pneumonia , only to suffer from a heart attack .
Far less is known of her life -- at least the last five decades of it .
In 1957 , Page disappeared from the flash of the cameras and the public spotlight .
She 'd found religion , became a recluse , and lost contact with friends and associates .
But in the short time she donned panties and garters , brandished a whip and a whip-smart attitude , she was the queen of kink .
Page , you see , was to erotica what Elvis was to rock 'n ' roll .
No , she was n't the first pin-up .
She was n't even the best looking .
But she had `` that thing '' that could take what was once a dark art form into the American mainstream .
Unlike Elvis , though , Page never got bloated .
She checked out in her prime .
She did n't even allow to have her photo taken .
She remained frozen in time .
Yet , her image continues to strut its black stilettos through pop culture .
`` Bettie Page '' remains short-hand for a haircut , an image and a cult that includes everyone and everything -- from designer Vivienne Westwood to rockabilly hounds to hot-rodders , comic books , Madonna , Goths , neo-burlesque performers and devil-may-care types .
The Nashville , Tenn. , girl never imagined she 'd ever stir such a fuss .
`` She looked so fresh and wholesome , '' said Bunny Yeager , whose photographs of Page appeared in virtually every men 's magazine in the nineteen fifties .
`` She was n't trying to be seductive ; she was the girl next door . ''
One big difference between Page and most neighbors , said Yeager:
`` She felt more comfortable in the nude than in clothes . ''
Her story of unintentional notoriety began in 1950 , when she boarded a Greyhound bound for Manhattan .
Within months , her innocent face and curvy body made her the hit of the `` camera-club circuit . ''
`` Back then , you 'd have a bunch of guys with cameras travel by bus to private houses to photograph girls , '' Yeager said .
An aesthetic was born , one that mixed mundane suburbia with raw sexuality .
By 1952 , Page was breaking taboos , posing with a ball strapped in her mouth , whip in hand and devilish look on face -- in photos and movies that featured stripping , spanking and faux lesbianism that straddled burlesque and pornography .
Page was hardly tawdry , though , Yeager said .
`` She was so at ease , so wholesome . ''
The traits made a Page a natural in natural settings captured by Yeager , who met Page in 1954 .
Yeager 's shots of her in a jungle swimsuit with two cheetahs are '50s exotica par excellence : a mix of the innocence and the wild that shot through the veins of American sexuality , not to mention pin-up art , hot-rod aesthetics and tiki culture .
Playboy magazine not only featured Page pictorials ; it adopted her `` girl next door '' charm as its manifesto .
Page 's good-girl-bad-deed notoriety turned her into a Marilyn Monroe with black , wicked hair .
Too wicked for the U.S. government , which condemned photos of her taken by Irving Klaw as `` obscene and lewd . ''
The controversy drove Page from modeling and into the arms of Jesus .
`` One night while walking the beach she saw a neon cross on a church and walked inside , '' Yeager said .
She never walked out : Page became born again , moved to California , and disappeared from the pages and the public eye .
But her image never stopped titillating .
You see it in rock clubs , roller derby games , fashion shows .
And you see it in an America 's own sexual conflicts -- a nation with a Puritanical past and a closet full of sin .
Even in death , Bettie Page is the missing link between the two . |
4_13ecb.xml_5 | train | evt | 4_13ecb.xml | 1 | Bettie Page , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , died Thursday at age 85 . | 12 | 12 | 109 | 113 | died | ACT16369833899538926 | die | ['bettie', 'page', 'notorious', 'southern', 'gal-turned-dominatrix-turne', 'pin-up-queen-turne', 'bear', 'christian', 'die', 'thursday', 'age', '85'] | Bettie Page , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , <m> died </m> Thursday at age 85 . | She was the wholesome face of America 's kinky secret -- even if no one saw that face for half a century .
Bettie Page , the notorious Southern gal-turned-dominatrix-turned pin-up-queen-turned born again Christian , <m> died </m> Thursday at age 85 .
The details of her death are known:
She had been hospitalized in Los Angeles for four weeks due to pneumonia , only to suffer from a heart attack .
Far less is known of her life -- at least the last five decades of it .
In 1957 , Page disappeared from the flash of the cameras and the public spotlight .
She 'd found religion , became a recluse , and lost contact with friends and associates .
But in the short time she donned panties and garters , brandished a whip and a whip-smart attitude , she was the queen of kink .
Page , you see , was to erotica what Elvis was to rock 'n ' roll .
No , she was n't the first pin-up .
She was n't even the best looking .
But she had `` that thing '' that could take what was once a dark art form into the American mainstream .
Unlike Elvis , though , Page never got bloated .
She checked out in her prime .
She did n't even allow to have her photo taken .
She remained frozen in time .
Yet , her image continues to strut its black stilettos through pop culture .
`` Bettie Page '' remains short-hand for a haircut , an image and a cult that includes everyone and everything -- from designer Vivienne Westwood to rockabilly hounds to hot-rodders , comic books , Madonna , Goths , neo-burlesque performers and devil-may-care types .
The Nashville , Tenn. , girl never imagined she 'd ever stir such a fuss .
`` She looked so fresh and wholesome , '' said Bunny Yeager , whose photographs of Page appeared in virtually every men 's magazine in the nineteen fifties .
`` She was n't trying to be seductive ; she was the girl next door . ''
One big difference between Page and most neighbors , said Yeager:
`` She felt more comfortable in the nude than in clothes . ''
Her story of unintentional notoriety began in 1950 , when she boarded a Greyhound bound for Manhattan .
Within months , her innocent face and curvy body made her the hit of the `` camera-club circuit . ''
`` Back then , you 'd have a bunch of guys with cameras travel by bus to private houses to photograph girls , '' Yeager said .
An aesthetic was born , one that mixed mundane suburbia with raw sexuality .
By 1952 , Page was breaking taboos , posing with a ball strapped in her mouth , whip in hand and devilish look on face -- in photos and movies that featured stripping , spanking and faux lesbianism that straddled burlesque and pornography .
Page was hardly tawdry , though , Yeager said .
`` She was so at ease , so wholesome . ''
The traits made a Page a natural in natural settings captured by Yeager , who met Page in 1954 .
Yeager 's shots of her in a jungle swimsuit with two cheetahs are '50s exotica par excellence : a mix of the innocence and the wild that shot through the veins of American sexuality , not to mention pin-up art , hot-rod aesthetics and tiki culture .
Playboy magazine not only featured Page pictorials ; it adopted her `` girl next door '' charm as its manifesto .
Page 's good-girl-bad-deed notoriety turned her into a Marilyn Monroe with black , wicked hair .
Too wicked for the U.S. government , which condemned photos of her taken by Irving Klaw as `` obscene and lewd . ''
The controversy drove Page from modeling and into the arms of Jesus .
`` One night while walking the beach she saw a neon cross on a church and walked inside , '' Yeager said .
She never walked out : Page became born again , moved to California , and disappeared from the pages and the public eye .
But her image never stopped titillating .
You see it in rock clubs , roller derby games , fashion shows .
And you see it in an America 's own sexual conflicts -- a nation with a Puritanical past and a closet full of sin .
Even in death , Bettie Page is the missing link between the two . |
4_7ecb.xml_34 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 16 | 16 | 91 | 95 | cult | 10000000966 | cult | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a <m> cult </m> following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a <m> cult </m> following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_24 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | Bettie Page | HUM16370179946350392 | Bettie | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | <m> Bettie Page </m> , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | <m> Bettie Page </m> , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_25 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 21 | 21 | 125 | 128 | she | HUM16370179946350392 | she | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after <m> she </m> turned her back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after <m> she </m> turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_26 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 23 | 23 | 136 | 139 | her | HUM16370179946350392 | she | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned <m> her </m> back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned <m> her </m> back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
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She was 85 .
<m> Page </m> died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_28 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 22 | 23 | 115 | 127 | Mark Roesler | HUM17394511845366898 | Roesler | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent <m> Mark Roesler </m> said in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent <m> Mark Roesler </m> said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_32 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 9 | 9 | 49 | 54 | looks | 10000000967 | look | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural <m> looks </m> and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural <m> looks </m> and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_33 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 13 | 13 | 73 | 78 | poses | 10000000968 | pose | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish <m> poses </m> triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish <m> poses </m> triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_35 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 27 | 27 | 138 | 147 | statement | 10000000969 | statement | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a <m> statement </m> . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a <m> statement </m> .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_30 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 4 | 4 | 18 | 23 | 1950s | TIM17394831772533035 | 1950s | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the <m> 1950s </m> pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the <m> 1950s </m> pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_31 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 14 | 18 | 82 | 102 | more than a week ago | TIM27417698790972120 | more | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack <m> more than a week ago </m> , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack <m> more than a week ago </m> , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_29 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 18 | 19 | 106 | 118 | four decades | TIM16370345467044338 | decade | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following <m> four decades </m> after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following <m> four decades </m> after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_45 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 4 | 8 | 25 | 50 | in a Los Angeles hospital | LOC16369849809365357 | hospital | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died late yesterday <m> in a Los Angeles hospital </m> after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday <m> in a Los Angeles hospital </m> after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_46 | train | ent | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 2 | 3 | 10 | 24 | late yesterday | TIM16370411076342322 | yesterday | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died <m> late yesterday </m> in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died <m> late yesterday </m> in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_38 | train | evt | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 12 | 13 | 69 | 81 | heart attack | ACT16370025610067695 | attack | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a <m> heart attack </m> more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a <m> heart attack </m> more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_39 | train | evt | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 26 | 26 | 148 | 156 | modeling | 10000000970 | modeling | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on <m> modeling </m> , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on <m> modeling </m> , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_40 | train | evt | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 29 | 29 | 163 | 167 | died | ACT16369833899538926 | die | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has <m> died </m> . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has <m> died </m> .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_41 | train | evt | 4_7ecb.xml | 0 | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | 14 | 14 | 79 | 88 | triggered | 10000000971 | trigger | ['bettie', 'page', '1950s', 'pinup', 'girl', 'natural', 'look', 'risque', 'fetish', 'pose', 'trigger', 'cult', 'follow', 'decade', 'she', 'turn', 'she', 'modeling', 'die'] | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses <m> triggered </m> a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses <m> triggered </m> a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_42 | train | evt | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 10 | 10 | 57 | 66 | suffering | ACT17394598357871441 | suffer | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after <m> suffering </m> a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after <m> suffering </m> a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_43 | train | evt | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | died | ACT16369833899538926 | die | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page <m> died </m> late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page <m> died </m> late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
4_7ecb.xml_44 | train | evt | 4_7ecb.xml | 2 | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement . | 24 | 24 | 128 | 132 | said | ACT16370330468695681 | say | ['page', 'die', 'late', 'yesterday', 'los', 'angeles', 'hospital', 'suffer', 'heart', 'attack', 'week', 'ago', 'her', 'agent', 'mark', 'roesler', 'say', 'statement'] | Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler <m> said </m> in a statement . | Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup girl whose natural looks and risque fetish poses triggered a cult following four decades after she turned her back on modeling , has died .
She was 85 .
Page died late yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack more than a week ago , her agent Mark Roesler <m> said </m> in a statement .
`` She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality , '' said Roesler .
`` She is the embodiment of beauty . ''
The busty `` Dark Angel '' from Tennessee was one of the most- photographed women of her era , striking a chord with men 's camera clubs and sparking outrage in Congress for her nude snapshots .
Page 's image , complete with black hair bangs and naughty smile , appeared on magazine covers , playing cards , wallpaper and comic books in the 1990s , inspiring retrospective tributes from celebrities such as Madonna , Demi Moore and Uma Thurman .
The college-educated beauty queen who disappeared from the public eye after 1957 was unaware of her renewed popularity until `` Entertainment Tonight '' broadcast a television segment about her almost 40 years later .
She had disowned her glamour lifestyle after becoming a born-again Christian in 1959 , and later battled mental illness in Florida and California .
`` Bettie Page is the last great icon of the 1950s , '' James Swanson , co-author of `` Bettie Page:
The Life of a Pinup Legend , '' said in a 1996 interview with NBC 's Real Life program .
`` Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe , she brought something modern to the era .
She 's like the girl next door , the greatest American pin-up and that 's why she 's eternal. ``
Early Years
Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22 , 1923 , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The second of six children , she helped raise her younger siblings while the family traveled around the U.S. in search of work .
Page 's mother placed her daughters in an orphanage after divorcing her husband , who was sentenced to two years in an Atlanta penitentiary for stealing a policeman 's car .
At the age of 10 , Page began to mimic actresses and perform songs for the other girls at the orphanage before her mother , who worked as a hairdresser during the day and in a laundry at night , reclaimed her children after a year .
Page took refuge from her traumatic family life in local community centers , where she learned to cook , sew and study hard enough to top her class at high school .
She was a member of the drama club , helped edit the school newspaper and was voted `` The Most Likely to Succeed . ''
She won a $ 100 scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education .
Three Husbands
In February 1943 , she married Billy Neal , the first of her three husbands , and moved to San Francisco , where she had her first modeling assignment for a local furrier .
While Neal served in the Mariana Islands during World War II , Page lived in Nashville , Miami and Port au Prince , Haiti .
In 1947 , she filed for divorce and moved to New York .
Three years later while walking on Coney Island , she met police officer Jerry Tibbs who had an interest in photography and assembled Page 's first portfolio .
Tibbs introduced her to camera clubs , men 's hobbyist groups that sometimes acted as a front for erotic photography , and Page 's career took off .
She then appeared in publisher Robert Harrison 's girlie magazines Wink , Flirt and Beauty Parade .
In January 1955 , she was the centerfold model in Hugh Hefner 's fledgling Playboy magazine , one month before actress Jayne Mansfield appeared as the publication 's Playmate .
`` She had a saucy innocence that is both contemporary and provocative , and also nostalgic , '' Hefner said .
Media Mogul
Page , who claimed she ignored media mogul Howard Hughes 's request for a screen test in 1955 because she did n't want to sleep with him , also studied acting under Herbert Berghoff at Sea Cliff Summer Theater on Long Island .
The apprenticeship helped her gain parts in New York stage productions and on television , once appearing on `` The Jackie Gleason Show . ''
Some of her most celebrated snapshots were taken in 1954 during a session with photographer Bunny Yeager at the Africa USA wildlife park in Boca Raton , Florida .
They included nude poses with two cheetahs and scenes in a leopard-patterned jungle outfit that she made herself .
Her `` Dark Angel '' image stemmed from bondage and fetish sessions for Irving Klaw 's Movie Star News .
Klaw , who paid $ 80 for four hours ' work at his studio in Greenwich Village , New York , required sadomasochistic shots to meet the demand of high- profile , educated clients .
His sister Paula created the sets and helped Page develop the fetish image .
'Very Sweet '
`` Paula was one of the nicest women I 've ever known in my life , '' Page said .
`` Only Paula was allowed to tie us up .
She was very gentle , caring and considerate .
She never tied any ropes too tight .
She was very sweet . ''
A Congressional investigation initiated by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver in 1955 called Page as a witness and put Klaw out of business , though he had no case to answer because his models were never nude .
The evidence of obscenity had included more- explicit poses that Page had done for camera clubs after a drinking session one night at a party .
The Congressional probe is said to have contributed to her decision to give up modeling .
Throughout the 1960s , Page attended Bible schools in Los Angeles , Chicago and Oregon , helping teenage mothers and visiting jails .
Her breakdown in 1972 after divorcing third husband Harry Lear led to four months ' treatment in Florida 's Jackson Memorial Hospital and 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino , California .
She also had numerous run-ins with the law , including a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after brandishing a knife at her landlady who did n't provide Page with rent receipts .
Pop-Culture Revival
Page 's pop-culture revival emanated from artwork by Robert Blue and Olivia de Berardinis , who drew on her fantasy and fetish work .
David Stevens also featured Page in `` The Rocketeer '' comics from the early 1980s , prompting an avalanche of similar publications based on her persona .
In later years , she lived in California and collected royalties from her work as a model after signing with Curtis Management Group .
In 2005 , Time Warner Inc. and HBO Films released `` The Notorious Bettie Page , '' a feature film starring Gretchen Mol as Page .
Page avoided the camera lens after her modeling years , though she was photographed with Hefner at Playboy 's 50th anniversary celebration in 2003 .
`` I want people to remember me as I was , '' she said in a Playboy interview in 1998 .
Page was divorced three times and had no children . |
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June 06 , 2013
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Friday , June 7 , 2013
Hollywood ’ s mermaid Esther Williams dies
Champion swimmer turned top box - office draw in 40s and 50s
Esther Williams , the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolour musicals of the 1940s and 1950s , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , whose experiences as a young swimming champion led to a career of Hollywood “ aqua - musicals ” designed just for her , died yesterday in Beverly Hills , California , at the age of 91 , her spokesman said .
<m> She </m> died peacefully in her sleep and had been in declining health due to old age , spokesman Harlan Boll said .
It was the pool — and wartime pinup pictures of her in bathing suits — that made her popular .
Williams in a bathing suit became a favourite pinup of US people in World War II , and her popularity continued afterward . |
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Friday , June 7 , 2013
Hollywood ’ s mermaid Esther Williams dies
Champion swimmer turned top box - office draw in 40s and 50s
Esther Williams , the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolour musicals of the 1940s and 1950s , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , whose experiences as a young swimming champion led to a career of Hollywood “ aqua - musicals ” designed just for her , died yesterday in Beverly Hills , California , at the age of 91 , her spokesman said .
She died peacefully in her sleep and had been in declining health due to old age , spokesman <m> Harlan Boll </m> said .
It was the pool — and wartime pinup pictures of her in bathing suits — that made her popular .
Williams in a bathing suit became a favourite pinup of US people in World War II , and her popularity continued afterward . |
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Friday , June 7 , 2013
Hollywood ’ s mermaid <m> Esther Williams </m> dies
Champion swimmer turned top box - office draw in 40s and 50s
Esther Williams , the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolour musicals of the 1940s and 1950s , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , whose experiences as a young swimming champion led to a career of Hollywood “ aqua - musicals ” designed just for her , died yesterday in Beverly Hills , California , at the age of 91 , her spokesman said .
She died peacefully in her sleep and had been in declining health due to old age , spokesman Harlan Boll said .
It was the pool — and wartime pinup pictures of her in bathing suits — that made her popular .
Williams in a bathing suit became a favourite pinup of US people in World War II , and her popularity continued afterward . |
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Friday , June 7 , 2013
Hollywood ’ s mermaid Esther Williams dies
Champion swimmer turned top box - office draw in 40s and 50s
<m> Esther Williams </m> , the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolour musicals of the 1940s and 1950s , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , whose experiences as a young swimming champion led to a career of Hollywood “ aqua - musicals ” designed just for her , died yesterday in Beverly Hills , California , at the age of 91 , her spokesman said .
She died peacefully in her sleep and had been in declining health due to old age , spokesman Harlan Boll said .
It was the pool — and wartime pinup pictures of her in bathing suits — that made her popular .
Williams in a bathing suit became a favourite pinup of US people in World War II , and her popularity continued afterward . |
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Friday , June 7 , 2013
Hollywood ’ s mermaid Esther Williams dies
Champion swimmer turned top box - office draw in 40s and 50s
Esther Williams , the swimming <m> champion </m> turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolour musicals of the 1940s and 1950s , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , whose experiences as a young swimming champion led to a career of Hollywood “ aqua - musicals ” designed just for her , died yesterday in Beverly Hills , California , at the age of 91 , her spokesman said .
She died peacefully in her sleep and had been in declining health due to old age , spokesman Harlan Boll said .
It was the pool — and wartime pinup pictures of her in bathing suits — that made her popular .
Williams in a bathing suit became a favourite pinup of US people in World War II , and her popularity continued afterward . |
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Friday , June 7 , 2013
Hollywood ’ s mermaid Esther Williams dies
Champion swimmer turned top box - office draw in 40s and 50s
Esther Williams , the swimming champion turned <m> actress </m> who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolour musicals of the 1940s and 1950s , has died .
She was 91 .
Williams , whose experiences as a young swimming champion led to a career of Hollywood “ aqua - musicals ” designed just for her , died yesterday in Beverly Hills , California , at the age of 91 , her spokesman said .
She died peacefully in her sleep and had been in declining health due to old age , spokesman Harlan Boll said .
It was the pool — and wartime pinup pictures of her in bathing suits — that made her popular .
Williams in a bathing suit became a favourite pinup of US people in World War II , and her popularity continued afterward . |
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