The great figure model Bettie Page has avoided public appearances for the last few decades, largely because she felt her many fans would prefer to remember her as she was. If you'd like to maintain that fantasy, don't peek at the issue of Playboy that's currently on-sale. On page 11, there's a batch of photos from one of Hef's near-daily birthday parties. The pictures aren't very large but one of them does have a recent, clothed shot of Ms. Page, who looks damn good for eighty. (If you'd like to see her in her prime, www.bettiepage.com has a load of them, plus merchandise one can purchase of the lady. Over the years, she's been ruthlessly exploited and ripped-off by an awful lot of sleazy publishers and entrepreneurs, so it's nice that she has the website where the cash goes to her.)