In the last 60 years two Nashville gals have kicked up a ruckuss with their exuberant, naughty-but-nice posing – singer Miley Cyrus and pin-up queen Bettie Page. Neither could be described as the Girl Next Door: The former markets herself as an out-of-control neighbor’s kid; the latter reveled in the guise of an out-of-control neighbor. But when it comes to pop-cultural legs, the gams of Cyrus are nowhere near as long as those of Page, who attained cult status long after she vanished without a trace in 1957, at the height of her fame. On the most recent Forbes list of “Top Earning Dead Celebrities,” Page ranked eighth, tied with the brainier but less curvaceous Albert Einstein.
-Newsweek
