John --
Betty Davis was more than a celebrity - especially to women... I'm not all
up in arms over the removal -- because on a stamp I can barely see her
face let alone
noticing that the cig isn't there,however a different photo could have
been used - there
actually were lots of photos of Davis WITHOUT a cigarette... by famous
photographers...
but please don't say she was just a dead celebrity...
Movies were major cultural influences when I was growing up - there was
no TV, no
internet... Betty Davis , for one thing, was liberating for us women for
one thing because
she never wore a bra... didn't stop here sex appeal...
I do look aghast at seeing the old filmsandthe extent to which all my
idols smoked...
I'm sure I started smoking as a teen due to how glamorous Rita Hayworth
was lighting
up... and when I acted they were useful props...
I approve of making stamps where the person depicted is not doing
anything unhealthy
or wicked... but I don't approve of the mental sloth that is indicated
by the stamp makers
not taking the trouble to find a photo of Davis that didn't show her
smoking.
ann (quit smoking in 1992)
John Celio wrote:
Looks good. Rewriting history is ok as long as it's politically correct.
Not.
So you *want* government-sanctioned art portraying smoking as cool?
Golly gee, that's a fabulous idea. What's next, Scottish stamps of
Ewan McGregor shooting up heroin? Jamaican stamps of Bob Marley
smoking pot? Great, send them to the presses! Maybe we could make
them old-fashioned lick-em stamps and put some LSD in the paper.
It's a painting of a photo of a dead celebrity. I'd barely count that
as history. I can see being mad about a stamp portraying important
historical figures like Douglas MacArthur without his pipe or George
W. Bush with a brain, but an actress (who made no significant
contributions to human history besides looking pretty and becoming the
subject of a Rod Stewart song) without a cigarrette? Come on.
John
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