Ok, Jostein --
Never heard of Douglas McArthur? If I said WWII and Midway and called
him a General
will a light bulb go on?
is "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away" a phrase you might heard ?
anyway -- here is stuff about him.
http://tinyurl.com/53pjzv
Here is a much reprinted photo I googled for:
http://tinyurl.com/3pzqbz
http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/mydans_carl_general_macarthur_landing_luzon_philippines_1945_16x20_L.jpg
Throughout my childhood I was told that the short soldier beind him and
to _his_ right was
my half-brother, LT. Sterling A. Blackstone... who was killed in April
of 1945 when a plane
he was in was either shot down or just crashed. He is buried in Luzon.
However, while he was one of McArthur's lieutenant's, he may have been
elsewhere
in that group - one of my kin thought something about him didn't look
quite right -- but
she is 5 years younger than I am and is judging only from photos - where
as I idolized him
I think it was New Years eve of 1942 when he picked up a sandwich from
the floor and ate it.
I was 6... I thought him very brave. :-)
As to Robert Johnson, I have this recording of his work (an ebay
listing, not mine)
http://tinyurl.com/3gus7h
no cig.
I never knew the bit about Khruschev photo doctoring.
ann
AlunFoto wrote:
Well done to find that image, Anthony!
Now it looks like the artist has "improved" the shot to hint at her
smoking habit. Not sure if I accept the tampering yet, but all of a
sudden the stamp pic is more in the same class as is the Shoe Incident
with Nikita Khrushchev... Although this is more cleverly done. I was
certainly "had". :-)
Best,
Jostein
2008/10/13 Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Prompted by Jos's efforts, I found the base image here:
http://classicmoviefavorites.com/davis/davis051.jpg
It also happens to be the image on the cover of "Bette Davis Speaks" as
pictured on Amazon.com. Even though the image has differently posed hands,
I overlaid one on the other and found that Davis's face is 100% identical in
both. The problem is that there is no cigarette in this shot, so I'm left
with egg on my face and with much diminished respect for Roger Ebert who has
apparently misled me.
Still, I'm not too sure. WTF, I wonder, was the artist thinking when he
altered Davis's hand to a position that seemed to hold an invisible
cigarette when the "source" image unequivocally lacked a cigarette. But I'm
not so certain that the book image is the source. The tonality of the glove
is strange, and the coat looks patchy where Davis's hand would be according
to the postage stamp version.
I suspect that Bette Davis's smoking has been censored both times. The book
cover version has concealed her smoking habit as much as airbrush retouching
could achieve. Paradoxically, the modern artist has very likely made the
truer rendition by leaving the cigarette's omission evident.
It's a shame that the oldest findable version of this picture is the
biography cover. The original studio release would settle any doubts.
BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has
been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp.
Regards, Anthony
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I will moderate my stance on this one. Spent the lunch break zooming
through a couple of internet databases on stills from Bette Davis
career. There was a link to a youTube clip from "All about Eve" on the
original blogpost, which came close as a possible inspiration for the
stamp, where she's wearing the same coat, haircut and mittens. However
if this is the source, the stamp must be regarded as an independent
work of art however photorealistic it seems.
So only one question remains. Would depicting Bette Davis with a
cigarette in hand on a stamp actually promote smoking? I don't think
so, but I'm open to arguments... :-)
best,
Jostein
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