11/17/09

I Wanna Be Illustrated

-Not sedated, mind you. Illustrated. And preferably by whoever used to do the covers of Time magazine in 1939.

To browse that particular publication, you'd picture former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, noted public servant, statesman, businessman, art collector, and philanthropist, as looking about like this:

Poke around a little further, though, and you get this picture of the man:


Still a dapper gent, don't get me wrong, it's just that he seemed to have lost a little of that matinee-idol quality in the transition from paint to photo.

Makes you wonder what that artist could do with your ugly mug, don't you think?

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