Sunday, December 17, 2006
HOT HOT HOT XXX LOST GIRLS
A strange review of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls appeared in my local paper on Sunday. Actually, the review itself wasn't that strange, but the accompanying image used to illustrate the review was certainly odd:
That image looks like something out of the adult ads in the back of the free weekly papers. (I'm wondering how many customers are going to be upset when they shell out $75 and find out the model pictured in the review isn't anywhere in the book.)
So why was this fetish photo used instead of representative artwork from the book itself? Perhaps the editor in charge of the Star Tribune's books section took reviewer Eric Hanson's advice too literally:
UPDATE: I changed the link to the Star Tribune's review, since they apparently purge content older than a few weeks off the site but still leave the "printer-friendly" versions of the articles active. I've also uploaded a copy of the review to my webspace in case the Strib deletes the other version of the review as well. 10:59 PM | |
A strange review of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls appeared in my local paper on Sunday. Actually, the review itself wasn't that strange, but the accompanying image used to illustrate the review was certainly odd:
That image looks like something out of the adult ads in the back of the free weekly papers. (I'm wondering how many customers are going to be upset when they shell out $75 and find out the model pictured in the review isn't anywhere in the book.)
So why was this fetish photo used instead of representative artwork from the book itself? Perhaps the editor in charge of the Star Tribune's books section took reviewer Eric Hanson's advice too literally:
Perhaps it's not so provocative, considering the apparent appeal of costumes that put sexy adult spins on the tights and blue dresses that Dorothy and Alice made iconic. (Google "Dorothy" and "costume" or "Alice" and "costume" and see the scanty things that anyone could have seen strolling through Uptown on Halloween.)Apparently those same search terms work on Shutterstock.com as well. (Note that Shutterstock gets the photo credit in the published piece.)
UPDATE: I changed the link to the Star Tribune's review, since they apparently purge content older than a few weeks off the site but still leave the "printer-friendly" versions of the articles active. I've also uploaded a copy of the review to my webspace in case the Strib deletes the other version of the review as well. 10:59 PM | |