I don’t know why I’m surprised—OK, I’m not surprised. Just disgusted. All Kate Hepburn rates is an upper-corner box on the cover of the new People? If I’d had even the tiniest scintilla of respect for this mag—which, of courze, I didn’t—this would have extinguished it.
May they grow like onions with their head in the ground and their feet in the air.
It’s my understanding People is doing a whole tribute separate mag to Katharine coming out either July 11th or 14th…I can’t remember the date.
Well, Kate Hepburn doesn’t sell sex to the 18-34 demographic. That a woman who has largely shown the world how to be a real liberated woman, not by words but by how she lived her life, and perhaps the most thoroughly competent professional actress of the 20th Century, might deserve a cover-story tribute on the occasion of her death, takes second place to marketing positioning. (But be sure that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston will receive cover stories – they’re sexy; they sell!)
Hmmm . . . Well, they still have time to redeem themselves, I suppose. I still can’t forgive them for not giving Marlene Dietrich a cover when she died . . .
Not if Brad and Jen wait till 2043 to die, they won’t.
And the measure of Katharine Hepburn’s success is whether or not she gets on the cover of fucking rag like People?
Excuse me if i seem a little unconcerned about the whole thing.
I’m sorry Eve, but I imagine that they had new pictures of Demi Moore and her young lover that ‘everyone’ wants to see. :rolleyes:
Ashton Kutchner?
WHORE! He is rightfully mine!
wields broadsword
Yuck…you can HAVE him! 
Dan’s Quiz has a special tribute though. Some honours are worth more than others…
Slight Hijack:
It’s only just come to my attention that Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn were two different people…
RIP.
Judging by some of the articles I’ve read, she seemed like a remarkable personality.
. . . though, did you ever see them together?
Maybe it was a deadline problem.
I don’t suppose this counts…
Hey. The mag’s not called Dead People, ya know.
Eve, this is your chance to write in to them declaring that you have just cancelled your subscription. If you look in the “letters” section, there is at least one letter each week where the writer flounces off in a huff due to People’s misguided priorities in cover selection, article publication, and so on.
No matter that you don’t actually subscribe to it. I would like to read the letter.
If it makes you feel any better, Entertainment Weekly managed a whole Kate cover plus a several-page overview of her career.
Of course, EW’s been better than People for ages, so their superiority in this matter is hardly surprising…
Well, People is a national magazine. Kate is more a Philadelphia story.
Author! Author!
Calling such a fluffed up (and well used) snot rag like People a “magazine,” is far more egregious than any possible lapse in their coverage about Kate’s demise.
Eve, I felt the same way when Fred “Mr.” Rogers died and they didn’t put him on the cover. I was all set to Pit them, and I got as far as titling the thread “People magazine, you SUCK!”. Then I stopped and thought, “Waitaminut…who’d read this? Everybody already knows that!”
I’m still angry that when Jimmy Stewart died, Ivana Trump received the cover.
(BTW, is “People” owned by AOL Time-Warner?)