# Katharine Hepburn doesn't rate a "People" cover? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007 "2003-07-08T15:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/1 "2003-07-08T15:07:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/2 "2003-07-08T15:14:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/3 "2003-07-08T15:15:36Z")
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!) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/4 "2003-07-08T15:16:27Z")
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 . . . ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/5 "2003-07-08T15:17:44Z")
Not if Brad and Jen wait till 2043 to die, they won’t. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/6 "2003-07-08T15:24:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/7 "2003-07-08T15:26:22Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/8 "2003-07-08T15:28:07Z")
Ashton Kutchner? _WHORE!_ He is rightfully _mine!_ _wields broadsword_ ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/9 "2003-07-08T15:38:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*Ashton Kutchner? > > _WHORE!_ He is rightfully _mine!_ > > _wields broadsword_ \*\* Yuck…you can HAVE him! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/10 "2003-07-08T15:47:46Z")
[Dan’s Quiz](http://www.openix.com/~danb/quiz.shtml) has a special tribute though. Some honours are worth more than others… ---
**Author:** ![flairgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7c8e57/32.png) [@flairgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flairgun)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/11 "2003-07-08T16:33:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/12 "2003-07-08T16:37:57Z")
. . . though, did you ever see them _together?_ ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/13 "2003-07-08T16:42:09Z")
Maybe it was a deadline problem. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/14 "2003-07-08T16:42:22Z")
I don’t suppose [this](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115187) counts… Hey. The mag’s not called _Dead_ People, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/15 "2003-07-08T16:46:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/16 "2003-07-08T17:19:06Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/17 "2003-07-08T17:23:11Z")
Well, People is a national magazine. Kate is more a Philadelphia story. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/18 "2003-07-08T17:51:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mhendo \* > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/19 "2003-07-08T23:13:57Z")
**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!” ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007/20 "2003-07-09T01:55:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I still can’t forgive them for not giving Marlene Dietrich a cover when _she_ died . . . \*\* I’m still angry that when Jimmy Stewart died, Ivana Trump received the cover. (BTW, is “People” owned by AOL Time-Warner?) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katharine-hepburn-doesnt-rate-a-people-cover/187007.md?page=2)