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Bond!! James Bond!!
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that is pretty cool....they show the covers all the way back to 1933!!!
what was on the cover the month and year YOU were born??
http://www.esquire.com/cover-detail?year=1933&month=10#img (http://www.esquire.com/cover-detail?year=1933&month=10#img)
(and look at the price...75 cents!! :o )
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Julie Newmar was on the cover of Esquire Magazine the month I was born??!!! It's gotta be some sort of sign! :laugh:
Look how ancient that magazine cover looks. Geez! :P :P
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Should I know them? I don't. LOL.
And no -- they are not my family -- neither group. :P 8)
No Arkansas jokes allowed. :-\ >:( :laugh:
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Julie Newmar was on the cover of Esquire Magazine the month I was born??!!! It's gotta be some sort of sign! :laugh:
Look how ancient that magazine cover looks. Geez! :P :P
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look how short her skirt is! SHOCKING I tell you!
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(http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/cover-images/1954_10.jpg)
Should I know them? I don't. LOL.
And no -- they are not my family -- neither group. :P 8)
No Arkansas jokes allowed. :-\ >:( :laugh:
:-X :-X :-X
not saying a word!
;)
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Should I know them? I don't. LOL.
And no -- they are not my family -- neither group. :P 8)
No Arkansas jokes allowed. :-\ >:( :laugh:
Who the hell are they Shasta? I don't know them either! It almost looks like Mrs. Butterworth, one of the bad guys from Deliverance, Johnny Appleseed, a witch with a beard, a baby with his diaper falling off and two people in a car getting the f*ck out of there. I can't say I blame them.
I'm mystified. I have no idea who they are Shasta. ???
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(http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/cover-images/1954_10.jpg)
Should I know them? I don't. LOL.
And no -- they are not my family -- neither group. :P 8)
No Arkansas jokes allowed. :-\ >:( :laugh:
how weird that there was NO words on the cover at all!
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I dont know who she is? ???
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I dont know who she is? ???
huh! she looks SO familiar though?
Mary Tyler Moore??
???
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April 1954
Looks like Shirley MacLaine, but isn't--I predate even The Pajama Game (opened May 1954)--Yike! I'm practically Prediluvian!
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Who the hell are they Shasta? I don't know them either! It almost looks like Mrs. Butterworth, one of the bad guys from Deliverance, Johnny Appleseed, a witch with a beard, a baby with his diaper falling off and two people in a car getting the f*ck out of there. I can't say I blame them.
I'm mystified. I have no idea who they are Shasta. ???
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August 1963. Liz and Dick and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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So, Paul you're the baby of this group!! I say the brunette is Ann-Margret (she was usually a redhead). And Julie Newmar is not wearing a skirt, she's wearing a tennis outfit which is a pair of pants with a little flounce over it. It has to be short so you can place your balls in the pockets...tennis balls, that is!!
I have no idea what this cover depicts, but no wonder I am so wacko!!
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So, Paul you're the baby of this group!!
I don't think so. That would be Jess, as she posted June 1965!
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I don't think so. That would be Jess, as she posted June 1965!
Well, you're the toddler then!
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Well, you're the toddler then!
especially after all that tequila!!!
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heh.............
had to look up Barrie Chase. Only thing that rang a bell was that she was the bikini clad girlfriend dance of the loud crazy Ethel Merman son in 'It's a Mad, Mad...World.'
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So Jess, you just has a birthday, happy birthday. 8)
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So Jess, you just has a birthday, happy birthday. 8)
Thank you sir!
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And for April 1968, I get Muhammad Ali himself:
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/28/arts/lois.php (http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/28/arts/lois.php)
From The International Herald Tribune:
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Two of the more controversial covers George Lois created for Esquire, in 1967, right and 1969. In all Lois illustrated 92 covers. (Museum of Modern Art)
George Lois: The ad man who transformed Esquire's covers
by Charles McGrath
Published: April 29, 2008
NEW YORK: George Lois, one of the most influential admen of his generation, is the sort of person who has a dozen brainstorms an hour, at least half of them good and only a few really harebrained. Among the better ones were the early Xerox commercials showing a chimpanzee deftly operating a photocopier, the "Think small" ads for Volkswagen and the "I want my MTV" campaign. He also dreamed up Lean Cuisine and the "I want my Maypo" slogan.
But among certain groups of people - magazine collectors, veterans of the 1960s, admirers of brilliant design - Lois is best known for the covers he created for Esquire from 1962 to 1972. There were 92 in all, including one that never ran: an anti-war cover intended for the December 1962 issue, which was dropped because the State Department was insisting that American troops would be out of Vietnam by Christmas. Thirty-one of them are part of an exhibition that opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last Friday.
The show looks a little like a tidied-up version of a great many college dorm rooms back in the '60s. There on the wall, neatly mounted instead of just torn out and stuck up with tape, are Tricky Dick having lipstick applied, LBJ holding a Hubert Humphrey dummy, Andy Warhol drowning in a Campbell's soup can, Muhammad Ali posing as St. Sebastian and a grinning Lieutenant William Calley, the leader of the massacre at My Lai, with four Vietnamese children.
There's also the image Lois created for the December 1963 issue, in response to a plea from Harold Hayes, Esquire's editor, for something "Christmassy." It shows Sonny Liston wearing a Santa hat - probably the last person white Americans hoped to see coming down the chimney in those days.
Many of Lois's covers were controversial, not to say irreverent or deliberately provocative. The Liston cover cost the magazine $750,000 in dropped advertising. But they were immensely successful at drawing attention, on the newsstand especially.
"The covers weren't the only thing going on in those days," Byron Dobell, Esquire's managing editor during many of the Lois years, recalled recently. "We thought there was some pretty great stuff inside as well. But the covers proved to be a very effective way of advertising our kind of journalism. They were way out there."
What was remarkable then - and seems even more so now, when virtually every magazine cover is a thicket of text lines running behind or on top of one celebrity or another - is that the Lois covers were virtually textless. They achieved their effect by communicating a single idea through an image. Some were untouched photographs, but, in an era before Photoshop, some were created by the primitive technique of cutting and pasting, using photographs, clip art and sometimes hand-drawn elements.
"I remember when we were doing the Warhol cover," Lois recalled. "I explained to Andy what I had in mind, and he said, 'Oh, will you have to build a very big can?' "
There is a whole generation of current or recent magazine editors who are Lois admirers, including David Remnick, Graydon Carter and Tina Brown. "George was there during a great age," said Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair. "You didn't have to put low-grade movie stars on the cover then to move magazines. You could put ideas there." He added: "George used people like Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali, so you could say he was using the celebrities of the day. And it was probably a little easier then, because everybody had the same frame of reference. They all read and watched the same things. But George was as good as it got."
Few editors, though, have the nerve to try to imitate what Lois did. Esquire's May cover this year, of a woman shaving her face, is a sort of homage to the 1965 Lois cover of Virna Lisi doing the same thing, except that in the background there's a lot of busy type needlessly explaining, "We Shot This Image to Catch Your Eye."
Lois is 76 now, and not quite the hunk he used to be in the days when he was known in the ad business as the Golden Greek. "People see pictures of me back then and ask, 'What happened?' " he said recently. "I'll tell you what happened. Fifty years is what happened." But he still plays full-court basketball - against much younger guys, he's quick to point out - and gets by on four hours of sleep a night.
Lois grew up in a Greek-speaking household in the Bronx, where his father ran a flower shop, and he is still a bit of a neighborhood guy. He is funny, profane and opinionated. He talks very fast, in a rumbling New York voice, but his brain works even faster, so that sometimes there's a little lag while the words catch up.
Over a long morning interview - monologue really - that stretched into lunch, prepared by Rosemary, his wife of 56 years, Lois recalled that Martin Scorsese, a huge admirer of the Esquire covers, seemed crushed when he learned that his idol had spent most of his life in advertising. But Lois said he didn't see much difference between ads and covers.
"I've always been about the big idea, the big idea," he explained. "I never had any trouble going into a new area. It's all a matter of creativity. I even made a music video once for Bob Dylan, using 5,000 years of the history of art."
The Esquire connection came about, he recalled, in June 1962, when Harold Hayes - a courtly, soft-spoken Southerner who favored white suits even before Tom Wolfe - called looking for advice about covers.
When Lois learned that Esquire covers were conceived and assigned by an editorial committee, he likened the process to gang rape and said to Hayes: "Is that what you do when you assign a story to Talese or to Mailer - you have a group grope? You need to get one guy who understands the culture, who likes comic strips, goes to the ballet, visits the Metropolitan Museum."
According to Lois, Hayes replied, "Hey, pal, could you do me a favor? Could you do just do me one cover - to show me what the hell you're talking about?"
The cover Lois did - for the October issue, which came out a few days before the Floyd Patterson-Sonny Liston fight that year - showed a Patterson look-alike sprawled, possibly dead, in an empty boxing ring. This was a huge gamble, because most experts had picked Patterson to win. "But I knew," Lois said. "I just knew that Liston was going to wade through him." Lois also got lucky when, after a coin flip, he predicted that Patterson would be wearing white trunks.
The cover was a hit, and Lois had a job, which he kept until Hayes stepped down in 1972. There were no committees, no group gropes. Lois dealt solely with the editor, and he likes to say now that Hayes was one of the few at Esquire who really liked the covers, though people who were there at the time disagree.
Lee Eisenberg, an editorial assistant in the early '70s who eventually became editor of Esquire, said: "The Lois covers were one of the key reasons I and a lot of people there were drawn to Esquire in the first place. We loved them. They set a visual tone that complemented the distinctiveness of the rest of the magazine.
"The only real controversy that I recall was about the Calley cover. There was a lot of argument and bitterness over that, and it was the one time that the privacy of the relationship between Harold and George became an issue. There was an alternative version - the exact same cover but with Calley not smiling - and Harold didn't show that to anyone."
Lois recalled: "Harold used to say that we were doing was 'pictorial Zolas' - you know, 'J'accuse.' " He added: "People ask me, 'Did you know when you were doing this that you were making an important statement?' Yeah, I knew. I'm a designer. I know what I'm doing. I have designs on things."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/28/arts/lois.php (http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/28/arts/lois.php)
From The International Herald Tribune:
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Two of the more controversial covers George Lois created for Esquire, in 1967, right and 1969. In all Lois illustrated 92 covers. (Museum of Modern Art)
this is very interesting to me...they were already seeing the problem with ageism...
Thanks Jim!!
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I wonder what is with the emoticon above the 'i' in Esquire??
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Okay so I got a lemon - what does that say about me!?!
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Oh and happy belated birthday Jess!
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November 1949 for me and there would appear to be two naked men on the cover. :o
Even though they are fighting, naked men on the cover of Esquire can't have happened too often! ;) :laugh:
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November 1949 for me and there would appear to be two naked men on the cover. :o
Even though they are fighting, naked men on the cover of Esquire can't have happened too often! ;) :laugh:
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That almost looks like Jack and Ennis fighting during their first trip up to the mountain. Except they both still had their shirts on.
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That almost looks like Jack and Ennis fighting during their first trip up to the mountain. Except they both still had their shirts on.
Looks like Jack might have the upper hand there too, so to speak! ;) ;) ;) :laugh:
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These are very cool. :D
Mine is August 1989
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Plus ça change, ou--?
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August 2008
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April 1968
Well, I will say one thing--'modern' magazine covers are certainly cluttered looking, especially compared to the punch of George Lois's 1968 Mohammad Ali image, which seems much more 'Modern' to me--
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(And for any of you future Brokies born in the month of the Colbert Cover above--well, happy birthday!)
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my SON"S
::) ::)
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jeez, if just THINKING about sex makes you healthier my husband is gonna live forever....
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heh.............
had to look up Barrie Chase. Only thing that rang a bell was that she was the bikini clad girlfriend dance of the loud crazy Ethel Merman son in 'It's a Mad, Mad...World.'
wow, Terry was alive when John Steinbeck was alive ;D.
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wow, Terry was alive when John Steinbeck was alive ;D.
heh.....looks like you too would've been along for the ride in ol' Tom Joad's jalopy. for a couple of years, anyway.
Actually, now that you mention it, that's the kind of thing that makes you sit back, turn your head aside, and and utter and silent, 'hmmmm.'
terry
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Yeah, well, I wasnt around for Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy or John Glenn's space shot, Pops ;D.
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Yeah, well, I wasnt around for Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy or John Glenn's space shot, Pops ;D.
good lort...how old ARE you? ten??
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Well, heh, look at my frame of refernec: the Kennedy assassination and the moon program. Most whippersnappers, thats as distant as World War 2. Im just giving ol' Terry a hard time because he just rolled over another number on the odometer. I myself was around for Robert Kennedy, MLK, and the moon landing. Matter of fact, I recently had a conversation with a young guy about your sons age who didnt know there had been a FIRST Gulf War and counldnt believe we had typing class in my high school on actual typewriters. To him it sounded like my granddaddy's stories of growing up before indoor plumbing and rural electrification.
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I say the brunette is Ann-Margret (she was usually a redhead).
You mean June 1961 (brokeback_dev)? That is definitely not Ann-Margret. God help me, I ain't jokin', I think it's Anita Bryant for June 1961!
I did a little, a very little, very quick research, but I couldn't find any documentation.
My month just had a cartoon of a cable car. It appears the cover story was something about San Francisco.
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You mean June 1961 (brokeback_dev)? That is defintely not Ann-Margret. God help me, I ain't jokin', I think it's Anita Bryant for June 1961!
I did a little, a very little, very quick research, but I couldn't find any documentation.
My month just had a cartoon of a cable car. It appears the cover story was something about San Francisco.
I think it was Anita Bryant too! (EWWWW!) She would have been 21.
Esky was the only figure on my month.
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Well, heh, look at my frame of refernec: the Kennedy assassination and the moon program. Most whippersnappers, thats as distant as World War 2. Im just giving ol' Terry a hard time because he just rolled over another number on the odometer. I myself was around for Robert Kennedy, MLK, and the moon landing. Matter of fact, I recently had a conversation with a young guy about your sons age who didnt know there had been a FIRST Gulf War and counldnt believe we had typing class in my high school on actual typewriters. To him it sounded like my granddaddy's stories of growing up before indoor plumbing and rural electrification.
You must have been a propper whippersnapper when Mssrs Armstrong and Aldrin first set foot/feet on the moon (do you really remember that?). I was twelve at the time, on holiday in the Black Forest and clearly recall standing outside on a clear night together with my family, looking up at the moon, marvelling at the achievement. Though the person I remember being bowled over most vocally was our host (his wife ran the B & B we stayed in), a nice German farmer, who hadn't had much chance of education in his life. For him, just then, maybe just for the moment, the moon landing and America by association were clearly the Holy Grail.
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Well, heh, look at my frame of refernec: the Kennedy assassination and the moon program. Most whippersnappers, thats as distant as World War 2. Im just giving ol' Terry a hard time because he just rolled over another number on the odometer. I myself was around for Robert Kennedy, MLK, and the moon landing. Matter of fact, I recently had a conversation with a young guy about your sons age who didnt know there had been a FIRST Gulf War and counldnt believe we had typing class in my high school on actual typewriters. To him it sounded like my granddaddy's stories of growing up before indoor plumbing and rural electrification.
my son swears he is scarred for life because his friends found out in the third grade we still had a 8 track player...
(how mortifying to have thrifty parents!) ::) ::)
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I think it was Anita Bryant too! (EWWWW!) She would have been 21.
Esky was the only figure on my month.
My reaction, too, Judge, but she was something of a popular singer back in the day. ...
Not my day, though. I don't remember anything before 1962. ;D
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My reaction, too, Judge, but she was something of a popular singer back in the day. ...
Not my day, though. I don't remember anything before 1962. ;D
So I've heard. My grandmother told my mother about her, and she passed it on to me. ;D
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Hmm. The person on the cover of Esquire in MY birth month is obviously Scarlett Johansson. So I must be only six or seven years old.
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Hmm. The person on the cover of Esquire in MY birth month is obviously Scarlett Johansson. So I must be only six or seven years old.
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Why, if you're only six years old or so, then what am I doing knowing how to spell?
Good to see you, seriouscrayons. :-*
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So I've heard. My grandmother told my mother about her, and she passed it on to me. ;D
hold on a minute, I got my muckboots around here somewhere....it's getting deep...
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??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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??? ??? ??? ??? ???
What. The. HELL. is that picture supposed to be about? :laugh:
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(http://www.esquire.com/cover-detail?year=1968&month=3)
http://www.esquire.com/cover-detail?year=1968&month=3 (http://www.esquire.com/cover-detail?year=1968&month=3)
Errrr... what the hell was THIS about??
Like the picture though - reminds me of the flying dreams I used to have as a kid.
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What. The. HELL. is that picture supposed to be about? :laugh:
well geeez, Dave! I was hoping someone would tell me!
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January 1968
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For a moment I misread Dubious for Dubois and thought - WTF, Dubois has/had a fashion event? :laugh:
But I have to agree that these outfits are indeed dubious.
dubious - dubois - dubious - du...
Now that would make a movie title: Dubious in Dubois :laugh:
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I should win for Most Boring Esquire Cover Ever! ;D
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I don't know, oilgun...I think with Brokeback Mountain's connection to postcards and post offices and stamps and such, that's a pretty nice Esquire cover. :)