What do you think of Time Magazine's cover pic of Ted Kennedy?

[Liberal_in_LA]

Unflattering? Flattering? Like a mug shot? Powerful? Wistful? Melancholy?

[Skittles]

1. I think is is unflattering in that it does not look like him

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. It doesn't look like him..

[havocmom]

8. looks more like a death mask

[emilyg]

67. My first reaction.

[I Have A Dream]

4. I agree. nt

[CatWoman]

2. he looks just like his mom

:hug:

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. I did a doubletake when I saw it in the store.. "who's that on the cover?".

[spinbaby]

11. Me, too

For a brief moment, I thought, "Why is Gerald Ford on the cover?"

[Avalux]

6. It's not representative and not a good likeness. I'd rather a pic of him smiling, like this one:

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. He looks like an older Jack Kennedy in that one

[CatWoman]

14. those famous Kennedy teeth

:)

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. are hidden away

[lunatica]

33. this is a perfect picture of him

It shows there's more to him than a suit.

[Brigid]

40. I like this one much better.

They should have used it instead.

[madaboutharry]

7. I don't like it.

I think it is unflattering.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. it looks like Truman Capote

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. I like it -

his whole life shows in his face, as well it should.

I think it's a brilliant portrait, moving and telling and true.............................

[MichiganVote]

13. I usually think of Ted Kennedy as smiling. This looks like a picture of a Mafia guy.

[Darth_Kitten]

17. No way.............

it doesn't look sinister to me.

[Darth_Kitten]

15. He looks fine, it's just a neutral expression...........

you can see what you want in his face. :)

[eleny]

18. He appears deep in thought

A quiet, reflective moment.

I like the mood and also the way they bring attention to his eyes with the lighting color.

[KittyWampus]

42. I was also drawn to his beautiful eyes.

[madmax]

19. I don't like it

Hope when they come out with the Commemorative Issue they choose a better picture!! :mad:

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. That is the commemorative issue

[madmax]

47. They usually come out with something nicer

may take a few weeks. Maybe it's not called a Commemorative Issue but, whatever ;) I'm a sucker for those books.

I've also pre-ordered his memoir.

[stray cat]

20. He has a halo - actually I think the pic is fine

[JeanGrey]

21. THIS IS THE ONE I WAS TALKING ABOUT.

He looks awful. How disrespectful, couldn't they find a decent pic?

[Jim Sagle]

23. They weren't looking for one.

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. It's like the picture of someone who's done something bad - like they cover they'd give Maddoff

[JeanGrey]

48. I agree that this picture is terrible.

[Becky72]

25. He looks in pain. I don't like it

They could have done better.

[Libertas1776]

26. I don't like it.

and the top part seems to look too much like Robert Wagner.

[Indenturedebtor]

27. It's horrible and intentionally unflattering imo. n/t

[Oregone]

28. Good picture

[demmiblue]

29. That is not the Senator Kennedy that I see in my mind's eye.

Not even close. It doesn't even really look like him.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

34. But that's what he looked like -

you didn't see him, except in news clips, and he was an old man with a terminal illness when this portrait was taken, so why shouldn't his life show in his face?

It does look like him. It's a wonderfully true and honest portrait.

Not every picture has to be all smiles. Life's not like that. I think Time's done a great thing with this cover............................

[NotThisTime]

45. Do we know when this picture was taken? This picture is not the Ted Kennedy I will remember

[Tangerine LaBamba]

51. Within the past year, is my guess -

He was, after all, seventy-seven years old.

We all have our Kennedy pictures in our heads, and they're a whole lot better than reality.

I don't like remembering Bobby lying on the Ambassador's floor, his head in a pool of blood, and I don't like remembering Jack's head snapping back and forth in that convertible, but there they are.

So I choose to remember the pretty pictures, the laughing, happy ones.

But life is not always laughing and happy, and no one knew that better than Senator Kennedy.........................

[demmiblue]

49. I saw him, and this is not what I saw...

it is not what I see. Smiles or not.

News photos, news clips, CSPAN... much less produced than a front cover for a magazine.

The memorable image that I have of Senator Kennedy is of him coming out of the hospital giving the thumbs up. A real moment. A moment where one of my heroes wobbled out with the weight of the world on his shoulders. A moment where he gave more to others than he did of himself. That was real, that was life... that was true and honest.

Time... not so much.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

52. From a distance,

everyone looks different.

Up close, there's reality..........................

[demmiblue]

56. I guess you didn't read my post.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

59. You guess wrong -

what did I miss in your post?

[demmiblue]

60. Nothing... this is not about you, not about me

[Tangerine LaBamba]

62. Ah, cryptic -

when you do something irrational, it's hard when someone asks you what it means, I suppose.

Enough already. Go spread joy...................

[saltpoint]

30. A bit somber, but a somber not to mark the occasion of his passing, only

somber.

The coloring is too pale for so vivid a life.

[izquierdista]

31. I like it

Not vapid at all. Pensive, like he just asked YOU a question and was waiting for your answer.

[spanone]

32. it's 'unlike' his personality...imo

[Texasgal]

35. Honest.

That's was Teddy. I like it!

[omega minimo]

71. Good word. It's an unconventional, modern, art/photo portrait. Honest.

[JI7]

36. doesn't look like him, it's like one of those pics people pose for and try to hard to look

a certain way but end up coming out in a way that looks nothing like them.

they could have gotten pics from just a few weeks back when he was very sick and those were better than this.

[chollybocker]

37. It looks too much like a corpse, powdered in a casket.

And the glowing aura is disturbing.

The letters across his forehead are either satan's horns or a crown of thorns. You decide.

[ljm2002]

38. Totally weird...

...it fails to capture the man's sparkle and vitality. And the way it is cropped, so that it doesn't go all the way out to his shoulders, has the effect of making his head look huge, which is really weird looking.

[Brigid]

39. Not a very good pic.

The lighting is atrocious. x(

[Raine]

41. I would've preferred something different

it's a Teddy I'm not familiar with but it is a picture of him so apparently he looked this way sometimes.

[berni_mccoy]

43. They changed his hair (he had no grey hair at all)

[BuyingThyme]

44. He looks tired.

[City Lights]

46. Very unflattering. IMHO, it doesn't look anything like him.

It reminds me of one of those big-head-on-tiny-body caricatures Olbermann uses on Worst Person in the World.

I give it a :thumbsdown:

:-(

[begin_within]

50. It makes him look like he belongs here

Haunted Mansion

[nevergiveup]

53. mug shot with suit and tie

I hate it.

[zonkers]

54. Looks like F. Lee Bailey.

[Graybeard]

55. They deliberately used a low camera angle...

...to make it appear that he is looking down on everyone. I hate it.

[DearAbby]

57. A picture of Ted Kennedy not smiling

with a twinkle in his eyes...This photo has no soul.

[deaniac21]

58. They are trying to make him look mad and they made his head

way too big.

[Octafish]

61. TIME magazine lies frequently about the Kennedys.

They also lie frequently about the Bushes, Harrimans, Dulleses, and so on.

Central to TIME's biggest lie is how President Kennedy got in the way of those interested in continuing America's big business of war.

[mvd]

63. He looks sickly and mean in the picture

I'm very dissatisfied with their choice.

[TroglodyteScholar]

64. I think it's a great picture. I mean really look at the man. n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

65. To me his look says "Don't let all of this be for nothing - Let's get this done."

I still can't believe he's gone. :-(

[BlooInBloo]

66. Looks fine to me.

[voc]

68. A mug shot would be a step up

Typical for Time. This is what passes as an art form.

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[donheld]

70. It's bad

We've all seen hundreds of photos of Ted over the last few weeks. This is one of the least flattering I've ever seen.

[Tx4obama]

72. It doesn't look like him at all. n/t