Jinnet pointed out this image, one of the new stamps to be issued in 2008, and asked, "Doesn't it look as if a cigarette has been Photoshopped out of her hand?"
I agree. In fact, it's strikes me as an almost embarrassingly crude attempt to deny historical realities. I mean, really, how many kids are going to take up smoking because they see someone holding a cigarette ON A STAMP?
If the USPS went to the trouble of editing the image, I would have liked to have seen an effort at cleverness. Why not, say, put a love letter between her first two fingers instead?
Besides, as Fabulon shows, it's not like Ms. Davis wasn't unrepentant to the very end.
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Almost looks like she's softly exhaling smoke out of the side of her mouth too...
Now that you mention it, it does!
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