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TED KENNEDY by Andy Warhol, Screenprint with diamond dust on board, 1980. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Copyright Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York
The NPG obtained the silk-screened Kennedy portrait in 2000, but it was created by Warhol in 1980 to raise money for Kennedy's presidential campaign. Kennedy later lost the Democratic nomination to Jimmy Carter, who Warhol had portrayed four years earlier.
Describing the artwork, the Portrait Gallery states that it "plays off the colors of the American flag and suggests the glamour of politics by enhancing the candidate's features with thin red and blue lines and diamond dust." The gallery's collection also holds a 1969 pencil and tempera image of the senator created by Boris Chaliapin.
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Okay, who is officially sick of the Kennedy coverage by now?
Me, and I'm a liberal.
(Although, in partial defense of the Kennedy coverage, it has a long way to go before it approaches the ludicrously overblown Tim Russert memorial coverage. Kennedy's death at least has a serious claim to front page material, Russert's death should have been a six-paragraph, one-day story on Page A-11.)
Well, let's see. According to my celebrity mourning calculus textbook, he was a Kennedy, so that's three days of coverage right off the bat. People liked him, so there's another two days. He was a long-serving senator. That's another half a day. And it's August, that's four days.
I'd wager two bits that Bob Dole doesn't receive this much Bob Dole when he kicks the Bob Dole. Bob Dole. Bob Dole.
we can either beat the Kennedy horse for a few more days or:
- debate which is better, Five Guys or Five Girls
- debate which is better, junkpunching or hobo strangling
- debate which is better, feet or Molly
- debate which is better, Liz in a truck or Liz in a dumpster
you make the call.
The correct answer is five girls junkpunching Molly in a dumpster.
That sounds suspiciously like donkeypunching Molly in the taint, but I'll take your word for it.
You haven't heard the end of Kennedygeddon. Ain't even buried the dude yet. The networks have had months to assemble stock footage into "A Nation Mourns: Live Kennedy Funeral Coverage."
If there's one thing network news is good at, it's necrophilia.
As long as there's something to keep Michael Jackson off the news, that's all that really matters.
Aren't the funerals for BOTH Kennedy and Michael Jackson scheduled for Saturday, August 29? That should make for media necrophilia at it's (morbid) finest.