Here's my question: If you have made the decision that you want Anne Hathaway on your cover, why not make sure she LOOKS like Anne Hathaway?
I'm not saying you can't be avant-garde with the styling, but something about her face in this photo just doesn't seem right. It compels me to take deep breaths every time I look at it, because her expression reminds me of having a cold and being unable to breathe through my nose.
Actually, even worse, it's giving me disturbing flashbacks to when I was young and I would squeeze Barbie's head at the ears and laugh at how her face got all narrow and distorted (I was not a Barbie Girl -- I only had one; my true love was My Little Pony, even if I did sometimes yank their tails out and give them the occasional bad haircut). I guess that bit of dementia made me a bit like an ahead-of-my-time Kids In The Hall sketch, except that guy was crushing actual people's heads only in theory, whereas I was pinching a doll's head for real. And, I've said too much.
So, before I reveal anything else that's weird about a childhood toy, let's sum up: It's not the dominatrix look to which I object, so much as the fact that the photo looks like it's been vertically stretched. Not a great picture, and kind of a distracting choice for the cover. Also, I gave away that Barbie a gajillion years ago, so nobody has to worry about it suffering any more cranial torture at my ghoulish hands.
