Death: might as well face it
If this really is the death mask of James Dean, he looked a lot like Brad Pitt, wouldn’t you say?
I was thinking about having a death mask done (after I’m dead, of course) when all of a sudden I heard some horrifying news: JMW Turner’s death mask had been stolen!
Well, actually, the “news” was that it still hasn’t been recovered four years after it was reported missing, and furthermore, it probably went missing sometime in the mid-1980s, and anyway, there’s another one in safe keeping.
If all this sounds stupid, don’t blame me, because the Royal Academy of Arts in London started it. It finally dawned on the people who run the place – where old Turner once held sway as president 150-odd years earlier – that they hadn’t seen his ugly mug in ages. See the rest.
