‘Natalie Hepburn,’ the work of George Chamoun.

This guy does an incredible job of melding the Golden Age of Hollywood with the new. Almost makes today’s celeb-worshiping culture seem not so bad… (Told you I was going to class up the place!)

I actually just watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s the other day for the first time in years… Easy to see why she’s so iconic. Plus, you’ve got the respect the woman if only for her charity work…

“Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.”

As a teacher, the notion of providing aid to children speaks strongly to me. But as citizens and human beings, the idea of a humanization of politics, a radical realigning of our priorities to place people over profit and human need over greed, should speak strongly to us all. Our world is in dire need of that at the moment, and I can appreciate a public figure that puts their celebrity to constructive use, be it Brad Pitt and Make It Right or Audrey Hepburn and UNICEF. It says something about us as a culture that we love and admire folks for acting on a screen, portraying fictional characters, but we’re so quick to dismiss and at times even chastise them for acting on convictions, and showing us their true character (a-la Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Rosie O’donnell, et al.).

Anywho, my next Music Mix will contain a clip from Tiffany’s. (Oh, btw, did you Kentuckians-by-way-of-D.C. folk hear that Tiffany’s — the jewelry manufacturer — is opening a factory in Lexington? </sidebar>) I’d provide an audio clip but my tumbl-upload-limit has already been reached for the day…