Is it just me or is this cover a bit off? I mean, is everyone looking at his crotch…. moose knuckle much? My balls are hurting just looking at this cover. Why is he pointing to his crotch? Am I missing some hidden message here or am I just supposed to be looking there? May we present you with Robert Downey Jr. who is aging quite well on the cover of December’s Esquire:
On being A-List: “Suffice to say, dude, I’m not paranoid anymore. I’m not fearful. It’s interesting to be surfing this tremendous crisis of capitalism – and I know there’s a coral reef under me and I don’t want to hang ten, but I do think that when you’re in the pole position, that’s when you try to beat your best personal time.”
On managing his anxiety:
“I hand it to any and everyone who has made it past their late thirties and has any sense of contentment, because you know so much, and the anxiety can be so overwhelming — and managing the anxiety is a skill set that seems like a menu that changes every day. My insanity is thinking that somehow or another I was responsible — personally, directly responsible — for altering the course of things that have us sitting here on this deck. There’s so many other factors in this — so many other people and past relationships, my kid and my folks, and the centerpiece of it all, Susan. It’s like I know what happened, and I know that I got the ball and ran with it, and hip-hip-hip, and then like they’re saying, ‘Look — before you blow out a knee, we’d like to give you a bunch of endorsements,’ and I go, ‘Great.’ The truth of the matter is, it’s always been like this. It hasn’t gone up from down; it’s just that it’s finally got wide enough that I can be contained.”On his former financial situation:
“I’ve been homeless for so long,” he says, without a morsel of self-pity. “I always had a place, and Susan and I have taken great care of each other, but I haven’t had two nickels to rub together for a long, long, long, long time.”
Fans of Robert… Read the rest of the article HERE at Esquire.
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Phil says:
Perhaps I’m giving the cover designer too much credit, but I think not. The theme of the issue is “augmented reality” and thusly we have an augmented RDJr with his face de-aged by 10-15 years and his man-parts somewhat enlarged/exaggerated, all while sitting atop a digital gadget that somehow (I haven’t read it yet) also suits the theme.