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IDENTITY
Glamour is an American fashion magazine that began in 1939. This issue features Christine Brinkley.
SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE
I finally identified this right as my work on this project is coming to a close, but there’s some neat things to point out. The magazine’s first appearance is during the Tower of Babel/writer’s block sequence, upside down, alongside the Vela Incident and the Carter Collapse business. The ad showing is for a discontinued Clairol hairspray product called ClairMist.
The magazine won’t show right-side up, until it appears upside-down behind an axe-wielding Jack. The cover figure is Christie Brinkley, who spent 25 years as the face of CoverGirl, one of the longest modelling contracts in herstory. This is no doubt meant to reflect on Jennifer O’Neill, star of the movie-within-this-movie, Summer of ’42, who had a 30-year contract with the company.
I might never’ve ID’d these mags if it wasn’t for Vivian Kubrick’s Making Of documentary, where you can see the blurry covers behind Shelley Duvall while she’s sitting in a chair in front of the bookshelf with the red box above. As the focus gets better, you can see that the yellow-titled magazine beneath it is likely also a Glamour magazine, which is likely the magazine in this scene of Wendy pacing around, plotting escape (I turned a version of it sideways, in case anyone can make an ID). For now it’s a mystery, but I think it could be gotten.
Actually, holy crap, I think I might’ve just stumbled on another (minor) easter egg. The issue of Glamour appears behind Jack with the axe, right? Well, two women pass the tour of Suite 3, bidding farewell to Ullman. And the one kinda looks like Christie Brinkley…
And the other kinda looks like a certain star of a certain movie that starts playing a certain 28:55 after this lady leaves the frame…(28 being halfway between 25 and 30, though I’m not sure that’s significant)
But yeah, if the two CoverGirls referenced by the movie appear here, they appear exactly 2:02 after the Glamour next to an axing Jack vanishes in the backward action. So I guess The Shining isn’t just for Come Out, Come Out actors anymore!
Next literary reference: Winnie-the-Pooh
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