Defamer
It took them long enough, but People has finally seized the magical capabilities of the world wide web and uploaded each and every cover in its almost 45-year history online. And while we hand-picked a few of our favorites, from a very Dirk Diggler-looking John Travolta in 1983 to the sad black and white sight of Jennifer Aniston’s misty eyes looking up as Brad Pitt placed the wedding ring on her finger in 2000, we also featured a few after the jump that are slightly more disturbing. "Judge Judy Disrobed," and Brooke Shields doing her whole kiddie porn thing back in the 70s, for example. Plus, a very special throwback to a time when the world wondered whether Britney was looking “too sexy too soon” ... way back in 2000!
From left, OJ Simpson heralded as a triple threat in 1977 (athlete! TV star! potential psychopath!), Olivia Newton-John had America hooked on roller skating in 1979, and 15-year old Brooke Shields was dressed in a loincloth in 1980.
Travolta appeared on an 1983 cover saying Look How Straight I Am!, Fabio was gruesomely all the rage in 1993, and some sick editor decided it would be a hoot to "disrobe" Judge Judy in 1999.
Eight entire years ago, the mag wondered if perhaps, there might be something a little kooky with Britney and her grown-up ways (prophets, those editors!), Jen and Brad tied the knot in 2000, and Tom Cruise ran off with his second beard his Vanilla Sky co-star Penelope Cruz, leaving Nicole Kidman "shocked," naturally.
- ARCHIVE: PEOPLE.COM [People]
Comments
GAAAAAAAAAAAAH! My eyeballs!!!!
Y'know that pic of jailbait Brooke Shields puts that Miley Cyrus non-scandal into perspective, eh? Were we all just warmer and fuzzier about pederasty back then?
Hell fucking yes. My boring job just got interesting. I'll be putting together a mega-folder containing all the covers year-by-year(same thing I did with TV Guide covers). ^_^
That Travolta cover is nuts.
@brechtgirl:
and the ladies are quite bendy or photoshopped
Was there photoshop back in 1983?
@brechtgirl: As in, there were nuts in his mouth between shots.
I don't remember Tom cruise with a Beard......
OH - never mind
Aayyyy! The day I was born, this was the cover of People:
[www.people.com]
LOVE the unibrow!
@KLondike5: Well, we were all warmer and fuzzier about a lot of things back then: driving while drunk, domestic abuse, EST, hot pants, 'Charlie's Angels', etc., etc.
And not to be a tight-assed bitch (but my week started with hitting a deer at 65 MPH, so being a TAB is the least of my worries), but if my middle/late aged memory serves me well, wouldn't this be approaching PEOPLE's 35th anniversary? I thought it premiered in 1973 or 1974. I do remember Nora Ephron writing a funny little essay in Esquire about how reading PEOPLE was like eating potato chips: she liked them both but didn't kid herself that they were empty calories and my late nana and my great aunt spent the summer of 1974 feeding their fascination with Patty Hearst via 'this new magazine' they read.
@NoGrumpys: Nope! But seriously, can you photoshop the gay off of Travolta?
@gwendolyn: You're not a TAB: I had a similar reaction: a Patsy Stone-like "how old does that make me!!!
@SanFranBetsu:
I don't there is enough e-meters or Scientology boot camp in the whole world for that.
@NoGrumpys: bwaHaaaHaaaHaah!---god you are funny NoGrumpys
I have some of these magazines in storage. I should get them up on eBay while this still gets hits
1974-1985 covers, zipped:
[files.filefront.com]
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