No Type, Just Face
The small picture in the lower left-hand corner of the front page–an AP file photo–reminded us of last fall’s scuzzy, belligerent, shirtless, tattooed William Ligue Jr. The 35-year-old Ligue was photographed sneering at the cameras as police hauled him in after he and his teenage son jumped out of the Comiskey Park stands to pummel the Kansas City Royals’ first base coach.
The caption said: “Comiskey troublemaker’s ‘extreme makeover.’ William Ligue Jr., who attacked a K.C. Royals coach last fall, arrived at court looking amazingly different than right after his arrest. His case was delayed Monday.”
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Journalistically, the two pictures were nothing like, say, the photo (also by Jackson) on the front page of last Monday’s Sun-Times. This picture, of a grinning woman in a swirling green dress dancing in the street, also stood alone, but as an emblem of the Cinco de Mayo parade the day before, it did so effortlessly.
“Not a clue,” he said. “We don’t look too closely into those kinds of details.”
When Kup celebrated his 90th birthday last July, Roger Ebert sang his praises. “Never in all my years of reading your column,” said Ebert, “did I read something that was designed to hurt someone, or hurt somebody’s feelings, or make them feel bad.”
“He may have,” she says. “This column’s been going on for 60 years. I’m sure somewhere along the line…”
