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Arts and Entertainment

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries.

That pretty much sums up next year's U-S stamp program. The public wants "pretty" 
stamps, so in 2004, they're getting both a candy-hearts love stamp and two flower 
stamps for wedding invitations, along with a beautiful magnolias stamp, and designs 
featuring modern and Native American art. Even the Hanukkah and Kwanzaa stamps, 
after years of the same designs, are getting new looks, says chief stamp developer 
Terry McCaffrey....

<"They were getting a little tired and so we thought 'Well, let's try a new 
approach.'" RUNS :04>

The performing arts are represented by a Spencer Tracey stamp....

<"It features a portrait based on a photograph from a film from 1949 called 
'Edward My Son.'" RUNS :06>

Another for playwright Moss Hart...and one for Paul Robeson, the 
actor-attorney-athlete who ran afoul of the Communist Witchhunt.

<"I'm sure there will be that level of negativity because of his political activism, 
which he was cleared of a few years later." RUNS :08>

And that's stamp collecting this week. 


I'm Lloyd de Vries, CBS News.


Additional material for KNLS/AITM:

At least two stamps, and maybe more, will feature cartoon characters: The Pink 
Panther shows up on the Henry Mancini stamp, and Dr. Seuss' creations on his 
issue....plus there may be as many as four Disney stamps, if a deal can be worked 
out.

The major historical anniversary next year will be the bicentennial of the Lewis 
and Clark Expedition. That'll get three stamps.

I'm Lloyd de Vries


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