This is Davis' first stamp but hardly her first non-cinematic honor. Madonna refers to her in "Vogue," and prior to that, Kim Carnes mentioned her in one of the worst songs ever written, "Bette Davis Eyes." A sequel, "Joan Crawford Shoulders," was considered but never recorded, as were "Jane Russell Jugs," "Robert Mitchum Lids," and "Marlon Brando Gut." Okay, I made that up, but I wonder if Ms. Crawford were ever put on a stamp. If so, you probably won't want to put her next to the Margo Channing stamp unless you want your mail to explode.

The AP notes that Davis' epitaph read "She did it the hard way." (The Hard Way was an Ida Lupino movie, but I digress.) It further states that her son, Michael Merrill, said "she would have been tremendously thrilled" with the honor. Margo herself would say "I detest cheap sentiment," but I imagine Miss Bette Davis saying, "After all those years of never letting life lick me, now I have the honor of being licked by the entire effing country. Go figure."