Picture of the The Week, November 15, 2012
If, when looking at this promo picture for The Santaland Diaries, you think "HELP!" then photographer David Cooper and actor Ryan Beil have done their job. They have conveyed the essence of the truthy tale of a writer, David Sedaris, and his chronicle of the time he worked as a Macy's Department Store elf. From cleaning up vomit, to parents smacking their kids into a smile for a with-Santa photo to not knowing how to…