It's a weirdly intimate pose, and it looks like it was taken from way too close— almost at arms-length, like a selfie, rather than from 8-10 feet back with a normal 80mm portrait lens. Altman especially looks kind of fish-bowled, being the one in front.
It's a Hall and Oates album cover featuring two idea guys hellbent on putting artists out of work.
Russians have the famous meme for that [1] (just see the photo)
Literal translation is “my snot-nosed kid / my little shit”