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Subject: Re: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT]
From: Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:08:56 +0000
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOIENNCOAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>

They say some bozo at the FBI
did retinal scans to prove she was robin ho..
I mean the Afgan girl in the pic.

"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> I have to say that when I saw the two images I really wondered - and still
> do wonder - if it is the same woman. Sure, the eyes look the same - but the
> nose is a different shape, not broken or smashed looking, just a different
> shape in terms of the tip - and the mouths are different. Could this be a
> gigantic con on the part of the woman and or her family, something that
> McCurry and Nat Geo so desperately want to believe that they've fallen for
> it? Not to be too much of a cynic, but....and as to the eyes - startling
> blue eyes like that would make two very different looking people look
> strikingly similar.
> 
> B. D.
> Still Cynical, After All These Years....
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Christopher
> Hoover - Pacbell
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:31 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT]
> 
> A friend was aghast when he saw these more recent images. How can a
> person change so much? Don't worry, I told him, now she can be a
> celebrity and move to LA, where doctors can make her look exactly
> like the original picture taken when she was 12.
> 
> Then, realizing she'll never make it beyond the interview circuit and
> become the singer/model/actress she's always dreamed of without further
> modification, she'll be lured into a full plastic rebirth to emerge as
> "Sharbat!" (successor to Shakira, our current foreign-born singing
> infatuation).
> 
> Sound, Stage, Screen and Print! She'll go on a whirlwind tour, pledging 1%
> of the proceeds (after tax) to help other less fortunately-photographed
> Afghan refugees.
> 
> Ultimately, driven to depression and self-loathing by the Hollywood machine,
> she'll drive her Hummer off the Venice Beach pier into the Pacific, injuring
> only one young surfer.
> 
> While recovering in the Betty Ford Clinic, she strikes up a friendship with
> Mariah Carrey and moves in to her mansion in Brentwood.
> 
> But Hollywood's through with the both of them and the agents stop calling
> (even the tabloid paparazzi save their film). They're evicted and take
> up life on the street where they both disappear into the invisible caste of
> west coast refugees, pushing their shopping carts filled with decaying
> copies of Glamour, down Sunset Blvd.
> 
> Then, Steve McCurry, while on Vacation in LA, manages to capture a
> frightening image of the two of them as they mob his Lexus. Again, iris
> pattern matching is employed to confirm the identities of the two vagrant
> women, and the newly famous image ends up on the cover of National
> Geographic.
> 
> In jest,
> 
> Chris Hoover
> hoovercd@pacbell.net
> NO ARCHIVE
> 
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