Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html