Re: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT]

[kiklaas@iinet.net.au]

LOL.




> 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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