BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 30 May, 2005
Monday
30 May, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Baron Dave Romm
By Baron Dave Romm
Memorial Day
Honoring Our Soldiers, and Those Who Fight
For Them
- Preamble
- Anybody who is willing to die for me is my hero. On Memorial
Day, we remember the fallen and honor the men and women in uniform.
And we should never forget the people who are fighting just as hard
to keep them out of danger. George W. Bush is a girly-man who went
AWOL from his duties and is not fit to come out of his hidey-hole on
May 30st, much less wear a uniform and shake hands with real
soldiers. But that shouldn't stop us from honoring those who serve.
As John Kerry, a real war hero, said, we should separate the war from
the warriors. Kerry was not only a hero while in combat, he was a
hero after his service because he tried to get his fellow soldiers
out. All soldiers who got out of Vietnam alive owe John Kerry and
the anti-war movement their lives, just as we owe the soldiers who
died in the war our eternal graditude.
- I don't apologize for failing to fit comfortably within current
political labels. Heroes are not heroes because of their ideology,
they're heroes because they are fighting for you and me.
He gets up on his soapbox.
Our men and women in uniform are outstanding. They are the best.
They are the best trained soldiers in the world, but that's not why
they're the best. They have the strongest, most up-to-date weaponry
in the world, but that's not why they're the best. They have the
most experience military leaders, but that's not why they're the
best.
Our soldiers are outstanding because what they are fighting for is
outstanding. Any Pvt. Tom, Sgt. Dick or Capt. Mary can be trained to
shoot a gun, but only American soldiers know that they are fighting
for the USofA.
Merely being well-trained soldiers is not enough: The Soviet Army
was good, but they were fighting for the Soviet Union and that was
ultimately demoralizing enough that they lost their effectiveness and
the USSR collapsed without a shot. Terrorists/insurgents may be
fighting for clan or land, but suicide bombers will be forgotten long
before their desperate fight is rendered meaningless. All soldiers
are taught that they fight an important cause, but politicians and
religious zealots will say anything for selfish motivation. The
United States brings people together under the rule of law, and our
soldiers know that they are fighting for their families, their
country and the Constitution that makes us one. Terrorism is the
tool of the powerless. A strong military under civilian rule is the
pride of the powerful.
This country is best defined by the first half of the first line
in the Constitution:
We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a
more perfect union....
The King did not bestow. G_d did not grant. History did not
decree. We, the people, in union, are writing this set of
laws.
We are not perfect, and we never will be. Perfection is for G_d,
and we are striving toward perfection. We will never get
there, but we're sure going to try.
Striving to fix flaws in a great country is is an act of
patriotism no less than joining the armed forces. Protecting our men
and women in uniform who are protecting the country is an act of
heroism. We know soldiers are there when needed, and we on the
homefront want to ensure that you make the ultimate sacrifice only
when needed. We know you'll fight where sent and follow orders.
Death in service to your country is worth of honor, even if the
battle was determined by selfish political motives and not military
necessity.
I am a man of peace, but I am not a pacifist. There are times
when war is necessary, but they are few. Weak politicians love to
make threats that other people die for. Sometimes soldiers get
killed when there is another way. We must separate the war from the
warrior. In doing so, we must honor those who fight against the war.
The warriors fight the battle, and we the people fight to bring them
home when the battle no longer serves the country.
To those who support war based on lies and outside interests I
say: You are doing this country harm.
To those who are against war I say: Remember that our soldiers
are fighting for you.
To our soldiers I say: We've got your back.
There are heroes aplenty. There are too many dead heroes.
This Memorial Day, let us remember the fallen and make sure that
they are honored for their ultimate sacrifice. And let us, too,
honor those patriots who are trying to form a more perfect union.
He kicks away the soapbox. Touching solid earth, misty-eyed,
he looks up at the flag.
Baron Dave Romm is a
conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia with
a radio show, a very weird CD
collection and an ever growing list of political links. Dave Romm reviews things at random for
obscure web sites. You can read all his music
recommendations from Bartcop-E, and you can hear the last two Shockwave
broadcasts in Real Audio (scroll down to Shockwave). Thanks
to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air.
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"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand
by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the
degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to
support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is
unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by
inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the
country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth,
whether about the president or anyone else."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Thanks (again), Baron Dave!
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IT WAS A BRICK HOUSE
WHITE WASHED INTO STARKNESS
BLUE DOORS - PINK FLOWERS
Zen Man
(in the L.B.C)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Anna Quindlen: 'Be Not Afraid' (beliefnet.com)
None of what you've learned in college means anything without the courage to use it in the world.
George Lakof: How to Respond to Conservatives (rockridgeinstitute.org)
Those are a lot of guidelines. But there are only four really important ones: Show respect, Respond by reframing, Think and talk at the level of values, and Say what you believe.
George Lakoff: Raising Real Children
The conservative family values agenda is, at present, being set primarily by fundamentalist Christians. This is not a situation that many people are aware of.
Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address
Thank you, Mr. President, I had forgotten how crushingly dull these ceremonies are. Thank you.
Kevin Cathcart: The real activist judges (Advocate.com)
The Bush administration has worked diligently to nominate right-wing ideologues to the federal bench. The battle has reached a boiling point and and there's too much at stake for gay men and lesbians not to fight
ROGER EBERT: Kontroll (3 1/2 stars)
On the London Underground, you sometimes realize the train has roared through an abandoned station, past a ghost platform illuminated only from the train windows; you get a murky glimpse of advertising posters from decades ago.
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Purple Gene Reviews
'Tank Girl'
Purple Gene's review of the movie "Tank Girl" (1995) directed by Rachel Talalay:
I went down to Long Beach, Ca. for my daughter's graduation from Art School and after the boring cap and gown formalities, the family barbeque and the congratulatory tequila shots….our rather large extended clan sat down in front of the widescreen and put on a campy flick……imagine a story ripped from a comic book…starring Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts, Iggy Pop, Ice-T, Don Harvey and….Lori Petty….and imagine a futuristic Earth depleted of it's' water and gas supplies and imagine song and dance numbers and kangaroo men…..If you can imagine all this you have "Tank Girl"…..and we all sat and stared our way through the whole stupid thing….
It's hard to review a movie of "Tank Girls" caliber under any circumstances, but being fairly "Tanked" on "Patron" and lime slices perhaps added to the slapstick idiocy of the over the top images and acting involved….I mean how did they get Ice-T to put on the kangaroo suit…and the make-up on Malcolm McDowell was amazing not to mention Lori Pettys' shaved head and multiple costume changes….and …this was Naomi Watts' first movie made in the USA….and….three of the real life "Spice Girls" tried out for this flick…….
The year is 2033 and the Earth has been hit by a Meteor creating a massive desert environment. Of course the Bad Guy, named Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell - "A Clockwork Orange" - "Caligula" - "Cross Creek") controls all the remaining Water! Out in the remote desert is a ragtag group of rebels headed by Tank Girl (Lori Petty - "Relax... It's Just Sex" - "Route 666" - "Prey for Rock & Roll") the charismatic cartoon character destined to save the world….with her worn out machine guns, hand grenades and of course Tank….
Well Tank Girl teams up with Jet Girl (Naomi Watts - "Mulholland Dr." - "The Ring" - "21 Grams") and together they head straight for the "Water & Power Co." headed by the evil Kesslee. There's torture and explosions and costume changes and ball kicking and dance numbers (Busby Berkeley Style) and more costume changes and through it all Tank Girl with her droll delivery "Bams" and "Pows" her way to victory……….
Purple Gene gives "Tank Girl" 4 shots of aged tequilla out of 10 for being so outrageous and stupid!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & seasonal.
Spent the afternoon visiting pals in Westchester.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'Still Standing', followed by a RERUN 'Listen Up', then a RERUN 'Raymond', followed by a RERUN '2½ Men', then a RERUN 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 5/17/05) are Ben Stiller, a Top Ten List from Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, and Shelly Fairchild.
On a RERUN Craig (from 3/30/05) are Carmen Electra, Nick Stahl, and Lang Lang.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Fear Factor', followed by the FRESH 'Miss Universe Pageant'.
On a RERUN Jay Leno are Ewan McGregor, Nicole Richie, and Jessi Alexander.
On a RERUN Conan are Jimmy Fallon and Good Charlotte.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are Rebecca Gayheart, Kim Raver, and Aqueduct.
ABC has LIVE 'NBA Basketball ', followed on the left coast by the movie 'The Game'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 4/11/05) are Karl Malone, Meinhardt Raabe, and the Dan Band.
The WB offers a RERUN '7th Heaven', followed by another RERUN '7th Heaven'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Nanny 911', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE 'Hell's Kitchen'.
UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'Cuts', then a RERUN 'Girlfriends', followed by a RERUN 'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', followed by the movie 'Faith Of My Fathers', then the movie 'Faith Of My Fathers', again.
AMC offers the movie 'Apocalypse Now Redux', followed by 'Hollywood Vietnam', then the movie 'Hamburger Hill'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 15;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 16;
[4pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 17;
[5pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 18;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Spencer;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 46;
[8pm] 'The Scold's Bridle' - Part 1;
[9:30pm] 'The Scold's Bridle' - Part 2;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 46;
[12am] 'The Scold's Bridle' - Part 1;
[1:30am] 'The Scold's Bridle' - Part 2;
[3am] 'The Scold's Bridle' - Part 1;
[4:30am] 'The Scold's Bridle' - Part 2;
[6am] 'BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'West Wing' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again', 'Back To Norm', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Ron White), 'Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed', 'Blue Collar TV', and another 'Blue Collar TV'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Bible Code: Predicting Armageddon', and 'Beyond The Da Vinci Code'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'I Was A Teenage Zombie' (1987);
[8AM] 'IFC Short Film Collection I' (2005);
[10AM] 'Year Of The Horse' (1997);
[12PM] 'The Plague' (1992);
[2PM] Short: 'D.O.T.' (2002);
[2:30PM] 'Running Time' (1997);
[3:45PM] 'At the IFC Center #1' (2005);
[4:15PM] 'IFC Short Film Collection II' (2005);
[6:15PM] 'Year Of The Horse' (1997);
[7:45PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[8PM] Shorts: 'May' (2005);
[8:30PM] 'Henry's Film Corner #106' (2005);
[9PM] 'The King Is Alive' (2000);
[11PM] 'Safe' (1995);
[1AM] 'The King Is Alive' (2000);
[3AM] 'Safe' (1995);
[5AM] 'Chop-Socky: Cinema Hong Kong' (2004). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has all 'Stargate SG-1' all night.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] 'This Charming Man' (Der Er En Yndig Mand) (Feature);
[7AM] 'Tom Dowd & the Language of Music' (Documentary);
[8:30AM] 'Little Buddha' (Feature);
[10:35AM] 'Eat This New York' (Documentary);
[12PM] 'Chapter 1 - Crime or Accident?' (Documentary);
[12:50PM] 'Chapter 2 - Secrets and Lies' (Documentary);
[1:40PM] 'Chapter 3 - A Striking Coincidence' (Documentary);
[2:30PM] 'Chapter 4 - A Prosecution Trickery' (Documentary);
[3:20PM] 'Chapter 5 - A Weak Case' (Documentary);
[4:10PM] 'Chapter 6 - The Prosecution's Revenge' (Documentary);
[5:PM] 'Chapter 7 - The Blowpoke Returns' (Documentary);
[5:55PM] 'Chapter 8 - The Verdict' (Documentary);
[7PM] 'Anatomy Of A Scene: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys' (Original Production);
[7:30PM] 'Tom Dowd & the Language of Music' (Documentary);
[9PM] 'To Be and To Have' (Documentary);
[10:45PM] 'Eat This New York' (Documentary);
[12:05AM] 'James Ellroy's Feast of Death' (Documentary);
[1:40AM] 'The Eye' (Feature);
[3:15AM] '1 Giant Leap' (Documentary);
[4:35AM] 'Little Buddha' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6am] 'A Guy Named Joe' (1943) [View Trailer];
[8am] 'So Proudly We Hail' (1943);
[10:15am] 'The Story of G.I. Joe' (1945);
[12:15pm] 'Battleground' (1949);
[2:30pm] 'Kelly's Heroes' (1970) [View Trailer];
[5pm] 'Is Paris Burning?' (1966) [AKA: 'Paris brûle-t-il?'];
[8pm] 'Patton' (1970) [View Trailer];
[11pm] 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977);
[2am] 'George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin' (1994);
[3am] 'God Is My Co-Pilot' (1945);
[4:30am] 'Behind The Rising Sun' (1943). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Tuesday - 05/31
TCM spends the day with
Greta Garbo.
[6am] 'Flesh And The Devil' (1926) SILENT ;
[8am] 'Torrent' (1926) SILENT ;
[9:30am] 'Anna Christie' (1930);
[11am] 'Mata Hari' (1931) [View Trailer];
[12:30pm] 'Queen Christina' (1933);
[2:15pm] 'Camille' (1937) [View Trailer];
[4:15pm] 'Conquest' (1937);
[6:15pm] 'Two Faced Woman' (1941);
[8pm] 'The Youngest Profession' (1943);
[9:30pm] 'Hold Back the Dawn' (1941);
[11:30pm] 'The Falcon In Hollywood' (1944);
[1am] 'Nocturne' (1946);
[2:30am] 'Invisible Stripes' (1939);
[4am] 'Rogue Cop' (1954). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
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Crosses are seen on the beach Sunday, May 19, 2005, in Santa Monica, Calif., in honor of soldiers who died in Iraq. The blue crosses signify the soldiers who were killed in the pass week. Veterans for Peace creates the Arlington West memorial every Sunday.
Photo by Ric Francis
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Fans Take Action Over Cancellation
'Joan of Arcadia'
Even God is vulnerable to low television ratings. CBS' decision this month to cancel the drama "Joan of Arcadia" after two seasons has baffled and angered its fans. Many are peppering CBS and anyone who will listen with e-mails trying to find some way to keep the series alive.
It's a long shot, at best. The series where God appeared to Amber Tamblyn's title character in the guise of average people won critical praise and an Emmy nomination, but couldn't reach beyond a dwindling cult of supporters.
Fans said they appreciated a drama that talked about spirituality without being preachy, that included God but didn't take religious sides. Several parents wrote that it was one of the few quality shows on television they felt comfortable watching with their children.
CBS is replacing "Joan" with "Ghost Whisperer," featuring as a young wife who communicates with the dead.
'Joan of Arcadia'
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David Letterman, co-owner of the Rahal Letterman Racing team, hugs driver Danica Patrick after she finished fourth in the 89th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 29, 2005, in Indianapolis.
Photo by James Yee
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Replacing Vending Machines In Japan
Coca-Cola
The emblematic US firm Coca-Cola said it will replace all its 980,000 drink vending machines across Japan in a bid to reduce gas emissions in line with the landmark Kyoto Protocol.
It will take the US beverage giant's Japanese unit at least 15 years to install vending machines without hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, across all the streets and lobbies of Japan.
The United States and Australia are the main holdouts against the Kyoto treaty, which sets targets for industrialized nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions that lead to global warming.
Coca-Cola
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Fundraising Begins
Crazy Horse Monument
Nearly six decades have passed since work began on the Crazy Horse Memorial, a granite mountain being carved into a colossal sculpture of the Sioux warrior, arm outstretched toward his ancestral homeland, astride a stallion more than two football fields long.
When it's finished - and no one is predicting when that will be - the sculpture will be 563 feet high and 641 feet long. It will be taller than the Washington Monument, and so large that the four presidential heads on Mount Rushmore, 17 miles away, would fit inside the nine-story-high warrior's head.
But with $17 million spent so far, raised largely from visitors and others familiar with the project, only a portion of the monument is finished. Now, for the first time, a national fundraising drive is being quietly started in hopes of accelerating the pace.
The monument was suggested in 1939 by Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear, who asked Boston-born sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to do the work. Ziolkowski, an acclaimed sculptor from Boston, had worked briefly at Mount Rushmore but didn't get along with chief sculptor Gutzon Borglum.
After considering the project for years, Ziolkowski began sculpting the mountain on June 3, 1948. He doggedly pursued it for the rest of his life, rejecting federal money and other government help.
Ziolkowski died in 1982, but his widow, Ruth, and seven of their 10 children have continued the labor of love.
For the rest, Crazy Horse Monument
www.crazyhorsememorial.org
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Actor Danny DeVito laughs before the start of the Brown University Commencement in Providence, Rhode Island, May 29, 2005.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
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Rankles Colorado School
Yearbook Prank
High school yearbooks were recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student's picture: "most likely to assassinate resident Bush."
Mesa Ridge High School officials recalled about 100 yearbooks earlier this month and had staffers use markers to obscure the words in them and in the still-undistributed copies. The Secret Service even launched an investigation.
"They kind of ruined our yearbook," said Christina Tredway, who just graduated from the school just south of Colorado Springs. Most students thought the blacking-out was a bad idea since the caption obviously was a joke, she said.
Yearbook Prank
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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When Fundies Attack
New Jersey Devils
What chance do the New Jersey Devils give a proposal that would give the pro hockey franchise a less demonic name? Think hell freezing over.
"I can assure you the Devils name will never change, and I think there are more important things to be thinking about than something that will never happen," team CEO Lou Lamoriello said. "It's who we are and what we want to be."
State Assemblyman Craig Stanley is taking issue with a satanic symbol representing the state's National Hockey League team, which has won three Stanley Cup championships.
The mythical Jersey Devil - with bat-like wings, a forked tail and oversized claws - was said to terrorize Pine Barrens dwellers in the 18th-century after being born the 13th child to poor South Jerseyans and morphing into a dinosaur-like beast.
New Jersey Devils
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Tom Jones during a concert at Pontypridd, Wales, Saturday May 28, 2005. The Welsh singer returned to his hometown for a one-off 65th birthday bash in front of 25,000-strong hometown crowd.
Photo by Barry Batchelor
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Open Only From 9 To 5
Suicide Hotline
A Canadian province will shut its 24-hour suicide hotline and replace it with one that operates only during business hours.
Prince Edward Island, a small province on Canada's East Coast, says it is too expensive to operate the hotline around the clock. Starting June 1, it will be open only between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province with a population of about 137,000 people, is trying to tame its budget deficit. The hotline cost about C$30,000 ($24,000) a year to run.
Suicide Hotline
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Carrying a rainbow flag, people march during the 9th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday, May 29, 2005.
Photo by Alexandre Meneghini
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Hosting 'Live 8'
Philadelphia
Two decades after the original Live Aid, when rock stars descended on Philadelphia and London to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief, singer-activist Bob Geldof is planning another star-studded, humanitarian event.
Live 8 is set for Saturday, July 2, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a city spokeswoman said. The event will coincide with a second show in London, publicist Laura Perez told The Philadelphia Inquirer for Sunday's editions.
Details, including the lineup and other possible venues, remain secret. They are expected to be unveiled Tuesday morning at joint press conferences in Philadelphia and London, according to Perez, who is handling the press event.
The name "Live 8" is a nod to the G-8 summit, a meeting of the world's leading powers, set to start days later in Scotland. Geldof has pressed for the world's wealthiest countries to do more to fight famine and poverty in Africa.
Philadelphia
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A fisherman casts off into a scenic cliff overhang on the North Shore of Oahu in Kahuku, Hawaii, May 28, 2005. Hawaii has been voted the top spot in a recent dream vacation poll. Americans picked Hawaii as the most desirable vacation area if money were no object.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
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In Memory
Oscar Brown Jr.
Oscar Brown Jr., a songwriter who composed lyrics for Miles Davis and shared billings with other jazz greats, died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 78.
Brown was hospitalized in mid-April after emergency surgery to stop the spread of an infection in his lower spine. His niece, Lauren Hudson, said her uncle had been released from the hospital but was readmitted about two weeks ago. He died at Saint Joseph Hospital from complications of the illness.
Brown was known for his compositions "The Snake," "Signifyin' Monkey" and his lyrics for Miles Davis' "All Blues." Early in his career, Brown shared bills with jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane.
Oscar Brown Jr.
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A model presents an outfit by Kazakhstan designer Kuralai Nurkadilova at Almaty Fashion Week, May 29, 2005. Regional and international designers present their collections during annual event in Kazakhstan's commercial capital.
Photo by Shamil Zhumatov
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