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Date Posted: 09:06:38 04/17/03 Thu
Author: Lark
Subject: Offbeat Humor from CNN today...

I WANT to see this movie!!

Review for 'A Mighty Wind'

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Band on the Run(ny Nose?)

McCartney's flu for sale
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Fans of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney have been invited to bid for a tiny piece of musical history -- germs from a bout of flu that caused him to cancel a recent gig.

After two days on the http://www.ebay.co.uk website, the germs have received two bids, the highest for 1.20 pounds (about $2). They are being sold by British fan Ian Mears, who claims he caught the bug from McCartney when he met him earlier this month.

"I believe this is the same strain of flu, and effectively his virus," Londoner Mears told the Daily Star newspaper on Wednesday. "I had no cold on the Saturday, then on Sunday I spent most of the afternoon with Paul and by Tuesday I too had a cold."

Successful bidders will receive their germs by post. "The highest bidder will receive a resealable bag that I will cough into," he said. "Or if preferred, they can have a plastic container full of mucus."

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Nude Tunicks

Nude London for Tunick

LONDON, England (AP) -- Scores of volunteers shed their clothes near Parliament and the River Thames to pose for nude photographs by artist Spencer Tunick.

Tunick, 35, has created nude landscapes in cities around the world. He arranged the 160 naked models on a terrace overlooking the Thames at dusk Tuesday to coincide with the opening of the nearby Saatchi Gallery. Tunick recruited his nudes through advertisements.

Tourists riding a popular Ferris wheel on the other side of the Thames ended up getting more in their photos of Big Ben, Westminster Bridge and Parliament than they had planned.

Following Tunick's directions, the volunteers -- some of them giggling with embarrassment -- posed several times, lying down in a courtyard just above a path by the Thames and standing there in several positions.

At the nearby Saatchi gallery, the onlookers included Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade, and British actor Stephen Fry, who said: "It's good to have an artistic reason for watching this sort of thing."

Tunick has been photographing and filming nude volunteers in unlikely public places around the world since 1992, organizing more than 50 group performances, some of which have led to his arrest.

He plans to package his photos in a portfolio, "Nude Adrift."

;o)

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