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...wheeler.) And those were some of the more dignified moments at the MTV Video Music Awards, a spectacle that started low and slithered downhill from there, landing in a lagoon of cheese, with BRITNEY SPEARS' joyless gyrations to her new single Slave 4 U. (She didn't like her boa, it seems.) The most curious aspect was the shameless shilling. Presenters like MACY GRAY, right, Busta Rhymes, Shakira and others were more interested in the "Song of Myself," relentlessly hawking their new releases. At least Missy Elliott (lowered from the ceiling via chandelier) had the grace to remember the singer...
Playing to the evening’s survival theme, attendees were instructed to wear their “gutsiest” attire. Many took this as an open invitation to parade their most colorful outfits, whether by simply adding a blue feather boa to a classic black dress, or by squeezing into a red tutu and donning fairy wings. Event volunteers tried to engage the more conservatively dressed into the festivities by passing out bindis and spraying guests’ hair with glitter...
...Africa's biggest - where years of refuse dumping have formed a scarred ridge of eroded ground and spewed garbage. More than 1,000 people live here. They are born here, they breed, bleed and die here. Only the devil could have come up with the name for this place: Boa Vista, which means beautiful outlook...
...outlook for the garbage-dump people of Boa Vista is a fly-blown, post-apocalyptic scene of desolation at the edge of the world. Their shacks are built of cardboard, driftwood, old iron and fraying plastic. Near-naked children play tag among the filthy debris. Only one in three will survive beyond the age of five. Most of the Boa Vista squatters have no formal identity papers. They have to beg, steal or barter for food and clothing. Motorists who drive along the potholed road below the cliff-dwellers look the other way. "Yes, we know about Boa Vista," said...
Fragola--wearing only a grey bra, purple bikini bottoms, sparkly red high heels and a pink boa--elicited surprised laughter and applause from the crowd...