astro
September 26, 2002, 8:40pm
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Pop diva unveils company’s new European-style roadster
It must be a source of pride for the Australians for their country to have been the source of such a beautiful creature.
The world’s second-largest automaker cut a lavish image at the show, splashing out on massive press party on Wednesday night and seeing to it that pop diva Kylie Minogue — a big draw in Europe and her native Australia — was on hand to unveil the company’s new Streetka European-style roadster.-- The artist, on the final leg of a European tour sponsored by Ford, did not sing as she slowly pulled back a sheet covering the body of a two-seater convertible Streetka to a pulsating beat.
“She’s very big over here,” Ford Europe’s Chairman and Chief Executive David Thursfield told one older U.S. reporter, who wasn’t quite sure who Minogue was. Thursfield and the rest of the onwatchers than proceeded to watch Minogue, whose latest hit “Fever” has sold about 5 million copies worldwide, scrawled her signature across the hood of a Streetka destined, perhaps, to a collector’s edition of the curvaceous car. “It’s very much kind of small and elegant,” Ford spokesman Paul Harrison said of the Streetka. “And she (Minogue) is very much that kind of person.”
Rivers of fine wines and liquor flowed as scores of young waitresses — all looking as if they had been plucked from the pages of Paris Match or Vogue — offered culinary delights.
I notice they made sure she didn’t sing.
Great curves! And that little Ford is quite the looker, too.
slortar
September 27, 2002, 3:15pm
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Ah, the Straight Dope, your one stop source for Kylie adulation…
Lamia
September 27, 2002, 6:44pm
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Call me old-fashioned, but I always considered keeping your can covered in public a crucial component of elegance.
Manduck
September 28, 2002, 1:49am
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I believe that requirement can be waived in certain cases.
I’m sorry, but I personally find her repulsive in many ways [the worst way being her nasally voice].
The only thing I like about her is that she’s the same height as me - teeny-tiny!
You know astro , one might think that. But it seems that Kylie is to Australia as Celine is to Canada as Britney is to the USA. The grass is greener disease I guess.
You know they got a real nice wax version of her at that famous wax museum in London which I wont attempt to spell. You could snuggle right up to it for a pic.
BTW Streetka, terrible name.
I’m not a fan of Kylie, but in other news, Olivia Newton John turned 54 years old!!! :eek:
