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by George Alec Effinger



Kit sits in the black vinyl chair. He takes a moddy from a stack on

the control board. He doesn't care which moddy it is. He reaches up

and chips it in. There is a moment of disorientation, and then Kit's

vision clears. He is Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill in North by

Northwest, suave, well dressed and certainly in command of his

feelings. He allows himself a moment of sadness for Honey, whose

life could never be as interesting as his. After all, he is Cary Grant.

His future will be better than good: It will be amusing.

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"Twenty years ago, as a young feature reporter on my first

assignment for Euro-Urban Holo, I interviewed Honey P├нlar. I

remember the rough wooden pier across the beach from her walled

estate and the sparkling Mediterranean waves. I remember the

bright morning sun making me squint a little into the camera. The


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cries of the gulls punctuated my lead-in. тАШHere in her palatial estate,тАЩ

I said, тАШHoney P├нlar reigns as the superstar of the sex moddies. In

five years, she has risen from talented newcomer to both critical

acclaim and commercial supremacy. Let's take a quick look behind