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Nicole Kidman: Drag icon
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       Syndicated columnist Liz Smith reports that Nicole Kidman won an Internet poll that asked drag queens who they would most like to resemble or be. Following Kidman in the survey were Elizabeth Hurley, Jennifer Aniston, Shania Twain, and Penelope Cruz. One assumes that more Halloween paraders will be done up as Kidman's courtesan from Moulin Rouge than her dour Gothic housewife from The Others. 

        
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