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It's a situation so sad, and one man's fate sits in such precarious circumstances, that we can hardly crack a smile: Stephen Cojocaru, the biggest flame to burn the red carpet fashion parade since Mephistopheles Rivers, has polycystic kidney disease. Cojocaru will have to undergo kidney transplant surgery and, what's worse, the doctors are not going to let him wear his bedazzled fur coat into the operating room! Oh God, will he make it? Yeah, actually, he'll probably be fine, especially as we suspect Today cohost and Cojo fan club president Matt Lauer has already stepped up as an organ donor.
Fashion Critic Cojo Needs Kidney Transplant [Netscape]