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Something about Uma Thurman—maybe it's in her shimmering laugh, her translucent eyes, or her ability to karate chop her way out of her own grave—has made her an enduring it-muse the world over. The director of Cannes, for example, dubbed her Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters, an ostentatious pretense that cleverly allowed him to get his film festival-curating paws in the vicinity of her Uma-goodies during the medal ceremony. Now, a Russian rock band who found massive success after naming themselves for the actress are putting word out that they want to meet Thurman on their first US tour:

[T]he almost-overnight success of the band forced the Kristovskys to change the group's name from Uma Thurman to Uma2Rman, to avoid copyright problems.

And what started out as a humorous tune has turned into a semi-obsessive wish to meet the star.

"We feel like we have a connection to her," Vova Kristovsky says. "I mean, we named our band after her, and fortune has smiled upon us. We want to share our success with her, but we don't know how to do that."

We really hope the two musicians get some face time with the object of their obsessions. Showing Thurman the scar-tissue portraits of her they carved into each other's backs with hunting knives just wouldn't have the same impact in a blurry jpeg photo as they would if they were to unveil the tributes in person.