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As a plus-size bounder, she has drawn inspiration and gotten tips from others, and was recently featured in a fan magazine for her look as Scar from “The Lion King.”

In 1918, an essay in the film fan magazine Photoplay criticized the older arts as elitist, but noted that when the moving picture arrived “democracy clasped it to its heart” — this was, the writer proclaimed, “the first art-child of democracy.”

As we walked through Kabukicho’s patchwork of bars and more dubious businesses, he showed me an out-of-print yakuza fan magazine, one of many that for decades were fixtures at Japanese newsstands.

But as the hours passed, and Ono remained — painting at an easel, chewing a pastry, paging through a Lennon fan magazine — I found myself impressed by her stamina, then entranced by the provocation of her existence and ultimately dazzled by her performance.

Speaking to defunct Disney fan magazine the E-Ticket, Anderson said, “As you rode the attraction, you were taking Snow White’s place. ... You were the girl who was being threatened.”