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N THE FACE of it, with the 40th anniversary of the James Bond movie franchise cranking up—and before long the 50th anniversary of the books will begin—it seems appropriate that a Bond girl has been selected to model Hennes & Mauritz’s latest underwear campaign for the 2002 holiday season.
   But that would ignore Izabella Scorupco’s fairly established reputation in Sweden as an actress (she began at 17), model and singer (whose first single and album went gold in 1991). In other words, the Polish-born Scorupco is a known quantity in Sweden and at the time of her Bond, Goldeneye, in which she played Russian programmer Natalya Semanova, her music career was what was mentioned in publicity.

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