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New James Bond title confirmed: Quantum of Solace

January 24, 2008/22.05

There’s always some speculation every few years on what the next James Bond movie will be called and now, it’s official: Quantum of Solace.    It’s one of the few Ian Fleming title names left, this time from one of the late author’s short stories in the For Your Eyes Only anthology.    Some fans […]

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Katherine Heigl in scrubs

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I still think of Katherine Heigl as the girl I should have tried harder to secure a cover with, because she’s now huge in 2008. Prior to that, Katy came into conversation as she was a classmate of a Lucire team member, and I had probably seen Under Siege 2 more times than I should […]

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Join in the Project Runway–Levi’s 501 Design Challenge through Lucire

/11.36

Readers will notice the Levi’s 501 Design Challenge graphic on our home page today, which is tied to the Project Runway competition on TV. The challenge: to create iconic looks based on pairs of Levi’s 501 jeans and the trucker jacket.    But now, you can join in the fun. On the Design Challenge page at the Levi’s […]

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Australian actor Heath Ledger, 28, found dead

January 22, 2008/23.17

Australian-born, Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger, 28, has been found dead in a Soho, New York apartment.    The New York Police Department has confirmed his death. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger was found by a housekeeper at 3.26 p.m., who went to tell him that a masseuse had arrived for an appointment. ‘We don’t know the cause of the […]

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February’s Red month

January 19, 2008/2.21

Readers may notice a rise on this site in the number of PSAs for the Heart Truth Campaign, which we are running in association with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in the US. Fashionistas will know the campaign from the Red Dress show that we have regularly covered over the years.    February 1 […]

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James Bond star, Sir Roger Moore, working on memoirs

January 16, 2008/21.54

Sir Roger Moore, star of The Saint and The Persuaders, and who played James Bond seven times between 1973 and 1985, is to publish his memoirs this year.    The 80-year-old star of Live and Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me said: ‘The time is right to tell my story.’    The book, called My Word […]

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Two Bond girls announced: Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko in next film

January 10, 2008/9.41

James Bond has two new Bond girls. British actress Gemma Arterton and Ukrainian model Olga Kurylenko will co-star in the latest instalment of the 007 franchise opposite Daniel Craig, Columbia Pictures announced.    Craig made his début as Bond in 2006’s Casino Royale, which co-starred French actress Eva Green as Vesper Lynd, an enigmatic spy […]

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Naomi Campbell’s Hugo Chavez interview out today

/9.18

After interviewing the Daily Mirror’s Piers Morgan last year, Naomi Campbell met with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for British GQ. Her interview appears in the magazine published today.    GQ editor Dylan Jones told The Guardian that it was easy to organize the interview as Chavez was interested in meeting Campbell. Excerpts from the interview were […]

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Victoria Beckham in Elizabeth Mason Couture—how the choice came about

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While we have the ‘Scene’ section in some of the print editions of Lucire, we aren’t exactly a paparazzi magazine. However, every now and then we do come across shots that may be of interest independently of the events we attend, such as these two. Both are of Victoria Beckham: the first, she wears the Elizabeth […]

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Shu Uemura passes away, aged 79

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Shu Uemura, the cosmetics pioneer known for his scienti?c approach to beauty, died from pneumonia December 29 in Tokyo aged 79.    Uemura was born in Tokyo in 1928. He attended a beauty school and was the only man in his class, according to Reuter. In the 1950s, he began his career as an assistant on a […]

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