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Manfred Baumann’s Face to Face shows intimate, personal celebrity portraits

September 27, 2021/22.01

Manfred Baumann Manfred Baumann has released a new book with celebrity shots, called Face to Face, featuring international stars who have posed for him and his Leica such as Martin Sheen, Olivia Newton-John, William Shatner, John Malkovich, Sylvester Stallone, Kathleen Turner, Ron Perlman, Thomas Kretschmann, Danny Trejo, Gene Simmons, Jean-Claude van Damme, T. J. Thyne, […]

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Photos: HM the Queen bestows honorary award on Angelina Jolie

October 11, 2014/10.08

Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie can now add the letters GCMG after her name, after receiving an honour at Buckingham Palace from HM Queen Elizabeth II.    During her audience with the Queen, Jolie was presented with the insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St […]

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Angelina Jolie highlights Syrian plight in her latest UNHCR visit

December 8, 2012/4.27

J. Tanner/UNHCR Above UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets with refugees at the Za’atri refugee camp in Jordan. Actress Angelina Jolie, in her capacity as a UNHCR Special Envoy, visited Syrian refugees on the Jordan–Syria border. The refugees had made the dangerous crossing to Jordan from war-torn Syria.    One family which Jolie met recalled […]

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Angelina Jolie will step back from acting to concentrate on family

December 4, 2012/23.48

Angelina Jolie says she will step back from acting when her children reach their teens in a TV interview with Britain’s Channel 4.    The star, who raises six children with fiancé Brad Pitt—Maddox, 11, Pax, 9, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 6, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 4—says, ‘I’m going to have to give up the […]

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Chanel releases second Brad Pitt No. 5 commercial

October 17, 2012/1.13

Chanel has released the second TVC featuring heartthrob actor Brad Pitt, promoting its iconic No. 5 fragrance.    Instead of the camera solely being on Pitt, there are more familiar images of women and the gold colour that the fragrance is known for.    Pitt’s lines are the same as in the first commercial, but […]

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Chanel releases No. 5 campaign with Brad Pitt

October 15, 2012/0.46

Steven Klein One of the most anticipated fragrance campaigns of the year, for Chanel No. 5 and starring actor Brad Pitt, which Geneviève Hole previewed in Lucire 28, has been released.    A release from Chanel features a quotation from Pitt, reading, ‘What’s important to remember about Chanel No. 5 is how revolutionary this fragrance […]

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Chanel releases new image of Brad Pitt, and voice clips, in No. 5 teasers

October 8, 2012/11.15

To whet the appetite for Chanel’s No. 5 new campaign with Brad Pitt—its first male spokesman since its inception in 1921—the French company has released three teasers, all of which contain the actor saying brief sentences. The longest video is a paltry eight seconds.    Pitt asks, ‘Are you going somewhere? Where?’, ‘Do you feel […]

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