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Last Friday Angelina debuted her documentary A Place in Time (also known as A Moment in the World). In 2005 Angelina had this to say about the film:

"I kept going between Mad's country and refugee camps or war zones to Hollywood and all these odd places and then seeing the world at all these different times. Then it became this kind of crazy adventure of organising a lot of people and gathering over 30 crews of people and sending them across the world to all these places. On January 11th (05) we all opened up our cameras at the exact same time, coordinated across the world for three minutes"

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Here is AP video of Angelina @ the screening

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Angelina & Mariane’s Powerful Bond

Mariane Pearl, widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and Angelina Jolie, who plays her in the new movie A Mighty Heart, sat down with Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive for an exclusive interview at Angelina’s home. Read excerpts from their conversation here, then check out the June issue of Glamour to read the full interview with Angelina and Mariane about their families, their friendship, and their hopes for the future.

In January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl became a reluctant global icon. That was the day her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped by terrorists in Pakistan while investigating Islamic extremism. For weeks, millions around the world watched, astonished, as Mariane, then five months pregnant with the couple’s son, Adam, appeared calm and collected on TV to appeal for her husband’s release. (When asked what she would say to him if he were listening, she replied simply, “I love you.”) The unbearable news in February 2002 that Pearl had been beheaded by his captors triggered worldwide outrage, but Mariane refused to lash out. “Danny has not been defeated,” she went on CNN to say. “His pain and my pain will help…change the world.”

The same beautiful message resonates throughout A Mighty Heart, Mariane’s best-selling memoir about the kidnapping ordeal, the film version of which—starring Angelina Jolie and produced by her partner Brad Pitt’s production company—hits screens in June.

Today I am meeting both women at Angelina’s sleek, modern Los Angeles home to discuss the film and the genuine friendship that has sprung up between them. Less than five minutes into our conversation, it’s clear that the bond between these two women is warm, respectful and real. Listen in and you’ll know why their closeness runs much deeper than a Hollywood movie deal.
CINDI LEIVE: So Mariane, you started to tell me the story of how you guys initially met, which to my surprise had absolutely nothing to do with A Mighty Heart.

MARIANE PEARL: One day a few years ago, I was alone in New York with Adam, still having a rough time [after Danny’s death]. I read an interview with Angie in a magazine, about her and Maddox and her life as a single mom. And I thought, this woman could be my friend…. I’d never experienced anything like that before in my life. It was something in her tone, in the answers that she gave. I felt also that Maddox and Adam [then both about three] could be good friends. So I sent her a note saying, do you want to have a playdate?

ANGELINA JOLIE: And I, on the other side of it, had been aware of you through the time that everything went down. I remember being amazed by your courage and your grace…. And when I got the note, I was thrilled. Later I realized that Mariane and I are the two worst people to plan a playdate in the history of playdates.
CL: Why?

AJ: Because she hates the phone as much as I do. So it almost didn’t happen! But when it finally did, I remember being really nervous, thinking, she’s such an intelligent European woman—what are we going to do together? So we went to this serious, European, existential play—it seemed like the right thing [and it was supposed to be OK for kids]. But Adam and Mad got antsy, and finally halfway through, to each other’s relief, we were both like, do you want to get out of here? And we ran out and went back to Mariane’s place….

MP: We cooked pasta; it was actually good. And then we started talking about changing the world…

AJ: …and about all the things we were passionate about. Her instincts were right—we did have so much in common. And all the kids are great friends now. Zahara is madly in love with Adam.
CL: And was the movie a thought for either of you at that point?

MP: …I had met with Brad separately about the movie, [but] he wasn’t connected at all with Angie at that time. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure I wanted to do a movie…. Everybody was using terrorism for their own political agenda at that time, and really, this is a story about Danny. But when I met Brad—well, out of all the studios, he was the only one who had actually read the book!

AJ: Really?

MP: Really…and I could see already that he wanted to have children, and to raise them in a world of tolerance…. I don’t think I would have done it if I didn’t feel a direct connection to Brad and, then, Angie.

AJ: We all had an understanding that it couldn’t be a traditional melodrama: You know, “Mariane starts to get upset and the camera gets really, really close.” Because the wonderful thing about Mariane, and the book, is that she’s not like that. You know, Mariane, you’re somebody who has every right to have a lot of anger. And the fact that you take a deep breath and stand up with a very clear voice of tolerance and dialogue—that’s why I wanted to do the film.

MP: Well, that kind of self-control…hasn’t been easy for me. I always go back to one moment: In Karachi, when Captain [the Pakistani officer who was leading the investigation into Danny’s kidnapping] came to the house and told me what happened, my reaction was that I grabbed an AK-47 from one of the guards. In that single moment, I knew how easy it would be to kill someone. If they had brought a person who was guilty [of Danny’s murder] to the house, I would have shot him. But then I would have destroyed everything Danny believed in, and everything we did as a couple—and I couldn’t do that. Putting that gun down was my biggest act of courage.
CL: So Angelina, here you are, knowing Mariane, being friends with her—and then you take on this role. That must add a layer that doesn’t usually exist for an actress.

AJ: Yeah, and it’s horrible. I was so nervous! I mean, it’s like you’re in a roomful of your closest friends and somebody says, “Why don’t you get up and imitate the friend to your left?” Nobody would want to do that, ever!…. Much more than how Mariane looks or acts, I wanted to express her essence. I’ve come to respect her so much as a hard-working person, a serious journalist, a great mom and an emotional, real woman, and I want the audience to connect with her the way I feel she deserves to be connected with. And that was hard, because I had to express the worst time in her life and [in the scene where Mariane is told of Danny’s death] the moment when she received the worst information of her life. It became the worst acting day of my life—and really, the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
CL: Mariane, how do you think Danny would’ve felt about the idea of this movie?

MP: I think he would be really proud. You know, he’s the person I did it for. If it were just for me, I wouldn’t have done a movie at all. But without the book and movie, he would’ve been known more for the way he died than the way he lived. I couldn’t accept that.(SOURCE)

The issue comes out on May 8. You can read Mariane's global diary here.

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Actress Angelina Jolie participates in a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Thursday, April 26,2007, to announce the launch of Global Action for Children (GAC), a nonpartisan advocacy organization focused on increasing funding of government programs that support orphans and vulnerable children.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Angelina Jolie Files to Give Brad Pitt's Name to New Son

Angelina Jolie has formally asked a Santa Monica court to change her newly adopted son's name to Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt.

Her request to add partner Brad Pitt's surname came in an April 16 filing in Superior Court.

Pax, 3, was adopted from a Vietnamese orphanage in March, joining Pitt and Jolie's three other children, Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 10 months.

Because Vietnamese law makes it difficult for unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie applied solo, and the boy's name became Pax Thien Jolie.

In January 2006, after Jolie made a similar request in the same court, her other adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, were officially named Jolie-Pitt. (SOURCE)

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Despite reports that he was in New Orleans this past weekend, Papa Pitt was spotted on his bike in Los Angeles. Brad loves his bandanna's!

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• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, enjoying dinner at the Dakota inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The couple, who will light up Cannes together next month, dined with a party of five. They "looked like they were having an amazing time and were very sweet with each other, a very happy couple," says an onlooker.(SOURCE)

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Brad Pitt will reunite with "Ocean's 13" co-star George Clooney in the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, it was reported Friday.

Pitt has signed to star in black comedy "Burn After Reading," which tells the story of a CIA agent who loses the disc of a book he is writing, according to entertainment journal the Hollywood Reporter.

It was not clear what role Pitt would play in the film, the report said. Frances McDormand, who won a best actress Oscar in 1996 for her performance in the Coen brothers' "Fargo," will also star in the film.

Filming will get underway in August.

Pitt most recently starred in the multilingual drama "Babel" and will appear in "Ocean's 13," which will be screened at next month's Cannes Film Festival.(SOURCE)

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The lineup for The Cannes Film Festival were announced and it appears both Brad and Angelina will be in attendance:

In this year's Out of Competition category Brit Michael Winterbottom is the sole U.K. flagwaver, returning to Cannes for the sixth time with Paramount Vantage's Angelina Jolie starrer "A Mighty Heart."

Steven Soderbergh is back with his much-anticipated star-powered "Ocean's Thirteen" (Warner Bros.)

The festival runs from May 16-27

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With everything that's been going on in the last few days I just haven't felt like updating. As sad as it seems it always takes a tragedy to put things in perspective. By now everyone has heard about the masacre at VA Tech. My thoughts and prayers are with all the families of the victims, And I hope through it all they can someday find peace in their hearts. Life is fragile to to be taken for granted.






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Paparazzi showdowns, Pakistani secret police, and rumors of a fatwa -- all part of the behind-the-scenes tale of filming the Mariane Pearl story on location in south Asia

Even in Pune — one of the most ancient cities in India, settled on a remote edge of the Western Ghats mountain range in the Maharashtra state some eons ago — they gossip about Angelina Jolie. In fact, last fall, when the actress spent five weeks there shooting her latest movie, A Mighty Heart, Puneites talked of nothing else. The local papers were filled with headlines about the star's every move. There was the one about the terrorist group who purportedly declared a fatwa on Jolie (''There was never any serious threat,'' she says, although at one point she was told to keep her children's cribs ''away from windows''). There was another about Jolie supposedly getting spiritual guidance — and career advice — from one of the town's resident astrologers (''I've never been to an astrologer in my life,'' she corrects). And then there was that truly outrageous tale about one of her bodyguards trying to strangle a paparazzo who'd been harassing Jolie since she arrived in the country (okay, so maybe there's some truth to that one, but we'll get into it later).

Yet for all the media scrutiny, nobody seemed to notice the one truly newsworthy thing about Jolie's trip to Pune, the reason she was there in the first place: to tackle her most challenging role in her most serious film since winning that Oscar seven years ago for Girl, Interrupted. In A Mighty Heart, she stars as Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter whose 2002 kidnapping in Pakistan — and subsequent beheading, videotaped and uploaded to the Internet — still ranks as one of the most horrific and tragic episodes in the short, bloody history of modern-day terrorism. Dan Futterman (who got an Oscar nom for writing Capote) has a delicate part in the film as well, playing Daniel in flashbacks; Will Patton portrays the American security officer who teaches Mariane to detangle Pakistan red tape; London actress Archie Panjabi is the Pearls' closest friend in Karachi; and Bollywood star Irrfan Khan is ''Captain,'' the soft-spoken secret policeman who ends up Mariane's ally.

But, of course, it's Mariane's story, based on her 2003 best-seller about her husband's abduction. The hellish details she lays out in her book about those first few weeks in Karachi after the kidnapping — her frantic phone calls to the American consulate, her slogs through Middle Eastern bureaucracy, the slow piecing-together of what had happened to Daniel — will constitute the bulk of what's on the screen. ''The story unfolds like a mystery,'' Jolie says. ''You've got people collecting clues and trying to solve what happened. But it's also very real and personal. We didn't want it to be too melodramatic or too polished. We didn't want it to be a typical movie.''

Which is how Michael Winterbottom — the maverick Brit who built his career by thumbing his nose at Hollywood studios and stars — ended up directing the hottest film actress on the planet in a major summer movie that was bought and paid for by a little company called Paramount. Though he seems a counterintuitive choice, the truth is Winterbottom may be perfect for the job, given his familiarity with the geographic and political terrain (his last film, The Road to Guantánamo, shot in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, also dealt with victims in the war on terror) and experience with the vérité-style camera work needed to give the film that gritty look Jolie wanted. ''It just seemed too good an opportunity not to do it,'' the director says. ''I mean, it was Brad and Angelina asking. That's a very nice position to be in, you know?''

Unlike her director, Jolie earned her part in the film the old-fashioned way — she flirted with a producer. That would be Brad Pitt, of course, Jolie's sometime costar, all-the-time boyfriend, and the dad to her four children. Pitt read Mariane Pearl's book in manuscript form and liked it so much he snapped up the film rights before publication. Originally, he sold the idea of the adaptation to Warner Bros., in partnership with Plan B, his own production company. But Warner cooled on the concept and it languished in development for a year or two, until Pitt cut a new deal to bring the project to Paramount's revamped specialty arm, Paramount Vantage. The guy who had just been hired to head that division, as it happens, was a former agent named John Lesher. And one of Lesher's former clients, coincidentally, was a certain English director famous for his disdain for big American studios and stars.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how movies get made in Hollywood. A Mighty Heart was immediately put on a fast track at Paramount Vantage. Also, rather unsurprisingly, they ran into problems just as quickly.

For starters, there were issues with the Pakistan secret police. In the spirit of realism, Winterbottom spent 10 days in Karachi in July shooting exteriors and a few outdoor scenes — footage of some of the very places where Daniel Pearl had stopped on the day of his kidnapping. ''We were filming the real locations, the real restaurant where he ate and the real hotel he went to,'' says Winterbottom. ''At first, I was a little nervous, but when you get there you see that they're just normal places, like anywhere else. Bad things may have happened there, but that doesn't make it a bad place.''

The production had been granted permission from the Pakistan government to film in Karachi, but the ISI — the secret police — apparently never got the memo. ''The ISI guys would follow us from our hotel every day,'' recalls Andrew Eaton, Winterbottom's longtime producing partner. ''And they would videotape us filming our movie. I'd love to get ahold of their footage. It'd be great for the DVD.'' At one point, the ISI actually tried to stop the crew from filming, having four extras dressed in cop costumes arrested on charges of impersonating an officer. ''It was total harassment,'' says Eaton. ''It was a pretty creepy experience.''

When Winterbottom and the rest of the crew gathered in India in October, they got a more enthusiastic reception — too enthusiastic, actually. The secret police were out of the picture, but photographers could be just as brutal, shouting insults at Jolie in hopes of grabbing her attention for a shot. Jolie's bodyguards took the abuse especially hard; one of them was videotaped literally wringing a paparazzo's neck. But the incident that caused the biggest PR headache happened while the cast and crew were shooting a scene inside a local Mumbai school. Jolie's guards were accused of physically blocking parents from picking up their kids, though they claimed they were merely trying to keep the paparazzi from swarming in. Three guards were arrested when the cops arrived, and the ensuing media frenzy got so out of hand Pitt himself had to plead for calm on Indian TV.

''I'll say this,'' Jolie offers. ''We were in a school we were legally allowed to be in. We had permits for exactly what we were doing. And the paparazzi tried to get into the school when we were at the gate, and the parents showed up to get their kids. And the paparazzi rushed through the gates and caused chaos. It was not the film production that caused chaos. We were only guilty of bringing the paparazzi.''

To be sure, things could have been even worse for Jolie. Most of the film was shot in one location, in a house in Pune standing in for the one in Karachi where Mariane held vigil during the the kidnapping. And even when Jolie did venture outside, she wasn't always immediately recognized; to play Mariane, who was five months pregnant when Daniel disappeared, she strapped on a prosthetic belly and wore a curly wig — to say nothing of the exotic French-Cuban accent she needed to learn to sound more like Mariane. (The studio says that initial reports that she darkened her skin with makeup for the role are false.) ''It would usually take about five minutes before people would figure out that it was Angelina,'' says Futterman. ''So we ended up shooting a lot of the exterior stuff in five-minute increments.''

Jolie, though, sometimes had a harder time staying inside. Winterbottom's inimitable shooting style is a little like the taping of a reality show: He uses handheld cameras and no studio lighting, encourages as much improvisation as the story line allows, and then simply follows his actors around wherever they go. ''The crew would have to find places to hide — behind curtains or in the bathroom — to stay out of the shots,'' Jolie says of the process. ''The great thing about it is if you felt like going somewhere else while doing a scene, you could. But it could get intense. Michael and I would have disagreements over wherehe could follow me. We came up with a system. If I closed the door, he couldn't follow. If I left it open, he could. I just needed to know that if things got too heavy, there'd be a place for me to cry by myself.''

That, by the way, was not something Jolie worried about on the set of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Or on Mr. & Mrs. Smith. And it's one of the things that make A Mighty Heart so potentially interesting. Since winning her Oscar, Jolie's onscreen persona has been transformed by a series of tentpole action roles, and her offscreen footprint has grown so huge (something to do with that boyfriend of hers) it threatens to eclipse all else in her life and career. But with A Mighty Heart, the actress has the chance to show why she got that little golden guy in the first place. She can remind people of something her new supersize celebrity status almost makes them forget.

That she can actually act.(SOURCE)

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Brad was spotted yesterday visiting Brad Grey at Paramount Studios. Credit to Brilliant Brad Pitt. Click pics to enlarge.



Lol. I see Brad still loves his cigarettes.



UPDATE: Angelina was with him! Here's a pic of them together. They both look great.

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Okay so any fan of the Jolie-Pitts will know that for the past few months the NY Post seems to have had an agenda against Angelina Jolie and her numerous adopitions. They have written stories based on a woman named Tatiana Beams who calls herself and "International Adoptions Advocate". This article was written a few days ago by Sandra Hanks Benoiton:

NY Post's Adoption Agenda

After taking more than a little bit of my time to compose a response to a request for comment on Angelina Jolie's adoptions from a reporter from the New York Post, I was irked, but not surprised, to see what ended up in print. (Ed. Note: Click here to see the PageSix Item)

My comments came from both heart and head, were reasonable, fair and balanced. Not, apparently, what they were going for at the Post.The story, when it appeared, proved the paper had an obvious agenda in mind long before anyone asked what I thought. They must have been trawling in hopes of dredging up gunk and, of course, they managed to find someone thrilled to their boot tips to give them what they wanted.

Throwing in rumors of Angelina criticizing Madonna and trying to tie a comment she made regarding illegal adoptions to hinted sleaze tossed at her Cambodian adoption, the article decided to pick quotes that don't favor Ms. Jolie, like, "Angelina is not a hero in the adoption community," and, " ... said that after Jolie's adoption scandal, Cambodia closed its doors, and many families who were waiting to acquire children were left empty-handed."

As if she was responsible for the suspension!

This is an up-close and personal experience to illustrate how the media controls and manipulates a story. It's not pretty, and it's certainly not fair, but it is what it is.

What happens because of the way this works can be devastating. The fallout from adoption trashing often ends up with children trapped behind a mirror of distortion for their entire lives.

More than five years ago, the suspension on US adoptions in Cambodia was imposed. Only this week, the last US agencies doing adoptions in Russia lost their licenses, and heaven only knows how long it will be until kids there will be allowed to finds homes with American families.

Every parent of a child adopted internationally has a duty to understand the difference between hype and truth, to cling to that truth and distribute it so that it thrives rather than gets buried beneath the piles of trash.

When you see a story about adoption that has a negative cast, ask yourself where it comes from, what's the motivation for it, and where in it is actual fact and truth. Separate out the rumor and innuendo. Throw out the glitz. Get rid of any envy or uninformed judgement. Then, and only then, look carefully at what might be left.

Take what is left and form an opinion. If the residue is something that requires action, take it. If you see reforms are needed, work for them. If laws need changing, get involved in changing them. If you can grab the attention of the media, avoid the bandwagon and put forth thoughtful, well-considered information founded in truth, not knee-jerk reaction to misinformation.

No one exists in a vacuum, and especially not the media. What appears in your local shopping news could be around the world tomorrow, and even if it isn't someone is listening.(SOURCE)

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News has been pretty slow for the family Jolie-Pitt, however thanks to Pittwatch (via Celebrity Moms) we have these wonderful undated candids. Brad and Z pick out some ice cream while Angelina waits in the car.



UPDATE: Apparntly these are new candids. Click here to see more.

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Hot!!

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After 50 years of talk, King maintains a relatively minor list of major misses. "I never got Prince Charles or Fidel Castro," he says. "Oddly enough I've never had Brad Pitt. Every time I see him, he says he's going to do it."

(SOURCE)

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Brad was spotted in LA while filming the Curious Case of Benjamin Button.



Brad stars as a man who is born eighty years old and then ages backwards.

Apparently those rumors that Shiloh appears in the film are true; she even has her own IMDB page.

Photo Credit ThisLondon

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Kate and Pete are Engaged-HELLO!
Daddy DiCaprio?-Mirror
Donald Trump is not Sexy-ONTD
Marc Anthony must remember to pay his taxes-TMZ
Madonna and Justin Timberlake make music together-Popsugar
Jordan thinks she's hotter than Posh-TMZ
RIP Roscoe Lee Brown-VIBE
Gwen Stefani is on a longtime diet-People
American Idol's Olivia Mojica has a sex tape-Egotastic
Playboy Honors Anna Nicole-Gawker
The Don Imus backlash continues-AOL
Justin and Jessica Biel?-Rush & Molloy

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According to a leading Hollywood plastic surgeon, Angelina is the highest standard of beauty for women seeking cosmetic surgery.

Professor Ava Shamban a Los Angeles-based cosmetic dermatologist, says that Angelina has the most requested look among American women-exaggerated eyes, lips and cheeks:

"Angelina Jolie, with her exquisite looks, is the current gold standard of beauty in the states and in the West in general right now...And that's not about to change. The exotic look, like (actresses) Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz, is here to stay, and Angelina is the ultimate embodiment of that."

But she also warns that surgeons have a big responsibility:

"Features like Angelina's won't fit every face and we must take care with that"

Professer Shamban has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey show and Extreme Home Makeover.

Australian College of Cosmetic Surgery president Michael Zacharia said requests for Jolie's looks were becoming increasingly frequent:

"It's common to hear people say 'I want lips or cheekbones like Angelina Jolie's', and her association with Brad Pitt has just accentuated this"

Sydney born sexual health psychologist Professor Jane Ussher said the trend was dangerous because of Angelina's abnormal looks:

"She is arguably a human representation of a cartoon character, similar to those Bratz dolls, and virtually no-one looks like that...If you buy into the idea that that (look) is perfect then you'll never feel good about yourself because you'll never attain it."(SOURCE)

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In her column today Cindy Adams revealed that Angelina will soon be gracing the cover of Marie Claire (ignore the snark;):

She did a Marie Claire photo shoot in L.A. The crew, aware of Earth Mother Angelina's deep abiding concern for the good and healthy care and feeding of civilization and the upgrading of mankind, ordered top-of-the-line organic lunch for her. Angie, who'd seen a McDonald's across the street, sent her assistant for a Big Mac.

Well we already know that Angelina loves her McDonalds. A Mighty Heart opens in June so her interview should hit stands as soon as next month. We'll have to look out for it. Click here to see another Marie Claire cover pic.

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