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Brad Pitt signing autographs or shaking hands or something in the vein outside the Salle de Presse following this morning Inglourious Basterds press conference.
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Inglourious Basterds costar Diane Kruger (l.), director-writer Quentin Tarantino — 5.20, 11:42 am.
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French actress Melanie Laurent, who gives one of the film’s two standout perfs as Jewish refugee who inherits a Parisian movie theatre. (The other is given by Christoph Waltz as the brilliantly evil Col. Hans Landa.)
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Costars Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Brad Pitt
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