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| • | "I remember drinking and smoking at school", Women's Weekly (Australia), Mar. '91 |
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| • | "The air at Morton's, the site of the Vanity Fair/Steve Tisch party, was a hazy gray by midnight as guests puffed away, unencumbered by no-smoking laws. This was a private party and cigarettes were not verboten in the restaurant. So who belongs to the smoking club? We spotted Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Jeremy Irons, Nicole Kidman and Anjelica Huston", Los Angeles Times , Mar. 27, '94 |
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| • | cigar - New York Times, Oct. 2, '94 |
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| • | just sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, Time Out, Jan. '96 |
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| • | "she says she does like a cigarette or two when she has a drink", West Australian (TV supplement), Feb, 15, '97 |
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| • | "Then she suddenly looks at the time, slips on her black loafers, gives me a hug and glides out of the Soho club where we met, into a Range Rover and lights up a cigarette . She is so unfailingly polite that for an hour- and-a-half I had not even been aware that she was probably desperate for a smoke.", Daily Mail (UK), Sep. 1, '98 |
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| • | cigar - "Ever smoke a cigar? 'Yeah'", Movieline, Oct. '98
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| • | no - "In Eyes Wide Shut, Nicole Kidman drags nervously on a cigarette after Tom Cruise tells her he's been to see an orgy. Kidman does not smoke in real life. But her movie role has won her the tag ``the new Marlboro Man'' from the anti-tobacco lobby. ... Kidman's spokeswoman in Sydney, Ms Wendy Day, said she did not have the impression that Kidman smoked much on screen and she was '100 per cent sure that she would never take a cent' from the tobacco industry to do so", Sydney Morning Herald, Mar. 23, '01 |
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| • | "Ewan McGregor, who shared a cigarette with Nicole Kidman during the pre-screening press conference", World Entertainment News Network, May 9, '01 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor couldn't keep their hands off each other before the premiere of their film Moulin Rouge at Cannes. ... Ewan and Nicole held hands, giggled, whispered to each other and shared a cigarette before the film was shown", World Entertainment News Network, May 9, '01 |
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| • | "actress Nicole Kidman said on Wednesday that she would like to perform in a Broadway musical. .. 'You can't smoke, for example,' she said after a puff on a cigarette. 'A musical is physically much, much harder than a straight play'", Deutsche Press-Agentur (Germany), May 9, '01 |
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| • | "at one point, she did reach across Luhrmann to steal a drag from McGregar's cigarette.", Globe and Mail (Canada), May 10, '01 |
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| • | "As she spoke she shared a cigarette with Ewan", The Mirror (UK), May 10, '01 |
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| • | "She broke a rib and injured her knee during the physically demanding song-and-dance numbers of Moulin Rouge, and she even had to stop smoking, although she recovered enough to light up at the press conference. When a reporter pointed out that smoking is not healthy, she replied that many things are not good for you", Montreal Gazette, May 10, '01 |
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| • | "They clearly hit it off, and shared a cigarette, as they launched Moulin Rouge in Cannes", Daily Record, May 10, '01 |
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| • | "McGregor, who shared a cigarette with Kidman during the press conference, said the pair had enjoyed a great chemistry", AAP Newsfeed, May 10, '01 |
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| • | "That is what film festivals are for - that, and watching Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor sharing a cigarette at a press conference and speculating about the depth of their friendship", Daily Telegraph (UK), May 11, '01 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor couldn't keep their hands off each other. They held hands, giggled, whispered to each other and shared a cigarette", Toronto Sun, May 13, '01 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor looked mischievously into each other's eyes and shared a cigarette. It was all they had to do to set the British tabloids to talking of their 'affair'", Boston Herald, May 13, '01 |
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| • | "Reports from the Cannes Film Festival say Nicole Kidman, who split from Tom Cruise in February, has been flirting outrageously with her new co-star, Ewan McGregor. The couple have been seen giggling, sharing a cigarette and holding hands", Sunday Mercury (UK), May 13, '01 |
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| • | "On Aug. 2, Ms. Kidman arrived at the New York premiere (of her movie 'The Others') at the Paris Theater in full movie-star regalia ... At the party at the Hudson Hotel, Ms. Kidman sat removed from the crowd with the executives, chattering away and giggling excitedly. At one point, she reached slinkily across the table for a puff on someone's cigarette", New York Observer, Aug. 13, '01 |
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| • | "Speculation has been rife since Ewan and Nicole were spotted holding hands, giggling and whispering to each other at the Cannes Film Festival in May. They openly flirted for the cameras and, at one point, they shared a cigarette", Scottish Daily Record (UK), Dec. 7, '01 |
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| • | "The actress broke a rib and injured her knee during the physically demanding song-and-dance numbers of Moulin Rouge, and she even had to stop smoking, although she recovered enough to light up at the press conference.", Ottawa Citizen, c. '01 |
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| • | "Was out back having a smoke during Golden Globes.", where?, Jan. 20, '02 |
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| • | "I was just out back having a cigarette with [Russell Crowe] and told him he would win [a Golden Globe]", CNN, Jan. 21, '02 |
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| • | "Later, director Baz Luhrmann and Kidman were backstage when they learned another countryman, Russell Crowe, won best actor for 'A Beautiful Mind.' NICOLE KIDMAN, ACTOR: Oh, my god, really? BAZ LUHRMANN, DIRECTOR: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie... KIDMAN: I told him we were having a cigarette backstage, and I said, 'You're going to win.'", CNN, Jan. 21, '02 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman apparently had a premonition that Russell Crowe would take the Golden Globes best actor award. The star, already armed with her own award for best actress in a musical or comedy, was backstage talking to reporters when word of Crowe's win reached her. 'I told him,' she gushed. 'We were having a cigarette backstage and I said, 'You're going to win. Every time I say that you do win''", MX, Jan. 22, '02 |
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| • | "With Virginia, it was smoking those hand-rolled cigarettes. ... it wasn't the makeup that did it for me; it was the smoking and that handkerchief", Interview, Feb. '02 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman's two children, Isabella and Connor, are both begging her to give up smoking cigarettes. They're both already being taught in school about the dangers of smoking and have been pleading with Nicole to quit. She's told them she'll try but she can't promise", Beverly Hills [213] magazine, Jun. 26, '02
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| • | "Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, sucking on cig after cig on the outdoor patio of the same celeb-studded joint. N.K. was looking luminous, per usual, while E.M. was all punked out, '80s style, right down to the eyeliner. The duo chatted the eve away without paying much heed to anyone else in the posh place.", Oct. 24, '02
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| • | "Because Woolf rolled her own Cigarettes, Kidman did, too [For the movie Hours, The (2002)] ... On-camera, Kidman plays around with her dialogue, liberally throwing in f**ks and sh*ts and self depreciating insults. Between takes, she seems as nervous as Faunia. Shoulders tense, she mutters to herself angrily and smokes incessantly, holding the butts of her Marlboros against her lips as if they contained rage itself ... 'The other night we did a scene where she was sitting on my bed in a T-shirt and panties, smoking, one leg up on the bed', Anthony Hopkins said. 'Just the way she was smoking that cigarette, you could see the whole story of her life' ... 'My character smokes? I'll smoke three packets a day. They said, 'You want herbals?' I said, 'No, give me the Marlboros''", Premiere Magazine, Nov. '02
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| • | "At Jean Jacques Rachou's La Cote Basque one table of moviemakers on Nicole Kidman: 'Virginia Woolf smoked so Nicole began smoking, Virginia wrote righthanded, so being a lefty, Nicole learned to write with her right hand. She really went the distance'", New York Post, Dec. 3, '02 |
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| • | "A faux honker wasn't the only tool Kidman used to get into character. '[Woolf] smoked, so I smoked'", People Magazine , Dec. 9, '02 |
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| • | "White Stripes singer Jack White ... is set for a part in the movie ... Cold Mountain ... 'It's weird to be sharing a cigarette with Nicole Kidman in the middle of Transylvania'", New Music Express, Dec. 9, '02
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| • | "To prepare for the movie [Hours, The (2002)] -- which she described as 'cathartic ... in a wonderful way' -- Kidman researched the character by reading Woolf's biographies and some of her letters and even learned how to roll cigarettes", Sydney Daily Telegraph, Dec. 17, '02 |
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| • | "'I was, you know, by this stage, chain smoking because Virginia Woolf would chain smoke, and I was sort of trying to find the character. Katie Couric: 'Those non-filter cigarettes, too'. Kidman: 'Yeah'", Today Show (NBC), Dec. 26, '02 |
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| • | "she learned to roll her own cigarettes", National Post (Canada), Dec. 27, '02 |
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| • | "[for the movie Hours, The (2002), since Virginia Woolf smoked] I smoked", Insite Magazine, Dec. '02 |
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| • | "Kidman went on a crash course of everything Woolf, becoming a smoker of roll-your-own cigarettes and learning to write with her right hand", Chicago Tribune, Jan. 2, '03 |
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| • | "(Kidman) listened to recordings of Woolf reading, began writing with her right hand, and smoked hand-rolled cigarettes", Boston Globe, Jan. 5, '03 |
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| • | "to Kidman, it was no more important than less subtle concessions she made to get into character for [Hours, The (2002)]. 'That's just one of thethings that was part of the whole physical and mental transformation', Kidman says. 'I'm left-handed, but I wanted to write with my right handbecause she was right-handed. And you can't just smoke. You have to chain-smoke because she did'", Daily Variety, Jan. 8, '03 |
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| • | "Just as often, however, Kidman acted solo, writing segments of Mrs. Dalloway (the southpaw learned to pen right-handed, like Virginia Woolf) and chain-smoking (rolling her own, as the author did)", Entertainment Weekly , Jan. 10, '03 |
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| • | "At a corner booth in the garden of Hollywood's Hotel Bel-Air ... Kidman says, 'Two Catholic girls, sitting drinking wine - uh-oh, danger! Let's get some cigarettes!' And before you can say Hail Mary, we're smoking, too.", Elle Magazine, Jan. '03
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| • | "There are different ways of working with different characters. For [Hours, The (2002)], I'm playing someone who existed. She smoked, so I smoked. Shewrote with her right hand so I wrote with my right hand", Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 9, '03 |
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| • | "'We didn't really do any other makeup', says Kidman of her role in [Hours, The (2002)]. 'We put on the nose and my lip sort of changed because of theway I smoked and talked, and my voice just started to drop'", Bergen County (NJ) Record, Jan. 12, '03 |
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| • | restarted smoking, Tonight Show, Jan. 14, '03 |
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| • | "As I put on the clothes and shoes and found the hankie [Virginia Woolf] used and started to roll my cigarettes, then the physical and mental behavior just sort of grew out of it all", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 17, '03 |
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| • | "at the Golden Globes, Nicole Kidman spent a fair bit of ceremony time outside the venue, out on the terrace with the smokers", Melbourne Herald Sun (Australia), Jan. 22, '03 |
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| • | "Kidman told me that although she did enormous preparation -- she read all of Woolf, learned to mimic her handwriting and had of course that remarkable patrician beak -- what brought her to Woolf's essence was learning to roll her own cigarettes, as Woolf had done", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Jan. 26, '03 |
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| • | "The Nose actually allowed her, emotionally, to go someplace else. First day on the set I passed this woman scrunched into a chair with a had, coat, chain-smoking, rolling her own cigarettes like Virginia Woolf did. I was nervous. I said, 'Where's Nicole? When is she going to be ready?' It was her sitting in the chair. I hadn't even recognized her.", Cindy Adams gossip column (New York Post), Jan. 28, '03 |
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| • | "But while Nicole relished the role, it did have one down side. To appear convincing as Woolf, she became a chain smoker...She said: 'I would start smoking and be her...I would just sit in the armchair and just write and smoke", Daily Record (UK), Jan. 29, '03 |
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| • | "Nic, who plays novelist Virginia Woolf in the new movie, revealed she had acquired another dangerous hobby to 'get into' the role - heavy smoking", Daily Star (UK), Feb. 2, '03 |
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| • | "she lit a cigarette, blew a puff of smoke", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 8, '03 |
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| • | "The minute I arrived on set I would be, like, 'Give me a cigarette,' which is a terrible thing to say - very un-PC - but I would start smoking and walk around and talk to myself a lot", Daily Express (Saturday supplement) (UK), Feb. 15, '03 |
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| • | "Kidman skilfully side stepped questions about that nose. Allowing that it was rare for her to be asked to look unglamorous -- 'Usually you're asked to look younger' -- she chose to talk more about how she changed her voice, smoked cigarettes and even learned to write with her non-preferred right hand as part of finding the character", Melbourne Herald Sun (Australia), Feb. 16, '03 |
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| • | "I smoked an awful lot of cigarettes [laughs]. I smoked roll-ups something like 30 a day. I was obsessed with smoking during [Hours, The (2002)]", Total Film (UK), Feb. '03
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| • | no - "A lefty, she learned to write and smoke with her right hand because Woolf did. 'I don't even smoke. But when I play a character, I can't fake it. I rolled my own cigarettes -- and not the herbal kind, either. They were the real thing'", San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 23, '03 |
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| • | When in Cannes to promote the film in spring 2000, Kidman shared cigarettes with Ewan McGregor at a press conference, Buzz Magazine, Mar. '03 |
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| • | "Dressed in a chic, black cocktail dress and intricate necklace, Kidman looked every inch the glamorous movie star. But she surprised some at the Dogville press conference by bumming a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgard and sparking up. Director Lars Von Trier joked: 'Oh Nicole, don't do that - you promised'", Press Association (UK), May 19, '03 |
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| • | "she had to calm her nerves with a cigarette she got from Stellan Skarsgård", Nettavisen, May 19, '03
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| • | "she surprised onlookers by taking a cigarette and lighting up", Glasgow Evening Times (UK), May 19, '03
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| • | "The stunning actress smoked a cigarette", New York Post, May 20, '03
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| • | "asked for a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgard", The Guardian (UK), May 20, '03
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| • | "smoked a cigarette", The Globe and Mail (Canada), May 20, '03
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| • | "shared a cigarette with co-star Stellan Skarsgaard", IndieWire, May 20, '03
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| • | "Nicole smokin'. Kidman's glamour lights up filmfest...pushed the microphone away and lit up a cigarette. The smoking prompted the irascible director to lecture her on her bad habits", Toronto Sun (Canada), May 20, '03
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| • | "she surprised some at the press conference by bumming a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgard", Western Mail (Australia), May 20, '03 |
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| • | "Wearing glasses, as she does occasionally, and briefly puffing on a cigarette, which she rarely does in public, the 36-year-old Kidman spoke to journalists Monday morning during a packed press conference in Cannes after a screening of her three-hour drama Dogville", USA Today , May 20, '03 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman appears to be a secret smoker. Somehow, she managed to keep a lit cigarette hidden in her lap in front of a room full of journalists before Danish director Lars von Trier, seated next to her on the dais, caught a smoke tendril in the eye and joked: 'Nicole! You promised'. She burst into a surprisingly loud man-laugh, as she did frequently at the press conference", National Post (Canada), May 20, '03 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman drew a few surprised gasps at her media chit-chat to promote new flick Dogville when she bummed a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgard and lit up. Danish director Lars Von Trier quipped: 'Oh Nicole, don't do that, you promised'", MX (Australia), May 20, '03 |
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| • | "At a Cannes press conference -- where the usually scrupulously image-conscious Kidman lit a cigarette, seemingly to calm her nerves -- the actress revealed that it was Breaking the Waves that made her so keen to work with Von Trier", The Independent (UK), May 20, '03 |
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| • | "Having asked for a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgard, Kidman said she wanted to 'fall in love and then ... just slowly dwindle away'", The Guardian (UK), May 20, '03 |
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| • | "Kidman surprised onlookers by lighting up a cig she'd cadged from co-star Stellan Skarsgard. But later, at the premier of new flick Dogville, she looked every inch the glam star in a silk patterned gown with beaded halterneck", Daily Star (UK), May 20, '03 |
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| • | "briefly puffing on a cigarette, which she rarely does in public", USA Today, May 20, '03
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| • | "Wearing glasses, as she does occasionally, and briefly puffing on a cigarette, which she rarely does in public, the 36-year-old Kidman spoke to journalists Monday morning during a packed press conference in Cannes after a screening of her three-hour drama Dogville", USA Today, May 20, '03
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| • | "Controversy over smoking Kidman. Australian actress Nicole Kidman has raised the ire of anti-smoking groups by lighting up a cigarette during her press conference at the Cannes Film Festival. Footage was beamed around the world yesterday of Kidman lighting up at the annual event while promoting her new movie, Dogville. The Oscar-winning actress was immediately admonished by the film's Danish director Lars Von Trier, but Kidman shrugged her shoulders and kept smoking. It appears Kidman has smoked for years, with newspaper reports dating back to 1994 saying she had been spotted smoking. Anti-smoking groups today said the image of Kidman smoking was a free advertisement for the tobacco industry and glamorised the habit", The West Australian, (Australia), May 21, '03
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| • | "Anti-tobacco groups were fuming with Oscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman Wednesday after she publicly lit up during a press conference at the Cannes film festival. Kidman shared a cigarette with her Dogville co-star Stellan Skarsgaard while promoting her new movie at the European festival", Agence France Presse, May 21, '03 |
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| • | same, website, May 21, '03
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| • | "At a media briefing while promoting her new film Dogville, Kidman scammed a cigarette off her co-star Stellan Skarsgard, only to be admonished by director Lars von Trier in front of the world's press. 'Oh, Nicole, don't do that - you promised,' von Trier said. Kidman coolly kept puffing ... Wendy Day, Kidman's Australian publicist, said she hadn't spoken to the actress since the incident and referred inquiries of Kidman's overseas activities to her U.S. representatives", Associated Press, May 21, '03 |
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| • | "Kidman, resplendent in a black spaghetti-strap dress and turquoise-studded necklace, lights a cigarette as Von Trier talks, and the director scolds her", Baltimore Sun, May 21, '03
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| • | "The world saw different images of Nicole Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday when she smoked her way through an international press conference", The Advertiser (Australia), May 22, '03 |
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| • | "Kidman has been slammed by the anti-smoking league back home, after being spotted smoking during the Cannes Film Festival. The Oscar-winning actress came under fire after she was caught on TV cadging a cigarette off co-star Stellan Skarsgard at a press conference for her new movie, Dogville - and then carried on smoking even after her director Lars Von Trier begged her to stop", Reuters, May 22, '03 |
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| • | "Nicole Kidman has sparked outrage among nicotine nutters by smoking during a press conference to promote her film, Dogville, at Cannes. Anne Jones, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has written to the star: 'Smoking in front of millions of people contains this unfortunate association with glamour and success. I will leave it to her to decide how she wants to use that information.' As a roll-up paper perhaps?", The Times (UK), May 22, '03
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| • | "Nicole Kidman this week joined an elite corps of Australian stars who have been singled out for their contribution to the international tobacco industry", "there is a long dossier on Kidman on a website called smokingsides.com", Sydney Morning Herald, May 24, '03
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| • | "I would hope that, with this latest award, she's conscious of how her smoking does affect young people. She's in a very unique position now to contribute to improving the health of women, not only Australian women but worldwide.", "Nicole quite clearly and publicly flaunted her smoking when it was quite unnecessary at those press conferences.", "At the very least, you'd have to say that it'd be much more responsible for her to not smoke in public, if not to make a decision to quit.", website, c. May '03
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| • | "We accept that Nicole Kidman has the right to smoke. But with celebrity comes a responsibility to avoid promoting lethal and addictive products to young people.", website, c. May '03
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| • | "At the Toronto Film Festival, at the Fifth on Saturday night, Nicole Kidman slipped away for a stealth cigarette", National Post (Canada), Sep. 9, '03 |
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| • | "After Kidman sent her two young children home in an SUV around 11 p.m, she idled outside to smoke with two female friends. One young man who had been eyeballing Kidman offered her a cigarette, an unwelcome advance that sent her scurrying back inside.", NY Post (Page 6), Sep. 29, '03
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| • | "How come Nicole Kidman smokes (incessantly) in [Human Stain, The (2003)]? I asked director Robert Benton on his stop in L.A. for the pic's preem Tuesday p.m. at the ArcLight in Hollywood. Benton explained, 'She (Nicole) told me she'd spent a lot of time in shelters talking to battered women. They leaned on them (cigarettes) as a crutch. And it helped define her character as self-destructing.' He assured me she stopped smoking as soon as the film was completed", Daily Variety Magazine, Army Archerd gossip column, Oct. 23, '03 |
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| • | "With cigarette in hand and golden tresses piled high, she contemplates her future with equanimity", Living Abroad Magazine, Nov. 19, '03
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| • | "Kidman, however, stays in character all evening. She lights cigarette after cigarette, puffs each once or twice, then violently stubs them out.", Premiere Magazine, Dec. '03
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| • | "'I'm always getting in trouble for saying or doing something', she laughs with exasperation. 'I smoked a cigarette at Cannes and suddenly people were expecting me to make some public apology. I'm like 'Hold on!'", Sydney Daily Telegraph (Australia), Jan. 1, '04 |
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| • | "Cigarettes, too, remain a popular diet aid. Skinny celebs Lara Flynn Boyle, Mischa Barton and Nicole Kidman are all at least sometime smokers", People Magazine, Jun. 7, '04 |
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| • | "Kidman has furiously slammed the media for accusing her of having an eating disorder. 'I've always had this long, lean body type and I haven't changed since I was 15. In The Hours I had to look gaunt so I had to alter my diet. I wear sunscreen and moisturize my skin and I eat healthily, but I also love pies and chocolate, and smoke the odd cigarette. Life could be worse, right?'", Miami Herald, Jun. 11, '04
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| • | "She confesses with a laugh, 'I smoke cigarettes. Occassionally. It's an addiction, and I would say to anybody who was going to start, 'Don't'. But you have to enjoy life a little, don't you?'", Harper's Bazaar, Nov. '04 |
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| • | "Quit it Nic. Nicole Kidman, who infuriated anti-smoking groups by lighting up at a press conference last year, is facing renewed calls to quit - at least in public. The Hollywood star's nomination by NSW this week as Australian of the Year, coupled with her public puffing, sends the message to young women that it's OK to smoke, lobbyists warned today. 'Her public smoking does reinforce the wrong message, that smoking and glamour and success go together for young women,' Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Australia chief executive Ann Jones said...The Cancer Council Australia's anti-tobacco chair, Andrew Ellerman, said Kidman had sent the wrong message when she 'quite clearly and publicly flaunted her smoking when it was quite unnecessary at those press conferences.At the very least, you'd have to say that it'd be much more responsible for her to not smoke in public, if not to make a decision to quit.'", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Dec. 2, '04
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| • | "'Nicole's public smoking does reinforce the wrong message, that smoking and glamour and success go together for young women', Action on Smoking and Health Australia chief executive Ann Jones said . In May last year, Kidman who campaigns against breast cancer, smoked through a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival while promoting her film Dogville. The Cancer Council Australia's anti-tobacco chairman, Andrew Ellerman, said Kidman had sent the wrong message. 'You'd have to say that it'd be much more responsible for her to not smoke in public'", Courier-Mail (Australia), Dec. 3, '04 |
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| • | "Accolades come easy to Australian-born actress Nicole Kidman, but the thought that she is a chain smoker isn't going down well with the anti-tobacco lobby. Having been nominated as the NSW Australian of the Year, anti-tobacco lobbyists think she should set an example to the younger generation, especially women, and quit smoking. 'Her public smoking does reinforce the wrong message, that smoking and glamour and success go together for young women. I would hope that, with this latest award, she's conscious of how her smoking does affect young people,' News. Com quoted Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Australia chief executive Ann Jones as saying. 'She's in a very unique position now to contribute to improving the health of women, not only Australian women but worldwide. There's a great opportunity for Nicole to improve the health of Australian women by actually not smoking in such a public way,' she added", WebIndia, Dec. 3, '04
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| • | "Nicole Urged To Quit Smoking. Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman is facing fresh calls to quit smoking after being accused of setting a bad example. The renewed campaign comes after Nicole infuriated anti-smoking groups by lighting up at a press conference last year. The 35-year-old was warned her New South Wales nomination as Australian of the Year and her public puffing sends the message to young women that it's okay to smoke. Ann Jones, chief executive of Action On Smoking And Health Australia, said: 'Her public smoking does reinforce the wrong message, that smoking and glamour and success go together for young women. I would hope that, with this latest award, she's conscious of how her smoking does affect young people. She's in a very unique position to contribute to improving the health of women, not only Australian women but worldwide. There is a great opportunity for Nicole to improve the health of Australian women by actually not smoking in such a public way,' Ms Jones told the Sydney Morning Herald. Nicole outraged anti-smoking organisations in May 2003 when she puffed through a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival while promoting her film Dogville", Sky News (UK), Dec. 3, '04
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| • | "Nicole Kidman's latest award has brought forth discussion after no smoking organisations called upon the actress to limit her nicotine consumption...After the presentation Australian health organisations reacted furiously, because the smoker is after all a bad example for young Australians...'Her public smoking spreads the false message that smoking, glamour and success are a part of being a young woman. I hope that after the last award she becomes clear about the fact that her smoking behaviour influences young people'", N24 (Germany), Dec. 3, '04
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| • | "Smoking Nicole alarms critics. Nicole Kidman is being urged to quit smoking after critics say her flagrant habit sets a bad example. The skeletal Aussie actress lit up a firestorm last year when she flaunted her butts at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, the former Mrs. Tom Cruise, who's in the running to be named 'Australian of the Year,' has been warned her public puffing leads women to follow her cancerous habit because of her high-profile status. But just think of the damage quitting would cause to her anorexic chic!", Boston Herald, Dec. 6, '04
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| • | "took a deep drag from her cigarette, tilted her head back and blew the smoke up in the air, striking a Jean Harlow pose", Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 11, '04 |
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| • | "Kidman is a pampered Hollywood actor with a penchant for cigarettes", Courier Mail (Madonna King gossip column) (Australia), Dec. 14, '04 |
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| • | "She created a crisp British cadence, pored over books and letters, and took up smoking. But even Nicole Kidman has admitted her turn as writer Virginia Woolf in The Hours was all about the nose", In Style, Dec. '04 |
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| • | "Confession is a great thing for a Catholic schoolgirl like I was, because you can confess, 'I kissed a boy', or 'I smoked a cigarette' . (as a kid) I got good grades but I also did all the normal things, like smoking and getting picked up on a motorbike after school", Playboy , Feb. '05 |
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| • | "refuses to give up her smoking habit, insisting 'you have to enjoy life a little'. The Moulin Rouge! actress is an occasional smoker, but says she has no plans to give up the unhealthy habit for good. She tells Britain's Closer magazine, 'Yes, I smoke cigarettes - but only occasionally. It's an addiction and I'd say anybody to who was going to start: 'Don't!' But you have to enjoy life a little, don't you?'", Contactmusic (UK), Jun. 26, '07
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| • | "Yes, I smoke cigarettes - but only occasionally. It's an addiction and I'd say anybody to who was going to start: 'Don't!' But you have to enjoy life a little, don't you?", Closer Magazine (UK), c. Jun. '07
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| • | "refuses to kick the butt! Academy award winner Nicole Kidman is determined not to give up smoking because she believes that one has to 'enjoy life a little'. The Moulin Rouge star said that she is an occasional smoker and agrees that smoking is 'addictive'. However, the 39-year-old is sure that she will warn everyone who is going to start not to get into the habit", Daily India, Jun. 27, '07
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| • | "Nicole Kidman smokes and likes it that way. Nicole Kidman is acknowledged as being hooked on cigarettes. The Australian actress has moreover stated that had no intention of quitting at the moment. 'I smoke! From time to time. It's like a drug. I would tell someone who wants to start: don't. But one must also make the most of life, mustn't one?'", Tiscali (Luxembourg), when?
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| • | "I learned the Virginia Wolff liked to roll her own cigarettes and that immediately gave me a mannerism that is distinctly Virginia Wolff. So every time I wanted to do her voice, I would just get out a cigarette, and my voice would drop an octave", Thehoursmovie.com, when? |
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| • | "For [Hours, The (2002)], I'm playing someone that existed. She smoked, so I smoked", Underground Online, when?
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| • | "On smoking: 'I smoke cigarettes! Occasionally. It's an addiction, and I would say to anybody who was going to start, 'Don't.' But you have to enjoy life a little, don't you? When I see a great piece of cheese and wonder if it's better to eat it and get cellulite or not eat it, in the end, I'll probably nibble on the cheese.'", website, when?
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