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Penelope Cruz in the Pirelli Calendar (sorta NSFW, and update)

November 21st, 2006

Penelope Cruz looks drop dead gorgeous in her 2007 Pirelli Calendar spread. There’s Oscar buzz around her role in Almodovar’s Volver, but she says she’s tuning it out and that it’s “healthier not to expect it.”

While Penelope was notably absent at her ex, Tom Cruise’s wedding, she is said to have sent 100 white roses to their hotel room in Rome.

Update: Here’s the information on the Pirelli Calendar from Wikipedia:

The Pirelli Calendar has become an annual publication that belies its origin in 1964 as merely a trade calendar published by the Pirelli company’s UK subsidiary.

The calendar is famous for its limited availability because it is not sold and is only given as a corporate gift to a restricted number of important Pirelli customers and celebrity VIPs. The Pirelli Calendar is perhaps the world’s only prestigious and exclusive “girly” calendar, featuring pictures generally considered glamour photography including artistic nudes.

Publication was discontinued after the 1974 issue as an economising cut back in response to the world recession from the oil shock. It was resurrected 10 years later and has been published regularly since then.

Appearance on the calendar has become a mark of distinction for those photographic models that are chosen, as well as for the photographers commissioned to produce the images used. Over the years the models who have appeared have included Selma Blair, Lauren Bush, Naomi Campbell, Rachel Leigh Cook, Cindy Crawford, Milla Jovovich, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss, Brittany Murphy, Amy Smart and Julia Stiles.

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