NEW YORK • The meaning of Brad Pitt - as actor, star and supreme visual fetish - can be traced to the moment in 1991 film Thelma & Louise when a camera pans up from his bare chest to his face like a caress.
William Bradley Pitt was born in 1963, but Brad Pitt sprang forth in that 13-second ode to eroticised male beauty, initiating a closely watched career and life, dozens of movies, and libraries of delirious exaltations and drooling gossip.
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