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I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.

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Wim Wenders
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
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Dusseldorf
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Ernst Wilhelm Wenders
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