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Someone Found A Photo Album With A Woman Next To Hollywood Stars In A Thrift Shop And It’s Like A Time Machine
A thrift shop in Belgium has caused quite a stir on the Internet. People at Opnieuw & Co, a local establishment in Mortsel, discovered an old photo album where a woman posed next to the biggest stars in Hollywood. After they shared some of the pictures, the online community immediately started their investigation. Who was this woman hugging Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, and other A-list celebrities?
After a while, someone noticed a tag she had in one of the photos. Turns out, the 'mysterious' woman is actually Maria Snoeys-Lagler, a former member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). It's a non-profit organization of journalists and photographers who report on the entertainment industry. The HFPA consists of about 90 members from around 55 countries, and they're the ones conducting the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles every January.
Looking at these pictures, it's clear that Maria Snoeys-Lagler has met virtually everyone dominating the biggest screens and stages. Or is it the other way around? Maybe, just maybe, there's a secret club in Hollywood of all the celebrities who have had their picture taken with Maria Snoeys-Lagler?
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Johnny Depp And Juliette Lewis
"We still have no idea how the album got to us," a spokesperson of Opnieuw & Co told Bored Panda. "We are a thrift store and we rely on donations to fund our social workplace (we provide refugees and people who can’t find a job with work). That means someone probably dropped it off at one of our shops in a box full of other stuff as well."
"One of our people browsed through the album and realized this was not something that someone would get rid of voluntarily," they said. "We figured out the lady’s name through her press badge in one of the photos. Then, one of our country's national TV stations used their contacts and located her daughter in California. Nobody has any idea how the album ended up here."
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Patrick Stewart
"Maria died in 2016 after being a Hollywood reporter until the age of 87. We have now contacted her daughter to make sure we can return the album to her."
Judging from the photos, it's clear that her job had meant a lot to her. Let's hope they reach California safely and Maria's daughter gets to keep these tributes to her mom's work.
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Sam Neill And Robert Downey Jr
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Bruce Willis
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Young Elijah Wood
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Kevin Bacon And Tom Hanks
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Keanu Reeves
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Angelina Jolie
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Drew Barrymore
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Jon Bon Jovi
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Denzel Washington
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Clarence Williams III, Kyle Maclachlan And Samuel L Jackson
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Sir Anthony Hopkins And Richard Attenborough
Victoria Kondas Koverchick 5 years ago
Oh my I missed This one or did not show up before I signed IN?? Just love me some Anthony Hopkins! What an actor of our time!
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Kevin Costner
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Walter Matthau
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Jack Nicholson
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Christopher Walken
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Hugh Grant
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Liam Neeson
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Cary Elwes
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Lawrence Fishburn
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Nicolas Cage
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Tim Roth
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Helen Hunt
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Ashley And Mary-Kate Olsen
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Gary Oldman, Francis Coppola And Winona Ryder
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Luke Perry
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Jack Lemmon And Sophia Loren
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Tom Seleck
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Julia Roberts
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Nicole Kidman And Michael Keaton
Tiny Dancer 5 years ago
The other fella would be Bruce Joel Rubin. He directed Nicole and Michael in the movie "My Life" in 1993. Loved Nicole's hair back then. And I love how Bruce and Nicole are looking at one thing, Michael's looking at someone else, and Maria's the only one facing the camera, lol! Actors, eh?
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Cuba Gooding Jr, Lawrence Fishburn
Tiny Dancer 5 years ago
The other gentleman is Cuba's father, Cuba Gooding, who was probably best known as the lead singer of the band, The Main Ingredient ("Everybody Plays the Fool"). He passed away in 2017.
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Steven Spielberg
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Meg Ryan And Andy Garcia
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
When a Man Loves a Woman, 1994. Lots of these seem like they’re from around that time.
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Michael Douglas
Michelle Geiger 5 years ago
It would have been neat to put the pictures of her with the father and the son next to each other
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Meg Ryan
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Jean Claude Van Damme
Danish Dynomummy 5 years ago
How does this woman look exactly the same in both old and new pictures
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Jonathan Pryce
PandaPiñata 5 years ago
Love him to bits. The movie Brazil is in my top ten list of all movies.
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Tom Cruise
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
That moustache gap is doing nothing but show off his weird centre tooth.
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John Corbett
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Heather Locklear
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Emilio Estevez
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Cast Melrose Place
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Pamela Anderson
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Cast The Bold & The Beautiful
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Mary Mcdonnell
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Sunzilla 5 years ago
The old lady probably died and most of her personal stuff was probably given away. It happens.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
Chances are she worked for the studios in some capacity. She may have been an agent or an agents assistant.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
Her position in the industry is explained in the introductory paragraphs.
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Sunzilla 5 years ago
The old lady probably died and most of her personal stuff was probably given away. It happens.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 5 years ago
Chances are she worked for the studios in some capacity. She may have been an agent or an agents assistant.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
Her position in the industry is explained in the introductory paragraphs.
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