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- ↑ "£18m buys two minutes of Nicole Kidman" by Jane Martinson, The Guardian , 22 November 2004
- ↑ "The most expensice TV adverts ever made" Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine by Andrew Partridge, RedC Marketing, 6 February 2015
- 1 2 "A Conversation with Baz Luhrmann on Chanel No. 5's The One That I Want" by Sunhee Grinnell, Vanity Fair , 15 October 2014
- ↑ "Every second counts in $42m three-minute 'film'" by Charlotte Edwards, The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 November 2004
