Photograph by Nadav Kander

Over on his blog, Peter Travers looks back at the career of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button star and Rolling Stone cover star Brad Pitt from the actor’s breakthrough role in Thelma & Louise to his career-defining turn as Tyler Durden in Fight Club to his renaissance in films like Babel and Button. Plus, a look back at the 1992 feature where we named Pitt “Hot Actor” of the year and our 1997 interview with the actor on the set of Seven Years in Tibet.

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