I ordered the book Celebrity and Performance
It is another interesting tome in “The World’s Top Photographer’s Workshops” series by RotoVision. The ten photographers chosen each capture celebrities in a different way, from the “airport paparazzo” to the “Hollywood A-lister”. Many of my favorite images were black and whites shot by Andy Gotts using a Mamiya RB67 and Kodak Tri-X 400. Amazing.
Celebrity & Performance by Andy Steel / RotoVision
TRAVEL 67 : Chris Willson Photography 
Those Andy Gotts portraits are indeed very good. Simple light, no props, just the faces of people expressing themselves.
That said, I only recognized about a third of his celebrities, and I couldn’t put a name to every one I recognized either. I must not be the target demographic I guess.
Janne,
You haven’t been watching enough movies! I think I know all but two or three of the celebrities in the portraits. Not sure if that is something I should be proud of or not!
I followed the link to the Andy Gotts website http://www.andygotts.com/ and also discovered how fabulous his photos were. I particularly liked the ones where he uses a black background and the subject is wearing black clothing – Kirk Douglas looked iconic, Christopher Walken looked menacing and Cate Blanchett looked angelic. Amazing.
The book “Degrees” would definitely be worth a look.