Air America beta radio has mentioned last friday an unauthorized documentary about Leonardo DiCaprio’s life.You’re probably wondering, “What is this, the 90s?” In a way, yes. All of the footage featured in “Hangin’ With Leo” looks like it’s from the late 1990s, when DiCaprio was riding the wave of “Titanic” ending up on “The Beach.” If you would like [...]
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Leonardo DiCaprio Ready for Fatherhood – Someday
Posted By Marcie on July 19th, 2010
Leonardo DiCaprio is willing to start celebrating Father’s Day. Just not anytime soon.
“Do I want to be a father? Yes, but I think I have a few more years,” the Inception star, 35, tells the Swiss newspaper Le Matin. “That said, I don’t think I need to have children to play a father in the movies. This feeling is in me, I understand it completely.”
He adds, “In my private life, I still have time to become a dad, and I’ve no desire to rush.”
Asked why he is so discrete about his relationship with Israeli beauty Bar Refaeli, even amid (unconfirmed) rumors they plan to wed this fall, DiCaprio says he prefers his press coverage to be about his professional life.
“I want to be an actor just like my role models. Robert De Niro, for example,” says DiCaprio, who was seen cycling with Refaeli last weekend in Paris. “Being discreet in his private life has allowed him to be even more credible in different roles on the big screen.”
And when it comes to his own career, DiCaprio, whose character in Inception does have children, says, “I like that I’ve reached an age where I can play more mature responsible characters, and that includes the father of a family.”
Bar Refaeli Always There for Leonardo DiCaprio (Just Not on the Red Carpet)
Posted By Marcie on March 25th, 2010
Maybe a little time off is all they needed.
Bar Refaeli says that though she went through a “tough time” after splitting up with boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio for six months, their relationship ultimately emerged stronger.
“It was a half year for which I am very grateful,” the Israeli supermodel, 24, tells her country’s top-selling L’Isha magazine. “I needed it. I came to understand a lot of things about myself. ”
“I worked on myself [and] I grew up,” Refaeli says. “I didn’t know what ‘alone’ was like. Today I know that a relationship can work only if you know you can be alone and you are not afraid. Today I’m not afraid of being alone.”
She may not be alone – but Refaeli and DiCaprio aren’t engaged either.
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“I’m not thinking about getting married,” she says, laughing off rumors that she was wearing an engagement ring in Berlin over Valentine’s Day. “I’m still young, not yet 25.”
Refaeli prefers to keep a lower profile – though she is out with DiCaprio much of the time.
“I am there for him and I am at all the events,” she says. “I just don’t walk in hand-in-hand with him. I don’t see any reason. I don’t need to strike poses with him in front of the cameras.”
That’s why they kept their heads down at a recent Orlando Magic-Los Angeles Lakers game. Says Refaeli: “No one needs to know how we kiss.”
Source: People.com
Dicaprio on Brando
Posted By Marcie on March 3rd, 2010
Asked by PEOPLE what Brando meant to him, actor Leonardo DiCaprio wrote of some of the master’s subtler screen moments.
It is a rite of passage for every young actor to study Marlon Brando’s performances in films like On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire. At first, his films were charged with a sense of brilliant defiance. This eventually changed, mostly through a maniacal restlessness, and he created a series of unpremeditated characters in films like One-Eyed Jacks and LastTango in Pahs. It is especially these later characters that I’m drawn to the most. Brando begins the first scene in One-Eyed Jacks with the main character tossing a banana peel onto a gold scale during a bank robbery—a telling gesture in a movie that he himself directed. In LastTango in Paris, he seems to improvise the character of Paul. His portrayal of a contemporary man living in an indifferent Paris seems to be as close to being Brando’s self-portrait as any. His paradoxical balcony death scene, which climaxes with an oddly funny, offbeat move of thumbing gum under a railing, steals the scene’s drama and replaces it with numbness. For me, these simple gestures are examples of what made Brando the unpredictable and truly existential actor of our time.
The House of Brando
Son of a volatile family, he grew up to create his own turbulent;dynasty—at least 11 children in and out of three marriages
Although her drinking made life difficult, stage-loving mother Dorothy (with “Bud” in 1932) was “vivacious, funny and unconventional,” Brando once said.
“I did the best I could,” an emotional Brando said of being father to son Christian (facing a murder charge in Santa Monica in 1990).
Brando’s Brides
ANNA KASHFI “The depth of his sensitivity was extraordinary,” said the actress (with Brando in ’57). Their two-year marriage ended in ’59.
MOVITA CASTANEDA Brando (at the premiere of Mutiny on the Bounty in ’62) wed the Mexican actress—an extra on his 1952 film Viva Zapata!—in 1960, but the couple divorced two years later.
TARITA TERIIPAIA Brando met his Tahitian love (in 1971 with son Teihotu and daughter Cheyenne, who died at age 25) shooting Bounty in 1960. They married in 1962,and their relationship continued off and on for decades.
Brando: Essential Viewing
•A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) When Brando bellowed, “Stella,” the screen had a new kind of hero: the sensitive tribute.
•On the Waterfront (1954) Brando was at his hurtin’ best as a dockworker conflicted by conscience.
•Guys and Dolls (1955) Warbling none too tunefully in a musical, Brando seemed to do something unprecedented: Enjoy himself.
•The Godfather (1972) Brando played a Mafia don with such panache and feeling that real-life wiseguys have been imitating him ever since.
•Apocalypse Now (1979)
Even at his most self-indul-gently weird, you can’t take your eyes off him.
Source: People
Save the Earth, Go to a Premiere with Leonardo DiCaprio!
Posted By Marcie on April 14th, 2009
Want to hit the red carpet with Leonardo DiCaprio at the premiere of his next film? Here’s your chance.
The actor and environmental activist, 34, is auctioning off the opportunity to attend the premiere of his upcoming drama Shutter Island – complete with eco-car service to and from the event and a stay at a green hotel.
“By bidding on these items at ebay.com/globalgreen, people will help Global Green combat climate change and pursue important environmental imperatives, such as greening our nation’s schools, housing, cities and more,” says DiCaprio, who is a board member for Global Green USA, which advocates for climate-friendly solutions to environmental issues.
The auction begins Wednesday night at 7 p.m. and ends on Earth Day, April 22.
Source: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20272311,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
Amy Adams Says Will Ferrell Is a ‘Fantastic Kisser’
Posted By Marcie on December 9th, 2007
She may have a “McDreamy” costar in her new film Enchanted, but Amy Adams calls funnyman Will Ferrell’s lip service fantastic.
Adams was grilled by Rachael Ray on her talk show Wednesday about the kissability of her leading men – starting with Patrick Dempsey in Enchanted.
“Is he a good kisser?” Ray asked. “He is. He’s lovely,” Adams, 33, said. And what about Will Ferrell, her costar in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby?
“He’s a fantastic kisser!” Adams gushed. “I was not expecting that.”
She was also not ever expecting to kiss Leonardo DiCaprio, who she ended up smooching in Catch Me if You Can.
“He is so talented,” she told Ray. “Everybody asks me, “What was it like to kiss Leo?’ But that was such a different experience because I’d had all these fantasies about him from Titanic.” Her fantasies, however, didn’t include wearing braces or devouring the star like a cheeseburger, which is how she described their romantic scenes together.
Adams and Dempsey’s Enchanted – itself a Disney fairytale dropped into modern-day New York City life – is in theaters now.
Source: people.com
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