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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Revolutionary Road starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
Posted By Taly on February 13th, 2010
saw an advance screening of Revolutionary Road in Beverly Hills, CA this evening (December 14th). A Q&A session followed the screening with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, and screenwriter Justin Haythe. Photos from the Q&A are attached to this report.
Revolutionary Road is a story that you won’t be able to shake easily. The film will stick in your head and leave you to contemplate what has just happened on the screen before you. Richard Yates gives us the story of Frank and April Wheeler, the seemingly perfect suburbia couple. We soon find out their marriage is teetering on the edge of a collapse as they are overwhelmed by the fact that they have each made the wrong choices in their lives.
Once again Kate Winselt and Leonardo DiCaprio come together with great chemistry, pulling the best out of each other. This is a heavy film with emotionally complex characters, I’m not sure I could think of any two actors that could pull off the roles of Frank and April Wheeler like Leonardo and Kate did.
“Truth is usually in singular – Lies always come in plural.” I’m not sure who said that, but it is a notion that sums up this film.
Michael Shannon shinned in his role as the clinically insane son of Kathy Bates character; John Givings. Bates and Shannon both deliver humorous scenes to this heavy storyline, although there are times when you see the sadness and desperation in their characters as well. Michael Shannon’s character, John Givings, is the truth in this film. Although clinically insane, he can see through everyone’s lies and does the unthinkable; he forces everyone face their own truth.
I guarantee you will not be singing “My Heart Will Go On” after seeing this film. But you won’t be disappointed with this little film gem.
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Leonardo DiCaprio on Revolutionary Road
Posted By Marcie on June 30th, 2009
Interview
By Earl Dittman
In their first cinematic pairing since portraying the ill-fated, North Atlantic-chilled lovers in Titanic (the highest-grossing film of all time), Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet (The Reader) teamed up with Katie’s real-life Oscar-winning director hubby, Sam Mendes (American Beauty), to play an idealistic, young couple that feebly standby as their dreams fade away and their marriage falls apart in Revolutionary Road.
Read Earl Dittman’s chat with DiCaprio about Road, Scorsese, and how it ain’t easy bein’ green (plus: this week’s DVDs and Blu-Rays), after the jump.
Based on the classic novel by Richard Yates, and set in the 1950’s, Revolutionary Road depicts the incisive, heartbreaking tale of Frank and April as they are transformed from a carefree, dreamy newlywed couple — very much in love – into emotionally-tormented prisoners trapped in a marriage and a suburban lifestyle filled with lies, despair and loneliness. DiCaprio, the intensely private, former child actor (Growing Pains) opens up about his desire to reteam with Kate Winslet (who took home a Golden Globe for the role of April), life in the 1950s, his thoughts about marriage, making movies with Martin Scorcese and his thoughts about going Green.
There was a lot of expectation about you and Kate working together again in Revolutionary Road. Did that pressure ever affect the chemistry between the two of you?
“No, never, no. We both knew that we needed to find a special project to do together, if we were going to work together again. I know that Kate, to me, is the best actress of her generation, but we did do that film Titanic together. We didn’t want to tread on similar territory, so we needed to do something different — but, at the same time, the right project that was genuine and well written enough, with all the right elements in place. This was something that she shepherded for a long period of time to make in to a movie. Luckily, she asked me if I wanted to do it. At certain times, we all shepherd things but this was something that she had been working on for many, many years. I was struck by the ultra-realism of these characters. It was voyeuristic, in a way. I felt like I shouldn’t be listening to this relationship unravel, you shouldn’t be listening to these characters having these conversations. It felt uncomfortable in a lot of ways. That, to me, said that this is really truthful stuff. This is really what Yates was able to accomplish in that book. It was pretty incredible.”
With your character Frank, do you think you’re playing a bad guy or just a weak man?
“Hmm, where do I begin? I think what’s interesting about the story and these characters is that the sympathy shifts constantly. In the beginning, you sort of think that Frank is despicable for cheating on his wife, and then later, you realize that he’s the one trying to salvage the relationship. So, who is a hero and who is not a hero? I don’t know? I just loved playing a character that just slightly fell short of his ambitions. I felt it was just a compelling thing to do. He just did not have the courage, at the end of the day, to follow through with the life he wanted. He would be happier conforming to his existence.”
What was it like doing a period film set in the 1950s?
“To me, I felt the 1950s period was a huge component of the story. You know, this is the era of prescription medication. This is when people started moving to the suburbs and becoming alcoholics. And, you know, having that symbolic American iconic family existence — and it drove a lot of people nuts. I thought, as much as that was a product of the movie, once we did the film, a lot of that just kind of stripped away, you know? And a lot of that just became a backdrop to the emotional drama of these characters’ lives sort of unraveling. So that’s what was interesting about it.”
Was hard to watch your character’s relationship falling apart? Was it emotionally demanding, and if so, how did Sam help?
“Yes, it was emotionally demanding, definitely. There are some very difficult scenes to do, but the way that Sam Mendes had set this film up for us as actors was really incredible. I think that this is attributed to his experience making plays and his stage work. He really approached this like a theatre experience. We did a tremendous amount of rehearsal beforehand, and we did the whole movie in sequential order. So, basically if we weren’t sure of the trajectory the way our characters would unravel, we knew that we would live the life of these characters for four or five months. You have to understand that that’s a really rare thing to be able to have happen when you make a movie. Usually, you’re locked into certain locations at certain times, so you’re doing the end of the movie first or the beginning of the movie last. Everything’s mixed up. But by doing it like that, we got to — it really gave us the scope of our character. By the time we ended up shooting, toward the end of the movie, we had all this pent up stuff that we just sort of released. It was great. It was a great feeling to do a movie like that.”
Did doing Revolutionary Road scare you off of getting hitched? Are you never going to get married now?
[Laughs] “I think that this film is very much about two people who were destined not to be together. I don’t think it’s a very good reflection of how relationships or marriage has the potential to be — at all. I think that these people — no matter whether they live in the ’50s or the suburbs, whether they went to Paris or not — they’re two trains that run on separate tracks, going in different directions and who are destined to not be together.”
Does that mean you don’t plan on getting married one day?
“I will not talk about anything having to do with that, because it always gets twisted around.”[Laughs]
Why do you think you and Kate have remained such close friends over the years?
“We’ve known each other for such a long period of time. We went through an incredibly different movie to make with Titanic. We both lived through that whole post-experience of that film, but more so than any of that, we’re just great friends. Since meeting each other, we’ve remained great friends. How it translates into the work environment is that it gives you the innate ability to know that you can go to the very far depths with somebody, performance-wise, because you have a tremendous trust that I know the limits to. I know where to go. We both know each other so innately well.”
What was the sex scene like to film? In addition to you and Kate, her husband, Sam, was also there. Kate said that you were totally cool during the scene, how did they react?
“You’d have to ask them, because they’re the ones who are married. [Laughs] They’re the ones — you’d have to ask Sam how he felt. For me, we’ve done that kind of stuff before in movies, I felt kind of comfortable with the whole thing.”
Did you discover something new about Kate that you didn’t know about her during the time you did Titanic together?
“What did I discover about her? What I’d always known but what reminded me again about her is just by virtue of being a great English actress –she’s such a real human being. She’s a down-to-earth, regular kind of girl who admits, who is so honest about who she is and even her faults or things that she feels she’s good at. She’s just a great, real person, and I think that maybe there’s possibly an aristocratic vibe that she gives off, because of the mere fact that she is, like I said, British and fucking unbelievably talented. But she’s not, she’s just the most down-to-earth gal around and just a great person. I can’t really pinpoint it. Just a great person.”
A decade ago, you used to party with Tobey Maguire and a whole posse. But you’ve all gotten older. What do you do now to have fun? What does the mature 30-something Leonardo DiCaprio do to have a good time?
“My favorite thing to do is talk to press on days off. [Laughs] I like talking about this movie, I do, it’s good. It’s been interesting. These movies I’ve done, I’ve literally worked for two years straight. When you’re an actor your whole life goes on hold and you kind of have to go back away from location and you realize you’ve changed and everyone around has changed. It’s a constant game of catch up, of ‘Oh wow, you had a baby? Let’s see the baby. Sorry, I gotta go to the next location.’ When you’re working at that pace, especially far from home, it’s a very weird dynamic to balance.”
Do you find the traveling fun?
“I love traveling, but sometimes for example, when you’re off for a year of your life in Africa you kind of want to go home for a while. As wonderful and rewarding as these locations can be, you just want to go home.”
What do you do to reconnect?
“I’m from Los Angeles, and my family is all there. It’s catching up, it’s bizarre to be away that long and see how everyone’s lives have changed. I kind of calculated that it’s been about eight years of making movies, so I subtract that and then you find my maturity level. And you’ll find out how old I really am.”
Could you ever envision setting out, leaving everything behind and exploring life and yourself?
“Sure, and there’s going to be a lot of opportunity for that in the future. I feel like I’ve been given a tremendous opportunity to choose the movies I want to do, and this is my time to be able to do that as an actor and to fulfill the dreams I had as a younger actor. And that’s it. I have friends in the industry and I know how hard it is — how lucky you are to be able to steer the course of your career. It’s something I look at as a gift, and all other things are kinda put on hold.”
For your next film, Shutter Island, you worked with director Martin Scorcese again. You and Marty have been doing a lot of work together, so are you his next Robert De Niro?
“Well, I think it’s a far different dynamic. They were contemporaries starting out together — and through that relationship forged to me probably the greatest film relationship ever. You’re speaking to a younger actor that is in a different mind-set of tremendous honor and respect of being able to work with someone who I think is the greatest filmmaker alive. So I’m bestowed with that honor. I can’t really even begin to make a comparison like that. All I know is that I do feel a kinship with him. I feel like that ever since we’ve meet, we do share a taste in what we like film-wise and artistically. I say, ‘You know that movie has been deemed as great, but I don’t really think it’s great,’ and he says, ‘No, no, I don’t really like it either.’ So that’s where it forged and we also dislike the same things but he’s been a mentor to me, but what can I say? Who wouldn’t want to or feel like it’s a gift to work with that guy?”
You have gotten very publicly involved with environmental issues. Do you personally buy eco-clothing and use energy-saving devices?
“I do all that. But without getting into my solar panels and my hybrid car, I feel like that argument segregates a group of people, and I think that’s not the right way to approach the issue. It’s not telling people how to live. It’s not saying you should be judged because you don’t drive a certain car or have the right light bulbs or don’t buy this. To me, it’s about cultural awareness, that’s the whole point of the issue. As much as it is important to change your light bulbs and be Green and all that stuff, it is important, but it’s gonna be a collective thing on a massive level. When the argument gets shifted into the judgment of people and how you live your life and if you’re Green quote/unquote or not, this muddies the issue in a way that I think is not productive for the overall problem. This is a cultural and global shift that needs to happen on a massive level. These things should be integrated into everyone’s lives. Things should be made more efficient. They should have a concern for the planet and global emissions and it should be integrated into everything we buy.”
If you had a chance to talk to a Leonardo DiCaprio — right before the release of Titanic — what would you tell him?
“I think I knew a lot of the same things, and I think I was responding to it. But what happened was it became so much about the publicity surrounding that movie, about it being the biggest movie of all time and it sort of culturally, globally reaching so many people that it became less about the work. But as a movie, I think that Titanic is a great film, and it’s given me unbelievable opportunities. What I would tell that younger person is it’s all about the work. I knew that at the time, but I was having to concentrate on so many other things that had nothing to do with the work.”
Revolutionary Road BD + DVD Bonus Features: Commentary with Mendes and screenwriter Justin Haythe, the making-of featurette “Lives of Quite Desperation,” and deleted scenes with optional commentary. BD-Only: “Richard Yates: The Wages of Truth” featurette.
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You Must See Revolutionary Road
Posted By Marcie on June 30th, 2009
I wish I could write an entire column filled only with the words, “You need to watch Revolutionary Road.” But, since I owe you more than that, let me instead tell you why exactly you need to check out this movie.
When I first saw Revolutionary Road in the theater, I left thinking, “Okay, that was a good movie.” But then I noticed that I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days, and even weeks, later. It’s one of those movies that is just so intense, so deep, so powerful, that it haunts you long after you’ve seen it.
And I say that in the best of ways. Revolutionary Road is about the “hopeless emptiness” that couples can feel. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as Frank and April Wheeler, who, though they seem happy at first, end up disappointed with their lives. April is dissatisfied with being a housewife and Frank hates his marketing job. There are affairs, unwanted pregnancies and hopes of starting completely over and moving to Paris.
Revolutionary Road will make your heart hurt, but it will also make you think, which is the best part. It will make you reevaluate your life and figure out how to prevent the hopeless emptiness from happening to you.
Check out this exclusive clip from the DVD of director Sam Mendes (Kate Winslet’s husband) and Leonardo DiCaprio giving some more insight into what Revolutionary Road is about:
Though Kate Winslet received the most recognition for her role as April, Leonardo DiCaprio deserves the same, if not more, praise. And the two of them together is not only movie gold, but it proves how incredible they are as actors. Though they were successful together in Titanic, they’re even more extraordinary when there’s no big boat as the third character. Revolutionary Road is purely about raw emotions, and they exhibit them so realistically and with such great chemistry it’s shocking that this was a dramatic, scripted film and not a documentary.
Now that Revolutionary Road is on DVD, you need to check it out. I watched it on DVD and loved it even more than the first time I saw it, which I didn’t think was possible. And amazingly enough, the special features–mostly the featurette “The Making of Revolutionary Road”– is almost as good as the movie itself.
So do yourself a favor and go watch Revolutionary Road… now!
– Jacki Garfinkel
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DVD Review: Revolutionary Road
Posted By Marcie on May 27th, 2009
By Paul on May 25, 2009 8:54 PM
Colin Jacobson casts an eye over the Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet film REVOLUTIONARY ROAD.
Exactly 11 years after their triumph in Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite in 2008′s Revolutionary Road. Set in the 1950s, we meet young married couple Frank (DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Winslet). A quick intro shows the start of their courtship, but then we leap ahead to find them married and living in suburban Connecticut.
But not happily married, it would appear. After seven years together, they find their more youthful ambitions in the toilet, so April proposes a major change. Feeling trapped by their mundane suburban life, she wants them to sell their house and move to Paris where she hopes Frank can live up to his perceived potential. Frank agrees but begins to reconsider when he receives a lucrative promotion offer at work. This leads to increased tension and complications as April and Frank deal with their lives and their future.
Going into the Oscars, Road seemed like the Winslet project most likely to earn her a prize, as it seemed like the meatier role of the two in which she appeared. I guess the Academy liked her Streep-wannabe “accent equals award” turn in The Reader, though; Winslet didn’t even get a nomination for Road.
I’m happy Winslet finally took home an Oscar, but I think Road provides her more satisfying performance. Indeed, she’s probably the best thing about the movie, and she thoroughly outclasses DiCaprio. I think Leo’s a decent actor, but he’s clearly not in Winslet’s league. He gets by more on personality and charisma, while she’s better able to lose herself in a part. She helps make the ill-defined April a breathing personality, while DiCaprio can’t quite bring life to Frank. He’s adequate to good, but that doesn’t cut it when up against Winslet.
Even if DiCaprio contributed a stellar turn, however, I’m not sure Road would live up to the hype. While a decent character study of Youthful Dreams Gone Off-Track, it offers a lot of sturm und drang that never quite goes anywhere.
Indeed, much of the flick feels awfully contrived. Road presents such a perfect storm of elements that conspire to demonstrate the cracks in the Frank/April relationship that it seems a bit unbelievable. Of course, we understand that the fissures already existed, but the movie doesn’t paint them well enough for us to see them. We enter in the midst of the relationship’s collapse, so we don’t get a good sense of what brought it there.
A few choices make matters less realistic. In particular, the use of a mentally ill character reeks of plot device. The son of the Wheelers’ realtor, he crops up for no reason other than to add some confrontation to the piece. These scenes don’t feel right to me, as they just show up to create dramatic tension. A better realized story wouldn’t need these artificial moments.
While interesting enough to keep us occupied over its two hours, I don’t think Road achieves its goals, partially because it never becomes clear what goals it pursues. Director Sam Mendes explored “the dark side of suburbia” to better effect in American Beauty. Here he creates an intermittently compelling offering that too often spins its wheels.
The DVD Grades: Picture B/ Audio B-/ Bonus B
Revolutionary Road appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions. This was a generally solid transfer.
Sharpness came across well. Some wider shots tended to be a bit iffy, but those failed to create prominent distractions. Overall, the image was accurate. No issues with jagged edges or shimmering occurred, but mild edge haloes caused some distractions. Source flaws caused no concerns, as the flick remained clean and fresh at all times.
Like virtually all period pieces, Express went with a stylized palette. The flick cast much of its material in a golden hue that gave it a vintage amber tone. Within that range, the colors looked solid. Blacks seemed deep and firm, while shadows provided nice clarity and delineation. For the most part, this was a positive presentation.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack of Revolutionary Road worked fine for the material. The soundscape didn’t provide a lot of pizzazz. Music demonstrated nice stereo imaging, and some outdoor sequences added a decent sense of place. This was a forward-oriented mix that used the surrounds in a moderate manner.
Audio quality seemed satisfying. Speech always appeared warm and natural, with no edginess or other issues. Music was full, as the score showed solid reproduction. Effects also boasted good clarity and definition, though they didn’t exactly push the auditory envelope. Overall, the soundtrack was perfectly acceptable for this sort of flick.
When we shift to the supplements, we open with an audio commentary from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Justin Haythe. Both sit together for this running, screen-specific look at the adaptation of the source novel, script/story issues, cast and performances, editing, shooting on location, photographic style, period details, and music.
We get a dynamic commentary here, mostly thanks to the chatty Mendes. Haythe chips in as well, but the director does most of the heavy lifting. All of the examined areas prove interesting, but I especially like the comparisons between the movie and the novel. The track tears through a lot of useful subjects and moves at a good pace.
Next we find a featurette entitled Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Making of Revolutionary Road. It runs 29 minutes, one second and features Mendes, Haythe, producers Bobby Cohen and John Hart, production designer Kristi Zea, property master Thomas Allen, costume designer Albert Wolsky, and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Zoë Kazan and Michael Shannon. “Lives” looks at the project’s development and Mendes’s involvement, locations and production design, cinematography and period details, and the film’s themes.
Even thought the commentary covered a ton of information, we don’t find much repetition here. “Lives” digs into a mix of topics in a rich, involving manner. The additional perspectives add to its as well, so we get a good take on the film.
Five Deleted Scenes run a total of nine minutes, 50 seconds. These include “I’m Sorry” (1:22), “Birthday” (2:50), “Big Shot” (1:09), “Nothing’s Permanent” (1:17), and “Dear Frank” (3:12). Though most cut scenes aren’t very good, these have merit. I particularly like “Birthday”, as it reminds us how much Frank’s glory days seem to be behind him. The others don’t work quite as well for me, but all are interesting and viable.
We can view these scenes with or without commentary from Mendes and Haythe. They tell us a little about the sequences and let us know why the scenes didn’t make the cut. As was the case with the feature commentary, Mendes dominates. We learn some useful info about the excised clips.
A few ads open the DVD. We get clips for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Defiance, and There Will Be Blood. These also appear in the Previews domain. No trailer for Road shows up here.
American Beauty director Sam Mendes revisits suburbia to erratic effect in Revolutionary Road. The movie has its moments but doesn’t seem inventive or involving enough to soar. The DVD provides perfectly acceptable picture and audio along with a good little collection of supplements. This becomes a reasonably positive release for an erratic film.
Colin Jacobson, DVDMG.com
Presentation:
Widescreen 2.35:1/16×9
Audio:
English Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
French Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English
French
Spanish
Closed-captioned
Supplements Subtitles:
English
Spanish
French
Runtime: 118 min.
Price: $29.99
Release Date: 6/2/2009
Bonus:
Audio Commentary with Director Sam Mendes and Screenwriter Justin Haythe
“Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Making of Revolutionary Road” Featurette
8 Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary
Previews
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Actor at Work
Posted By Taly on March 18th, 2009
More than a decade after ‘Titanic,’ DiCaprio reflects on the cost of stardom and the craft that drives him
NEW YORK – Twelve years ago, when Leonardo DiCaprio was the most famous man on earth, there were few camera phones and no YouTube or TMZ to scrutinize his titanic unhappiness with instant superstardom.
He suffered his way through a “Today” interview with Katie Couric. Ostensibly, it was about his dual role in “The Man in the Iron Mask,” but ultimately it became a cross-examination: Did he like being famous or not?
For almost two years, DiCaprio was pinned up, screamed at, and madly adored. And at the risk of seeming ungrateful, he said it freaked him out.
“If I had done ‘Titanic’ in this day and age it would have been a much different dynamic,” said DiCaprio, in an interview at a New York hotel last month. “You talk about the Internet. It’s like the difference between train robbers and organized crime now. In that era, I did have four and five SUVs chasing me around, but the images and the hysteria didn’t spread as quickly. It was limited to a few magazines or gossip rags here or there. But now there’s this infusion, and it’s permeated our culture in a much different way. I do see a lot of young people obsessed with these gossip sites. It’s amazing.”
In “Revolutionary Road,” which opens around Boston today, DiCaprio rejoins his “Titanic” costars Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates for a drama set in the early 1960s. The film is based on Richard Yates’s 1960s novel and directed by Sam Mendes, who also made “American Beauty” and is Winslet’s husband.
This time DiCaprio and Winslet are Frank and April Wheeler, an unhappy couple in the Connecticut suburbs, and, instead of an ocean liner, it’s a marriage that hits an iceberg.
The mere fact of these two acting together for the first time since “Titanic” is a natural head-turner. Some of that interest testifies not to stardom per se but talent. In the decade or so since “Titanic” became the highest-grossing movie of all time, they’ve carved separate paths – she through small, acclaimed films; he through movies with Hollywood auteurs – to actorly renown. They have what they call in the business “chops.”
Earlier in the afternoon, DiCaprio had popped out of a different hotel suite looking for Visine. TV lights had dried out his eyes. Sitting a foot away from him, later, they were still red. But the life that remained in them was apparent whenever he considered his good fortune at still having a career. He won’t entirely admit that it’s talent that’s kept him aloft in the decade since “Titanic.” But you can tell he knows it. Not in an off-putting or arrogant way, but the way LeBron James knows he’s LeBron James and not some dude at the Y.Continued…
Forever Friendship:
Posted By Taly on March 18th, 2009
Revolutionary Road focuses on a 1950s suburban married couple played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The film shows “every single scar, every single mark, every wrinkle,” Winslet says.
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Oh, those rosy-cheeked Titanic kids, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Shipmates for life. How ironic that, as children, they began acting in commercials for products that naturally go together — he for milk, she for cereal. Now they are all grown up and ready to confront perilous waters of the marital kind in Revolutionary Road, opening Friday.
It seems destined that they would reunite on the big screen. Survivors of history-altering events do tend to remain emotionally tethered. Especially if an over-budget cinematic disaster in the making manages to instead shatter box-office records (still king of the world at $1.8 billion), tie for the most Academy Award wins with 11 and catapult its stars to privacy-depleting fame.
The pair have squeezed in a lot of living into the decade or so since their careers exploded. Winslet, 33, has had two children (Mia, 8, and Joe, who turned 5 Monday), one divorce and a model marriage of five years to director and fellow Brit Sam Mendes. DiCaprio, 34, continues to enjoy his bachelorhood with regular upgrades in supermodel girlfriends and has grown into an avid eco-activist.
They have remained best-friend close, both following paths away from Titanic-sized blockbusters and toward challenging if not necessarily commercial fare with esteemed directors.
DiCaprio was once considered for pal Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man role but has ended up hitching his professional wagon to a guy named Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed) while raising his Oscar-nomination ante to three.
Winslet turned down both Anna and the King (a flop for Jodie Foster) and Shakespeare in Love (a winner for Gwyneth Paltrow) to do Hideous Kinky and hasn’t flinched from veering off the beaten path since, racking up five Oscar nominations in the bargain.
“To be honest, I think that’s kind of who we always were,” DiCaprio says about their uncompromising natures. “If anything, doing Titanic was very much a departure for both of us. It was an attempt to do something different from the string of very independent films that we had done up until that point.”
Winslet says they regularly solicit each other’s opinions on work choices. “In fact, I don’t really talk to anybody apart from Leo about what I am thinking of doing. Including Sam sometimes, actually.”
In the meantime, both had been seeking the right vehicle for a second collaboration. Main requirement: something that did not involve an iceberg and a seagoing vessel.
“We were very aware that if we were to work together again, it would have to be a specific type of project,” DiCaprio says. “And it couldn’t tread whatsoever on any similar territory.”
Winslet was given the script for Revolutionary Road by her agent about four years ago. It was based on a 1961 cult novel about a “golden” couple known as the Wheelers, disillusioned Frank and desperate April, adrift in ’50s suburbia. Hailed as a masterpiece among literary types, the book would set the standard for all the savagery of post-war domesticity that would follow.
The actress clung greedily to the emotional powder keg of a screenplay until Mendes, slightly gun-shy after having covered similar ground with his 1999 Oscar winner American Beauty, signed on and DiCaprio came aboard. The Golden Globe-nominated result, dubbed “blistering” and “brutally unnerving” by critics, features shouting matches of such intense fury, it will likely leave stunned Titanic fans pining for the days of spitting tutorials.
As the interview continues, the two gently steer inquiries away from the doomed cruise liner of their youth and toward the sinking lifeboat of a relationship drama sailing into theaters now.
An admittedly not-very-original observation is proffered that if Titanic was the ultimate romantic tragedy, Revolutionary Road is the ultimate anti-romantic tragedy.
Winslet, anticipating the worst, decides to stop such nonsense from escalating by revealing how she and DiCaprio would entertain themselves on the set of their current movie.
“Leo and I would play this silly game of ‘Guess the press questions,’ ” she says, knowing that awkward comparisons between their two films are inevitable. “We would do versions of the questions and versions of the answers between ourselves.”
She would rather not strain to pit the escapist fantasy of Titanic against the devastating reality of Revolutionary Road. “They are two completely different stories and, in our minds, they are totally separate. The relationships between Jack and Rose and Frank and April literally bear no comparison whatsoever.”
Too bad. We really did want them to rate the comfort level of Revolutionary Road’s lusty kitchen-counter quickie vs. Titanic’s steamy grappling in the vintage Renault. But when it comes to praising the quality of each other’s work, neither has any qualms.
Winslet, given to passionate monologues, starts right in. “The thing that I felt that Leo did absolutely brilliantly and was able to embrace, because he’s such a (expletive) incredible actor …”
“Thank you, honey,” DiCaprio interrupts with a whisper.
“It’s true,” she insists, before continuing. “I remember Leo turning to me and saying, ‘You know what I love about this guy? He is so weak.’ A lot of actors would have said, ‘Well, he seems a little bit of a (wimp) here, can we take a little bit of that edge off?’ Leo really relished the fact that this man expressed every single side of himself and he was unafraid to do that.”
It’s his turn to gush. “I can’t name another actress who would have been able to convey the complexity of April. You go too far to one extreme and the woman seems like an absolutely insane housewife, and not somebody who feels trapped within her own surroundings and feels unsatisfied. Who is actually a heroic character because she is willing to sacrifice everything to live the life she wants to live. Kate brilliantly navigated her way through all that.”
That it is these particular actors playing these often disagreeable characters does make it easier for the audience to give a hoot about the Wheelers, especially those once-teen girls who repeatedly went to Titanic for a Leo fix.
As DiCaprio notes: “I think there could be a certain disjointedness for the younger generation. They might not understand the confines of the time period. Here we are, white people in the suburbs, talking about our problems.”
Prettier people do make for prettier problems, though. There are several stunning shots, especially during the opening scenes when they first meet, in which DiCaprio and Winslet seem to have stepped out of one of the era’s Douglas Sirk melodramas, flush with Technicolor allure.
Dark and dashing. Blond and sleek. They are the very essence of masculine and feminine. If Frank and April aren’t quite as special as those in their idolizing circle would believe, the actors who play them certainly don’t disappoint.
Kathy Bates, Titanic’s Unsinkable Molly Brown who once more is entangled in the pair’s affairs, this time as a nosy real estate agent, acknowledges the impact of seeing Leo and Kate together again: “It was just a thrill. It was sort of like the animal wrangler brought these two rare white tigers on the set. You were fascinated and wanted to watch them every minute, but you weren’t allowed to pet them. It just raised every element of the working experience.”
Winslet, never one to indulge any vanity onscreen, cares not a whit about all that. She prefers their haggard looks when everything starts going to hell.
“It was important to Sam that the story would largely be told in close-up,” she says. “So you could see every single scar, every single mark, every wrinkle on everyone’s face. Particularly, Frank and April. So you don’t feel as an audience alienated by that sort of ’50s glossy image.”
Still, they can’t help but exude old-fashioned movie-star glamour even under the most harrowing of circumstances.
“I would have to be clinically insane not to want to direct these two people in these two roles,” Mendes says. “I’m on record as saying that I love the fact that an American audience brings an existing relationship to bear on an actor’s performance. I like that when you see Paul Newman in a movie, you’re not just seeing Paul Newman, but you are seeing Hud, Butch Cassidy, Fast Eddie and Cool Hand Luke. Actors are the sum of everything they bring to the screen.”
He sensed their pasts resonating as they inhabited Frank and April. “That is what is so exciting about Leo. You remember that boy. He still has the vulnerability and beauty of that child in This Boy’s Life and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Kate has that same thing. She somehow retains that little girl, that innocence and naïveté. And that sense of play, no matter however serious she gets.”
Once they stop doing their sell job on Revolutionary Road, the Kate and Leo show can be quite amusing. When asked to name his favorite movie of hers, DiCaprio instead fears he has been asked to relate an anecdote.
“Please don’t make me give an anecdote,” he protests. “I’m terrible at those. ‘Tell me something that happened on the set.’ My mind just goes —” (He makes a noise that sounds like an appliance on the fritz.)
“I remember everything,” Winslet brags. “You do,” DiCaprio confirms.
“You know I do,” she adds for emphasis. “I remember (expletive) everything. So many Titanic stories I won’t tell.”
Once assured that only a movie title is required, he says, “I really love her in —” (he imitates a drum roll) “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s a different side of Kate in that movie. That element of you nobody really knows about.”
For her pick, she considers What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and The Basketball Diaries, but then she decides to go with something recent: “You were incredible in The Departed. So laser-like focused. You seriously delivered every single moment. It was bloody difficult to play, and I was blown away by it.”
Now that they have No. 2 under their belts, will they consider teaming up a third time?
DiCaprio: “I don’t know, dahling. Shall we?”
Winslet: “Maybe we should just do something when we are really old and disgusting. Total has-beens. You know, ‘Oh, there they are again. Bless them.’ “
Kissing Kate Winslet’s like ‘kissing a family member,’ gushes Leonardo DiCaprio
Posted By Marcie on January 25th, 2009
Richard Simpson
Last updated at 7:14 AM on 19th January 2009
He says that kissing her on a film set is like kissing a family member – though we assume he means a very distant cousin.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet stood side-by-side in London last night at the premiere of their film Revolutionary Road, in which they play a married couple.
The pair have maintained a close friendship in the 11 years since they made Titanic and DiCaprio, 34, plainly adores his co-star.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the red carpet for the European premiere of their film Revolutionary Road at London’s Leicester Square on Sunday night
He told the Mail: ‘We have been a great support mechanism for each other. We both started when we were young and have always been great friends ever since Titanic. We have always been there for each other.
And describing what it was like to kiss his ‘best friend’, DiCaprio added: ‘I was entirely too used to that from doing that film (Titanic) with her, so to me it was very natural.”
Asked what it was like having to film a sex scene with his friend, DiCaprio said: ‘It’s natural and I feel completely comfortable. In a twisted way it’s like kissing a family member.’
Miss Winslet, 33, wowed the thousands of fans gathered in Leicester Square in a black dress by Narcisco Rodriguez and five-inch heels by Roger Vivier.
Winslet and DiCaprio speak to their fans and sign autographs
She also wore a Chopard diamond bangle worth tens of thousands of pounds.
She spent an hour signing autographs before heading inside the Odeon.
Miss Winslet last week won a Golden Globe for her performance in the film, as well as another for her role in The Reader.
The actress dressed in a stunning black Narciso Rodriguez dress
And she wore a pair of vertiginous five-inch heels by Roger Vivier
The pair together at the premiere of Titanic in 1998
On the night she made two very gushing acceptance speeches which lasted seven minutes in total, and in which she forgot the name of one of her fellow nominees, Angelina Jolie.
Last night she said: ‘I’ve been in the U.S. since then and everyone was very complimentary about the speech.
‘I only realised it had caused such a reaction when I got back to the UK.’
She also returned Di Caprio’s warm sentiment, describing him as ‘the greatest actor of his generation’.
But she denied having prepared any acceptance speech for the Bafta awards for which she is nominated.
‘My sister had a baby this weekend so my family, we’ve been completely preoccupied with my sister’s little girl. I haven’t thought about it at all,’ she said.
Revolutionary Road, adapted from a novel by Richard Yates, tells the story of an American couple in the 1950s who decide to escape suburbia and head to Paris.
Winslet said she had spent four years waiting to see it get made.
‘It was extremely important to me. It’s very close to my heart,’ she said.
Other celebrities attending the premiere included presenter Dermot O’Leary and singer Sophie Ellis Bextor.
Mendes was absent from the premiere as he was working on a theatre production in New York.
The film goes on general release in Britain on January 30.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio: EW’s Exclusive Reunion Q&A!
Posted By Marcie on December 12th, 2008
More than a decade ago, they stepped aboard ”Titanic.” They’ve finally reunited for ”Revolutionary Road,” and this time it’s a marriage that hits an iceberg. A surprising talk with two true friends.
”Where is that little f—er?” says Kate Winslet. Leonardo DiCaprio, her beloved costar, is running late.
Flopping down on a sofa at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria, fanning herself and wondering if a spot of deodorant is in order, Winslet eyes the tray of coffee on the other side of the room and shakes her head. When her friend ?arrives, she wants him to focus. ”I ?better bring that over or trust me, he will be up and down five times,” she says with a motherly cluck.
These two know each other well. Twelve years ago they strapped on a pair of harnesses and leaned innocently into the prow of a doomed ship. The Titanic sank, box office soared. Then what was the most expensive movie ever made went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Suddenly the young stars couldn’t escape their sudden fame. ”We did Titanic and then Leo went off, and I thought, ‘Oh, dear Lord, protect him,’?” says Kathy Bates, who played the Unsinkable Molly Brown. ”Because Hollywood can be so destructive. I guess I worried less about Kate, because she was in the English system and I knew she’d have wonderful parts that would keep her feet on the ground. But I knew through it all, they’d be truly, truly friends to each other.”
Hollywood has been panting to ?rekindle their romance on screen ever since. However, the duo decided long ago that their days of star-crossed swooning were behind them. It wasn’t until Winslet read Richard Yates’ novel ?Revolutionary Road, a classic tale of ’50s suburban regret about a young married couple desperate to escape the dreariness of their lives, that she figured a reunion was in order.
When DiCaprio enters the room, still looking boyish in his jeans and black Nikes, Winslet can’t help but beam. (On the set of Revolutionary Road, the pair would sometimes pretend to interview each other, each posing as a journalist giddy to know what it’s like for the Titanic stars to be back in each other’s arms.) Winslet, 33, married with two young children, has racked up five Oscar nominations. ?DiCaprio, 34, still single, still reliably in the company of a supermodel, has three nods to his name. ”The thing that is amazing for me is they started off on equal footing and they’re still on equal footing,” says Winslet’s husband, Oscar-?winning director Sam Mendes, who took the helm of Revolutionary Road. ”If you think about Star Wars — there’s an example of a movie that was seismic in the culture at the time — there’s a big difference between what happened to Harrison Ford and what ?happened to Mark Hamill.”
When Winslet talks of luck, DiCaprio bends toward her and barks in a creaky patrician ?accent: ”Key word, dear. Lucky! Keep using it.” She elbows him as if he’s her rascally little brother, and they’re off. Enjoy their banter while you can. ”I think they’ll go on doing a movie together only once every 10 years,” says Mendes.
”We have a level of understanding which I really don’t have with another actor that I’ve ever worked with at all,” says Kate on reteaming with her Titanic co-star.
KATE WINSLET: Lovefest! [Slapping DiCaprio's leg] We’ll try very hard not to let it become that.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Please — people have been wanting to see you two back together for over a decade. How scared were you to mess with that original magic?
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Over the years, I would find myself stopping and saying, ”I don’t know if we should do this again.” And then I’d think, ”What are you, an idiot? Why wouldn’t I want to work with the best actress of her generation? Am I going to be prejudiced against a project just because Kate’s in it?” I think we both had been actively looking for something else to do together, but we fundamentally knew that we couldn’t tread on any sort of similar territory.
Which eliminates what?
DICAPRIO: Any type of love story imaginable. [Laughs]
WINSLET: Known to mankind!
DICAPRIO: So what we have here is a profoundly well-written, character-driven story about the dissolving of a relationship. Certainly in Kate’s character there’s that great pursuit not to have her life be predigested —
WINSLET: Predetermined.
DICAPRIO: Yes, better word. You’re right. Good one.
WINSLET: [Gagging] Oh, we’re so cute, we finish each other’s sentences. Cutesy, cutesy!
Your characters have big, go-for-the-jugular fights. Were either of you nervous that those scenes could slip into hamminess?
DICAPRIO: We were both relishing those moments. Reading those sequences where these people are at each other’s throats and having these suburban knockout, drag-out fights? Look, there’s not many actresses like Kate Winslet who you know can endure anything you give them and give it right back.
WINSLET: We have a level of understanding which I really don’t have with another actor that I’ve ever worked with at all.
DICAPRIO: [High-fives Winslet] Yeah, homey!
”Oh, my God, look at me fussing over your face. I’ve literally turned into a combination of your mother, your sister, and, I don’t know what, your wife!”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Did either of you hear from James Cameron when it was announced you’d be starring together in another movie?
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Did you?
KATE WINSLET: No. Did you?
DICAPRIO: No. But I don’t think there’s any real reason for him to call us about that.
WINSLET: No, not necessarily. [Pauses] There really isn’t any residual weirdness. Making Titanic was very, very hard, and Jim Cameron is an absolute visionary. Because there was a lot of press around the experience of making Titanic, it’s been very hard for us to talk objectively about it.
DICAPRIO: Because anything that’s said feeds into the ”Ooh, the controversy surrounding that movie!” I think we have nothing but respect for Jim when we look back at that experience. And it was tough for us to get our heads around. Jim had to be a certain type of director to make that film work. He literally had to command an army of people every single day.
WINSLET: And now that I’m married to a director I absolutely can understand the frustration that if you spent years of your life planning something and somebody shows up to work that day and they’re simply not doing their job, my good God, I can understand how disappointing that would be.
DICAPRIO: [Laughs]
WINSLET: No, I just think it is important to stress that I didn’t walk away from Titanic and think, I’m never speaking to Jim Cameron again. Anyways, that just seemed like a good opportunity for a statement I never get a chance to particularly say.
There are countless examples of how sudden fame can permanently destroy a young person in Hollywood, and yet somehow the two of you emerged intact.
WINSLET: I look back on that time now and I remember thinking, ”I’m doing okay, I’m absolutely fine. My life hasn’t changed. I won’t let it! I can just walk to the grocery store and buy milk in my pajamas still. Ahhhh, right, no, I can’t. I have no idea what the hell is going on or how I’m supposed to deal with suddenly having 10 paparazzi there. Oh, okay, ohhhh, I get it. Anonymity, that’s gone.” I look back and think, ”Jesus, I was seriously ill-equipped emotionally to be able to cope with all of that stuff.”
Is there any way for a young person to equip oneself for fame?
WINSLET: No, I don’t think so.
DICAPRIO: No.
WINSLET: But it did affect my choices as an actress, definitely. In a good way. It really made me sit and think, ”Okay, you know what? Don’t worry about the fact that there’s 10 paparazzi outside the door, don’t worry about the fact that people may be expecting completely different things from you right now just because you’re suddenly so famous. This doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of what you love about your job.” So in a way, Titanic has played a very big part in being able to hang on to a sense of who I am, because I felt that I had to fight for it then at a very young age.
DICAPRIO: Honestly, it was so bizarre. I just didn’t work for a couple years. I think I did one small cameo? [Looking at Kate]
WINSLET: You did [Woody Allen's] Celebrity.
DICAPRIO: Then I did Man in the Iron Mask, but that was before Titanic had been released. I think?
WINSLET: Yes, you did Man in the Iron Mask and then you did Celebrity.
DICAPRIO: Thank you, Kate! [Laughing] I think it’s hilarious that I need to ask her.
WINSLET: May I? [Reaching over and rubbing her finger over DiCaprio's nose] You’ve scratched the top of your nose! Oh, no, we’re literally doing everything we said we wouldn’t do.
DICAPRIO: I know, this is a little too cute. It’s like out of one of those —
WINSLET: Don’t say it!
DICAPRIO: — one of those scenes from When Harry Met Sally… with the old couples. ”And I met her in the park in 1992! And she was…” ”Eating a hot dog!” ”And I was scratching my butt!”
WINSLET: Oh, my God, and look at me fussing over your face. I’ve literally turned into a combination of your mother, your sister, and, I don’t know what, your wife!
DICAPRIO: By the way, I really hate talking about post-Titanic because it always sounds to me in print like I’m complaining when I have nothing to complain about. That movie gave both of us tremendous opportunities for what we wanted to do as actors.
Kate, it’s refreshing to meet an actress who’s comfortable admitting, ”Hell yeah, I’d like an Oscar!” Do you feel the same way, Leo? [Kate lays her head on the sofa and peers up at him.]
DICAPRIO: What’s wrong with you?
WINSLET: I just want to know what you have to say. [Leans into him with a grin]
DICAPRIO: I’m going to be very honest.
WINSLET: I’m just being curious!
DICAPRIO: Listen, I think Kate has been nominated a lot. I think I would probably be somewhat frustrated if I were her, too. [Laughs]
WINSLET: Looooooo-ser!
DICAPRIO: No, no, I’m not saying you’re frustrated, no. But come on, the girl has been nominated a lot. I mean, what’s that figure that she’s going to be the most nominated actress without winning?
WINSLET: [Fake grimaces] Most nominated loser.
Hey, you’ve been nominated a few times yourself. Do you cop to wanting an Oscar?
DICAPRIO: I don’t want to jump into the whole cliché about the honor of being nominated, I’m not going there, even though that’s the truth. I don’t know how to answer — I feel like some people are titled as Oscar-hungry and I would not say that I’m hungry for one. It’s not something I’ve got to have in my life.
”I hope [today's rising stars] know within themselves that all that really matters at the end of the day is the work. All this noise and attention will absolutely deteriorate and there will be a new, fresh piece of meat for the media to focus on within less than a year’s time.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: At what point did you both finally grow comfortable with fame?
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: You never get used to it. Post-Titanic, it was more intense than anyone our age has ever dealt with in the history of…anything. It was the modern era of media and paparazzi where they’re organized, with multiple SUVs following you around. I didn’t know it would at the time, but it has way calmed down in my life.
KATE WINSLET: Also, neither of us court the attention. We don’t go to every red-carpet event, even though we sometimes might actually quite like to go if it was a movie a friend was in. We live in a time now where the world has so much access to celebrities and their lives and the color of their underwear.
DICAPRIO: If Titanic came out now, it would be nuts, right?
With websites and camera phones…
DICAPRIO: Camera phones are, I think, harmless. [Dabbing his nose and holding up his blood-splotched napkin] By the way, I’m bleeding profusely. Look at all this blood!
WINSLET: Don’t pick.
DICAPRIO: But then I’m going to have a bloody, clotty thing on my nose.
WINSLET: By rubbing and pressing it you’re making the skin raw.
DICAPRIO: Yes, Mummy. What is unique now is the full-fledged news cameras. They’re hilarious.
WINSLET: Or even just the little DVD cams. I had an experience last year where I was walking my son back from nursery school. I was giving him a piggyback, and literally the whole walk home there was a guy on the other side of the street with a video camera. And I thought, ”I have no protection. There’s literally nothing I can do. But I know that what that man is doing is sick because I have a child with me, and I don’t want my children to grow up feeling watched. Ever.” So I got home, luckily Sam was there, and he took my son inside. And I went back out and approached this guy and I said, ”Listen…”
In your fiercest or your most charming voice?
WINSLET: In this exact voice. [Eyes lower, voice deepens.] ”I need you to hand me that footage right now.” And he said, ”I can’t, I’m just doing my job.” And I said, ”No, in this moment right now, you are not just doing your job. You are taking my child’s privacy away and that is definitely inappropriate in the grand scheme of the way the world works. Please, would you hand me that footage?” And you know what? He did!
DICAPRIO: No way, that’s nuts. I don’t believe you. I think you’re making that up.
WINSLET: I promise I’m not!
Do your hearts swell at the sight of someone like Zac Efron or now Twilight‘s Robert Pattinson being shot out of Hollywood’s cannon?
DICAPRIO: That’s the interesting thing about being an actor. You are also a public figure. Early on I made it my policy that a certain amount of publicity is good — you promote your job, you do your movie, you retain your private life, you don’t divulge everything about yourself. And when I see younger actors getting a tremendous amount of publicity, I say to myself, Well, they’ve been given an unbelievable opportunity, and I hope they know within themselves that all that really matters at the end of the day is the work. All this noise and attention will absolutely deteriorate and there will be a new, fresh piece of meat for the media to focus on within less than a year’s time. So what they should do at this moment is work their asses off to prove to the public and prove to themselves that they can absolutely have a long-term career.
Speaking of your private life, do you ever look at Kate and just think, ”Damn, she’s the one who got away.” [They look at each other and burst out laughing.]
WINSLET: Say it!
DICAPRIO: [With a weary groan] We’ve always been completely platonic.
Leonardo DiCaprio Reacts to ‘Revolutionary Road’ Nominations
Posted By Marcie on December 12th, 2008
Leonardo DiCaprio has a Golden Globe nomination for his return performance with co-star Kate Winslet in their new movie ‘Revolutionary Road.’ ET has his reaction to the film’s four nominations.
“I want to sincerely thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for the nomination and for their recognition of ‘Revolutionary Road.’ Congratulations to Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes on their nominations, as well as the entire cast and crew, who put their heart and soul into this film. They all deserve an equal amount of recognition for its success. Richard Yates is the real star of ‘Revolutionary Road.’ For far too long, his writing didn’t receive the credit it deserves. I hope that the film goes a long way towards fixing that mistake,” Leonardo says after learning about the nominations.
Meanwhile, Leo’s ‘Revolutionary Road’ director Mendes, who is nominated for his directing, tells ET, “We are all delighted and honored that the Hollywood Foreign Press recognized the film in such a generous way. This was a labor of love for all of us and to see it being received in such a positive way is very gratifying.”
‘Revolutionary Road’ is a story about a couple living in the mid-1950′s and struggling to deal with their personal problems while raising a family.
Source: http://www.etonline.com/
