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...When people were asking about the convention, I said that part of the problem now is that not much business is done there, that it's all prepackaged. Nonetheless, we all go, in case something happens, and besides, everyone shows up, and it's always great to kind of catch up with everyone about what's going on. I think that my reputation for a passion about politics and covering the political scene over the years is pretty selfevident...
...girl in the nation had become a cowboy; in those carefully metered periods which they spent outdoors between programs, they saw cattle rustlers around every corner. They were not the first U.S. children to indulge in make-believe about the Old West. But they were the first to catch the fever simultaneously from coast to coast and to demand such splendid arms and accouterments. --TIME, November...
Among LIFE photographers, Silk was the motion man, the one who repeatedly devised ways to make pictures that snared action on the wing. He managed to put a camera on a ski and another on a surfboard. He adapted the racetrack photo-finish camera to catch track stars in motion. And for a photo essay on a 14-year-old diving star, he caught her at the very moment she broke the surface...
...smoothness of Leonardo DiCaprio's face is deceptive. He can hide behind its boyish affability the way Laurence Olivier hid behind putty noses and funny accents. In Catch Me If You Can, DiCaprio's face was a blank check on which his character forged a career in duplicity. At other times, as in Gangs of New York, a rage can pop out like a monster in a lake. His face is too soft to be a tabula rasa; it is a pillow on which DiCaprio can embroider surprising emotions. That's why he is an actor, a gifted one, even...
...course, no one sets out to make a pile of terrible movies--not even Ben Affleck. Since Titanic's release, DiCaprio has starred in four films. The first, The Beach, was a mess. The others--Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can and now The Aviator, a Howard Hughes biography out nationwide Dec. 25--are big-budget period pieces directed by either Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese, in which DiCaprio plays a historically inspired, convention-bucking protagonist. These are serious gigs--De Niro-when-he-was-young-and-good gigs. DiCaprio has done three of them in four...