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...from parent to parent, school to school. His mother encouraged her angry, rebellious son to study acting, and he soon began appearing in one-line parts on sitcoms. After ninth grade, he dropped out of school to become an actor and made his feature debut alongside his pal Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993's This Boy's Life...
...Maguire is being compared to DiCaprio--another serious actor turned teen idol following a big mainstream hit. But though audiences may cling to Maguire as Spider-Man, it's unlikely they'll embrace his quirky persona in standard leading-man roles. He simply isn't as warm as Tom Hanks or as dashing as Tom Cruise. "I just want to make good movies," says Maguire. "If there's a script I like with a character I like and a filmmaker I like, I would do the movie. I'm not really concerned about money. You could say I'm even...
Written in 1994, the film was originally a vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio, who had not yet achieved fame for Titanic. But a lack of funding and various studios’ reluctance to cast a pre-stardom DiCaprio put the film in limbo...
Bill Maher, host of Politically Incorrect, also drives a hybrid car. So does Seinfeld creator Larry David. Leonardo DiCaprio likes his hybrid so much that he bought three more, for his mom, dad and stepmom--and took time out from a Steven Spielberg set to boast to TIME about his high-tech wheels. "People are always impressed," he notes, "with the way it drives, the gas mileage and how quiet...
...nearly 90 years after his failed 1914-16 effort to traverse Antarctica, British explorer Ernest Shackleton has become the hottest guy to battle icebergs since Leonardo DiCaprio. Caroline Alexander has published The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition; leadership tomes explicate the explorer's lessons for middle managers. PBS has just aired Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance, which was also adapted for IMAX theaters. Now comes the A&E mini-series Shackleton (April 7, 8 p.m. E.T., and April 8, 9 p.m. E.T.)--with a Biography episode (April 8, 8 p.m. E.T.) thrown in for the compleat Shackle-phile...