Word: dicaprios
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...anyone that Monica Lewinsky may not have seen Titanic even once? While some young women have gone back six or eight times to watch their heartthrob shiver his last shiver, Ms. Lewinsky has been a virtual prisoner in the Watergate. At a time when New Yorkers routinely spot Leonardo DiCaprio in person at Manhattan's trendiest nightspots, Ms. Lewinsky's reported social life does not extend beyond a quick handshake with William Safire at the Cosmos Club--a scene that will presumably be accompanied in the movie by background music from Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians...
...must be hard being a teen idol. This must have been the thought on Leonardo DiCaprio's agent's mind when he or she urged DiCaprio to take the starring roles in what must be the billionth (the Internet Movie Database lists six previous versions) adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask (L'homme au masque du fer), the sequel to the even more well-known The Three Musketeers. "Leo, baby," one can almost hear the agent saying, "you need a break after Titanic. Why don't you take this film? You'll hardly have...
...Iron Mask is a puff piece, good for one of those weekends when there's nothing else to do and the quality of the movie is not too much of an issue. DiCaprio plays both the young King Louis XIV, a philandering and utterly obnoxious young man, and his secret twin brother Phillipe. Phillipe has been locked up in a dungeon for the last six years with an iron mask on his face to conceal his identity. When Louis sends ex-Musketeer Athos' (John Malkovich) son Raoul (Peter Sarsgaard) back to war so that he can pursue his betrothed Christine...
...guilty because she has just received a letter from Raoul, her late fiance. Reproaching herself for having become the mistress of a man she does not love, Godreche attempts to rant melodramatically about her "sins," but does not have enough energy to even do that convincingly, looking away from DiCaprio as if that would distract her from spitting out her lines as rapidly as possible...
...More on-screen Cinderellas abide -- and stall -- in Hoop Dreams (1994), a gritty, often wrenching documentary about climbing the athletic ladder in Chicago that got screwed out of an Oscar in 1994 (but what else is new). Teen dream Leo DiCaprio, back when he could act, drives the lane to ruination, via the glories attendant to a ball-playing youth, in Basketball Diaries (1995). Girls: there's a sex scene. Parents: Lots of heroin...