Word: leonardo
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...place of Laclos's 18th century decadents, Cruel Intentions offers us a modern prep-school Lothario (Ryan Phillippe, who looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do on their summer vacation (misspent in upper-crust Manhattan and Long Island) is the same old story--an elaborate scheme to deflower a couple of virgins (Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair) whose virtue irritates and challenges them. As in all the other versions of this story, they succeed, but eventually receive...
JEFFREY RESSNER, a Los Angeles-based correspondent, drew an assignment that film buffs and teenage girls dream about: hanging with Leonardo DiCaprio in Thailand for the shooting of The Beach. The film is based on the novel about an Edenic commune. "Knowing that I like to travel and am something of a loner, a friend had recommended the book," says Ressner. He assures us that even in the jungles of Asia, DiCaprio fans abound, and the king of Hollywood has not forsaken his storied Epicureanism. "Leo holds to what the Thais call sanuk, which is more than just...
...Leonardo DiCaprio is fully dressed, shivering and gurgling in a large pool of icy-cold water and...wait a second, isn't this where we left off? Not quite. This time the 24-year-old Titanic star--the world's most famous young leading man--is submerged beneath a gushing waterfall in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park, an immense forest reserve crawling with tigers, leopards, elephants and pythons. A doctor also warns of leeches: real ones, not the Hollywood type. But it's 1999, not 1997, and there's more than just dangerous wildlife surrounding DiCaprio these days...
Finally, those stuffed shirts at NARAS have gotten it right. Now about that Oscar for Leonardo DiCaprio...
...wanted it to be Leonardo. I was very disappointed that it wasn't Leonardo. I liked that choice a lot. I thought it was very perverse and interesting. It would have added this weird level or cruelty to Patrick Bateman because Leonardo looks so boyish that I thought would have helped it enormously. I also think he's a great actor. So I was actually interested in having him do it. I was very disappointed when he dropped out. I actually...