Word: leonardo
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...Nazis target specific works, or was it more about grabbing whatever they could? There were definitely works of art they were determined to steal. An example would be the so-called big three from Krakow - Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, Rembrandt's Landscape with the Good Samaritan and Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man. The Nazis seized them within two months of the 1939 invasion [of Poland]. They didn't go where the works of art were supposed to be hanging in the museums. They went to the country house where they had been hidden because their intelligence...
...breaks a cardinal rule of movie romance: that the lovers kiss happily at the final fadeout. Most examples of the genre end with that rosy image, in part because their makers are reluctant to bum out their audience. James Cameron must have been tempted to end his film with Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack surviving the ship's sinking and enjoying a long life with Kate Winslet's Rose. But Cameron realized that by killing off Jack, he was raising the movie's stakes from domestic platitude to classic romantic tragedy. Jack's death stamped both finality and immortality...
Roman pub manager Leonardo Leuci has noticed an increasingly popular request from young people who step up to the bar to order a drink: "Make me something strong." Leuci spent a decade working at watering holes abroad, from France to Florida to the Bahamas, before coming back home last year to manage a locale in Rome's bustling Trastevere neighborhood. Right away, he was surprised to be seeing - and serving - so many young people whose only goal was to get sloshed. "In Italy, we don't have a drinking culture," Leuci says. "Lots of young people don't even know...
...mass audience may have noticed this tall, titian-haired actress ornamenting some of the more ambitious mainstream films. In 2000, Swinton was the boss of a hippie commune who badgers Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach. Later she played a studio executive opposite Nicolas Cage in Adaptation and tried to explain the plot of Vanilla Sky to Tom Cruise. Fantasy fans remember her as the icy White Witch of the Narnia films and as the soaring, fallen Angel Gabriel tempting Keanu Reeves in Constantine. Recently, and notably, Swinton has had on-screen affairs with Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin...
...Leonardo DiCaprio on Van Jones...