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Looking to more seasoned actors, whose career would you most like to emulate? -Karsten W.N. Kurze, Bad Honef, Germany I think Leonardo DiCaprio's done a great job. I was dead set against the guy when I was growing up, kind of force-fed his image from Titanic. Since then, through very hard work and incredible performances, he's done a complete 180. Now he's one of my favorite actors. He's at the top of his game. (See pictures of Disney teen stars...
...Leonardo da Vinci just became even more prolific. An analysis released in the U.K.-based Antiques Trade Gazette claims a small portrait once attributed to a 19th century German artist was actually painted by the Italian master around the year 1500. The surprising revelation is but the latest in a series of cases in which "lost" pieces of artwork were rediscovered through art authentication. But how can experts - who have previously certified works by Caravaggio, Raphael, Van Gogh and countless others - be so sure that a specific painter is responsible for a work...
...also promised $465 million to Tesla, which has already sold 700 of its pure-electric roadsters at more than $109,000 each to Hollywood stars like Leonardo DiCaprio...
...That was Jones's singular talent: his ability to be a human bridge, from gritty Oakland to green San Francisco, all the way to the White House, because he knew that environmentalism could only break out of its niche if it could be made to matter to everyone. (Read Leonardo DiCaprio's take on Van Jones...
...European churches - such as the "Wee Kirk o' the Heather" (Ronald Reagan tied the knot with Jane Wyman there in 1940). In other locations there are replicas of Michelangelo's David and La Pieta. A massive stained-glass version of one of Jackson's favorite works of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, is the artistic highlight of the Great Mausoleum. (Jackson had a version of the painting at Neverland, with Christ replaced by himself and the disciples by the likes of Walt Disney, Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy and Albert Einstein.) (See TIME's tribute...