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...bullet-riddled SUV storms along a dirt track in Mozambique, spraying out dust and rocks like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. Hunched behind the steering wheel, Leonardo DiCaprio wrestles the vehicle while Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou grip the rear seat as if their lives depended on it, which, in this scene of director Edward Zwick's film, they do. "Faster!" shouts Zwick. "We need more speed." DiCaprio nods and backs up, and the bucking drive begins again...
...Amidst the whole debate over the ethics of the global diamond trade that is explored in the new Leonardo DiCaprio film Blood Diamond, this basic question often gets lost. How did they become the norm for the about-to-be-married couple? What is it about those particular gemstones, which are notoriously hard in structure and (perhaps) even harder on the wallet, that makes them so desirable in the first place? And what does it say about you if you really want one? Or really...
...knew going in that I really wanted to get as many good actors as possible. I had Mary Klug, who played Leonardo DiCaprio’s aunt in “The Departed”; she played the boy’s grandmother. There’s a really well known actor around here named Ted Kazanoff who’s about 80-years-old and he played the grandfather. I also had Dossy Peabody, who’s really well known around here as well. She was really great. I called up my rabbi and he told...
...Leonardo Loved Freaks Art researchers are trying harder than ever to unravel the enigma of the Mona Lisa's beauty [Oct. 9]. But Leonardo da Vinci was just as interested in capturing the grotesque, as TIME reported in its Feb. 3, 2003, issue...
...beauty. Granted, cosmetic considerations were less to the fore in 16th century Europe than they would be four centuries later. Granted, social attitudes toward the repellent aspects of old age were different. And yet it is difficult to look at his numerous drawings of horribly, freakishly ugly old people ... LEONARDO'S PECULIAR AND SADISTIC IMAGINATION IS AT A BIG REMOVE FROM OURS. He is saying, Idealize as much as you want, but shun denial. The necessary other side of the ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries-an ugliness that disintegrates...