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...Ernest Hemingway who first described the subspecies of movie star that Maguire belongs to, calling them "the great American boy-men." They're the ageless, fresh-faced whippets of the silver screen--slim of build, dazzling of smile, androgynous of gender. Leonardo DiCaprio used to be one; Elijah Wood is still one. Now Tobey Maguire is breaking ranks. In his new movie, Seabiscuit, he grows...
...upcoming The Aviator will star Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, but who will play the tycoon's legendary love interests...
...what amounts to a game of high-stakes cinematic chicken, Leonardo DiCaprio is developing a string of projects that compete directly with similar films from some of the biggest leading men in Tinseltown. Does he have the mojo to take on the big boys...
...quite art yet not entirely craft, paint-by-number kits were all the rage during the 1950s and '60s. Originated by artist Dan Robbins, who took his cue from Leonardo da Vinci's practice of assigning numbered sections of his paintings to apprentices, the kits made it easy for the masses to create mountain vistas or the Last Supper. After the craze died down, the kits were left to gather dust on the back shelves of craft stores...
...What about the cases of Gary Ewing and Leonardo Andrade, the two sentences the Supreme Court examined? (Ewing was given 25 years for stealing three golf clubs, while Andrade stole some children's videos). According to the California Department of Corrections, the state jails house about 7,000 inmates serving 25-to-life terms under this law - roughly 350 of them received their final strike for petty theft. In the Supreme Court dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer noted that in most states, 25 years to life is the sentence for first-degree murder, not shoplifting. The attorney general's office...