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Written in 1994, the film was originally a vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio, who had not yet achieved fame for Titanic. But a lack of funding and various studios’ reluctance to cast a pre-stardom DiCaprio put the film in limbo...
Bill Maher, host of Politically Incorrect, also drives a hybrid car. So does Seinfeld creator Larry David. Leonardo DiCaprio likes his hybrid so much that he bought three more, for his mom, dad and stepmom--and took time out from a Steven Spielberg set to boast to TIME about his high-tech wheels. "People are always impressed," he notes, "with the way it drives, the gas mileage and how quiet...
...nearly 90 years after his failed 1914-16 effort to traverse Antarctica, British explorer Ernest Shackleton has become the hottest guy to battle icebergs since Leonardo DiCaprio. Caroline Alexander has published The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition; leadership tomes explicate the explorer's lessons for middle managers. PBS has just aired Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance, which was also adapted for IMAX theaters. Now comes the A&E mini-series Shackleton (April 7, 8 p.m. E.T., and April 8, 9 p.m. E.T.)--with a Biography episode (April 8, 8 p.m. E.T.) thrown in for the compleat Shackle-phile...
Artists who followed in giot-to's footsteps were wowed by his ability to depict human emotions in actual settings. Leonardo da Vinci said Giotto "not only surpassed the masters of his own time, but all those of many preceding centuries." The latest restoration of Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua - revealed last week after 10 months of meticulous work - provides fresh proof of da Vinci's words...
Duchamp was the joker in the pack. You can see some of his witty and enigmatic works here, including his famous improved version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (with added moustache and goatee), on loan from the French Communist Party. A theme that runs through the show is the way artistic and social revolutions were born in smoky bars. The Surrealists and Dadaists made each other laugh with assemblages of popular art and everyday artifacts-their productions often look like in-jokes. That's why the R.A. has mounted them in a model of a Paris public urinal...