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...beginning of the film, Lee turns to Nola, an extra on a film set played by Winona Ryder, and asks her, "Where do I know you from?" The volatile Leonardo DiCaprio plays Brandon Darrow, the heartthrob movie actor who bursts into temper tantrums in his suite at The Stanhope Hotel. When he is escorted outside by a police officer, he is greeted by hordes of pubescent girls waving Titanic-sized glossies of the superstar. The props people certainly didn't have to look far to procure those gems...
...feckless journalist has a dreadful movie script he's trying to push on his interviewees, and that leads to the film's central, most harrowing passage. For when he arrives to discuss it with Brandon Darrow (Leonardo DiCaprio, in a chilling performance), the star is exercising his power by beating up a girlfriend and trashing a hotel room. Undaunted, Lee starts pitching. And pitching--through a night of high-stakes gambling (he loses, of course), drugs and group sex. Slyly, sadistically, Brandon alternately encourages and discourages him. Degradation is power's prerogative. And besides, it amuses...
DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below...
Since the halcyon days of junior high, though, teen idols have deteriorated from wholesome sitcom characters and 80s excess into the over hyped likes of the Spice Girls, Mariah Carey, Hanson, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Backstreet Boys. Strangely enough, the Spice Girl's teeny-bopper fans notice no implicit contradiction between one of their role models proclaiming the mantra "Girl Powah" and then posing nude for Playboy...
Other quintessential teen experiences include stressful episodes related to cheerleading tryouts and the time I was busted for having a party while my parents were out of town. Lest I forget, I also met my teen idol, Leonardo DiCaprio and was so giggly when he agreed to a photo that I bumbled embarrassingly as I tried to extract my camera from its case...