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...Which is, of course, exactly what we are expected to think. Repeating the original voyage -- right down to the ?unsinkable? claim -- is just about the best way to generate publicity short of hiring Leonardo DiCaprio as cabin boy. ?We thought now would be the right moment, because the whole world is keen on ?Titanic,?? said a company spokeswoman -- who refused to elaborate on what ?modern iceberg detection equipment? the ship would be carrying. No doubt the 1,490 victims of the 1912 disaster are spinning in their watery graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Titanic Publicity Stunt | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

Currently the subject of four best-selling paperback books, LEONARDO DICAPRIO doesn't want to become the subject of a best-selling issue of Playgirl as well. According to a suit DiCaprio's lawyers filed last week, the skin magazine is planning to publish pictures of the star of The Man in the Iron Mask without anything masking him at all. Although the lawsuit says DiCaprio has not seen the photos and doesn't know whence they came, they are thought to be from the movie Total Eclipse, which has a gay sex scene. Brad Pitt fought a similar case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 6, 1998 | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

Thanks in large part, it is said, to the patronage of teenage girls, Leonardo DiCaprio recently pulled off the unprecedented feat of starring in two films virtually tied for No. 1 at the box office, Titanic and his just released The Man in the Iron Mask. Leo, as the 23-year-old is known to friends and true fans, is also the subject of four quickie books currently on various New York Times best-seller lists. Explains Bari Nan Cohen, who as entertainment editor of YM is well-versed in teen idoldom: "A lot of girls would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructing Leo | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...butchier Titanic incarnation--where, of course, he has the added advantage of getting to die dreamily in the presence of his beloved, as he also did in his breakthrough movie, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet--he is an ideal first crush: not too hot, not too cold, just right. Leonardo DiCaprio: A Biography expands on this point: "The woman that does capture Leo's heart will be in for some special romantic time with Leo... 'I'll definitely say that when I'm alone with a girl, I'm doing the baby voices, all that stuff, rubbing noses, the teddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructing Leo | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...Kids on the Block. Michael Jackson, having never allowed himself to develop secondary sex characteristics, is like a teen-idol experiment gone horribly, tragically awry. But that is the kind of icky, confusing story that has no place in what publisher Nancy Pines of Archway Books, which brought you Leonardo DiCaprio: A Biography, refers to as Leoland. "I can't think of any other teen idol with this kind of staying power," says Nina Malkin, deputy editor of Teen magazine. "This is approaching Hanson range," agrees Pines. Hanson range. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructing Leo | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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