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October 30, 201113 yr

Even when he's now out of town, the Daily Telegraph has to have their weekly Leo article

IN the flesh, Leonardo DiCaprio hardly fits the Hollywood playboy profile.
Standing next to Richard Wilkins on stage at The Star last Tuesday, it was Wilkins who epitomised the LA style - tall, blond, tanned, slightly grizzled and expensively dressed, a cinephile might have mistaken him for the Hollywood star on the dais.
Wearing a crumpled cotton navy jacket, a plain open-neck cotton shirt, casual shoes and no make-up, the shorter man to whom Wilkins handed the microphone didn't radiate star power at all. Until he opened his mouth.
Then in a practised, quiet cadence that sounded like the audio track to countless American civil war documentaries, DiCaprio took ownership of a vast and noisy hotel lobby with a minimum of fuss thanks to 800 revellers being suddenly awestruck.
It quickly became clear how this slightly geeky boy-man commands the attention of a seemingly endless trail of supermodels and Hollywood "it girls".
He is matinee cool and his appeal has not been lost on a cheer squad of Aussie models including 2008 Australia's Next Top Model contestant Alyce Crawford, 21, and 20-year-old Kendal Schuler, who has been described as a lookalike for his ex, supermodel Bar Refaeli.
As millions of film-lovers know, DiCaprio is the highest-paid actor in the world and can command $40 million a movie. He topped Forbes magazine's highest-paid actors list with estimated earnings of $77 million between May 2010 and May 2011, eclipsing second place-getter Johnny Depp on $50 million.
The Hollywood heavyweight has been in Sydney since the end of August after reuniting with the director credited with launching his star into the stratosphere with 1996's Romeo + Juliet, Australian Baz Luhrmann.
Luhrmann has cast DiCaprio in the title role of his $120 million The Great Gatsby, currently shooting at Fox Studios and on location in Rozelle, and the actor has made Sydney home until Christmas.
At 36, DiCaprio is only two years younger than Robert Redford was when he played Gatsby in the 1974 version of the classic novel.
Yet the former child actor with the open face and youthful disposition is still largely regarded as a boy and not a man staring down the barrel of 40.
An only child, DiCaprio, whose parents split when he was one, was groomed for stardom but resents the fame that has made him a prized paparazzi catch.
Intensely private, he has played cat and mouse with Sydney media since arriving and has taken to hiding under a large baseball cap and being driven about in a convoy of vehicles, with body doubles employed as decoys.
Home has been a five-bedroom, five-bathroom harbourfront mansion in Vaucluse with its own pool, private jetty and luxury cruiser. But after being discovered at the $10,000-a-week rental in his first weeks here, DiCaprio has also taken a complimentary suite at The Star, where he has his own butler, driver, limo and access to the casino's luxury jet.
For company DiCaprio has been enjoying time with his Gatsby co-star Tobey Maguire, a close friend for 20 years after the pair met at auditions for a failed spin-off TV series of Ron Howard's film Parenthood in 1990.
Director Luhrmann and his wife Catherine Martin look to have recommended some of their favourite haunts for dinner - the French bistro Felix and Woolloomooloo Wharf's Otto Ristorante early favourites of DiCaprio and his castmates, who also include Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher.
A week after settling into Sydney, DiCaprio's 24-year-old actress girlfriend Blake Lively, with whom he has now split, flew into town for a quick three-day rendezvous. During her stay, the pair visited Aria Restaurant at Circular Quay and Featherdale Wildlife Park at Doonside before she packed her bags for home with a gift from The Family Jewels in Paddington.
Other establishments to enjoy his patronage have included the nightclub Beach Haus, a popular hangout, where DiCaprio is rumoured to have twice picked up beautiful young companions.
He last month accompanied Mulligan and Maguire to a Sydney Swans game and has been spotted at Bondi - but not on the beach, rather tucked up at Icebergs.
Some have claimed that he has been miserable here - he abandoned a Harbour cruise with Maguire's family after spotting paparazzi nearby - yet Edgerton says he has been in excellent form.
"I think he is fantastic ... Not that I expected anything otherwise but he is an incredibly level-headed, down-to-earth regular guy who happens to be a great actor and one of the biggest movie stars on Earth," Edgerton said.
"There are obviously the trappings that go with that but there's never ever any real indication that he buys into that legend - he's just really cool and chilled out."
With all that fine dining under his belt, DiCaprio has kept himself in shape with workouts at the Hyde Park Club gymnasium and bike rides in Centennial Park.
Having last week taken up with underwear model Madalina Ghenea, life is looking very sweet

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertain...0-1226180874254

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October 30, 201113 yr

Thanks Ox for the article! Actually describes his sydney life as being very well.

I also like how they say that its not leos good looks that get him the ladies. But its his suave, cool personality that girls automatically get attracted to. :heart:

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October 30, 201113 yr

That was actually a nice article from the daily telegraph. I was getting a little worried reading the beginning parts but it turned out to be a good read.

Thank you Oxford

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October 30, 201113 yr

Tks Oxford for this very nice article about him!

I was a bit worried in the beggining too,but it turned out to be a cool article! Leo always leaves a good impression and all eyes are on him ... maybe because he's the biggest star in Hollywood nowadays! :whistle:

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October 30, 201113 yr

From Jim Carrey

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house working on my DiCaprio impression. -Jim Carrey
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Kat & Fash

What I don't agree with regarding the Daily Telegraph article is their claim that Leo resents his fame. As I've seen too many interviews in which Leo speaks about all the benefits he has reaped from being famous. That he doesn't like the pap intrusion into his life , but overall, their are too many positives about his staus versus the negatives to complain.

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October 30, 201113 yr

LOL Jim Carey tweeted that? :rofl: Thats so funny! :laugh:

Ox I responded to your PM

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October 30, 201113 yr

Hey, if any of you have a Barnes and Nobles by you, like me, according to this tweet they are giving away free J Edgar posters !

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Free poster of #J.Edgar at #BarnesandNoble.

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Kat

Thanks

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October 30, 201113 yr

Warner production company deals article ; includes Leo's Appian Way Production company

The State of the Studio Deals: Who’s Doing What Where
Posted on October 29, 2011 by Scott
Every year the trades provide an overview of Hollywood movie studio deals with producers. It’s helpful for screenwriters to know who has what pact where. For example from a new THR article, here is their synopsis for Warner Bros:
WARNER BROS. No other studio can boast its level of A-list talent-based shingles: Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way, Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey‘s Team Downey and Clint Eastwood‘s Malpaso Productions, which annually shows up with a prestige picture. Zack Snyder‘s Cruel and Unusual Films provides action and fantasy, and Todd Phillips’ Green Hat Films brings the laughs. Financing/producing partners Village Roadshow Pictures and Legendary Pictures (The Dark Knight Rises) share deep pockets and credibility. Alcon Entertainment has proved a reservoir of surprise hits (Dolphin Tale), and Dan Lin‘s Lin Pictures and Kevin McCormick‘s Langley Park Productions are run by former studio execs with an eye for good material. Several New Line pacts, including Adam Shankman‘s Offspring Entertainment (Rock of Ages), remain after the company was folded into WB proper.
Highlights:
Green Hat Films: Todd Phillips Phillips has turned The Hangover into the biggest comedy franchise of all time while turning himself into a major brand. He is a producer on the low-budget WB comedy Project X, which opens in March, but the writer-director takes his time and his slate remains on the thin side.
Appian Way: Leonardo DiCaprio His first film for Warners, Red Riding Hood, stumbled, but DiCaprio is a magnet for material — though much of it sits idle while he remains highly selective with regard to what he pushes. High-profile projects making headway include a long-in-the-works English adaptation of Akira, which just got a green light, and a Twilight Zone movie.
Pearl Street Films: Ben Affleck & Matt Damon The studio can’t get enough of Affleck, whose growing directing career (he’s now filming Argo) has him looking like Clint Eastwood’s heir. And Damon is clearly prepared to follow: The studio has grabbed several scripts for him to direct, including a drama screenplay the actor co-wrote. The duo also has the Whitey Bulger story in the works.

Funny comment from new filmaker whose film with be shown at this week's AFI premiere

Parting thoughts…
I am particularly excited about screening at AFI Fest. Starting in 1997 or whatever, when the AFI 100 Years 100 Movies list came out, I obsessed over it for years, always remembering that the letters AFI meant quality. For my birthday at some point my dad got me an ‘AFI Membership’ which seemed limited to a quarterly magazine and some other mailings, but it gave me a card to carry around, thus allowing me to introduce myself as a ‘Card Carrying AFI Member’ which failed to make me any more popular at school but instilled me with an inflated sense of importance that I look forward to finally losing when I get to the festival and am completely ignored due to not being Leonardo DiCaprio.

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