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Leo sighting:

Gisele Bundchen attends super hairstylist Harry Josh‘s first annual #HarrysParty on Saturday (May 4) held at The Jane Hotel in New York City.

The 32-year-old supermodel was joined by fellow models Miranda Kerr, Anne V, Behati Prinsloo, Erin Heatherton, and Joan Smalls.

Love seeing Anne and Behati together – two of Adam Levine‘s girlfriends!

“So nice to see my old friendslb_icon1.png,” Gisele tweeted.

Also spotted at the party: Leonardo DiCaprio, Hilary Rhoda, and Rachel Dratch and Will Forte with designer Richard Chai.

http://www.justjared...hs-harrysparty/

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Thanks to everyone for all the new Yankee pix , vids, sightings, and great pix I'm returning to :flower: :flower:

Calibi

Wow , that's great, I can't wait to hear your thoughts :ddr:

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Lua

Adorable, adorable, adorable gif, tks :heart:

Just saw tweet below , don't know if legit or not, but agree with tweeter's comment about Leo :p

I had read there was screening of Gatsby today with cast , so might be

Cody Van Lancaster ‏@VanLancaster 4m

Just met the entire cast of the great Gatsby...holy Leo u handsome mutha

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From Toronto Sun : Leo did his homework for Gatsby

NEW YORK -- Somewhere between Titanic and today, Leonardo DiCaprio learned the art of careful camouflage.

Friendly and apparently forthcoming, the actor, 38, is an old hand at deflecting any and all questions that come his way from the press. The star of Baz Luhrmann's new film version of The Great Gatsby is at a press conference here to promote the movie, and promote the movie he does. DiCaprio manages never to talk about himself; he's sitting at a long table right in front of reporters, but psychologically speaking, it's as if he's seated behind a glass wall.

Asked if he identifies with Jay Gatsby's rags to riches story, the actor says, "Sure, I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character. He's someone who created himself according to his own imagination and dreams, and lifted himself by his own bootstraps "¦ and created this image that is the Great Gatsby "¦ I think we can all relate to the dreamer in Gatsby ... We get excited at the prospect of somebody who has, ah, that much um, what's the word I'm looking for?" He laughs. "Somebody who has that much ambition."

DiCaprio's own ambition came early. He was an actor from the age of about 14 onward. An only child raised mostly by his mother, DiCaprio did advertisements at the beginning of his career, branching out to TV series, the soap Santa Barbara and finally, in 1991, a film role. (It was in Critters 3.)

For his next film, DiCaprio co-starred with Robert De Niro in This Boy's Life (1992), and in many ways he never looked back. Some of his films have done better than others, but his choices are superb -- from What's Eating Gilbert Grape or Romeo & Juliet to Titanic, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, Blood Diamond, The Departed, Inception and Django Unchained, among many others.

Titanic, of course, made him a global movie star.

He has three Oscar nominations (for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond) and innumerable other award nominations and wins. He has been connected romantically to various models, such as Gisele Bundchen and Bar Refaeli, and he dated Blake Lively and Juliette Lewis, among other actresses.

He quietly supports major environmental initiatives.

Certainly, DiCaprio seems to have done his homework on The Great Gatsby, and perhaps more so than his castmates. He first read Scott Fitzgerald's novel in junior high, says the actor, and he remembered Gatsby as a hopeless romantic who loved only one woman.

"To read the book again as an adult was fascinating," he says. "It's one of those novels talked about almost 100 years later for a reason -- it's incredibly nuanced, it's existential, and here at the centre of it is this man who is incredibly hollow. He's searching for some kind of meaning in his life, and he's attached himself to this relic known as Daisy. She's a mirage. I was struck by the sadness in him for the first time."

He continues, "Even when he's holding Daisy in his arms, he's still searching for the thing he thinks is going to complete him. That's the Gatsby I was excited about playing, as an actor."

It's interesting to wonder if he's talking about himself at all when he talks about Gatsby's obsessive search 'for the thing that will complete him'.

Guess we'll never know.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/05/leonardo-dicaprio-did-his-homework-for-gatsby

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btw I'm just seeing pics of Rihanna at the Nets game last night so I find out the tweets I posted yesterday wasnt accurate. :clobber:

Stefan Bondy@NYDNInterNets 20h

Turns out Leo DiCaprio is not here. Typical NY Times.

8:31 PM - 4 May 13 · Details

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Leo sighting today

The tweeter replied to another tweeter that Jennifer seems to be given a fashion related interview

Kingmob6 ‏@Kingmob6 39m

Okay, NYC trip made by celeb spottings. Leonardo DiCaprio Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, all in the hotel lobby.

Elissa Elissa ‏@LissaM_13 23m

@Kingmob6 were they all together? did her & bradley seem friendly?

Kingmob6 Kingmob6 ‏@Kingmob6 7m

@LissaM_13 Cooper was sitting w/ DiCaprio & others, Lawrence arrived to do an interview w/ someone.

Kingmob6 ‏@Kingmob6 7m

@lenajeuns Cooper & DiCaprio were together, Lawrence & her handlers or whoever turned up later for a print interview or something

@Kingmob6 Hi.Can you please tell me where did you saw Jenn,Bradley and Leo? They were all together?

Kingmob6 Kingmob6 ‏@Kingmob6 22m

@lenajeuns half hour ago, Greenwich Hotel.

Vid taken by fan; luv the guy's comment to Leo at end of vid :p

In vid we see Leo greet/hug Steve Warren, his entertainment lawyer that he help present award to at recent Glaad event with Cami

http://www.keek.com/!VfpVbab

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Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘I Like to work with people I can trust’

By Janet Susan Nepales

Published: May 6, 2013

Los Angeles – Leonardo DiCaprio is Hollywood personified. Glamorous. Handsome. Talented.

When the 38-year-old actor arrived in the room, he looked like he just stepped out of the pages of GQ magazine or some fashion shoot. But that’s just how Leo is – always dapper, confident and charming.

Portraying the role of the rich and enigmatic Jay Gatsby in the Baz Luhrmann-helmed movie, “The Great Gatsby,” Leo is perfect for the part. The movie, which is scheduled to open the 66th Cannes Film Festival, is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel of the same title. It also stars Leo’s best friend Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke and Elizabeth Debicki.

Asked how challenging it was to do something as revered as “The Great Gatsby,” Leo replied, “Taking on a novel of this caliber that is this celebrated and so revered around the world is a very huge risk because you are interpreting a novel that’s considered a masterpiece.”

He added, “Then when you translate that to the cinematic form you have to make specific choices and do your own interpretation of that novel. So it was a very daunting task. I don’t know if I would have ventured into even attempting this subject matter had I not had two incredibly close allies – one is Baz who I have known since I was 18 so I’ve known him for 20 years; and Tobey, whom I virtually grew up with. I’ve known him since I was 12 years old and he’s essentially like family.”

The wonderful thing about working with people you trust, according to Leo, is that they could be honest with each other. He said, “We ventured into it with the partnership and understanding that we were going to be as honest as we could and cut-throat with each other as we could about the way we’d attempt to take on this masterpiece and be as direct as we possibly could with one another.”

As for working with his close friend Tobey, whom he first met while auditioning for the “Parenthood” series in 1990, Leo admitted, “It was an incredible experience to have Tobey there constantly. I am glad to have Baz there, too, and to have people who I knew I could be as honest as I possibly could with every single day on set. Because as much as this movie is Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of ‘The Great Gatsby,’ which has a heightened aspect of reality, we wanted to remain as true to the novel as we possibly could because it’s called a masterpiece for a reason. It’s filled with nuance and it’s a very progressive novel for its period. It is timeless and it is a masterpiece.”

Asked what he would do to sweep a woman off her feet, Leo said he would not throw parties, give diamonds or truckloads of roses just like Gatsby. “I will just be myself,” he revealed. “I think that women ultimately don’t respond to those things. I think that they have to just feel comfortable with you. That’s all, you know. I think there is a lot of speculation for many different men as to what women are attracted to and there are many misconceptions. I don’t think women of quality don’t care about those things.”

So did he learn anything from Gatsby, we wondered. “Oh sure,” he quickly replied. “He had an enormous gift for hope. I think that we all need to have that. He was not in touch with reality but I think that we all connect with that and I have that, too.”

http://www.mb.com.ph/article.php?aid=10717&sid=4&subid=26#.UYbfMr4o6tU

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"For its first two thirds, Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is busy busy busy with nary a minute to avoid an onslaught of stylized metaphors. People keep asking me Is it like “Moulin Rouge”? Well no, it’s not nearly as unruly because Luhrmann has to stick– more or less- to the F. Scott Fitzgerald text. He has a structure and a story and at some point he has to get with the program. And he does. The last third of his Gatsby is one of the most beautiful, moving films I’ve ever seen. And the first two thirds? They are a joyride through the director’s wild imagination.

DiCaprio is the wild card here. After playing Hoover, and Hughes, and several patrician characters, I wondered if he could differentiate among all these similar voices. But Gatsby is more like a version of Frank Abagnale the pretender from “Catch Me If You Can.” Gatsby is a dreamer, he’s obsessed with Daisy, he’s unrealistic about his goals.

DiCaprio is an oddity in the film business. He’s the defacto leader of his generation of actors. He’s not a theater actor; he’s a movie star. But he gets lots of kudos. At 38, he gets Oscar nominations but no Oscar. His Gatsby probably won’t get him that Oscar. but he’ll get close. He begins as a ghost, to Daisy, to us. But as he gets fleshed out, this Gatsby has a lot of pathos. He’s doomed. We know it, he doesn’t. And I think DiCaprio can be very proud of this performance."

http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/05/06/review-baz-luhrmanns-3d-great-gatsby-party-like-its-1922

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First negative review of Gatsby via Yahoo... (can't wait for more reviews...so far a majority have been positive!) Weird because the review says it gets buried in Lurhmans flash and dazzle, but then turns around and says it was dull for lurhman? :idk:

'The Great Gatsby' Review: How Many Flappers Make a Flop?

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/great-gatsby-review-many-flappers-flop-051416007.html

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