pami It means that even though she thinks leo is a great guy... that she doesn't think they were suited to be boyfriend and girlfriend/ more than friends

Leo sounds like an amazing guy though that even an ex will feel comfortable saying kind words about him

Leo took a picture with this woman last year at a party and we know leo is a fan of the show hehe. I gues we can add her to the long list of Leo lovers

"In other Shore news, Jenni “JWoww” Farley is bringing her wow factor to the latest issue of Maxim magazine. The non Italian native strips down to some barely there lingerie in an all new spread. JWoww tells the mag her celebrity crush is Leonardo DiCaprio and her turn off includes guys who call her “JWoww.” She also reveals she was excited about filming in Italy because she actually studied art for seven years."

http://www.realitytea.com/2011/07/08/jerse...y-maxim-photos/

Hehe I love how Leo can hang with Helen Mirren and J-Wow at the same time

^ I Know I love that he has a wide variety of people he communicates with. He seems like a cool, down to Earth guy and not some arrogant snob haha. The status of someone doesn't seem to matter to him... it's more about who the person is inside.. I love that

There's apparently spoilers... so i won't post that part... its in the link if your interested

EXCLUSIVE: Libertas Reviews the Clint Eastwood-Leonardo DiCaprio J. Edgar Hoover Screenplay

I had the opportunity recently to read Dustin Lance Black’s screenplay for the new Clint Eastwood-Leonardo DiCaprio film J. Edgar, set for release this October. Even though the film covers a fair bit of Cold War history, in terms of the FBI’s handling of communist infiltration, due to the fact that J. Edgar covers Hoover’s full professional story – from his rise in the late 1910s all the way through to the Nixon years – I’ve decided to talk about the screenplay outside the context of one of our regular Cold War Updates!. I would love to give the screenplay an even more exhaustive write-up, frankly, but due to my own time constraints I’ll have to keep things brief – and focus primarily on what the film will be saying about the anti-communist struggle.

I’ve decided to write about this screenplay publicly because it’s covering extremely important areas of history – 50+ years of it, in fact, dwelling on issues of law enforcement and privacy that still resonate with us today – and also because we’re dealing here with an actual historical figure, with a very public record. (I’ll also try to keep things here as spoiler-free as possible – with the understanding, again, that we’re dealing with Hoover’s long public record.) People should know, frankly, how the man who founded the FBI and shaped a large part of 20th century American domestic history is going to be portrayed.

Young Hoover arrives to investigate a bombing.

There’s a lot to like about J. Edgar in its first act. Hoover’s colorful rise is set against the struggle over communist infiltration of American society during the late teens and early ‘20s – a struggle rarely covered in cinema, as most people assume (mistakenly) that Soviet agents only first hit our shores during the 1930s. The screenplay actually begins with the bombing of Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s home by communist/anarchist saboteurs in 1919, and we see famous figures like the young FDR and Dwight Eisenhower pour out onto the street in the aftermath – as a peppy, ambitious young Hoover arrives on a bicycle and begins piecing together clues over the bombing. In fact, if you’ve seen early set photos of DiCaprio as Hoover on a bicycle (see right), those images are likely from this opening sequence of the film – a sequence that sets the tone and mood of the film with America under a constant sate of siege (first from communist agents in the 1920s, then from criminal mobs in the 1930s, and finally from Soviet agents again from the late 1930s forward). We see Hoover and his maverick team take down Emma Goldman and a violent gang of communist-anarchist saboteurs, and Hoover begins to put the policies and procedures of modern criminal investigation in place.

The communist/anarchist saboteurs in this section of the film, incidentally, are not depicted as terribly pretty people. They’re made to look dangerous and deceptive – not as victims of a witch hunt, or martyrs. In fact, with their bomb-making factories, and attempted gamesmanship of the legal system, obvious parallels will be drawn with today’s Islamic terrorists. The message here couldn’t be more plain: a robust federal investigative force is needed to face down this threat, and ensure domestic security.

Hoover himself at this point is portrayed as dapper, fussy in his attire, mother-fixated and otherwise awkward and repressed with the ladies … but at the same time highly professional, visionary, organized, and almost Sherlock Holmes-like in his ability to draw investigative connections within a case. We learn, for example, that Hoover was one of the people responsible for the Library of Congress’ original index card system – a development that later helped Hoover conceptualize the FBI’s fingerprint database. The young Hoover is depicted as an eccentric, likeable genius, a kind of Richard Feynman of criminal investigation; if you’ve seen The Aviator, which featured DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes as a dashing eccentric, it was easy to imagine DiCaprio as Hoover here in much the same vein.

Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, DiCaprio as Hoover.

In Act Two – which is dominated by the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and Hoover’s burgeoning relationship with his second-in-command (and eventual lover, so the story goes) Clyde Tolson – things become more complicated. The extremely complex and challenging Lindbergh case, which in its day was bigger than the O.J. trial and the Clinton impeachment all wrapped together, exposes the FBI’s legal and investigative limits – inspiring passage of the Lindbergh Law (making kidnapping a federal offense, once a kidnapper crosses state lines), the consolidation of the FBI’s fingerprint database, and the founding of the FBI’s first crime lab (quaintly enough, in the Attorney General’s private library). At the same time, Hoover himself begins to become a media figure and media manipulator, as he and his ‘G-Men’ go after high-profile criminals like John Dilinger – both in real life, and in comic strips and movies.

Here we begin to see the cracks surface in what the screenwriter takes to be Hoover’s facade. Hoover is depicted as abusing his investigative powers, using recordings of wiretapped love trysts and sordid behavior to threaten public officials; over the course of the screenplay, for example, we see Hoover threaten FDR, RFK, MLK and even Nixon at various points. Admittedly, some of these instances are depicted as acts of self-protection, or as Hoover’s effort to politely ‘hint’ to public officials that – for example, as in the case of JFK – it might not be such a great idea for a sitting President to bed down an East German communist agent; nor might it have been such a great idea, as depicted in the screenplay, for MLK to have participated in sexual trysts just prior to receiving the Nobel Prize. Be that as it may, Hoover is depicted here as ruthless, vaguely seedy, and deeply hypocritical given his own blossoming romance with Tolson – the kind of thing that would likely have destroyed his own public reputation at the time. Hoover is also depicted here as lying and exaggerating about his record, and indulging in personal vendettas.

Visionary and ruthless ...

It’s really in Act Three, however, that J. Edgar’s portrait of Hoover grows truly dark, possibly to the point of caricature. Most of this has to do with Hoover’s wiretapping of MLK, and what is portrayed as Hoover’s deepening ‘paranoia’ over communist influence in government during the 1960s. Hoover’s suspicions toward those around him grow stronger, he grows colder and more callous, his lies bolder, and he’s finally depicted as little more than a creepy old man – peddling lurid audio tapes to the media, Newsweek’s Ben Bradlee in particular.

http://www.libertasfilmmagazine.com/exclus...ver-screenplay/

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Fash!!

Since I saw the Hoover-documentairy I've been dying to know how on earth they were going to translate such a complicated story to the big screen,

and this is just PERFECT to find it out

pami It means that even though she thinks leo is a great guy... that she doesn't think they were suited to be boyfriend and girlfriend/ more than friends

Leo sounds like an amazing guy though that even an ex will feel comfortable saying kind words about him

Hmm, I think of course what she would say in interview after they broke up after several years is going to be different than how she spoke about him when they were together . She's not going to rave about Leo the way she did before or even more so, say what they really meant to each other at one time, because now her main guy and now husband is Tom and it would not be fair to him to talk about her past with Leo when they were lovers. I really believe at one time, Giz did want to marry Leo and really did love him in that way. Just my thoughts.

THANKS for the new pic! On Popsugar, they have a closeup of that one pic and he looks great! Wiish there were more!

Also, thanks FashionDream for all you've found

thanks bari for explaining

thanks wijn for pic

thanks Pami for my lovely Gi quote! I've read that interview and have been searching for it to post that part,but couldn't find!

thanks fash for your post!

Thanks Solange for that mag cover!! I haven't seen it before

Yeah I also think she was in a bit of a pigeon hole in regards to her comment. If she hadn't added the last bit it would have opened up the possiblty of people whispering about whether she was really over Leo etc.. and like you said since she's got a husband now it would be a little awkward.

Also I guess we can forget about seeing pics of leo and Blake in Rome/ Capri..... Blake has been pictured filming her new movie in Malibu. Kind of disapointed to be honest lol. Anyways Just hope there's more Leo pics to come

Thanks Solange for that mag cover!! I haven't seen it before

Yeah I also think she was in a bit of a pigeon hole in regards to her comment. If she hadn't added the last bit it would have opened up the possiblty of people whispering about whether she was really over Leo etc.. and like you said since she's got a husband now it would be a little awkward.

Also I guess we can forget about seeing pics of leo and Blake in Rome/ Capri..... Blake has been pictured filming her new movie in Malibu. Kind of disapointed to be honest lol. Anyways Just hope there's more Leo pics to come

Thanks Solange!!

And yeah fash, I was kind of disapointed also that we won't get any new Leo/Blake pics in Italy, lol. But hey shes busy filming in Malibu! At least we know they have been spending time together recently in L.A (twitter sightings, Soho, and suposivly San Diego zoo) so thats good! I'm sure they've been trying to spend as much private time together as they could before she started filming.

Anywho....

I hope we get more Leo pics! Wonder how long he'll stay in Italy, or if hes already left! It was nice to see hes been with his mom though. Seems like its been awhile!

Also its fitting that she is spotted in Malibu... since that was the last place Leo apparently was before going to Capri

Like you, I also hope we get some good shots of Irmelin and Leo... its been too long!!

"I really believe at one time, Giz did want to marry Leo and really did love him in that way. Just my thoughts."

I do agree with you Solange! I think they loved each other a lot!

Btw,I will swoon anytime after seeing this wonderful pic you put here!

Hey girls,I wanna ask something to all of you...do you think Leo and Blake are still together? I'm asking this,cause it's been ages since we saw them together and sometimes I'm in doubt,I mean,I'm not sure about it. What do you think?

"I really believe at one time, Giz did want to marry Leo and really did love him in that way. Just my thoughts."

I do agree with you Solange! I think they loved each other a lot!

Btw,I will swoon anytime after seeing this wonderful pic you put here!

Hey girls,I wanna ask something to all of you...do you think Leo and Blake are still together? I'm asking this,cause it's been ages since we saw them together and sometimes I'm in doubt,I mean,I'm not sure about it. What do you think?

yeah I'm pretty sure there still together. They were spotted in Cali just less than a week ago, and before that they were at Soho, so yeah I'm pretty sure. Like I said earlier I'm pretty sure they were laying low and being private and trying to spend as much time together as they could because Blake is now filming a movie!

"I really believe at one time, Giz did want to marry Leo and really did love him in that way. Just my thoughts."

I do agree with you Solange! I think they loved each other a lot!

Btw,I will swoon anytime after seeing this wonderful pic you put here!

Hey girls,I wanna ask something to all of you...do you think Leo and Blake are still together? I'm asking this,cause it's been ages since we saw them together and sometimes I'm in doubt,I mean,I'm not sure about it. What do you think?

whoppss double post!

Jou

Thanks for more 1995 interview clips & Danes interview

Kat

Thanks for alert to Pop Sugar wedding pix, nice to finally see some still photos

Wijn

Thanks for Many Faces of Leo

Solange

Thanks for fabulous mag cover

Pami

Thanks for Gisele interview excerpt. I agree with Solange's comments as to what Gisele meant by her comment

Re: Are Leo and Blake still together ? My answer would be YES . We know from reliable sources they were together at Soho House on Tues 6/28 . And then other reliable sources placed them at San Diego Zoo on Monday July 4th after which time Leo would have left for wedding.

I personally like the idea that rather than spending the 4th with others, knowing they would have to be apart due to committments (his wedding/her filming ), they opted to spend the day just the two of them

Fash

Thanks for JWoww comments and J Edgar screenplay comments

Also, thanks, for news as to why Blake wasn't at wedding with Leo.

Pami

Thanks for Gisele interview excerpt. I agree with Solange's comments as to what Gisele meant by her comment

Re: Are Leo and Blake still together ? My answer would be YES . We know from reliable sources they were together at Soho House on Tues 6/28 . And then other reliable sources placed them at San Diego Zoo on Monday July 4th after which time Leo would have left for wedding.

Tks for your replies Kat and Oxford! You clarified a lot of stuff!

Hey girls!!

I'm so happy! I got it! Look at my first signature!

Beautiful Pami!! Great choice... I can't stop looking at it

Very Gorg Pami!!! He looks soo sexy and inceptioney in your signiture!! Veryyyy cute!

Also Solange props for your siggi too! He looks very sexy with that short hair!!