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About Leonardo DiCaprio - Leonardo DiCaprio. Born November 11, 1974 in Los
Angeles, Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio has become a modern day Casanova.
DiCaprio has been romantically linked with so many models and
actresses it boggles the mind, but more on that later. DiCaprio
was raised in Echo Park, an area Leo terms as "Hollywood
slums", his parents had divorced only a year after his birth.
His name was chosen by his mother because when she was at the
Uffizi looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting her unborn son
gave her a swift kick, a name incidentally that his advisors wanted
him to change to Lenny Williams. Leo's first part came at the
age of five, when he was in Romper Room, which was his favorite
TV show at the time. Allegedly, DiCaprio was almost thrown off
the set for misbehaving on the set, and DiCaprio still has a reputation
as a troublemaker to this day.
DiCaprio had a re-occurring role on ABC's Growing Pains and played
Tobias Wolff in This Boy's Life, the latter which drew him high
praise from critics. DiCaprio's momentum continued with What's
Eating Gilbert Grape, where he played the mentally retarded brother
of Johnny Depp. That role got him an Academy Award nomination.
DiCaprio's momentum didn't continue though as he bombed in the
movies The Quick and the Dead, The Basketball Diaries, and in
Total Eclipse, where he played the homosexual poet Rimbaud. Leonardo
atoned himself with spirited performances in Marvin's Room and
Romeo + Juliet, but DiCaprio's ship literally came in when he
played Jack Dawson in the big budget Titanic, which was the highest
grossing film ever made. He then followed up with The Man in the
Iron Mask, where he played a dual role as good and evil twin heirs
to the French monarchy. His latest film, The Beach, netted DiCaprio
a whopping $20 million in which he plays an traveler who is given
a map to paradise by an unknown stranger. DiCaprio also is rumored
to be eyeing the biographic film about Howard Hughes, the eccentric
bisexual deceased billionaire.
Leonardo is perhaps the busiest actor in Hollywood at getting
busy. He is in effect the Wilt Chamberlain of the stars. Although
some have said he is a dud in bed, such as Linnea Dietrichson,
a steamy Danish barmaid who says she got it on with Leo after
meeting in a London pub. Unfortunately for her, she came away
disappointed, saying he was spouting cliché pick up lines
and lifeless kisses. She also said the moment of passion with
what she termed as the flabby and pale DiCaprio only lasted 5
minutes. There also are reports that Leo is not endowed anywhere
near that of John Holmes, as porn star Kendra Jade termed him
'average'. Perhaps was the impetus for him suing Playgirl magazine
stopping them from publishing full frontal nudity of the actor
in 1998.
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This might be refuted considering his reported naked
romp in Cuba with supermodel Naomi Campbell, a rumored brat in
her own right. Incidentally, DiCaprio met another model Carla
Paneka while in Havana and was said to be getting dual action.
He's been linked to many other's as well, including Kristin Zang
(who reportedly dumped DiCaprio and broke his heart to the point
where he stopped his Romeo ways for over a year), Vanessa Hayden,
Kate Moss, Alicia Silverstone, Eva Herzigova (whom he literally
stole from washed up Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres to whom she
was married!), his Juliet co-star Claire Danes, singing lolita
Mariah Carey, French actress Virginie Ledoyen (who also co-stars
in The Beach), the then married Demi Moore (which may have hastened
her later divorce from Bruce Willis), Natasha Henstridge, Carmen
Electra, Helena Christensen, Juliette Lewis, Bijou Philips, Baby
Spice, and his Titanic co-star Kate Winslett! There are many other
lesser known names, and Leo and his 'gang' are always out on the
town wherever they might be. What does Leo say about all this
screwing around getting nude with supermodels and the like? "I'm
obsessed with girls, when you're my age your hormones are just
kicking in and there's not much besides sex on your mind."
There also are several reports of Leonardo being what some would
call a punk. During Jennifer Lopez's 29th birthday party in New
York, DiCaprio was partying with guy pal and rapper Q-Tip, until
one of his ex-friends David Blaine showed up, when DiCaprio reportedly
shouted "we're out of here!" and headed to the exits
with his buddies. When leaving the club, Leo reportedly threw
a beer bottle at the press barely missing a photographer, although
others at the scene say it was no beer bottle. There was talk
that Q-Tip is homosexual and Leo's past work and agressive sexual
tendencies may indicate that perhaps reports of Leo being bisexual
have some merit, in fact recently he was pinned with being seen
with some young Thai men when filming The Beach. Another report
says that Leo was being an immaturish child who was flicking lights
on and off at a party for Mary Fanaro in Malibu trying to get
people to leave. When a woman tried to stop him, he allegedly
slapped her hand and continued until Kate Hudson, daughter of
Goldie Hawn, arrived. One of the partiers goes on to say in New
York Magazine "He was like a spoiled kid who finally shuts
up when you give him a new toy. All of a sudden, he was all over
her."
Star Wars fans struck back at Leo when during a filming of The
Phatom Menace, a trailer for The Beach caused the packed house
to begin chanting "Leo sucks!" and it was originally
reported that he was in the theater, but later reports deny that
claim. Apparently Leo has thought Menace itself sucked, and he
was rumored to have turned down the role as Anakin Skywalker in
Episode 2 (in fact, Access Hollywood confirmed he turned down
the role because of scheduling conflicts). His run-ins with James
Cameron during the filming of Titanic and his questioning of the
director made him even wonder why DiCaprio took the role in the
first place. This all being said, DiCaprio has been seemingly
an unfair target of the paparazzi as they continue to hound him
to the where in Taiwan where security representatives reportedly
blocked DiCaprio and crew's leaving until one of his friends apologized
for cussing out a photographer. DiCaprio claims it was because
the photographer was shouting obscenities about the man's parents.
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