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"He going to spread his wings," one of my studio sources tells me now that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play J Edgar Hoover in the still untitled biopic. Already getting early Oscar buzz for Chris Nolan's Inception, Leo will be directed in the epic FBI drama by Clint Eastwood who's producing with Brian Grazer and Rob Lorenz through Imagine and Malpaso. Scripted by Dustin Lance Black, production begins later this year. The project began at Universal, where Imagine is based, but came together at Warners, where Eastwood's Malpaso has long called home. Imagine had been developing the Dustin Lance...

I find the entire story to be a fascinating allegory of mankind's suppression of the knowledge of God. About self-deception. About the painfulness of the truth about us as humanity...we are the villains. Now, I am sure that Dennis Lehane never intended this tale of a deluded U.S. Marshall to be seen for anything more than a thrilling exploration of one man's painful journey towards the truth. This should be obvious. But it does not take a great deal of effort, in my opinion, if you possess a robust Christian worldview, to see the allegory. You see, like Teddy, we...

REASON * May 2000 Earth Day, Then and Now The planet's future has never looked better. Here's why. By Ronald Bailey Thirty Years ago, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Fifth Avenue in New York City was closed to automobiles as 100,000 people joined in concerts, lectures, and street theater. More than 2,000 colleges and universities across America paused their anti-war protests to rally instead against pollution and population growth. Even Congress recessed, acknowledging that the environment was now on a political par with motherhood. Since that first Earth Day, the celebrations...

When Van Jones was tapped to serve as special adviser on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality earlier this year, the appointment was heralded as a significant development for the green movement. And for good reason. A pioneer in fusing economic opportunity and social justice with environmentalism, Jones, 40, represents an important progression in our country's perception and thus our approach to combatting global warming. At the center of Jones' vision for socially uplifting environmentalism is the creation of "green collar" jobs, a phrase he helped extend beyond advocacy and policy circles into mainstream conversation. Jones...

DiCaprio To Convert to Judaism To Marry Bar: Arab World Says To Hell With Him Israeli journalist, Guy Bechor, writes on the Israeli website gplanet (Hebrew language) that the Arab world is going crazy over reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is converting to Judaism in order to marry Sports Illustrated cover girl, Bar Rafieli, an Israeli. The report appeared on Al-Arabiya website and, according to Bechor, is quite vicious. Apparently, Leo is a hero in the Arab world (everyone loved Titanic) but that the combination of his relationship with the Jewish beauty, and his conversion, should it happen) instantly transforms him...

Read how I got kicked out of Hollywood here! Read my screenplay Global Village Idiot here for free!It's Oscar time and you know what that means -- more hectoring movie stars on the red carpet admonishing us to: save the environment stop AIDShave your baby out of wedlockcrash your pickup truckcheck yourself into sexual rehabget yourself arrested for methamphetamine possession and crack, but only if your last name is O'Neal. ...and more, but I haven't had a haircut in six weeks so I'm a little bit behind on my celebrity moralizing thanks to my barbershop's -- sorry-- hairstylist's copies of...

Leonardo DiCaprio is crossing his fingers for a US election win by Democrat Barack Obama and he believes the rest of the world is, too. "I think it is the true ideals and dreams of America to have an African-American president named Barack Obama to be the representation of the United States at a time like this," said DiCaprio, in Paris as co-star of Middle-East themed movie Body of Lies. Obama, DiCaprio went on, is "a man that has great policies, a man that is a great intellectual, who knows what he's doing". "I've my fingers crossed that he will...

Posted: Tuesday, Aug. 05, 2008 MOSCOW Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio could take on the role of Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in a new black comedy, a Russian screenwriter has said. "As we compared his (DiCaprio's) photos with those of Lenin ... the similarity was striking. I should even say that Leo could play the role of the revolutionary leader without make-up," said Russian screenwriter Alexander Borodyansky on Sunday. The director of the Moscow International Film Festival, Natalya Semina, said, "It is common knowledge that DiCaprio has Slavic roots. His ancestors on his mother's side emigrated from Russia to Germany."...

Green campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio has come under fire for his attempts to raise funds to save polar bears - because he's using reams of paper to highlight the cause. The actor, who wrote and narrated 2007 documentary 'The 11th Hour' to draw attention to global warming, recently sent out packages to members of the public in an effort to garner support for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)'s Polar Bear S.O.S. campaign. The package contains a one-page letter from DiCaprio; two pages from Frances Beinecke, president of the NRDC; a flyer for a free Save the Polar Bear! bag; a...

Inhofe slams DiCaprio and Laurie David for scaring kids in two-hour Senate speech debunking climate fears Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Environement and Public Works Committee, delivered a more than two-hour floor speech today debunking fears of man-made global warming. Below is an exerpt of his remarks about how Hollywood, led by Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David, has promoted unfounded climate fears to children. Also, watch the video of Inhofe denouncing Hollywood on the Senate floor. Senator Inhofe Speech Excerpt: We are currently witnessing an international awakening of scientists who are speaking out in opposition to former...

Global Warming Media Disaster: DiCaprio’s ‘11th Hour’ Bombs at Box Office By Noel Sheppard | September 5, 2007 - 13:21 ET More evidence that Al Gore's Live Earth flop was indeed the beginning of the end to the public's fascination with global warming: Leonardo DiCaprio's recently released film on the subject has bombed with moviegoers. As reported by Fox News's Roger Friedman Wednesday (emphasis added throughout): His environmental documentary, "The 11th Hour," has been a total bust at the box office. After 18 days in release, the film has grossed only $417,913 from ticket sales. As Friedman pointed out,...

It's a good thing Leonardo DiCaprio made so much money from "Titanic" a decade ago. His environmental documentary, "The 11th Hour," has been a total bust at the box office. After 18 days in release, the film has grossed only $417,913 from ticket sales. The 90-minute snore-fest is playing on 111 screens this week, but that number is likely to be reduced this Friday. The film will be sent to DVD heaven after that. By comparison, Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim's similar but far more engaging "An Inconvenient Truth" had already made $3.5 million by its 18th day of release....

Greenpeace's co-founder -- now a consultant to the forestry industry -- took a swipe at Leonardo DiCaprio's new eco-documentary, "The 11th Hour," calling it a "climate-changing rant" that misleads the public about the dangers of deforestation. DiCaprio had no comment on the piece. "He again calls for more discussion and urges people to see 'The 11th Hour,'" his publicist Ken Sunshine said. "The 11th Hour" is a critically lauded film, narrated and co-written by DiCaprio and co-directed by Nadia and Leslie Petersen Conners. It examines how industrialization has decimated the Earth's eco-systems. But in his op-ed titled "An Inconvenient Fact"...

"Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio sent out a message about global warming at the Cannes Film Festival."

Leonardo DiCaprio sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and a handful of select film publications at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes on Saturday to discuss his upcoming environmental documentary "The 11th Hour." The film, which premiered in a special Out of Competition screening Saturday at the Festival de Cannes, uses a barrage of images and reams of interviews with the world's top environmental scientists to paint a bleak but still optimistic picture of the fate of our planet. "Hour" was directed by sister Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, who wrote the script with DiCaprio. What was the most...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Hollywood star and long-time environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has a message for the world: go green now, before it's too late. As DiCaprio tells it in film documentary "The 11th Hour", launched on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, people are living in the last minutes of the final hour before it may be too late to do anything about global warming. "Global warming is a reality. It is happening," DiCaprio told reporters gathered for the movie's debut. Last year "An Inconvenient Truth" explored the same environmental issue by telling of former U.S. Vice President Al...

Leonardo DiCaprio has been fighting to save the world from climate change — but the star's neighbours claim it is he who is wrecking their environment. The Departed actor — who will debut his environmentalist call to action film The 11th Hour at Cannes next week — is being taken to task in court for allegedly undermining and trashing the garden of his neighbours' multi-million dollar mansion. DiCaprio is being sued for "maliciously" crossing onto a neighbouring couple's property while renovating his Hollywood Hills home — cutting and removing hedges, excavating earth and bedrock which the couple claims destabilised their...

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Anyone have any ideas on why Scorsese is so smitten with Leonardo DiCaprio? First he casts this wooden, talentless, scrawny-ass pretty boy in Gangs of New York, and loses the Oscar; then 2 years later casts him as Howard Huges, a role in which every critic deemed Leo dreadfully miscast. How could the guy who brought us GoodFellas think that gluing a fake mustache on Leo would pass him off as a middle-aged Huges? I literally burst out laughing when I saw the trailer for Avaiator and Leo's little pubescent attempt at facial hair! It reminded me of the Brady...