Kate Winslet graces the cover of the December issue of Vanity Fair channeling the Deneuve character from the film Belle de Jour. Pick up the issue and read about Winslet's reunion with Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in her upcoming, possibly Oscar-nominated role in the film Revolutionary Road, her issues with weight, and meeting her husband Sam Mendes.
Police will likely seek the extradition of a woman accused of fleeing to Canada after she allegedly slashed Leonardo DiCaprio with a broken beer bottle at a party in 2005, officials said. Aretha Wilson, 37, has been in custody for several months in Toronto in connection with an aggravated assault case there, Los Angeles police Detective Steve Ramirez said Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Prosecutors are awaiting a formal communication from police before they launch an inquiry into whether the charge against Wilson is an extraditable offence, district attorney's office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said. Dicaprio suffered "great bodily injury" when Wilson allegedly attacked him with a broken beer bottle on June 20, 2005, as he was leaving a party in the Hollywood Hills, according to an arrest warrant charging her with one count of assault with a deadly weapon. Wilson failed to turn herself in after the arrest warrant was issued, officials said. DiCaprio attorney Blair Berk said the 33-year-old actor has been co-operating with local and Canadian authorities.
Despite their brief break in October, Leonardo DiCaprio, 33, and Bar Refaeli, 22, were spotted holding hands at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills on Dec. 20. Are they back on? "They were never really 'off,'" a DiCaprio source says. "It was always a distance thing. Leo was making a movie in Morocco [this year], and Bar had her modeling career." Refaeli's mom, Zipi, says: "Bar is working all over the world. Says the DiCaprio pal, "It's a struggle to make a relationship like theirs work, but yes, they're together."
For a guy who hates tabloids, Russell Crowe gives great gossip. "You know, I worked with Leonardo [Dicaprio] when he was 17," Crowe recalls. "He was a virgin and he'd talk about that constantly." Of course, Dicaprio has made up for lost time with his conquests of supermodels Gisele Bundchen and Bar Rafaeli, among others. So Crowe is looking forward to debriefing the lothario on their upcoming flick Body of Lies. "I'm hoping...he can fill [me] in on what's happened in between, maybe show some photos," Crowe laughs in Entertainment Weekly. "I'm sure life's different now."
Leonardo Dicaprio is reportedly looking for a new model after splitting from his post-Gisele Bundchen babe, Bar Rafaeli. On Friday night at Sweet Paradise in NYC, Dicaprio was with Josh Hartnett checking out the arm candy at the afterparty for the new skateboarding film Nothing But the Truth. And, in an odd twist, Rafaeli's new squeeze is surfer Kelly Slater, who dated Bundchen after she and the Titanic star broke up. Slater got into some trouble over the weekend in Israel when he and Rafaeli exited a hotel in a Tel Aviv suburb before dawn to find photographers waiting for them. He was arrested after fighting with local paparazzi. A police spokesperson told the AP that in an effort to prevent the photogs from taking pictures, Slater pushed them. A brawl broke out, and Slater was taken in for questioning and later released.
It was only a matter of time: two of Hollywood's most politically active stars are teaming up for a political thriller. George Clooney is in negotiations to direct Leonardo Dicaprio in Farragut North, a feature adaptation of an upcoming Broadway play based loosely on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential election campaign. Both would also produce the film. Named after the Washington Metro station located near many lobbyists' offices, the play follows a young, idealistic communications director who works for an inspiring - but unorthodox - presidential candidate. During the campaign, his career is done in by more seasoned politicos who thrive on poisonous partisan politics, dirty tricks and backstabbing.
Discovery Communications has partnered up with Leonardo Dicaprio to help them launch their Planet Green channel. Dicaprio will executive produce a 13-part series called Eco-Town, which will chronicle the "green" rebuilding of a small town in Greensburg, Kansas that was devastated by a tornado in May. Greensburg will be rebuilt as a "sustainable model of eco-living and one that will save it from future environmental catastrophe." Dicaprio will also serve on the board of advisers for Planet Green, which is set to launch in 2008.
PageSix has some Cannes gossip... After months of denying their affair, Rose McGowan and Grindhouse director Robert Rodriguez arrived as a couple to the Death Proof premiere. Rosario Dawson also found love on set and walked the red carpet with Eli Roth, who directed a Grindhouse trailer for a fake horror film. Jessica Simpson also caused a stir at a private yacht party by spending "the whole night following Leonardo Dicaprio around like a lost puppy," says a source. "He just seemed freaked out and kind of ignored her."
Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Moss, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Cate Blanchett, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen are among the celebs listed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Barbara Walters penned a few words about her View co-host for the mag: "And so, last September, we began a thrilling roller-coaster ride," Walters writes of O'Donnell. "We followed Rosie's passion and compassion, her feuds and fearlessness, her humanity and humor." Director Martin Scorsese says of his oft muse Dicaprio, "Dicaprio is another guy a lot of us underestimated as a pretty boy type," and calls him a "true actor." Time also named fourteen "power givers," including Bill and Melina Gates and Angelina Jolie.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have confirmed that they will present their film A Mighty Heart at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The movie, produced by Pitt's film company, stars Jolie as Mariane Pearl, the widow of reporter Daniel Pearl. "The story unfolds like a mystery," Jolie told EW mag. "You've got people collecting clues and trying to solve what happened. But it's also very real and personal. We didn't want it to be too melodramatic or too polished. We didn't want it to be a typical movie." Other big names scheduled to visit the South of France for the festival include Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz, who will open the fest with My Blueberry Nights; George Clooney, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle in support of Ocean's 13; Michael Moore will present his latest doc, Sicko; and Leonardo Dicaprio is set to promote a special screening of the environmental documentary The Eleventh Hour.
The Departed star Leonardo Dicaprio will reportedly wed model Bar Rafaeli this June, according to the National Enquirer. "They say they'll probably have a private ceremony in Israel, then a big ring ceremony and party in the U.S. towards the end of the year," a source told the rag. After a year of dating, the couple are said to be "ecstatic" about their wedding. Rafaeli showed Dicaprio around her native Israel earlier this month, where the actor's security team had a much-publicized clash with photographers. "The reason they made the trip to Israel is that Leo wanted to get Bar's parents' approval before he popped the question. Now they are busy making wedding plans," the source said. I'm not so sure I buy this story as Dicaprio has said many times that he is not ready to wed or settle down...
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio will team up again in The Wolf of Wall Street. The story is based on the as-yet-unpublished autobiography of a Long Island stockbroker who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for refusing to cooperate with the FBI in a 1990s securities case. The case dealt with mob infiltration and the corruption of the corporate banking world on Wall Street. Scorsese and Dicaprio have previously worked together on The Departed, The Gangs of New York and The Aviator.
Two of Leonardo Dicaprio's bodyguards were arrested in Jerusalem yesterday after a scuffle with photographers. "Two of his security guards were arrested by police after being involved in a fight that broke out," said an Israel police spokesperson. "They are being questioned." Dicaprio was on a private tour of the Western Wall tunnels in the city with model girlfriend and Israeli native Bar Refaeli when the incident took place. The couple have been dogged by photographers since their arrival in Israel on Sunday, and their plans for a quiet holiday were dashed after a group of Israeli entertainment reporters happened to be on the same flight from Frankfurt.
Leonardo Dicaprio has been awarded the Black Lung Award by a group of Canadian high school students for the prevalence of cigarette smoking in the movie Blood Diamond. The purpose of the Black Lung Awards is to target actors and movies that attempt to glamorize smoking by featuring tobacco use. Blood Diamond was picked as the most smoke-filled movie of the year while its lead actor managed to earn himself "male chimney" honors. Night at the Museum was awarded the Pink Lung Award as a film without a single smoking character. "We want people to realize how much smoking there actually is in movies and how much they glamorize it," said a student at the school. "They never show the bad things that happen to people because of smoking."
Leonardo Dicaprio will produce and star in a film about the rise and fall of Enron. Based on the book Conspiracy of Fools, the flick will follow a new employee at Enron who exposes the corruption and greed that pre-empted the energy co.'s demise into bankruptcy... Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller will play fiction's famed Hardy boy detectives in The Hardy Men, which will see the brothers reunite to solve a final case... Jennifer Lopez will reportedly guest star on an episode of Entourage next season. Talks are in the works for the singer to play herself in the HBO hit.
According to some media reports, Leonardo Dicaprio has been dumped by his model girlfriend. Bar Rafaeli reportedly ended the couple's six-month relationship because she found it hard to deal with the actor's work schedule and partying. "Bar is a professional model so she has to be healthy and look great every day, so there is no way that she could keep up with that kind of decadent lifestyle," a friend of the model told a British paper. "When they were apart she worried about what he was up to and in the end decided it would be easier and less painful just to say enough is enough."
Leonardo Dicaprio's manly roles have inspired Brad Pitt to eye out a more macho lifestyle for himself. "I caught myself on the phone the other day," Pitt said. "Leo has been playing some real strong men these last few years and I found myself saying, 'I want to play more of a man.' I got off the phone and I thought, 'No, live like a man, and the movies will follow."