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Leonardo DiCaprio. Clint Eastwood. J. Edgar. Is it Oscar time already? That’s the vibe coming off of Eastwood’s latest, which just had its trailer release. It fits a lot of bio-pic formulas, with Judi Dench playing his mother, and Armie Hammer playing his possible lover. Once revered as a feared lawman, now seen as corrupt as some of the people he went after, J. Edgar Hoover’s life is juicy subject matter, but it’s unknown how it’s been cooked. Check out the trailer… If we were crappy pundits, the tagline for this trailer would be “J. Edgar Snoozer” as it looks like a bio-pic in the worst way. From the presence of his mother to the old age make up, it doesn’t feel like Eastwood and company have improved upon the Citizen Kane formula – which this recalls. DiCaprio likely wants an Oscar, and Eastwood seems to be in that mode where all he does is pump out respectable movies. If Gran Torino offers some small pleasures it was that it at least felt like a slight return to his older characte...

Wow—some guys really know how to get ahead in the business. Or, at least, Leonardo DiCaprio does.  After starring in such blockbusters as Inception, Shutter Island, and that one movie about the boat and the old lady and big diamond thing that let James Cameron be in the water again, Leo is taking a breather to star in a commercial.  For a Chinese cell phone company.  For five million dollars. Please excuse me while I pick myself up from the floor and get back in the chair here. Ok, that’s better. Yep, Leo is set to star in his next role as a pitchman in China for Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp, and is making a cool $5 million for it.  It’s not big surprise, on one hand—celebrities often promote items overseas (including DiCaprio, who, according to E! Online, “has also appeared in ads for watch-maker Tag Heuer and Suzuki”). What is unusual is the actor’s price tag, as $5 million “among the most lucrative one-off endorsemen...

Whenyou’re Clint Eastwood, you don’t have to try too hard with certain things. It comes with being a living legend. Want a hot screenwriter? Check: Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black. Want a hot cast? Check: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts and Armie Hammer are ready to work with you. And with J. Edgar, Eastwood assembled this dream team. We got a chance to talk with Eastwood and DiCaprio about the film, check it out… Did you have more than two or three takes on any one scene that you did? Leonardo DiCaprio : We actually did a lot of takes on this movie. I never left the set wanting more, that’s for sure. Clint is very adaptable and has his process and what he does is expect you to plant your feet and speak the truth like James Cagney says. That’s what we tried to do our best on this movie, and he gave us everything we could possibly ask for as actors. Clint Eastwood : What I do is whatever it takes, it takes. Sometimes you see a scene right away and a take looks great so you ...

 In the newly released trailer for Clint Eastwood's biopic, J. Edgar, Leonardo DiCaprio portrays FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. For the edgy role, DiCaprio, 36, ages from his 30s into his 70s. PHOTOS: Leo and Blake Lively's romance The film largely covers Hoover's role in the establishment of the FBI in the 1930s. When Armie Hammer's character, Clyde Tolson, questions the legality of what he's ordered to do, Hoover replies: "Sometimes you need to bend the rules a little in order to keep your country safe." PHOTOS: Meet my big screen twin In regards to the speculation that Hoover and Tolson were lovers, Eastwood told GQ magazine that the character's sexuality is not the focus of the film. "It's not a movie about two gay guys," the legendary actor-director said. "It's a movie about how [Hoover] manipulated everybody around him and managed to stay on through nine presidents. I mean, I don't give a crap if he was gay or not." Re...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire arrive on the set of their new movie, The Great Gatsby, on Tuesday (August 23) in Sydney, Australia. The 36-year-old actor will star opposite Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton in the new adaptation of the classic story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is expected to be released in November of 2012. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Leonardo DiCaprio Late last week, Leo was spotted going to Fred Segal to do a little shopping with his rumored girlfriend, Blake Lively, in Santa Monica.

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J. Edgar Hoover hated communists, Blacks, and Jews and simply loathed Lithuanian-born Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman, whom he had deported to Russia in 1919, although she was a U.S. citizen. But the two were curiously conjoined; both by American history and their polar-opposite politics; Goldman’s anarchism was inspired by the Chicago Haymarket Riots of 1886, while the future FBI chief’s understandably hysterical fear of domestic communism stemmed from the Cleveland, Ohio May Day Riots which happened shortly before he threw her out. Hoover, then head of the U.S. Department of Justice General Intelligence Division, said of Goldman and her lover, Alexander Berkman, that they were, “Beyond doubt, two of the most dangerous anarchists in this country and return to the community will result in undue harm." The riots and Goldman’s deportation are among early scenes in J. Edgar , the compelling, sometimes unbearably intimate and occasionally sympathetic portrait of Hoove...

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WHEREFORE ALL THE FUSS ABOUT LEONARDO DICAPRIO? For one thing, even wearing a luau shirt, the 22-year-old actor managed to storm through last year's update of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet with as much smoldering passion as any of his predecessors in tights. "Leo has an incredible hold over women," says producer Jon Landau, who made good use of it in this summer's epic Titanic , in which the Los Angeles native plays a love-struck passenger. "On the set he has this presence that just attracts female attention." The 6' DiCaprio, who set hearts fluttering as the gentle, retarded teen of What's Eating Gilbert Grape (which earned him a supporting actor Oscar nomination) and has reportedly been dating the same nonindustry girlfriend for a year now, seems taken aback by the reaction. "Suddenly all these teenage girls have become hysterical," he told London's Daily Telegraph in April. "What they do is shocking,...

So, it falls to the lot of Leonardo DiCaprio to play Jay Gatsby in Baz Lurhmann's 3-D filming of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Tobey Maguire has been cast as Nick Carraway, while Carey Mulligan is Daisy, the spoiled socialite who has an affair with Gatsby, whom she was in love with before marrying the boorish millionaire Tom Buchanan. DiCaprio? Tobey Maguire? 3-D? Yes, the alarm bells are ringing. This could be one of the greatest disasters of all time. A sliver of hope, however, is provided by Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet, a brilliant music video of a Shakespearean classic that perfectly captured the Zeitgeist of the MTV generation. Shakespeare's tragedy had been conceived for the stage, but Gatsby was created for the page so it can no more be filmed than Shakespeare can be sculpted. What a film director can do, however, is take the visual aspects of the story — the beauty of Long Island, the m...

[Picture: DiCaprio as a Teen] During his teen years, he lived at 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, California (which was later converted into a local public library) and his mother worked several jobs to support them. He attended John Marshall High School, a few blocks away, before attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies.

"Amazing," said Billy Zane's Cal Hockley when he spotted a tuxedoed Leonardo DiCaprio at the foot of that doomed ship's grand staircase. "You could almost pass for a gentleman." But who needs to? Even in his offscreen uniform of baggy jeans and T-shirts, this 23-year-old Titanic stunner is a first-class dreamboat. "Leo is absolutely awesome," costar Kate Winslet says. Claire Danes, who starred with DiCaprio in 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, prefers an understatement: Leo, she told PEOPLE last year, is "very aesthetically pleasing." And yet it's more than his soulful face that has sparked pubescent riots around the world, inspired four Leo-related bestsellers and more than 500 Web sites and made DiCaprio the most coveted man on the planet. Beneath the poet's brow, cherub lips and ocean-blue eyes beats the heart of a puckish party boy, known for a raucous sense of humor, dead-on impersonations o...

At Halloween, horror movies are all the rage -- and if you're an actor, they're great for exposure. Therefore, it's no surprise that most of Hollywood's biggest stars got their start being chased down or killed by ghouls and goblins. Here are five A-List actors who made their feature debuts in horror films. No one becomes a star overnight. It usually takes years of hard work and many thankless roles. Some of Hollywood's most famous actors began their careers as heroes and heroines in B-horror movies. Check out the humble beginnings of Leonardo  DiCaprio , George  Clooney , Jennifer  Aniston and more. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of Hollywood's most popular leading men. He's been nominated for three Academy Awards, six Golden Globes and is expected to earn more after the release of his latest film   J.  Edgar . Before DiCaprio became part of the industry's elite, he had to pay his dues. Most people consider the 1993 drama This ...

  BEST FILMS: True West, Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire All four of his supporting roles in the blockbusters are extremely worthy, though, again just supporting. Malkovich is best when he’s squaring off against a formidable adversary, whether it’s Glenn Close or Clint Eastwood or his best foil, Gary Sinise. Speaking of which, “Of Mice and Men” is the runner up. GREAT PERFORMANCES YOU MAY NOT HAVE SEEN: Being John Malkovich (not really playing himself per se) Shadow of the Vampire (‘20s director F.W. Murnau, shooting “Nosferatu”) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (cult leader) I’m Going Home (a film director) The Ogre (a naïve mechanic seduced into the Nazi army) Beyond the Clouds (Antonioni’s director) Shadows and Fog (clown married to sword-swallowing Mia Farrow) The Object of ...

Alda in MURDER AT 1600 TOWER HEIST is Alda's newest movie. About Alan Alda (1936 - ) Alan Alda was born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936 in New York, New York. Alda is the son of Joan Brown, a former Miss New York pageant winner. Alan Alda established a notable reputation playing ambitious authority figures that are often corrupt and unethical. Originally Alan Alda did not sign-on to play the character of Hawkeye Pierce on "M*A*S*H". In fact, only 6 hours before filming the pilot episode did Alda agree to sign on to the show,and only as long as his contract included the agreement that every episode of "M*A*S*H" ...

DiCaprio in TITANIC Leonardo DiCaprio (1974 - ) Leonardo DiCaprio was born Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio on November 11, 1974 in Hollywood, California, but is known by all as simply, Leo. His mother gave Leonardo the prominent name as a result of Leo's decision to kick her in the womb while she was standing in front of a DaVinci painting. His mother simply took it as a sign of bigger things to come for her baby boy; it seems his mother was right. Leo began his career very early. At only three years of age Leo starred in an an educational program, "Romper Room" (est.1953). Quite the tempestuous child, rumor has it he was nearly kicked off the show ...