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Kate Winslet and her husband Sam Mendes are flying out to Los Angeles over the weekend  -  but not together. 'I'm completely traumatised because we've never both gone and left the kids, so we're going on separate planes - flying out and back on separate planes,' the five-time Oscar-nominated actress told me this week. 'It lessens the odds and makes me feel better. Sam's like: "Oh, you're crazy! We could have a really nice time together!"' But the 33-year-old actress is adamant. 'I know it sounds ridiculous, but I will go to any lengths to make sure my kids are OK.' Enlarge   Earthy: Kate Winslet's natural appearance in The Reader is a world away from her vampy appearance in Vanity Fair Indeed, just before I arrived to meet her at Sam's office in downtown Manhattan she had been busy, trying to sort out some complicated domestic drama. Kate is fiercely protective of her eight-year- old daughter Mia and ...

It is one of the most highly-anticipated films in production... and fans of the original Great Gatsby will have to wait until November 2012 to see how it compares. But they will be able to monitor the progress of the remake, as pictures of stars  Leonardo Dicaprio , Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher on set have already emerged just two days into filming. The actors were spotted in Sydney, Australia where they are hard at work on the Baz Luhrmann-directed project. Afternoon spin:  Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey Maguire are pictured driving in a vintage convertible on the set of The Great Gatsby in Sydney Best friends off camera, Tobey and Leo looked like they were having a ball as they took a vintage convertible for a spin around the grounds of Fox Studios.   It appeared to be a rehearsal run, as both actors were in casual jeans and T-shirts for the short drive around the lot, and accompanied by crew. DiCaprio will take on the role of Jay Ga...

A teenager conned British aviation bosses into believing he was a tycoon by showing them elaborate plans on setting up his own airline. The 17-year-old from York bluffed his way through meetings, created fictitious fellow executives of his 'airline' and set-up fake websites to bolster his story. With an imaginative twist, he even made-up an American parent company which signed off emails 'American Global Group, 35 Countries, 22 Languages, One Team'. Fooled: The teenager who conned airline bosses has been likened to Frank Abagnale Jr, who posed as a pilot and was played by Leonardo Dicaprio in the film Catch Me If You Can Similarities have been drawn with the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr, who convinced Pan Am he was a pilot while he was just a teenager in the 1960s, and whose exploits featured in the Leonardo DiCaprio film Catch Me if You Can, The smooth-talking teenager, said to be autistic and with a huge knowledge of the intricacies of th...