Study in China

Remember hearing that Leonardo DiCaprio dumped his “Gossip Girl” star girlfriend Blake Lively earlier this week because his mommy told him to? For those of you that don’t remember, the story went a little something like this: After a meeting between Lively and DiCaprio‘s mother Irmelin, momma DiCaprio decided she had enough of blabbering Blake. She reportedly told her son that Lively was “too far up herself for him.” Well, as it turns out, that those rumors were so false!

Marvin's Room (1996) Dir: Jerry Zaks Finally a movie of substance that harkens back to Keaton's earlier successes. Keaton co-stars with drama heavyweight Meryl Streep as two estranged sisters who reunite to deal with Keaton's recently diagnosed leukemia. Keaton's character is hopeful that Streep or one of her two screen sons can be a bone marrow donor for her and thereby possibly save her life. Meanwhile, Keaton has been caring for the sister's long suffering and long dying father, Marvin (Hume Croyn). Adding a little box office punch to the flick is current heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio as one of Streep's "problem" boys. Though the plot reads like melodrama, and to an extent it is, the movie is fairly subtle and unexpected in its story line choices. If nothing else, one doesn't have the feeling that the writers wrote the screenplay over beers and an episode of Married with Children. Nominated for Best Actress, Keaton gets to present a more ...