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Feb. 9, 2000 |
But while the actor is ready to admit that "the core" of what's
written about him "might come from somewhat real events," he
figures only about 10 percent of what you hear about him is true. "I don't want to get into specifics, because it's just a waste of
time," DiCaprio says in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, "but
I will comment on one." A rumor that causes him great pain, that is as starkly disturbing
as the cartoons of DiCaprio's boyhood buddy R. Crumb and
that I, for one, am rather sorry to see go: The Pussy Posse. The actor says he doesn't know who's responsible for coining the
catty phrase to describe him and his frisky compadres, but it
wasn't him. "I think it's the most degrading thing toward women
I've ever heard in my life," he tells the magazine. "I've never
used that term in my entire life." Regrets? He's had a few. And they mostly have to do with the true
rumors. "I wish I hadn't said 'Screw this ... I'm going to go out
there and do whatever the hell I want to do, whenever the hell I
want,'" DiCaprio says, before admitting that he "still [has] that
attitude." And it started young, when he and his Bohemian dad joined
something called the Mud Men. "These guys smeared their bodies
with mud and put rags over their genitals and made these mud
masks and ran around," he says. Once -- mud-smeared, loinclothed
-- he broke away from the group and jumped out at a poor,
unsuspecting woman trying to buy a hot dog. "She lost her shit," he chortles. "It was dope." Well, it's all dope until someone loses a hot dog. - - - - - - - - - - - - The talkative
mime "I couldn't get a word in edgewise!" -- Studs Terkel on interviewing mime Marcel
Marceau, at the Floating Film Festival. - - - - - - - - - - - - Disappearing
acts It's a sad week for magic shows and dancing bears. The New York Daily News reports that magician Doug Henning
died Monday at age 52 after a five-month battle with liver
cancer. Although Henning traded in his successful career in the
magic biz for a less stellar turn in Canadian politics, his most
recent passion was holistic real-estate development. He spent his
final years refining plans for Veda Land, a transcendental
meditation theme park he sought to build on the Canadian side of
Niagara Falls. This past week also saw the loss of Hercules the grizzly
bear, who appeared in a number of Hollywood movies, including the
Bond flick "Octopussy." The gentle animal -- who "had ears like
two furry purses," according to his owner -- passed away at home
in Scotland at the age of 25. - - - - - - - - - - - - The
unfathomable depths of celebrity friendship "We're both minorities, and we both love to shop." -- Madonna,
explaining her bond with pal Rupert Everett in the upcoming
Vanity Fair. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy
bits It's a good thing Bridget
Jones fans are used to waiting for happy endings. Empire
online reports that Kate Winslet will not play the
man-obsessed, self-help-book-reading heroine of Helen
Fielding's popular books. Was there interference from
Fielding herself? The author is said to favor having an unknown
actress play Bridget. But producer Eric Fellner says
Winslet "turned down the role because of a clash of schedules."
Or you might chalk it up to pride and prejudice. You know our poll-obsessed culture has gone too far when ...
there's a survey asking music fans to vote for the rock star
"most in need of a breath mint." The results of Candystand.com's
poll won't be final until next month, but so far it looks
like Marilyn Manson should get ready to have 100,000
breath mints delivered to his door. Kid Rock and Ozzy
Osbourne follow Manson's 75 percent lead with less than 6
percent each of the votes. Madonna, meanwhile, has only 3
percent. Maybe that's what she meant by being in the minority ...
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