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Despite its 53 mouthwatering photos, there's bad news for lustful female fans in this bestselling Leonardo DiCaprio book. "I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 to 20 years," Leo confesses. "[Boys nowadays] don't have the balls that Romeo did." But the good news, according to Leo's on-camera Juliet, Claire Danes, is that he is still "rather immature." So there may be hope! But beware of a too-direct approach: "Not that I mind being recognized, but all these teenage girls have become hysterical, man. What they do is shocking, climbing over walls and stuff."
Biographer Brian Robb covers Leo's career from childhood (when he got booted from Romper Room for being rowdy) to his Oscar nomination for What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and onward. Leo took what would've been River Phoenix's parts in The Basketball Diaries and Total Eclipse. Then he moved teens to tears in Romeo and Juliet (check out the Shakespeare Made Easy edition with a modern English translation and Shakespeare's original text side by side) and moved grownups to tears in Marvin's Room, a bestseller in Japan. Then he made the world weep in James Cameron's Titanic.
What's next? Whatever he likes. "Fame," as Leo observes, "is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go." --Tim Appelo, Bestsellers editor
Book Description
Hailed as the best actor of his generation when he was only 20 years old, and with only three films under his belt, Leonardo DiCaprio shocked Hollywood by turning down a movie with Sharon Stone because he thought it was too commercial. But then he had already passed up the role of Robin in Batman Forever which he felt was too mundane. In another figure, such confidence might be read as arrogance, but DiCaprio seems set to prove the depth of his cool assurance.
His stunning good looks were what first brought him to the public eye, but his third film, the off-the-wall surprise hit What's Eating Gilbert Grape, showed that he possessed a rare acting talent. His role as Arnie won him an Oscar nomination. Rapturous critical acclaim followed when he took the male lead in The Basketball Diaries, but DiCaprio refused to rest on his laurels. He starred opposite Diane Keaton in Marvin's Room and he was an award-winning wild Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.
He is the star of James Cameron's Titanic; the biggest selling movie ever, which has escalated Leonardo into super stardom status with it's phenomenal success. In his next film he will be playing the dual role of King Louis XIV/Philipe in The Man in the Iron Mask directed by Randall Wallace, and starring alongside Jeremy Irons and Gerard Depardieu.
In the same series as Plexus' successful The River Phoenix Album, The Leonardo DiCaprio Album gives a revealing look into the life of Hollywood's hottest property. Filled with large format photographs of DiCaprio, in colour and black and white, it has proved to have a massive appeal to the hundreds of thousands of DiCaprio fans, both male and female.
Brian Robb, a film journalist and writer from Edinburgh, is author of the highly acclaimed River Phoenix: A Short Life, Johnny Depp: A Modern Rebel and Brad Pitt: The Rise to Stardom, all published by Plexus.
