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Leo as J. Edgar Hoover! Weeeiiiirrddddd....
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. It wasn't so long ago that Leonardo DiCaprio was scoffed at. I remember in the late '90s I was the weird (male) defender of the man, but you couldn't convince most guys that there was more to DiCaprio than being attractive to the ladies. They obviously hadn't seen his dramatic work and were just looking at the surface of Romeo + Juliet and Titanic.
So, it's a little vindication seeing that DiCaprio is the go-to A-list star for the best directors in the world. From Scorsese to Nolan to Eastwood to Tarantino, the man's in high demand.
And I dig that he goes for some odd characters. He's next starring in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar and EW just released the first few photos of DiCaprio in his Hoover makeup. It's weird! Very curious to see how this one turns out.
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And is that really Leo in Hoover make-up? Looks a lot like plain Leo to me.
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...from Citizen Kane.
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Unless thats what Clint's going for
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...after I saw The Basketball Diaries. Not a an out and out terrific film, but Leo's riveting in it.
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Aug. 12, 2011, 10:11 p.m. CST
If it's not makeup, then it's weight gain. Or maybe his face CGI'd onto Val Kilmer's head.
by little_lebowski
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Any idea how Clint will approach Hoover's relationship with Clyde Tolson?
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Ac-TING!
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He definitely showed his chops in Basketball Diaries and to anyone who saw it it was obvious he was gifted...
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Aug. 12, 2011, 10:35 p.m. CST
He just looks like a baby faced kid in a yard sale suit.
by JethroBodine
I don't see him as "getting into the character". So he's got a new haircut???? Check out Pacino as Phil Spector, it's LOTS more fun.... http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-ent-110804-pacino-spector-combo.photoblog600.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/11/article-2025045-0D57502F00000578-905_306x423.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/11/article-2025045-0D5644D000000578-81_306x423.jpg http://lunkiandsika.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/al-pacino-phil-spector-2011.png http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRoJ4So9A8u-FVWO-4v8vOW5qNCIJnRYuvN8xGZsua72sK9SDl1
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as a queer? Cuz I wouldn't mind seeing Leo in some man-on-man action.
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He has in every movie since Gangs of New York. No stretch here. That is not to say he won't be great. I think Leo is a generational movie star. Not only is he talented but he will be one of the ones people talk about when they talk about movie stars of this generation.
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Just rent Total Eclipse. You won't think of Remus Lupin the same way again.
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leo. is that actually make-up? he looks like an older version of a diseased twat ie. himself.
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How is it weird, Quint? He looks like himself.
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Literally one of my top 12 favorite movies of all time, and not just because it stars my favorite actress, Cate Blanchett. i have sky-high expectations for this. Given the people involved, we should take nothing less.
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Looking back, I think Leo wasn't necessarily the problem in big misfires like R+J and The Beach...the former, in my opinion, was just a bad idea to start with and the latter, while it got most of the points in the book across (the place is only perfect up to the point where people turn up), wasn't exactly done with subtlety.
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Aug. 12, 2011, 11:44 p.m. CST
Eh don't get why people are complaining about make up...
by Andrew Coleman
Look up pics of Hoover... Not that much you could do to make him look different. So don't see what make up would do. Frankly his performance is all that matters. I bet any money he'll hit a home run with this. Why people think make up somehow makes a character what it is confuses me. I don't care if he has a little more make up on or not... I care about the performance.
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Kirk Cameron and Leo was just incredible. I was a huge Leo defender back then. Then came his crap like the Departed and Inception. What happened to classics like the Beach and Man in the Iron Mask. Leo needs to get back to his roots and find Kirk Cameron.
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Man in Suit! Man in Suit! Man in Suit!
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Aug. 13, 2011, 12:26 a.m. CST
He's a pipsqueak that can convincingly pull off being pissy...
by Immortal_Fish
He doesn't brood. Men with nutsacks that have dropped can brood. DiCaprio can't. All the DiCaprio can do is be pissy. And, thus, he is the type you'd maybe think twice about messing with if you've had a few. 'Cause he's got that crazy pissy unpredictable vibe. That's all he's got. Range? Hardly. This guy can do pissy. And that's it. He's a pissy little boy.
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Aug. 13, 2011, 12:38 a.m. CST
Go get "Total Eclipse" & watch him ass fuck David Thewlis
by BoRock_A_Boomer
He plays a right cute little faggot
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Now J. Edgar Hoover will appear and destroy us.
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are awesome....
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Yanno looks wise he looks more like Jimmy Hoffa. And I'll bet this movie will be just about as good as HOFFA with Nicholson. Wanna get someone who can act with more range and emotion other than looking pissy and looks more like J. Edgar? Paul Giamatti's your guy. Leo's good, but he ain't right for the role. But I guess that doesn't matter as long as he sells tickets. Hell if it sold tickets, they would cast a talking tomato in the role.
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To make it historically accurate.
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Maybe they could do the Obama biopic too...There's no stopping Leo.
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But, like Depp, he's usually miscast and ends up playing the wrong kind of roles. Any attempt made at gritty, tough or manly and he always looks like a little boy frowning. It's all box-office I know but why not get a raddled guy who looks a bit like Hoover and projects the right persona?
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Aug. 13, 2011, 2:59 a.m. CST
jasper stillwell: You're right about everything you said. But the reason:
by tamethecunt
fucking money. He brings it in most of the time. Esp. last year alone. W. Shutter and Inception.
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Aug. 13, 2011, 3:01 a.m. CST
Bytheway, I just read the script and it's a lot better than I thought it would be. If you want it:
by tamethecunt
http://www.mediafire.com/?dengjzdy2wd It's worth a look. In fact, it's very,very well done. I'll take a shot and predict Leo gets the award w/ this one.
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at all. Looks like Leo to me.
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Hes a decent actor no doubt but if he was the actor of his generation it would be a pretty sad state of affairs. Hes not in the same league as Edward Norton. Nortons performances in Primal Fear and above all American history X are untouchable by anything Leo has done. (The contrast between pre jail Derek and Post Jail Derek are just sublime) He's just too baby faced and keeps taking on these tough guy roles and he just pretty much ruins films for me personally. i respect the guys ability to pick a script enormously but his pretty boy look often dont suit the characters he plays. Hey just one guys opinion though.
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I'm 6'5", two-twenty and there's two of me.
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He looks almost identical to how he always looks.
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Leo looks just like him here
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Consistently great actor who has never sold out on any role. What does he have to do to win?
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They just cut his cair
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It was painfully obvious he had talent but was getting typecast in the same way Hollywood has done to all it's attractive young talent - Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger etc He's a damn fine actor, who generally picks good projects. Catch Me If You Can, Shutter Island, Departed, Inception, Aviator and now this latest movie - the guy can do no wrong in my book.
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did a great job in public enemies should of got an Oscar nom
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Aug. 13, 2011, 6:24 a.m. CST
DICAPRIO COMES OFF AS A LITTLE KID PLAY ACTING IN HIS DAD'S CLOTHES!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinMan
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(A single witness) it is perfectly reasonable that Hoover could have been gay. Estimates range around 5-10% of the population. Where were they? If underground, it would make sense of 1) Hoover's lack of female relationships and marriage 2) His long-standing relationship with Tolson 3) His extensive blackmail files (to combat being outed) 4) Arguably, his reluctance to go after the Mafia, if they had some kind of evidence (probably a picture of him in bed with a male prostitute) against him. ## Cross dressing seems doubtful--to consciously place himself in a situation where a piece of photographic evidence THAT damning could be produced would seem unlikely. Otherwise, you have the tale of a brilliant, committed, ultra-patriotic closet case, an American tragedy, really, and certainly rich material for a biopic.
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and...what make up? He looks the fucking same.
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treasury dept guy on Lucky's ass....is a fucking DEAD RINGER for a younger J. A bit tall,...but that crazy face...is similar already enough for me.
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HBO mix up,,,it's early.
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Well done, Mister. Statistically speaking, the vast majority of compulsive crossdressers are heterosexual men. And that's not even taking into account British comedy (j/k). My lesbian Psych professor is always quick to point out details like that. It doesn't change the truth in your points tho. In fact it just strengthens your stated case by adding new population percentages for him to fall into if he doesn't fit one. Society now doesn't differentiate between cds, drag queens or gays. There's no way they would have back then, and it would have been political suicide in any case.
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Aug. 13, 2011, 7:56 a.m. CST
Is he going to play every legendary man who lived in the 30s-50s
by BoyNamedSue
Howard Hughes, later Frank Sinatra....eventually, he'll play Elvis, JFK, and maybe even Martin Luther King Jr.....he's a good actor, but too baby-faced to be playing these parts.
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Aug. 13, 2011, 8:06 a.m. CST
For some reason I have trouble accepting Leo portraying older/more powerful characters
by heyscot
I've always thought he was a pretty good actor but I never accepted him as an older actor. I thought he was pretty good in The Aviator but I didn't buy him as Howard Hughes past a certain age. . .does anyone else have that reaction?
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I've been saying exact same thing for years. He's completely unbelievable in these "tough guy" roles. Did you see Shutter Island? Some guys just can't pull off a fedora.
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Y'all seeing what I'm seeing right?
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but he's won me over since then. Inception was great. After that I watched Shutter Island and was fully converted. I think he'll do fine as Hoover.
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to play Hughes in the Aviator. Like others have stated, he has too much of a baby face. Still currently one of my favorite actors.
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Keep in mind, if this is going to cover the scope of Hoover's life...Hoover himself was very young for the position he held at first. He was put in charge of an agency that barely existed and was considered to be somewhat of a joke, and fought massive bureaucratic and PR battles to turn the FBI into..well, the FBI. It's not a big deal having him young in a large part of the movie....only later scenes will need aging.
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I realize many of the real "deep" roles are found in serious dramas, but honestly, the guy really needs some comedy or something lighter at least. If he keeps scowling like that in every movie his face is gonna stick like that.
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Aug. 13, 2011, 10:30 a.m. CST
As bad as he was miscasts as Hughs that's nothign compared to the part in Gangs
by tamethecunt
who the fuck would believe he could have taken Bill the butcher? That was the worst one.
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Because the only thing "weird" about them to me is how much Leo looks like himself... I'd like some of what Quint is smoking, please.
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It's really simply a matter of efficiency. Both "Leonardo" and "DiCaprio" have more letters than we want to type. Plus, his last name takes an extra half second to capitalize the "C". So, in summary: lazy.
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Titanic, Aviator, DeParted, Inception, Catch Me If You Can. String of entertaining movies. I watch movies that keep me talking about them and make me want to buy the Blu Ray, rent them on Netflix. He is the rare actor today that can get me to spend money on movies. That is a fact. Count me in for the Hoover flick. I trust him.
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Plus some Brill cream
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...still looks forehead vein poppin' constipated, his one an only acting expression.
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had some scenes opposite Leo as an FBI agent. Said Leo and Eastwood were cool as shit.
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ever since I saw him hold his own with De Niro in This Boy's Life and playing Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, he gets a free pass for everything else he'll ever do. Have I liked everything he's ever done? Hell no, (Titanic [puke] for one) but the guy can fucking act.
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Aug. 13, 2011, 12:53 p.m. CST
I just hope he gets the Oscar he deserved for The Departed
by CherryValance
Category fraud cost him that one. *sigh*
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Aug. 13, 2011, 2:09 p.m. CST
He is a good actor but there is no one that is more physically miscast as this guy.
by SierraTangoFoxtrotUniform
Howard Hughes? WRONG! Hughes was half a foot taller, had a much deeper voice, and overall was much more physically imposing that DiCaprio. Terry O'Quinn, in his few minutes in Disney's The Rocketeer, nailed Hughes. He wasn't that good at all in Gangs of New York, because it's a shame. Had Scorsese not had his head up his ass and actually properly cast the main character and love interest then it could have been a terrific film. As it stands, DiCaprio and Diaz nearly ruin the film by themselves. Now he's playing Hoover? Eastwood is one of those "it's either good or bad" (Invictus was complete shit) directors, and casting is NOT his strongpoint. This looks to be yet another example.
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And Leo is getting laaaaarger !" Set aside jokes though....he's a great actor....I'm in !
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Aug. 13, 2011, 2:26 p.m. CST
I like Leo too and he seemed to be a good guy BUT
by HollywoodHellraiser
he no more J Hoover than he was Howard Hughes! You don't have to look like the person but you have to immersed(sp?) yourself like Adrien Brody in The Pianist. Leo is a good actor and was good in The Departed as was Damon. But Leo was NOT Howard Hughes! We'll see if he can be J Hoover!
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I can't think of anyone else who would do it better.
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Not much to do with make-up, but JEH always shaved his hair above his ears.
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Where is this "J. Edgar Hoover" makeup? I'm not sure what the difference is between this and Dicaprio's regular face. Anyway, it's not like Hoover had an eye to chin machete scar or anything truly distinctive. Dicaprio as Dicaprio should suit anything but the Hoover diehards. All none of them.
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Thought he was good in Catch me.. And haven't seen Aviator so Blood Diamond was what won me into the pro-Leo camp. Pretty much really liked everything I've seen him in since
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I do not believe him in anything he does. To this day, he still looks and sounds like the little orphan kid on Growing Pains. He has the voice of a teenaged boy. I simply do not understand the appeal.
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Aug. 13, 2011, 7:59 p.m. CST
Leonardo DiCaprio as Fats Domino in the Fats Domino Story. Rated R.
by Orionsangels
Leonardo DiCaprio thinks he can play anybody. Well you can't you cocky son of a skunk!
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...the roles he plays generally are not suited to his disposition, voice or physique. Hollywood keeps projecting on to him he-man stature he simply does not have.
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Other than Quint admitting his man-crush on boy-Leo. <p> This Boys Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries - Leo was always good, he just through in a few left turns along the way. Unfortunately, they weren't always good, so it took a few of those turns before people got used to his choices. But I still think he's always been good at what he does. Can't believe dude is pushing 40, though. He's going to be rocking out the leading man rolls for another 25 years if he keeps aging this slowly.
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That film was so bad that I fast-forwarded through the slow parts and still couldn't finish the whole thing. What happened to Michael Mann?
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He was awesome in This Boys Life. I seriously think he out-acted De Niro and at the time, De Niro was at the top of his game. And seriously, what happened to De Niro? Does he really need money or does he just need a new agent.
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I think De Niro was at the top of his game a good 10 years earlier, check his filmography!
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idk, what are you talking about?
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you all grew up with him and you can barely face the fact that YOU are older men now. Look at me: I'm 35 this year: I'm a coot, but I still feel much the same as I did when I was 19 (or Leo in Romeo and Juliet) or 23 (or Leo in The Beach). Face it: none of us feel like Jack Nicholson: life doesn't offer the opportunity to grow up anymore. You think you can grow up in a swivel chair or in front of a screen? Some of us obviously weren't watching Fight Club closely enough.
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Aug. 14, 2011, 6:55 a.m. CST
Remember the rumour that he was gonna play Anakin Skywalker?
by Super Joker
Imagine if that happened. Career, meet toilet.
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Aug. 14, 2011, 8:14 a.m. CST
I we lived in an era of plentiful good actors, we'd not have to keep using Leo for every role.
by YackBacker
Imagine the 1970s where Leo played J.J. Gittes, Popeye Doyle, Michael Corleone and Martin Brody. That's pretty much the issue here- not that Leo is so amazing but that he's so reliable in comparison to the other American actors of his generation. And that, my friends, is pathetic.
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I like DiCaprio's movies, but he has the look of a guy who has lived the soft life his whole life. It's jarring whenever he has to play a tough guy.
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sorry, wrong movie.
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Aug. 14, 2011, 12:07 p.m. CST
Dicaprio is definitely a very good actor. He does still have that doughy baby face though.
by Orbots Commander
Still, you can't argue over his project/script choices. He chooses quality, more often than not, over the size of the paycheck. I'm sure he's received offers to headline one superhero franchise or another, so it's a testament to his prudent career choices that he hasn't completely cashed out yet. Not that cashing out is a bad thing, if the movie is right. Look at Inception: both a big summer popcorn special effects thriller, a huge hit, but also a very good, very re-watchable movie. I'm sure at some point Dicaprio will find his 'Jack Sparrow' franchise and go down that route, but up to now he's been making some really smart choices and working with legendary directors. He actually reminds me of Matt Damon; you can look at their resumes and you really can't find one big out and out turd among their filmography.
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Aug. 14, 2011, 12:24 p.m. CST
If Dicaprio really wanted his own super hero franchise then...
by Orbots Commander
...he could do worse than getting a Daredevil reboot of the ground. His name would get a top tier writer and director involved, and it would be at the very least, a quality production with zero studio interference.
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..."off the ground"....damn lack of editing button on AICN, mumble, mumble....
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Aug. 14, 2011, 1:25 p.m. CST
Leo looks his age now, but he still has the voice of a 15 year old.
by Christopher3
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"Ridiculous" is a word that gets a pounding on my keyboard every time I come to aicn. Every movie idea or casting decision they come up with nowadays strikes me as totally fucking ridiculous. Anyone capable of snapping themselves out of their electronically-induced, media-saturated trance knows that the idea of this grimacing, no talent pretty boy sack-of-shit playing one of the ugliest frogs on the historical block is, well... fucking ridiculous! I'm getting an ulcer.
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Yeah, he, um, hasn't grown really convincing man parts yet, but, Jeebs...he's even pulled off "full-retard. He acts more than he diets. That puts him ahead of anybody in his generation.
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Aug. 14, 2011, 3:50 p.m. CST
Then again, yeah, whoever thinks THAT works as J. Edgar needs to go back to make-up school.
by Subtitles_Off
Then again, I never, for a second bought Hopkins or Langella as Nixon, either. And I don't care how great an actress Meryl Streep is, I'll never buy her as dusty old cunt.
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Gay male population is closer to 3-4% than the oft-quoted 10%.<p> If you dig in to it, there's really no evidence at all that Hoover crossdressed. It's the 50's equivalent of a popular internet meme. Maybe he did, but anybody who asserts that it is a known fact is simply speaking from ignorance.
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Aug. 14, 2011, 8:02 p.m. CST
toonol, you're assuming the gay population could be measured.
by Subtitles_Off
They're like the unemployed. There are so many of them, the straights stop counting at some point, just so their heads don't explode. Otherwise, you just start questioning all your preconceived notions. Nobody wants that.
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to Leo's immediate right? Sure looks like him, if not. To me at last. Just got done watching 'The Social Network' for the first time the other night.
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Are we still judging movies and their actors by 2 screenshots? Seriously ridiculous people commenting on how he looks from next to nothing. A picture does not capture an actor in a role. The actor ACTING does. I love Leo in virtually everything he's done. Though this was largely due to writing and directing, he was absolutely fantastic in Catch Me If You Can - one of my favorite flicks. Tom Hanks and Leo. Doesn't get much more fun to watch than that. I'll be checking this out. I like Eastwood's directing endeavors thus far!
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i'm sorry, but...wrong. It's always embarrassing when someone asserts something with fact, when they don't have the slightest idea what in the hell they are talking about. The problems with finding the real number are significant, to say the least. Start reading sources here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation). The more the subject is studied through pure science, the higher the percentage climbs, as follows. The U.S. Census says 1%, as if a married individual is going to admit having gay or bi tendencies. The LGBT Task Force finds up to a collective 8% who are open and unashamed about it. When Americans (both straight and gay, Liberal and Conservative) have 'personal admittance' removed, and are asked how much of population is LGB, *all demographics* give the *same* collective estimate of 25%. When pure science gets involved directly, such as the Kinsey work, and includes all sexual activity in one's life from adolesence, it climbs as high as 35%. If you include positive sexual response in a lab even as the subject tries to suppress it, it climbs to 46%. Research Gallup polls, Duberman's work, the Williams Institute, McConaghy and a hundred other researches if you're just innocently ignorant. If you're just a ham-fisted troll, then disregard accordingly. i don't believe anyone here stated that Hoover's alleged crossdressing was an absolute 'fact'. To state otherwise is speaking from ignorance.
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Just how real were those rumors of J. Edgar being a cross-dresser anyways?
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Good actor, but still looks too young for some of the roles.
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All the pip-squeaks and tiny actors comments - where do they come from? He's no behemoth but I've never seen a still or scene that shows him to be anything less than average height and he actually has always come off as middling tall to me - 5'10-6ft. Gangs of NY - Day-Lewis, Reilly, Broadbent, Gleeson - all those dudes are big and Leo fits in.
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