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Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!--the second Broadway outing for the saucy, violet-haired, spangle-spectacled matron played by Australian actor Barry Humphries--has, by contrast, no trouble filling the stage. And it's not just the piano player and the four dancers who accompany him. Humphries has built an entire show out of that old comedy-club staple of bantering with the audience. But the earnestly solicitous singsong with which Dame Edna delivers her well-practiced sucker punches ("I love the outfit you've chosen." Beat. "Is it reversible?") robs them of any meanness or condescension. Humphries...
...duplicity. At other times, as in Gangs of New York, a rage can pop out like a monster in a lake. His face is too soft to be a tabula rasa; it is a pillow on which DiCaprio can embroider surprising emotions. That's why he is an actor, a gifted one, even more than he is a movie star...
DiCaprio is ever plausible and watchable; he carries this big picture with grace. As for Scorsese, he seems to have taken a cue from the DiCaprio façade, fashioning a portrait of smooth surfaces and trusting DiCaprio to show what's inside. Well, an actor can reveal meaning, but he shouldn't be asked to invent it. Despite its star's heroic efforts, The Aviator is a gorgeous jet, flying on automatic pilot. --By Richard Corliss
...Leonardo DiCaprio has a gaping wound in his soul that fuels his art and keeps him up nights, then he truly is the greatest actor of his generation. "At the end of the day, being an actor is just not that difficult, dude," he says in his warm, unburdened California monotone, while birds sing beneath him in the garden of the legendary Hotel Bel-Air. "It's difficult to give certain types of performances, but most of the time you're in character for about 10 seconds, and editing makes it look complete. The toughest part is sustaining a career...
DiCaprio is so Zen that, with his Lakers hat glued to his head backward and his giant moon face tipped back to enjoy maximum sunlight, sitting across from him can be a lot like talking to a surfboard. But having traversed the pitfalls of being a child actor and a teen heartthrob and then figured out exactly what he would like to do with the next four decades or so of his professional life, DiCaprio is entitled to chill. At 30, he has been a working actor for 17 years. He knows he's pretty good, but he recognizes that...