Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Indianapolis last month, a boy wearing an angel necklace and felt diaper was found 200 ft. from the main entrance of Community Hospital. His mother had wrapped him in a bedsheet decorated with tiny balls and bats, then left him near a parked car, facing the door. But he was easy to miss in the snowy weather, until a woman went outside to smoke a cigarette. By then, he was dead. If the law were different in Indiana, the mother could have walked a few steps farther and, without fear of prosecution, delivered the baby into the hands...
...reporter. He vetoed taking me to the dentist, thinking it would be too embarrassing. Working out with his personal trainer would display too much complaining. His house in the Hollywood Hills is out. And he's certainly not going to a bar, considering he wants to lose the party-boy image. "Hey, we can go to the movies because, you know, I do movies," he jokes, trying to deconstruct the whole process...
...Super Bowl." DiCaprio isn't as in touch with American culture as American culture is with him. The son of a legal secretary and a hippie underground-comic-book artist, both retired, DiCaprio still thinks of himself as an edgy indie actor, not the Tiger Beat cover boy. "I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world." Which is good. Otherwise, he might beat himself...
...just as willful and complex playing Arnie, the retarded boy living under a death sentence in What's Eating Gilbert Grape; as he is playing Meryl Streep's pyromaniac son Hank in Marvin's Room. Other young actors, to keep viewers on their side, would strike the sympathy key fortissimo. But DiCaprio, knowing that he had a cuddly-toy quality (a face just shy of puberty, a smile that, in his first TV spot, was used to sell milk), barely rouged the rougher aspects of his characters. Toby is a decent kid, but his stabs at '50s punkdom rasp...
...burst on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere --the soap Santa Barbara, the sitcom Growing Pains (as a homeless kid), bits in Critters 3 and Poison Ivy--as Toby in This Boy's Life. He is at the center of this movie about a boy who bad-lucks into a stint with an abusive stepfather. And he holds the center; he can commandeer the screen doing nothing, with an eloquent slouch and a gaze that says, beneath the winsomeness, I can take...