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...course there's Leonardo DiCaprio, who proves conclusively that, contrary to what many conservatives think, earth-friendly habits needn't preclude you from a rich lifestyle of award-winning film performances and rampant supermodel-dating...
...They're filming a movie. We're supposed to be Baghdad," one passenger explained, and the girls returned to their glue. Sure enough, director Ridley Scott was shooting a political thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, and Morocco - with its deserts, craggy peaks and labyrinthine bazaars - was his tame cinematic stand-in for Iraq...
...when Discovery Networks launched environmental cable channel Planet Green last month, it hired lots of celebs, from former St. Elsewhere star Ed Begley Jr. to Entourage's Adrian Grenier to Leonardo DiCaprio. Later this month, star chef Emeril Lagasse debuts an organic-cooking show. Battleground Earth will pair rocker Tommy Lee and rapper Ludacris on an eco-buddy road trip...
...best show on Planet Green, however, succeeds in part because it has so little of its celebrity in it. Greensburg, produced by DiCaprio, is a documentary series about a Kansas town that decides to rebuild to green specifications after being nearly obliterated by a tornado. DiCaprio introduces the first episode, then steps out of the way as the show tells the story of the culture clashes, setbacks and moments of redemption that happen when a town decides to give back after losing everything...
...wasn't until the publication in 1998 of Philip Gourevitch's book We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, that the full horror of what had happened was brought home. By the same token, the film Blood Diamond, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, brought to wider attention the misery of Sierra Leone's civil wars...