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January 30, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio was on hand for the 'Catch Me If You Can' premiere in Paris on Tuesday (January 28, 2003) at UGC Normandy - Champs Elysées. Check out pictures from WireImage.com (premiere / photocall).

January 30, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio was in Rome on Tuesday for a 'Catch  Me If You Can' press conference.

January 29, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio arrived with the Pan Am stewards at the premiere the movie 'Catch Me If You Can' at the Empire, Leicester Square West London. Check out more photos from Rex Features (page1 / page2 / page3 / page4).

January 29, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks were on hand for a photocall for Steven Spielberg's new film 'Catch Me If You Can' at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Check out more photos from RexFeatures. 

January 28, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio attended a press conference before the United Kingdom premiere of his film 'Catch Me If You Can' on Monday (January 27) in London. Check out pictures from WireImage.com.

January 28, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio attended the United Kingdom premiere of his film 'Catch Me If You Can' on Monday (January 27) in London. Check out pictures from WireImage.com.

January 28, 2003 - BBC News reports Leonardo DiCaprio was greeted by thousands of screaming fans as he joined Tom Hanks for the UK première of the movie Catch Me if You Can. Read more.

January 28, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg were guests on 'Wetten Dass..?' on Saturday (January 25) at Stadthalle Boblingen in Germany. Check out pictures from WireImage.com.

January 24, 2003 - Enquirer reports Leo brought his mother and grandmother to Hawaii with him on a three-day trip to explore underwater caves in Hawaii.

January 21, 2003 - Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Salma Hayek, and many others were on hand at the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday (January 19) in Beverly Hills. Check out photos from Rex Features (page1 / page2) and WireImagecom.

January 21, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio hosted a special screening of 'Bowling For Columbine' presented by United Artist, The Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence united with the Million Mom March followed by a Q & A with Michael Moore on Saturday (January 18) at Laemmle Monica 4 Plex in Santa Monica, California. Check out the pictures here.

January 15, 2003 - David Letterman joked during his Tonight Show monologue on Friday, "I have an exciting weekend lined up. I only have one more Leonardo DiCaprio movie to get through."

January 15, 2003 - LFI had photos, since removed, of Leo DiCaprio arriving for the 'Gangs of New York' premiere in Rome on Monday.

January 15, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio reflects on his youth, in People magazine saying, "I used what would later be my emotional range as an actor to fake the greatest illnesses or family tragedies to prevent me from exploring algebra."

January 15, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio is next up on E! Revealed with Jules Asner. It airs tonight at 10 PM.

January 12, 2003 - The Daily Mail quotes Leo saying, "I don't know if people stare because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo."

January 12, 2003 - The Sunday People reports Gangs of New York star Leonardo DiCaprio was teetotal for the London premiere last week, but director Martin Scorsese had to lecture him for partying during filming.

January 12, 2003 - Barbara Ellen of The Observer writes, "In Woody Allen's 1998 movie Celebrity, many people thought that Leonardo DiCaprio's cameo was the best thing in it. DiCaprio played a spoiled celebrity, high on self gratification and over-indulgence. DiCaprio's Generic Celebrity bullied girlfriends, trashed hotel rooms, and offered around leftover groupies as if they were stale sandwiches. Like I said, most people enjoyed DiCaprio's over-the-top self-lampooning performance in Celebrity. Others might have wondered if they watching DiCaprio: A Documentary." Read more.

January 12, 2003 - The New York Post reports Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted visiting the Picasso-Matisse show in Paris, where his 'Gangs of New York' just opened. The exhibition comes to the temporary MoMA quarters in Long Island City Feb. 13.

January 12, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio says he's satisfied that 'Gangs of New York,' where he stars as an Irish immigrant to the city during the 1860s, turned out gritty and gory. "To have a whitewashed or glorified world ... would be blindly patriotic. It wouldn't be showing the ugly facet of the formation of our democracy," DiCaprio told the Associated Press in Berlin. Read more.

January 12, 2003 - News of the World reports Leonardo DiCaprio played strip poker with a British lawyer's beautiful daughter, but rigged the game so he could watch her slowly undress with each turn of the card. And when Natalie Denning was down to her thong and clutching another losing hand in the early hours of last Sunday morning, Leo played his ace. "You've got such fantastic breasts," he murmured. "Don't you want to say goodnight?"

January 12, 2003 - Amy Adams spoke with Us Weekly about her kiss with Leonardo DiCaprio in 'Catch Me If You Can'. "When they were setting up the shot and I was inches from his face, " thought, 'OK, I'm going to kiss Leonardo!' Steven Spielberg's direction was, 'You're starving and he's a burger.' I had to attack him."

January 9, 2003 - The Chicago Sun Times reports that while reps for Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz insist the ''Gangs of New York'' co-stars are truly just good friends and colleagues, rumors continue to fly that the superstars may be the next "Ben and J. Lo."

January 9, 2003 - A blind item by Michael Musto of the Village Voice asks, "What youngish actor, when he was at the frenzied peak of popularity, would tell available girls that they first had to screw his male friend—a very generous act toward the friend, if not the girls?"

January 9, 2003 - David Letterman joked during his Late Show monologue on Monday, "Over the weekend I took Mom to a movie. We went to the new Leonardo DiCaprio movie, 'Gangs of New York.' I tell you, Mom just drives me crazy sometimes. I love her dearly but she just drives me crazy. Twenty minutes into the movie she says, 'David, when do they hit the iceberg?'"

January 9, 2003 - Sky News reports more than 2,000 people braved London's evening chill to give Leonardo DiCaprio a warm welcome for the UK premiere of his new film Gangs of New York.

January 9, 2003 - The New York Post reports West Coast psychic Mr. Kenneth read Leonardo DiCaprio and said: "I see a great future - but it won't last long."

January 9, 2003 - The Mirror reports Leo was surprised that about 2,000 fans had showed up to see him at the Gangs of New York premiere in London. "It's freezing out there," gushed the 28-year-old. "I can't believe so many people have turned up just to see me. We didn't get this in Paris or Berlin"

January 9, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers as he arrives for the premiere of 'The Gangs of New York' on Tuesday (January 7) in London. Check out pictures from Rex Features (page1 / page2 / page3) and WireImage.com (premiere / afterparty)..

January 9, 2003 - Zap2it.com interviewed 'Catch Me If You Can' star Leonardo DiCaprio, and asked him what attracted him to the role, how it was like playing the character, and his desire to try and keep out of the public eye. Read more.

January 9, 2003 - The Sun reports Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted making a swift exit out of the men's loo without washing his hands. He then went out to press the flesh with a queue of adoring fans. They also report Leo told staff at London's posh Met Bar he's on the wagon for the whole of January.

January 7, 2003 - Leonardo DiCaprio will next portray Howard Hughes in the big-budget biopic 'The Aviator' after starring in 'Catch Me If You Can'. "It seems like I'm going to be immersed in two films that are very much about the world of aviation," DiCaprio acknowledges to TV Guide Online. "There are no similarities in the storyline or the structure, but, certainly, [both movies] are about people taking chances that nobody else did at the time."

January 7, 2003 - Us Weekly reports Leo recently had a bad experience at the Bank of America ATM at a Rite Aid in Los Angeles. The machine ate his card and his response? "He yelled 'sh**!' and 'damn!' and started punching all the buttons and yelling and banging on the machine for about three minutes," according to a source. Leo then went for a smoke to cool off and the source added, "he must have gotten his card back because he stuck it into another ATM and out came the cash and his card."

January 5, 2003 - Globe magazine reports before Gisele Bundchen moved out of her Manhattan loft to relocate to Hollywood, she cleaned out the apartment and nothing was left behind except several framed and unframed photos of her and Leonardo DiCaprio. While it appears she's trying to leave the Leo memories behind, she is moving to Leo's hometown.

January 2, 2003 - Nicole Kidman's Aussie rep has confirmed to the New York Daily News that the redhead signed on to play the role of DiCaprio's mother in "Alexander the Great," even though she's only seven years older than Leo.

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