Leonardo DiCaprio and Victoria’s Secret model Erin Heatherton can’t keep their hands off each other.
“It is nonstop PDA,” a source said of their hot-and-heavy relationship. DiCaprio introduced Heatherton to his mother, Irmelin, over a well-behaved New Year’s Day brunch at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. “The meeting went well, and Mom and Erin were seen laughing,” a source said.
Leo is very close to his mom, whose approval is key to his relationships.
One night, he was at the Knave bar in Le Parker Meridien with “a crew of guys” talking to “two stunning mystery females,” a source said. He was also at both Hotel Griffou on West Ninth Street and the Griffin lounge on Gansevoort Street “with a bunch of dudes, talking to girls.” The megastar might feel he needs more than just his baseball cap to avoid recognition. He was spotted at Solstice Sunglass Boutique on Spring Street buying five pairs of aviators.
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A trip to a Japanese temple left Leonardo DiCaprio (above) barefoot after ugly American tourists stole the star’s sneakers. During a visit to a hilltop shrine in Kyoto last week, DiCaprio was asked by a couple of fans to pose for a picture — but he declined, pointing to a sign prohibiting photography on the premises. Feeling slighted, the fans waited until he removed his Nike Dunks to enter the temple and then stole them. “They just ran off with them,” laughed our source. “The poor guy had to leave the place barefoot.” A rep for Leo had no comment.
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At the bash Harvey and Bob Weinstein threw last weekend, some real business was being done. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci were huddled by the pool of the Sunset Hyatt Hotel talking about co-starring in an Italian-flavored heist movie. The serious threesome were oblivious to such distractions as Marion Cotillard, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Dita Von Teese and January Jones.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
The “Revolutionary Road” star was at Rolf’s on Third Avenue Sunday night “turning the restaurant upside-down looking for his wallet,” our spy said. When DiCaprio and his group switched tables, it seems he left his wallet behind, and “after searching frantically for it, the staff found it in the dirty linen pile.” Earlier in the weekend, he took his on-again girlfriend Bar Refaeli – and his wallet – to Wired magazine’s pop-up holiday store on West 18th Street, where they browsed flat-screen TVs.
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Another man might have trouble making love to a woman while her husband not only watches but gives him pointers. But Leonardo DiCaprio was cool with it.
“I couldn’t have been more comfortable with the situation,” the actor said Wednesday at lunch when we asked him about his sex scenes with Kate Winslet in “Revolutionary Road.”
Even though Winslet’s beloved, Sam Mendes, was overseeing the simulated passion from his control booth, DiCaprio said, “I didn’t think about it.”
DiCaprio and Winslet, who play an unhappy Connecticut couple in the 1950s, got to know each other playing doomed lovers in “Titanic.” “We’d done a lot of sequences like that before,” he added. “So this time it was kind of easy.”
Winslet, who also had a nibble at the Plaza Hotel’s Oak Room, allowed that “initially, I was very worried it would be difficult to concentrate [on the sex]. But Leo was fine with it, which relaxed me. And I never sensed Sam feeling awkward. Quite the opposite. He’d yell from the other room: ‘Press your hand into her back more! And when you take her face, really grab it!’
“Maybe if it had been anyone else but Leo, it would have been weird. But we’re not really like grownups. We’re like two little boys.”
She might get an argument on that last point – her shapely body is anything but boyish. You also see it in “The Reader.” In that film, which had its New York premiere Wednesday night, she plays a former Nazi concentration camp guard who has an affair with a younger man who doesn’t know about her past. The criticism has been made that the couple’s sex scenes trivialize the Holocaust.
“There is a lot of nudity in the beginning,” she argued. “But it’s 100% justified. Also, the relationship is not about sex. It’s about how this young man reads her beautiful stories and poetry.”
As for the curves she showed in Steven Meisel’s photo spread in Vanity Fair, Winslet said, “Anyone can look like that with lighting and hair and makeup. I didn’t work out beforehand. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been to the gym. I don’t have the time. I’m a busy mom promoting two movies. That’s enough of a workout!”
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PARAMOUNT Vantage is off to a bad start hyping its expensive Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet flick, “Revolutionary Road,” as an Oscar contender. On Monday, the studio so overbooked an industry screening at the AMC Loews 34th Street – featuring a live Q&A with Leo and Kate – that nearly 200 were turned away, one movie honcho told us. Those kept out included members of guilds representing actors, writers and producers, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, some of whom vote for Oscar nominees. “Scott Rudin, who produced, is always very respectful of industry members, so he’s got to be furious about this. It can’t help the film’s chances,” our insider said. A studio rep told us: “Guild screenings are traditionally overbooked to account for drop-off . . . We look forward to showing it at a later date to those who missed it.” The R-rated movie opens Dec. 26.
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