Leonardo Dicaprio

It was still dark when Dominga Cornejo parked herself outside her swap meet stand along South Spring Street, her ruffled pink apron tied around her waist and her giant bin of Mexican candy within arm's reach. At any moment, the 77-year-old expected a torrent of rain to drench her, a series of gun blasts to boom and a locomotive engine to come barreling down the street, possibly in her direction. "I'm ready for it," she said in Spanish. "I hope everyone sees my little store."

Leonardo DiCAPRIO didn't realize he was in over his head until it was too late. "I was constantly fueled with adrenaline," DiCaprio remembers of filming his new espionage thriller, "Body of Lies." "There were certainly moments of sheer anxiety." He wasn't talking about the physical hardships he endured for director Ridley Scott's homage to such '70s political potboilers as "The Parallax View" and "Three Days of the Condor" -- although the 33-year-old Los Feliz native did endure plenty.

Leonardo DiCaprio arrived in Israel with supermodel Bar Refaeli over the weekend, creating a paparazzi storm. The 32-year-old Hollywood actor and Refaeli, 21, who have been romantically linked for about a year, apparently hoped to slip into the country unnoticed on a night flight from Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday, but the plane was also carrying a group of Israeli entertainment reporters on their way back from a press junket in Ireland.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio have graduated from icebergs to the suburbs. The stars who played ill-fated lovers in 1997's "Titanic" are reuniting for DreamWorks' "Revolutionary Road," to be directed by Winslet's husband, Sam Mendes. The film is inspired by Richard Yates' lauded 1961 novel about a well-off but disillusioned Connecticut couple who try to fulfill their artistic longings by moving to France.

By all the hype over "The 11th Hour" -- the latest Earth-in-crisis documentary that opened in Los Angeles and New York today, and nationwide Aug. 24 -- it would seem that Leonardo DiCaprio's celluloid crusade is a one-man show. The guy did co-produce, co-write and narrate. Although uncredited, he also spent long nights in the editing bay, pruning the 150 hours of interviews and days of stock footage down to 91 minutes.

Which of these actors-turned-writers in the last few years made the better film? A. EMILIO ESTEVEZ B. SOFIA COPPOLA C. GEORGE CLOONEY Log on to TheEnvelope.com to vote. * Last week's results on which high-profile actor should lend his voice to an animated feature: Leonardo DiCaprio 72.1% Jack Nicholson 15% Clive Owen 12.9%

CLINT EASTWOOD and Leonardo DiCaprio scored dual Golden Globe nominations in the best director and best actor categories, respectively -- a rarity that is certain to boost their odds of an Oscar nod. Eastwood, 76, received best director nominations for his World War II films "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima," which opens Wednesday.