Classic Reissue: Leo and the Wolf Pack Are On the Prowl

For everyone who had a Titanic poster on their bedroom walls, this one’s for you!

I’m reasonably sure that my first-ever celebrity crush was Leonardo DiCaprio. This should surprise nobody given that I’m a ‘90s kid who, like many people my age, lived through Titanic-mania. Still one of the biggest movies of all time, James Cameron’s epic romance captured the hearts of audiences in a way that is easy to undersell in 2021. 20th Century Fox estimated that seven percent of American teenage girls had seen Titanic twice by its fifth week of release. The film won eleven Oscars. It grossed $2.202 billion worldwide and only James Cameron could topple that box office record eleven years later with Avatar. At the centre of this all were two young actors who were quickly catapulted into the stratosphere of fame. Kate Winslet's record speaks for itself, but Leo-Mania was a very different beast.

New York. "Leo, Prince of the City." June 22, 1998. Nancy Jo Sales.

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