Leo's bodyguards arrested

Two of Leonardo Dicaprio's bodyguards were arrested in Jerusalem yesterday after a scuffle with photographers. "Two of his security guards were arrested by police after being involved in a fight that broke out," said an Israel police spokesperson. "They are being questioned." Dicaprio was on a private tour of the Western Wall tunnels in the city with model girlfriend and Israeli native Bar Refaeli when the incident took place. The couple have been dogged by photographers since their arrival in Israel on Sunday, and their plans for a quiet holiday were dashed after a group of Israeli entertainment reporters happened to be on the same flight from Frankfurt.

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Leo wins - but not in a good way

Leonardo Dicaprio has been awarded the Black Lung Award by a group of Canadian high school students for the prevalence of cigarette smoking in the movie Blood Diamond. The purpose of the Black Lung Awards is to target actors and movies that attempt to glamorize smoking by featuring tobacco use. Blood Diamond was picked as the most smoke-filled movie of the year while its lead actor managed to earn himself "male chimney" honors. Night at the Museum was awarded the Pink Lung Award as a film without a single smoking character. "We want people to realize how much smoking there actually is in movies and how much they glamorize it," said a student at the school. "They never show the bad things that happen to people because of smoking."

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Casting news... Leo, Tom and JLo

Leonardo Dicaprio will produce and star in a film about the rise and fall of Enron. Based on the book Conspiracy of Fools, the flick will follow a new employee at Enron who exposes the corruption and greed that pre-empted the energy co.'s demise into bankruptcy... Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller will play fiction's famed Hardy boy detectives in The Hardy Men, which will see the brothers reunite to solve a final case... Jennifer Lopez will reportedly guest star on an episode of Entourage next season. Talks are in the works for the singer to play herself in the HBO hit.

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Leo back on the market?

According to some media reports, Leonardo Dicaprio has been dumped by his model girlfriend. Bar Rafaeli reportedly ended the couple's six-month relationship because she found it hard to deal with the actor's work schedule and partying. "Bar is a professional model so she has to be healthy and look great every day, so there is no way that she could keep up with that kind of decadent lifestyle," a friend of the model told a British paper. "When they were apart she worried about what he was up to and in the end decided it would be easier and less painful just to say enough is enough."

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Pitt inspired by Leo

Leonardo Dicaprio's manly roles have inspired Brad Pitt to eye out a more macho lifestyle for himself. "I caught myself on the phone the other day," Pitt said. "Leo has been playing some real strong men these last few years and I found myself saying, 'I want to play more of a man.' I got off the phone and I thought, 'No, live like a man, and the movies will follow."

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Leo wants to be more than eye candy

Leonardo Dicaprio wasn't thrilled with being "another piece of cute meat" after the huge success of Titanic - and nearly quit acting because of it. "It was pretty disheartening to be objectified like that," the Blood Diamond actor said at Newsweek's Oscar panel discussion. "I wanted to stop acting for a little bit. It changed my life in a lot of ways, but at the same time, I can't say it didn't give me opportunities. It made me, for the first time, in control of my career... There's nothing that I walk away from feeling transformed by the way I do with cinema."

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