Leonardo Dicaprio (born 11.11.1974) - American actor.
The Nineties saw the rise of some big, big stars. At different points Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Will Smith and Adam Sandler stormed the Hollywood firmament, each other them carrying a string of massive hits. But none of them enjoyed (endured?) the kind of enormo-fame achieved by Leonardo DiCaprio. Beginning the decade as a heavily tipped newcomer, he ended it with Titanic, the biggest hit in cinema history, and a worldwide army of teenage fans so crazed and committed to their idol they had critics recalling the manic days of Beatlemania.
So, DiCaprio could be viewed as a phenomenon, a lucky actor in the right place at the right time, who with one role reached the pinnacle of his industry. But this would be to seriously underestimate the man. The action-packed romance of Titanic may have made him a superstar, but it was hardly a challenge for a kid who'd already stood toe to toe with De Niro and Streep, convincingly played a junkie, a gunslinger, a whore and a bisexual poet AND been Oscar-nominated for the finest portrayal of a mental retard ever filmed (yes, that's RIGHT, Mr Hoffman). If Titanic had never happened, DiCaprio would still have been seen as the finest and most versatile actor of his generation.
He was born Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio on the 11th of November, 1974, in Hollywood, to Italian-American comic distributor George DiCaprio and his German-American wife Irmalin, a legal secretary who'd go on to become Leonardo's manager. The boy's unusual name was chosen when he kicked his pregnant mother from the inside while she was viewing a Da Vinci in the Uffizi, the Wilhelm coming from a German relative - and not some dubious tribute to the Kaiser.
В 1977 году организационный комитет Олимпиады объявил конкурс на лучшее изображение медведя. В результате жюри выбрало эскиз Виктора Чижикова[1], на котором был изображён улыбающийся медвежонок, опоясанный сине-чёрно-жёлто-зелёно-красным (цвета олимпийских колец) ремнём с пряжкой в виде этих колец золотистого цвета. Мишка был утверждён в качестве официального талисмана 19 декабря 1977 года.
Изготовили Олимпийского великана в НИИ Резиновой промышленности в городе Сергиевом Посаде.
Как вспоминает автор олимпийского мишки художник детской книги Виктор Чижиков, ему позвонили и сказали: «Поздравляем! Ваш медведь ЦК!». Во время церемонии закрытия Олимпиады-80 гигантская резиновая кукла символа олимпиады на воздушных шарах под песню Пахмутовой и Добронравова в исполнении Лещенко и Анциферовой медленно уплыла в московское небо. Зрелище было столь трогательным, что и зрители, и участники Олимпиады не могли удержаться от слёз.
Уже осенью 1980 года к советскому правительству обратилась одна западногерманская фирма с предложением купить резинового Мишу за 100 тысяч дойчмарок. Фирме было отказано.
In 1977 the organizing committee of the Olympic Games announced competition on the best image of a bear. As a result of jury chose the sketch of Victor Chizhikov [1] on which the smiling bear cub surrounded blue black yellow green red (color of the Olympic rings) by a belt with a buckle in the form of these rings of golden color was represented. The bear was approved as an official mascot on December 19, 1977.
Made the Olympic giant in scientific research institute of Rubber industry in the city of Sergiev Posad.
As the author of the Olympic bear the artist of the children's book Victor Chizhikov remembers, to it called and told: "We congratulate! Your bear passed the Central Committee! ". During the Olympic Games-80 closing ceremony the huge rubber doll of a symbol of the Olympic Games by balloons under Pakhmutova and Dobronravov's song performed by Leshchenko and Antsiferova slowly departured in the Moscow sky. The show was so touching, as the audience, and participants of the Olympic Games couldn't keep from tears.
In the fall of 1980 one West German firm addressed to the Soviet government with the offer to buy rubber Mischa for 100 thousand deutschmarks. To firm it was refused.