Actor Leonardo DiCaprio suffered a minor leg injury while filming in Mozambique, his publicist said Saturday. The accident happened Friday on the set of “Blood Diamond,” Ken Sunshine said in a statement. He provided no details.
DiCaprio “received medical attention and was back at work” Saturday, Sunshine said. As a precaution, he was flown to the Nelspruit Medi-Clinic in neighboring South Africa for X-rays, the Johannesburg-based newspaper The Citizen reported.
“Very perfect” – that’s how Meg Ryan describes the adoption of her 1-year-old daughter, Daisy True, from China.
The 44-year-old actress tells Allure in its May issue she tried for 10 years to adopt in the U.S. and India. “I understand now. There’s no mistake at all – ever – in adoption, no mistake. However these babies come, it’s very perfect.” Ryan says she had named her daughter Charlotte but then decided on Daisy True because “she is such a flower, just blooming and blooming.” Ryan’s 13-year-old son Jack, from her marriage to Dennis Quaid, welcomed his little sister’s arrival, Ryan says.
“First thing Jack did when he saw her was climb a tree,” she tells the magazine. “He was just showing her, ‘Look, you’ll be able to climb a tree. Trees are OK.”‘
James Garner returned to his hometown of Norman, Okla., for the unveiling of a bronze statue that depicts the 77-year-old actor as a young Maverick. Garner told the hundreds of Oklahomans who attended the unveiling Friday that he remained loyal to his home state despite having lived for more than a half-century in California. He said that when he watched movies at the Sooner Theater in Norman, he never dreamed of being an actor.
“That was the silver screen,” he said. “I thought it was far beyond my reach.” Garner got his first big acting break as Bret Maverick in the television series “Maverick” and went on to star as private investigator Jim Rockford in “The Rockford Files.”
Bill Paxton, who stars in the polygamy drama “Big Love,” says baring his bottom on the HBO show is a form of “equal opportunity with showing the skin.” “For too long, women in film and TV have been expected to show all, while men are always covered up,” the 50-year-old actor tells People magazine in its May 1 issue. Paxton plays Bill Henrickson, a Salt Lake City merchant who has three wives and seven children, on “Big Love,” which has been renewed for a second season.
Actress Bo Derek, who keeps Iberian horses and German shepherds at her home in California, is the government’s newest advocate for wilder sorts of animals. At an Earth Day ceremony at the State Department on Friday, Derek was named a special envoy on wildlife trafficking. The department’s new Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking is enlisting help from other countries to fight an estimated
$10 billion annual black market in wildlife and wildlife parts. “We are at a critical time where we’re just about to lose control over our wildlife and their habitats,” Derek said. “But it’s not hopeless. “
