DiCaprio a fan site has-been?
He may nab a best-actor Academy Award on Sunday, but things aren't all golden for Leonardo DiCaprio, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The paper reported Thursday that "The Aviator" star, who once inspired a fleet of adoration sites, may be crashing on the Web.
Take the once-obsequious site Leo, My Romeo. Don't go there looking for Leo galleries and trivia. The home page now offers a terse announcement: "*major gasp* no more site. know why? cuz i no longer like leo. duh. and i'm sick of e-mails from leo lovers. DEAL WITH IT."
Other fan sites, including "Leo, King of My Heart," "Lusciously Leo," "DiCaptivating" and "Generation DiCaprio," have met a similar fate, according to Chronicle pop-culture writer Peter Hartlaub. In fact, he notes, out of 109 English-language Leonardo DiCaprio fan sites registered in 1998--when DiCaprio was at the peak of his celebrity and Titanic was on the way to winning a best-picture Oscar--only four still provide new Leo love with regularity.
The Hollywood darling shouldn't take the slight too personally. Hartlaub attributes DiCaprio's apparent fan site demise to the mercurial nature of fame. Hartlaub also points to Scorcese's biopic, positing that teen girls are unlikely to swoon over a character like the troubled and not-always-so-dreamy Howard Hughes.
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