Leo behind "green" reality show

Discovery Communications has partnered up with Leonardo Dicaprio to help them launch their Planet Green channel. Dicaprio will executive produce a 13-part series called Eco-Town, which will chronicle the "green" rebuilding of a small town in Greensburg, Kansas that was devastated by a tornado in May. Greensburg will be rebuilt as a "sustainable model of eco-living and one that will save it from future environmental catastrophe." Dicaprio will also serve on the board of advisers for Planet Green, which is set to launch in 2008.

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Love and lust in Cannes

PageSix has some Cannes gossip... After months of denying their affair, Rose McGowan and Grindhouse director Robert Rodriguez arrived as a couple to the Death Proof premiere. Rosario Dawson also found love on set and walked the red carpet with Eli Roth, who directed a Grindhouse trailer for a fake horror film. Jessica Simpson also caused a stir at a private yacht party by spending "the whole night following Leonardo Dicaprio around like a lost puppy," says a source. "He just seemed freaked out and kind of ignored her."

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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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