Roll the Credits

You're a teenage girl and your computer says you've got mail. "A personal message," it reads. You click it open, a video whirs and there he is, in all his boyish glory: "Hi, I'm Leonardo Di Caprio and I've just made the movie Gangs of New York . I really hope you'll come and see me." If film promoter Kim Dong Joo can pull it off, hordes of Korean fans will receive this online missive just before the movie's Christmas-season release in Seoul. For girls who can't get enough of the Titanic heartthrob it's a "fantastic illusion," says Kim, who began his...

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