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DiCaprio turns on, tunes in and drops out
Leo is planning to star in a biopic of LSD advocate Timothy Leary.
Jun 29 2006
Having sparkled as Howard Hughes in 'The Aviator', Leonardo DiCaprio has decided to head down the biopic path again by making a film about the life and times of counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
DiCaprio has signed up playwright Craig Lucas and archivist Michael Horowitz to work on the script, which will detail Leary's life from the early 1940s to the time of his dramatic escape from prison in 1970.
In that time he travelled the university campuses of America advocating the use of LSD, founded the League for Spiritual Discovery (geddit?), coined the phrase 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' and was arrested on several occasions for drug possession.
DiCaprio became friends with Leary before his death in 1996, and has been planning to make the biopic for the best part of a decade.
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