The Boston Herald - July 3rd, 2008
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DiCaprio, crew cap ‘Ashecliffe’ shoot
by Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Time has run out on Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese’s time in the Bay State filming “Ashecliffe,” the big-budget adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel noir “Shutter Island.”
Yesterday, the cast and crew shot their final scenes in the North End, and tonight they’ve booked passage on the Spirit of Boston for their bon voyage booze cruise. And who could blame them?
Scorsese’s movie mob has been kicking around these parts since oh-so-dreary February and began shooting the first week in March down at the oh-so-dreary Whittenton Mills in Taunton.
The mills, BTW, were remade into a German concentration camp for the flick. So don’t expect a feel-good flick when this one hits theaters next year!
As we’ve told you before, the set-in-the-’50s film is about a pair of U.S. marshals, played by Leo and Mark Ruffalo, who investigate the disappearance of a female patient from a hospital for the criminally insane located on a Massachusetts island.
Cameras rolled yesterday at the Waterfront Cafe on Commercial Street and up on Henchman Street where a few actors were filmed playing stickball. DiCaprio, allegedly, was wrapping up scenes at creepy Medfield State Hospital, which stands in for the aforementioned insane asylum. But our spies caught him chowing at Cafeteria on Newbury Street at lunchtime. Hmmm.
During the four-month shoot, the crew also hauled their cameras to Nahant, the Crane Estate, East Boston, a Hyde Park soundstage and other garden spots here in the commonwealth.
And speaking of the Garden, one of the Track’s fave nights during the Boston Celtics [team stats]’ run-up to the NBA Championship was seeing Leo - who sat courtside at many, many games during the season - banished to the luxury suites because his ex-galpal Gisele Bundchen and her BF Tom Brady [stats] were sitting in the primo seats downstairs. It takes so little to make us happy . . .
Thankfully, Gisele aka “Jinxele,” never returned to the Garden party. But Leo was in da house all through the Finals, where he watched his beloved Los Angeles Lakers drown in Game 6. DiCaprio was so disgusted that he left in the third quarter!
Thanks to Shaolin !
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