Yesterday, a tweet by former Gawker writer/current Vanity Fair writer Richard Lawson brought my attention to this clip of a young Leonardo DiCaprio—circa The Basketball Diaries—being interviewed by Daisy Fuentes on VH1’s Top 20 Video Countdown. I could not be more grateful to revisit this classic material.
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Is there anything out there that more quintessentially sums up pop culture in 1995 than Fuentes—so aggressively relaxed in her interview style that she’s sitting criss-cross applesauce on the couch—flirting with DiCaprio over Hootie & the Blowfish for a video countdown show on VH1? My Leomania is reignited all over again.
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