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''Titanic'' Star DiCaprio Shipwrecked Again BANGKOK (Reuters) - ``Titanic'' star Leonardo DiCaprio landed in the drink again when a boat he was aboard during filming of his latest movie was swamped by high seas in southern Thailand. In a clear case of life imitating art, the American star had to leap overboard last Friday after a monsoon whipped up high waves off the island of Phuket, flooding the boat and dragging it out to sea. Publicists for ``The Beach,'' the movie DiCaprio has been filming in Thailand, said Tuesday he and his British co-star Tilda Swinton and other members of the film crew were quickly picked up by safety boats and taken to shore. They said no one was injured but film equipment was lost and a day's filming had to be abandoned. They said all had been wearing life jackets. A spokeswoman for the production said the incident happened in the Andaman Sea about a quarter of a mile (0.5 km) off Phuket and denied a report in Britain's Sun newspaper that the waters were shark infested. Sharks do live in waters around Phuket but further offshore or around smaller outlying islands. Fortunately too, the tropical waters around Phuket are rather warmer than those of icy north Atlantic in which he expires in ``Titanic.'' DiCaprio's latest movie has been controversial in Thailand because of allegations by environmentalists that production work damaged a Thai beach paradise. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students Arrested For Stoning School Principal JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 100 South African high school students were arrested after they beat and held captive their principal in a dispute over reductions in the teaching staff, public radio reported Thursday. The head of the school, close to President Nelson Mandela's rural home in the Transkei region, was released by pupils only after a plea from a police negotiating team. He was rushed to hospital with severe injuries. ``He is in a very bad state. He was pelted with stones and beaten with sticks,'' reporter Stan Mzimba of the Daily Dispatch newspaper told the radio. The reporter said the students would appear before a local court later Thursday on charges of kidnapping, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and public violence. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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