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From Foxnews.com, Roger Friedman's Fox 411:
"Gangs Wooing Continues....

How badly does Harvey Weinstein want Daniel Day-Lewis?

Weinstein continued to wine and dine Danny Boy on Thursday night when he took him with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino to dinner at Rao's.

For those of you who may not know, Rao's is a private Italian restaurant in East Harlem. There are only a few tables and each of them is permanently "subscribed." In order to eat there you must know the owners of the restaurant or the tables, from whom you may "sublet" for the night. (But Rao's very good, very expensive spaghetti sauce is sold in most large supermarket chains around the country.)

The point of all this is to get Daniel into Scorsese's Gangs of New York, a movie about Irish mobsters that commences shooting in July in Europe. Will the semi-retired actor give in and take the part? Or will he continue to live on the meager earnings of his last movies, The Boxer and In the Name of the Father? (He must be very well invested, dontcha think?)"

From fox411 by Roger Friedman, foxnews.com, May 4, 2000:

Scorsese's Gangs May See New 'Day'

A secret confab was held last night here, in New York (the place from which all things emanate), that may influence the fate of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York film.

This is the movie which will star Leonardo DiCaprio when it's shot this summer in Italy and other European points. Originally Robert De Niro was supposed to co-star, but just as the deal went through with Miramax for the money behind the film, the famed star pulled out. The story behind that may well make its own movie.

But now Miramax pasha Harvey Weinstein may have found a much better solution to his problems. At this aforementioned dinner, held at Oceana Restaurant off Madison Avenue (you know, the very healthy Harvey is eating a lot of fish these days), Weinstein and DiCaprio brought their case to none other than Daniel Day-Lewis.

As readers of this column know, Day-Lewis, 42, is in semi-retirement. Married to Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur, the Oscar winner (for My Left Foot) has had a spotty career over the last decade. After Foot, he did The Last of the Mohicans, Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, The Crucible and The Boxer. He had something of a debacle on stage in London with Hamlet when he left the stage mid-performance.

Lena Olin, who co-starred with DDL in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, told this column a few months ago: "He identifies too strongly with his characters. He really lives in them when he's playing the part. It's too much for him." Producer/director Jim Sheridan, who worked with DDL on The Boxer and In the Name of the Father, echoed these sentiments when I talked to him a couple of months ago. "He feels these things very deeply," said Sheridan.

But we all have to work, don't we? So DDL is being coaxed by the Gangs gang to take the part of an Irish gangster — which would certainly be perfect. The actor has already worked with Scorsese on the underappreciated Innocence, and the results were more than satisfying. Our advice: Take the job, Dan! No more Garbo for you.

Diaz takes pay cut to star with Leo

She beat out Vinessa Shaw and Heather Graham for her part in 'Gangs of New York'

By Danny Lorber

Cameron Diaz will co-star with Leo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York," a source at the actress' management company confirmed today. And to get there, she did two things A-list actors don't normally have to do: She read for Scorsese. And she took a pay cut.

"Cameron had to read a couple times for the part, and pretty much every actress in Hollywood was being considered and willing to do it," the source said. "This is confirmation that she is as respected a young movie actress as any successful one. This was THE role to get for actresses in Hollywood."

The female lead, who will play DiCaprio's complicated, sneaky companion, had been curiously vacant as the summer shooting date approached. As it reads, it's a great role, maybe the best in the script: a brilliant thief with a coy, criminal mind, who gets involved with the DiCaprio character in multiple ways.

Other actresses who were being seriously considered, according to our source, were Vinessa Shaw ("Eyes Wide Shut") and Heather Graham, as iFUSE reported a few months ago.

"Scorsese was being really indecisive, and tons of people were being kept waiting on their toes," our source said. "This is a major motion picture, directed by a world-class filmmaker and starring the most important young actor in the business, and it's just a great role.

"Anyone who fit the demographic of the part wanted it."

According to the source, Diaz will get paid slightly less than her usual $12 million asking fee.

"But I think she would have done it for a lot less than she's going to get," he said