cutie-pie

“It’s not Cam-el-uh. It’s not Kuh-ma-la. It’s not Karmela,” say a rotation of cutie-pie kids.

“I’d get headaches from dealing with pure unadulterated garbage. But you can’t help it. It becomes who you are. You’re suddenly defined in the media as a cutie-pie.”

DiCaprio has spent the last quarter century doing everything in his power to make audiences forget he could ever be considered a “cutie-pie” — or anything less than a Very Serious Actor.

A professional cutie-pie, he is a reliably anodyne presence, a human warm blanket.

“It wasn’t just cutie-pie, easygoing fun. He was purposely adding drama to what otherwise could be a dry situation. He also was possibly projecting tensions from his own life.”