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TAPE_NUMBER: EN9916 IN_TIME: 11:01:55 LENGTH: 03:39 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: NO RESALE FILM/VIDEO CLIPS FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: xfa English/Nat Los Angeles, Recent '99/File LEONARDO'S BROTHER STEPS INTO THE LIMELIGHT It's never been easy for the siblings of famous performers, and this year sees Leonardo Di Caprio's little known older brother ADAM FARRAR, attempt to launch a film career of his own Adam and Leonardo have the same mother and ever since reading of his younger brother's success whilst he was in the army, Adam has yearned for a little bit of the limelight for himself Adam Farrar is currently making his film debut in the small independent picture Pups at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival He plays a wheelchair-bound Gulf War veteran caught up in a juvenile bank heist Adam was able to draw on his own military experience for the film, although he was lucky enough to miss seeing action in both the Desert Storm and Desert Shield campaigns by a matter of days Like most siblings attempting to emerge from the shadow of their more famous family partners, Adam is anxious to avoid comparisons with his brother However Adam will admit that both he and his brother are intense people who both share a passion for performance Adam could claim to have had the head start on Leo, as he started acting at the age of five in TV commercials and the theatre However by the age of thirteen Adam had had enough of the child acting scene in Los Angeles and preferred to spend his time skate boarding with his friends After leaving high school, he joined the army for two years only to be tempted back to the acting world by the success of his brother Adam's debut film role came about from a chance meeting with the director and writer of Pups ASH Known only by the single name, the director's previous feature Bang was called One of the top ten films of 1997 by the Los Angeles Times A far cry from the The Beach which Leonardo is currently filming inThailand, Pups is intended as an inditement of America's gun culture and was written in four weeks and filmed in just sixteen days As well as Leonardo's brother, the film also features performances by Burt Reynolds and MTV's Kurt Loder and looks set to put it's director firmly on the movie map Whether the filmPups will be the start of a Titanic film career for Adam Farrar, remains to be seen For further information, please contact Rubenstein Public Relations Inc in New York on (001) 2128431900 or fax 2128439200 SHOTLIST: SHOWS: FILE LEONARDO DICAPRIO AT `TITANIC' PREMIERE IN JAPAN; DICAPRIO FANS AT `MAN IN THE IRON MASK' PREMIERE; DICAPRIO ENTERING CINEMA; FILM CLIP `PUPS', FEATURING ADAM FARRAR; SOT ADAM FARRAR; FILM CLIP `PUPS'; SOT ADAM FARRAR; FILE LEONARDO DICAPRIO ON SET OF `THE BEACH' IN THAILAND; SOT ADAM FARRAR (ON LEONARDO'S REACTION TO HIS NEW CAREER); WS DICAPRIO ON SET OF THE BEACH?