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Holy Smoke Premiere

January 11, 2000

Kate Winslet was fully clothed at the premiere of Holy Smoke on Monday, in black leather pants and long white Nicole Fahri coat. But she does full frontal nudity in Jane Campion's tale of an Aussie girl facing off with a cult deprogrammer (Harvey Keitel).

The Titanic star said both she and hubby Jim Threapleton were "pretty shell-shocked" when they saw it, although he'd seen the script. "It was a real shocker, more sort of in your face than I ever thought it would be."

At 24, she doesn't have to worry much about her figure, but in her next, Quills, she avoids sex (including S&M), although she plays a confidante of the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush). Yes, she has seen Leonardo DiCaprio, "about four months ago and he was very well."

I sat in a theater seat marked for Harvey Weinstein, Miramax Films chief. But no way was Harvey going to be there; he's still recovering, his staff said, from a bacterial infection. They would not say whether he's still in the hospital.