Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s starred in biographical roles from eccentric Howard Hughes to stockbroker Jordan Belfort to gritty writer-musician Jim Carroll, has bowed out of talks to play Apple founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming Danny Boyle-directed biopic -- to instead concentrate on his lead role in "The Revenant," Alejandro González Iñárritu's biopic on early-nineteenth-century American explorer and fur-trapper Hugh Glass, due out in 2015. That may be the last chance to catch him onscreen for a while: DiCaprio plans to take a long rest once the project ends. [via Rolling Stone]

Composer Stephen Sondheim has been signed up for a new biography, to be written by David Benedict, Variety's London theater critic, who will step down from his magazine post in order to concentrate solely on the book. How Did It Happen: The Life and Career of Stephen Sondheim will be an authorized story, with Benedict given full access to papers, friends, and colleagues, with plenty of help from the composer himself. With decades in the spotlight under his belt, including titles like "West Side Story" and "Sweeney Todd," Sondheim boasts a professional life that takes time to catalogue: Benedict’s first draft is due to publisher Random House in late 2017. [via Variety]

Our wait for a Stevie Nicks memoir just got longer -- "I won't write a book until everybody is so old that they no longer care" she said in a recent interview for Billboard magazine. "All of the men I hung out with are on their third wives by now, and the wives are all under 30." She did give some hints of the wild pasts she insists on protecting for now: a doctor’s warning against doing a certain drug even one more time, and that she was once pregnant by a fellow star musician. She sprinkled the talk with good advice as well, with admonitions like "spend more time in a bikini." [via the New York Daily News]

Golden Globe–winning actress Mary-Louise Parker is composing a memoir, with a theme. Dear Mr You will be centered on the "significant men in her life," written as a series of letters to people still unidentified but likely to include men like actor Billy Crudup, with whom she has a son, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, her costar in Showtime’s Weeds and former fiancé. Publisher Scribner is as delighted as we predict we'll be: "Mary-Louise Parker’s prose is vivid, urgent, and emotionally frank," said editor-in-chief Colin Harrison. [via The Guardian]