Despite their brief break in October, Leonardo DiCaprio, 33, and Bar Refaeli, 22, were spotted holding hands at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills on Dec. 20.

Are they back on? “They were never really ‘off,’” a DiCaprio source says.

“It was always a distance thing,” the source adds. “Leo was making a movie in Morocco [this year], and Bar had her modeling career.”

Refaeli’s mom, Zipi, tells Us: “Bar is working all over the world.

Says the DiCaprio pal, “It’s a struggle to make a relationship like theirs work, but yes, they’re together.”

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For a guy who hates those bloody tabloid rags, Russell Crowe gives great gossip.

“You know, I worked with Leonardo [DiCaprio] when he was 17,” Crowe recalls. “He was a virgin and he’d talk about that constantly.”

Of course, Leo has made up for lost time – what with his conquests of supermodels Gisele Bundchen and Bar Rafaeli, among others. So Crowe is looking forward to debriefing the lothario on their upcoming “Body of Lies.”

“I’m hoping … he can fill [me] in on what’s happened in between, maybe show some photos,” Crowe laughs in Entertainment Weekly. “I’m sure life’s different now.”

Crowe admits his tongue sometimes gets away from him.

“I said something to Spike [Lee] one night, and he’s never been the same to me since,” he says. “He was trying to get me to play [German boxer] Max Schmeling in the Joe Louis story. If I was in it, he’d get this $100 million financing. But it’s just a secondary role. And I said to him, “I want to be Joe Louis. I want to be Muhammad Ali. If you want to work with me, let me be Joe Louis. … I think he took it the wrong way. … I don’t get any more birthday cards from him.”

Crowe also has turned down a few superhero roles. “What do you get with a superhero role?” asks Crowe. “You get a Spandex costume, and every now and then, a cape.”

The Oscar winner, who talks to EW with Denzel Washington, remembers meeting his “American Gangster” co-star 12 years ago, on the set of “Virtuosity.”

“We had to do a scene where there’s a piece of cyclone wire fencing between us,” says Crowe. “I had to be really rabid and weird, and … a bit of spit comes out of my mouth … and it weaves itself neatly through the fencing and lands right on Denzel’s lip. … And I’m going, Oh man … I’m doing my audition, and I spit on Denzel Washington. I might as well just go home and hang myself right now. … He just kept on doing the scene, and at the end, they said ‘cut,’ and he’s looking at me and the spit’s still sitting there and he goes, ‘I love the taste of warm saliva in the morning.’?”

Um, okay?

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Israeli model Bar Rafaeli have ended their relationship “on great terms,” a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE.

“The relationship ran its course,” says the source. “It’s bad enough having a cross-country relationship, but it’s obviously a lot more difficult trying to maintain a relationship across oceans, and across continents, when both of them are very busy. They ended on great terms. He’s a great guy, and she’s very sweet. These things happen. They had fun.”

The couple’s split comes amid recent reports of a breakup, and was made public after Rafaeli was spotted with pro surfer Kelly Slater in Israel over the weekend.

DiCaprio, 32, and Rafaeli, 22, began dating in the spring of 2006 and had tried to keep their romance low-profile. They were in the news this past March when they visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall together. On that visit, members of DiCaprio’s security team scuffled with photographers, and the couple had to be whisked away in a van.

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“Leo and Hugh have been friends for a long time and Leo has always been interested in Hugh’s life story. Leo thinks it would make a great movie and Hugh would love Leo to do it – on condition Hugh is alive to see it.”

For some reason I think this is a great match. I think Leo would be great at playing the infamous Playboy mogul.

Russell Crowe will join Leonardo DiCaprio in “Body of Lies,” the William Monahan-scripted adaptation of the David Ignatius novel that Ridley Scott will direct for Warner Bros.

Donald De Line and Scott are producing; pic shoots in the fall.

Crowe will play Ed Hoffman, the manipulative CIA boss who teams with operative Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) to trap a dangerous Al Qaeda leader by planting a false rumor that the bomber is in cahoots with the Americans. Crowe has been working steadily with Scott since “Gladiator,” teaming on “A Good Year,” the recently completed “American Gangster” and the upcoming “Nottingham,” a Universal and Imagine drama that will go into production early next year.

Crowe has been courted to play the CIA boss since DiCaprio signed on in April. He’s awaiting a polish by “American Gangster” scribe Steve Zaillian before formally committing.

Crowe will next be seen starring alongside Christian Bale in the James Mangold-directed “3:10 to Yuma.”

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Jessica Simpson was at an exclusive party on a private yacht after the Vanity Fair party at the Hotel Du Cap Saturday night, but she wasn’t fitting in with fellow guests. The part-time girlfriend of John Mayer “spent the whole night following Leonardo DiCaprio around like a lost puppy,” said our source. “He just seemed freaked out and kind of ignored her.” Simpson’s rep could not be reached.

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