Russell Crowe and his family are in Los Angeles while he’s filming his new thriller, State of Mind. Russell with his wife, Danielle Spencer, and their children Charlie (4) and Tennyson (1) are staying at the home that has been vacated by the Cruise family. According to Page Six, the massive home is considered out of fashion. It looks like it would meet my basic needs for shelter, but then I’m not a quatrillionaire so what do I know.

Meanwhile, the Cruise family has been increasingly holed up in the penthouse suite at the exclusive “VIP only” Celebrity Scientology Hotel in Hollywood, California. They are staying there while work is being finished on their new $35 million Beverly Hills home. They have been staying there more and more since the Andrew Morton Tom Cruise biography came out.

Russell Crowe is such a bad boy! I just love that about him. He gets into a fight at the drop of a hat.

• In 2005, Crowe was arrested after he threw a telephone at a New York hotel employee, with a witness claiming at the time that he took a bow and assumed a karate stance after the attack.
• A year earlier, Crowe admitted starting a fight with his bodyguard Mark “Spud” Carroll after he made an accusation about a conversation he was having with a female extra. Carroll denied reports that Crowe had allegedly bitten his ear, and the pair quickly made peace.
• At the 2002 Bafta Awards Crowe admitted to being “abusive” and “behaving unreasonably” towards a TV producer who cut short his recital of a poem after winning the best actor award for A Beautiful Mind.
• In November the same year, he was spoken to by police following an alleged brawl with a New Zealand businessman in an upmarket London restaurant.

So everybody is wondering if he’s been in another fight since he’s got that big ol’ bandage on his hand. Thing is, he just wrapped up shooting his latest movie, State of Play, so its probably just a prop from the movie.

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I love Russell Crowe. I really do. I’ve loved him every since I saw him in Virtuosity and didn’t even know what his name was. I told my husband that I would leave him for Russell. He didn’t seem too concerned about it, he just told me that he’d get a good settlement so I should go for it.

I was a little disappointed when Russell threw a phone at the hotel clerk. I wasn’t disappointed he got aggressive, I was disappointed he threw a phone. That just doesn’t fit his image. I felt better about it when I heard him explain that two guys were hold him back and all he could do was throw the phone. What a relief!

What can I tell you …. I just love that mischievous twinkle in his eyes and his bad boy image.

Russell got all talkative the other day and started gossiping about different co-stars. That is not at ALL characteristic of him, so its made the rounds of gossip blogs and news outlets. He gave a lot of info on other celebs ….

Russell Crowe on Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Russell Crowe on Spike Lee

“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.”

Russell Crowe on Denzel Washington referring to a scene they did in Viruosity.

“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.’?”

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In the movie 3:10 to Yuma, Russell Crowe plays the bad guy and Christian Bale plays the good guy.

In real-life, the cast of the movie saw it a little differently.

“Now we know why his rugby team loves him so much.”

Russell Crowe’s co-stars in the movie 3:10 to Yuma consider him to be “a sweetheart”.

Ben Foster and Dallas Roberts said at a screening at the Tribeca Grand that Crowe often hosted barbecues for the cast and crew.

According to the New York Post, the two actors told writer Gregory Speck while making a reference to the Oscar winner: “Now we know why his rugby team loves him so much.”

The newspaper report also distinguishes Crowe from another of his co-stars, Christian Bale.

Bale would arrive on the set by helicopter and never speak to his cast-mates unless the script called for it, says the report. [source]

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But he put it back later ….

Russell Crowe and fellow South Sydney owner Peter Holmes a Court are filming a documentary about their takeover of the historical club of Pitt St Redfern. They removed the sign to get a better line of photographic sight during the filming of the Redfern Town Hall.

They put the sign back after filming.

“There’s the first line of your story mate,” grinned Crowe as Holmes a Court neatly placed the sign on the footpath.

Within minutes three council workers turned up to demand an explanation - but pottered off after the millionaire pair promised to replace the sign, as they later did.

It was one short moment among many yesterday as it became apparent the privileged pair have been accepted by the working-class Rabbitoh heartland.

Residents peered from doorways, cafes and passing cars but none were razzle-dazzled by Crowe or Holmes a Court as they prepared to film a segment for the ABC series.

“It happens a lot,” said Crowe of the understated welcome and acceptance by locals.

“We get a lot of support from this district and the people have a deep understanding of what we’re trying to do.

“That’s not about vanity - it’s really got nothing to do with us. It’s their team.”

The pair took over the team via a club vote in March last year and an independent documentary crew has since followed them and the team’s fortunes.

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Russell Crowe is to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in a new triller about a hunt for an al-Qaeda bomber. The film that will be directed by Ridley Scott is an adaptation of a novel by David Ignatius and is titled Body of Lies.

Filming is due to start later this year. Crowe has just completed filming of his latest work with Ripley Scott, American Gangster, which is due out later this year. He and Scott will also team up to film a new Robin Hood movie, Nottingham.

The first time I ever saw Russell Crowe in a movie he was playing a sociopathic virtual reality serial killer named Sid. That was in Virtuosity with Denzel Washington. I didn’t know Crowe’s name at the time. But I remembered him for some reason. Maybe it had something to do with what he was not wearing.

See what I mean? Who could forget that? But don’t you just love the twinkle in his eyes!

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