**November 29**

I've made my first video dedicated to Ben Wade, you can find it   HERE, I hope that you like it :-)



Play Time for Russell Crowe
Oscar winner confirmed for political thriller.
(movies.ign.com)
After being linked with the project for the past week, Russell Crowe has agreed to step in for Brad Pitt in the Universal political thriller State of Play. Pitt dropped out last week over script concerns, hurling the Americanized remake of the British miniseries into a state of flux. Pitt's 11th hour departure nearly caused the Working Title production to be shut down. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Crowe is now in "final negotiations" to star opposite Edward Norton, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, and Jason Bateman in the Kevin Macdonald-directed film. The trade says, "Macdonald spent the weekend in Australia wooing Crowe, who had to see if Play could fit into his schedule; Crowe is scheduled to shoot Universal's Nottingham, the Ridley Scott-directed reimagining of the Robin Hood story." THR tells us that Crowe "will play a political consultant-turned-journalist who heads a newspaper's murder investigation involving a fast-rising politician (Norton)."

**November 26**

Studio wants Crowe for Pitt 'Play' part
(earthtimes.org)
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 Universal Pictures is courting Russell Crowe to take over the role Brad Pitt recently vacated in the U.S. film version of the U.K miniseries, "State of Play." Crowe is expected to make his decision early this week, Variety.com reported Monday. Pitt left the project last week because of differences regarding the movie's shooting script. The movie studio said the actor violated a pay-or-play commitment and is reportedly considering suing him. Pitt's camp said he was essentially forced out of a movie he wanted to do because the studio wouldn't wait for the writers' strike to be resolved so a rewrite could be done on the script, the trade paper said. If a replacement isn't found and production on the film doesn't start soon, Universal could risk losing some of the movie's remaining stars who have other projects lined up after "Play." Edward Norton, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn and Jason Bateman are also set to star in the thriller.

**November 25**

Russell Crowe to Play Poker for Charity
(launchpoker.com)
Australian actor Russell Crowe is just one of many to play poker for charity on Friday, November 30th at the Crown, Melbourne. The event, which is the biggest charity poker event held in the country, will also see Glenn Robbins, Livinia Nixon, Nathan Buckley, Fifi Box, and Dave Hughes, all joining former World Series of Poker champ Joe Hachem to raise money for The Shane Warne Foundation. The event, called "The Joe Hachem & Shane Warne Charity Poker Tournament", has a $1000 buy in. Special prizes will be auctioned off, such as a walk on role in "Wolverine", a new movie starring Hugh Jackman.

**November 24**

Russell Crowe
by Salvatore Calabrese
from Good Food Live
(uktv.co.uk)
Salvatore Calabrese uses kiwi fruit to customise this fabulous vodka based cocktail in honour of New Zealand actor Russell Crowe
Servings: 2
Level of difficulty: Easy
Preparation Time: 3 minutes
Ingredients
1 kiwi fruit, peeled and with white stalk removed
2-3 slices of fresh ginger root
50ml vodka
20ml apple Schnapps, (Souz)
10ml lemon juice
ice
thinly cut apple slices, to garnish
Method
1. Dice the kiwi fruit and add to the cocktail shaker with the slices of ginger.
2. Shake well to infuse the flavours, and then add the remaining ingredients, and fill with ice. Shake well.
3. Pour the mixture into martinis glasses and garnish with thin fan-shaped slices of apple.
Cooks Notes:
The kiwi fruit in this cocktail is designed to represent Russell Crowe's New Zealand roots.
(Tanks Ivani)



Russell Crowe insists he has never done a movie purely for money
(people.monstersandcritics.com)
The 'American Gangster' star - who lives in a $8.5 million penthouse apartment overlooking Sydney harbour - is adamant he doesn't choose his roles purely for financial gain.
He said: "I have never done a done a movie for money, never. I have to be able to get up and go to work. You've got to have a higher level of motivation than money to get up at 4am day after day for months. Money doesn't do it for me."
Meanwhile, Crowe has revealed he wants to get baptised.
The 43-year-old actor and his wife Danielle are planning to baptise their sons - Charlie, three, and Tennyson, one - and the Australian actor has decided he should join them.
He recently said: "I'd like to do it this year. My parents decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age.
"I started thinking recently, 'If I believe it is important to baptise my kids, why not me?' I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man. There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."

**November 19**

November 17, 2007. Actor Russell Crowe opens a new swimming pool at Nana Glen on the NSW mid north coast, the Orara Valley Community Pool.
(newspix)


**November 17**

Russell is in the cover of november/december edition/2007
Interview  HERE
(Tanks Ivani)



















Crowe's splash and splurge
(Sydney Morning Herald)
ACTOR Russell Crowe made a splash with his neighbours on the NSW Mid North Coast yesterday when he opened Nana Glen's first public swimming pool. The Oscar winner offered to build a pool in the rural town, outside Coffs Harbour, after a 12-year-old boy drowned at a beach in the area about five years ago. Almost all 500 residents of Nana Glen turned up at the Orara Valley community pool to thank Crowe for his generosity, which extends to sponsoring the local primary school and sporting teams. Former Olympic swimmer Geoff Huegill did the first lap, but a fully clothed Crowe dived in soon afterwards. Swimming lessons for locals start tomorrow in the pool, for which father-of-two Crowe reportedly paid about a third of the $875,000 total building bill. "A few years ago we had a tragedy in the valley with a kid dying," Crowe told the Nine Network yesterday. "If this pool can save one life it's been worth it. "I also have fantasies of one day sitting up here in the valley and seeing a young'un competing for Australia at the Olympics."
(Thanks Ivani)








**November 16**

RUSSELL CROWE - CROWE INTIMIDATES AMERICA'S GANGSTERS
(contactmusic)
RUSSELL CROWE met a group of hardened criminals in a bid to research his role in movie AMERICAN GANGSTER - and intimidated them with his impressive resume. The actor was keen to perfect his role of Detective Richie Roberts in the crime movie, so paid a visit to notorious New York gangsters for advice. But it was Crowe who left the group trembling - with his filmography. He says, "With the first couple I met, I couldn't work out why they were shaking. I thought they must've been dealing with some sort of extreme drug problem or something like that. But then one of the gangsters I was doing the interview with said about the other one, 'No, don't worry. He's just f**kin' nervous. He's nervous because he's being interviewed by Maximus!' "This is a guy who may well have been responsible for killing people, but a movie star is a movie star."

**November 15**

RUSSELL CROWE - THE THINGS THEY SAY
(contactmusic)
We've been mates since 1995. We just have this innate trust in each other." Actor RUSSELL CROWE on his friendship with AMERICAN GANGSTER co-star DENZEL WASHINGTON.



RUSSELL CROWE - CROWE TIPS SCOTT FOR OSCAR
(contactmusic)
RUSSELL CROWE has tipped director SIR RIDLEY SCOTT to scoop an Academy Award for his new movie AMERICAN GANGSTER. Crowe, who stars alongside Denzel Washington in the crime thriller, is sure this is the film that will change Scott's luck and land him the Oscar he's always deserved. Scott previously directed Crowe in the 2000 epic Gladiator, a role which won him the coveted Best Actor award. But despite having received various accolades throughout his career, the moviemaker has yet to have his work recognised by the Academy. And Crowe is convinced 2008 will be his lucky year. He says, "If there's any director I know who deserves an Oscar, it's Ridley Scott. "He is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and deserving of any honour that comes his way."



RUSSELL CROWE - CROWE DISAGREES WITH CHARACTER'S CASH DECISION
(contactmusic)
RUSSELL CROWE would have no qualms about keeping $1 million (GBP500,000) if he ever came across that amount of abandoned cash - unlike his character in new movie AMERICAN GANGSTER. The Gladiator star, 43, admits he would be more than happy to keep such a large amount of cash, instead of handing it over to authorities as Richie Roberts does in the Ridley Scott-directed film. He says, "If there are no attachments and I'm not required to do anything, then I'm not giving it to anybody. I'm spending it, mate! Are you crazy?"



Crowe: Gangster role a responsibility
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 (metro.co.uk)
Playing a real-life cop was a real responsibility for Russell Russell Crowe has admitted it was a "real responsibility" playing a real life cop in new film American Gangster. The actor plays Richie Roberts, a policeman on the trail of drug lord Frank Lucas (played by Denzel Washington) in 70s Harlem, and says it was very different to playing a fictional character. "There is a responsibility. The thing with a fictional character is that it's in your imagination. When you are playing a real person, especially one who is still alive, there's a real responsibility, and I like that," he says. "I didn't search for it, but I certainly don't shy away from it." New Zealand-born Russell also revealed he relished the opportunity to reunite with director Ridley Scott, who he had previously worked with on films like Gladiator and A Good Year. "It just gets better," he said. "We know each other are the person we can rely on. I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me." The 43-year-old added: "We have perfected the art of a wordless conversation. What Ridley and I know about each other is that we are both kind and generous people and that's why we get on."

**November 10**

Brush with fame
(leaguehq.com.au)
ACTOR Russell Crowe introduced players from his beloved South Sydney Rabbitohs to the designer of their NRL suits yesterday - world famous designer Giorgio Armani. And the 73-year-old Italian couturier revealed his love of the "grande, grande" game during their meet-and-greet session at Maroubra Beach. "It's a very big sport, very big players," said the diminutive Armani. "It gives me a sense of power [to watch]. I'm very happy that from 16th position, they're now seventh with my suits on. Russell's very good. He believes a lot in the team." Armani will leave Sydney this morning for Hamilton Island, from where he will sail around the Whitsundays for a week with an entourage that includes his niece and the head of his VIP relations division, Roberta.

**November 8**

RUSSELL CROWE - CROWE'S SON IS HIS FIERCEST CRITIC
(contactmusic)
Oscar-winning actor RUSSELL CROWE's son is turning out to be his fiercest critic - after the three-year-old branded his movies "not good enough". The Gladiator star admits his son Charlie is aware his father is a big screen star, but the boy isn't impressed with the 43-year-old's acting prowess. He says, "Charlie knows daddy makes DVDs, but the way he puts in, they aren't good enough for him to watch."

**November 6**

Box Office weekend october 2-4
(box office mojo)
1. American Gangster $43,565,115
2. Bee Movie $38,021,044
3. Saw IV $10,348,646



Russell Crowe Plans to Be Baptized
(foxnews.com)
NEW YORK - Russell Crowe, who is 43, says he's planning to be baptized. "I'd like to do it this year," the Oscar-winning actor tells Men's Journal. "My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started thinking recently, `If I believe it is important to baptize my kids, why not me?'" Crowe says the baptism will take place in the Byzantine chapel he built at his country ranch in Australia for his wedding to Danielle Spencer in 2003. The couple have two sons, 3-year-old Charlie and 1-year-old Tennyson. "It is consecrated and everything," Crowe says in the magazine's December issue, now on newsstands. "Charlie was baptized there. And when Tennyson gets baptized there, I will, too." Crowe _ a reformed Aussie bad boy with a reputation for throwing temper tantrums _ is more spiritual than people may think. "I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man," he says. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith." Crowe, who won an Academy Award in 2001 for "Gladiator," co-stars with Denzel Washington in "American Gangster," a Universal Pictures release, which is now in theaters. His screen credits also include "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Insider."

**November 5**

'American Gangster' Tops US Weekend Box Office Sales
(Voice of America)
A potent combination of bullets and bees propelled last weekend's U.S. box office chart. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe's bloody crime saga American Gangster took in $46.3 million to lead the list, while Jerry Seinfeld's animated comedy Bee Movie placed second at $39.1 million. Together, the two hit movies revitalized what had been a sub-par autumn season. "It took three of the biggest stars in the world to get the box office back on track, and they did it in high style with two totally different kinds of movies," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracker Media By Numbers. "You had an R-rated movie and a PG-rated movie bringing in a really diverse audience." After six consecutive underperforming weekends, the Top 12 movies took in $127.2 million. That's a 12 percent increase from the same weekend in 2006, when Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan took first place with $26.5 million. Directed by Ridley Scott, Universal's American Gangster is being named as an early Academy Award favorite. While U.S. audiences have recently proven largely unreceptive to R-rated movies, they flocked to see Denzel Washington's portrayal of the 1970s Harlem crime lord Frank Lucas. Russell Crowe plays the New Jersey cop hard on his trail. It's the largest opening ever for the two stars: Crowe's previous best was $34.8 million for Gladiator, also directed by Scott. Washington's best opening weekend tally was $29 million for Inside Man. Dreamworks and Paramount's Bee Movie features Jerry Seinfeld co-writing and providing his voice in the animated tale of a bee suing humanity for stealing his species' hard-earned honey. It's the comedian's first large-scale project since his TV sitcom Seinfeld ended in 1998.



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe overcame a swarm of bees to take top spot at the weekend North American movie box office with "American Gangster," a true-life crime saga that set a number of records. According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, "American Gangster" sold $46.3 million worth of tickets during its first three days, while Jerry Seinfeld's heavily marketed animated "Bee Movie" opened at No. 2 with $39.1 million. Both figures surpassed the expectations of the films' respective distributors.

**November 3**

Friday Box Office: American Gangster w/$16.5M, headed for $47M! Bee Movie targets $40M
Article on  /Film



"Gangster" steals box office honey
Cop drama tops 'Bee Movie' with $16 mill Friday
Article on  Variety



A new partial at Hello poll :
The difference is still less than 100 votes, please keep voting while you are at internet, we can vote everyday, the whole day at every 15 minutes, and each single vote is really very important.
Right now the partial results are:

Keith Urban - 1984
Russell Crowe - 1888
Shayne Ward - 851
We are counting on you!
(Tanks Ivani)



Added cast on Body of Lies's page at  IMDB:

Leonardo DiCaprio ... Roger Ferris
Russell Crowe ... Ed Hoffman
Carice van Houten
Vince Colosimo ... Skip
Clara Khoury ... Bassam's Wife
Shredi Jabarin ... Jihadist
Jamil Khoury ... Marwan
(Tanks Ivani)

**November 2**

Updated AG's page with pics of  Los Angeles Premiere