Part of Crowe's appeal to men is that he seems like a nice, fair, non-threatening guy who could rip your head off. But I can easily imagine him playing the Arnold Schwarzennegger routine. I'm not condoning bad behavior but my son was a typical bright, very vocal, nerdy and mild mannered kid with glasses until he he made big gains in bodybuilding and played football. Suddenly my mild-mannered little boy began getting into fights! Football kept him busy though, and that phase passed. But as the old Johnny Winter song says: "I don't really blame 'ya baby, I'd be the same way if I could." So would a lot of us.

I'd be a dick too if everybody was *always* up in my shit.

Hrmph. Maybe that explains it...

He's an ACTOR for crying out loud. How many people in the entertainment field, especially Hollywood do we know of that aren't assholes? Most of these people are starving for attention even when they are surrounded by and shitting on adoring fans.

I loved A Beautiful Mind and Gladiator. I couldn't give two shits about Russell Crowe.

I am entertained.

Hey, has anyone made the Biggus Dickus joke yet?

Hey, has anyone made the Biggus Dickus joke yet?

I sure thought it : )

This guy has some issues to say the least.

He has a wife, you know ... Incontinentia Buttocks

Let's face it. Crowe is like this generation's Sinatra. A genius with a temper. Lots of women love him and lots of men want to be like him. Why not? He is an immensely talented actor with a commanding personality on screen. Think Gladiator won the best picture just because Ridley Scott directed it? Think Orlandio Bloom.

Based on his interviews during his Junkett for Cinderella man, he is a bright, eloquent and - need I say it- charismatic guy too. That he has an anger management issue, well, he has admitted it and needs to work on it. I hope that doesn't lower his acting.

I like Crowe's movies. I like they way Rasheed Wallace plays.

They're both dicks.

When actors become too much a part of the news outside of their work I find I really lose interest in seeing their movies. It distracts too much from believing the role they're playing when I'm constantly reminded of some incredibly dumb thing they said or did. That might have something to do with my not having been inside a theater more than once in the last year. That one time was only because I was forced to pay $10 for parking at a brief event at the rebate offered by the theater made seeing a flick only another dollar.

Can't blame it on the fame or we would have had this conversation about Mel Gibson long ago.

Another likeable quality about Crowe is that he seems slightly balmy, i.e., there is a certain crazy desperation and despair to him as in LA Confiential. And he just never seems to quite believe he is a bad ass in that very cocky bradocio way of Ahhhnoldt. I can't see Crowe telling the story of how he wanted to do a sequence where he would: "rip da guys ahhrm off and slap him across the face vit it, - and some people tink I haf no sense uf humor!" Or his line about success: "I vant everyone to know that now that I'm making ten million dollars a picture, I'm still the same old guy I was when I was making one million dollars a picture."

One of the unwritten rules in "Hollywood" is don't screw with your crew. They have long memories and can make a star look bad in a hundred ways.

Plus the little guy who is the "gopher" could well be an executive producer in a very few years.

A nasty jerk like Crowe will get his eventually and when he fades away, lots of people will quietly cheer. It's the system, and very, very few can escape it.

I'm not defending Crowe's behavior, but if I was shelling out $4000 a night for a hotel room, I'd be a little peeved if the phone in my room didn't work, and I'd sure as heck expect hotel management to find me one that did, muy pronto.

Of course, I would never spend $4000 a night for a hotel room, but if I did...

It happens. He's a shitbag to the "littles."

For that, he goes to hell serving canapes to Rasheed Wallace for eternity.

I've never cared for Crowe's attitude, nor his looks: He always looks like he could use a bar of soap and a razor. And, I had never, ever, been to a theater to see a movie that he was in, until...

Just let me tell ya, attitudinus-maximus or not Cinderella Man is fantastic, and he owned the part.