Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is a New Zealand Australian actor, film producer and musician. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for Best Actor. Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as Best Actor and seven nominations in the same category. In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.
Source: New York Post
Apocalypse Now Redux, 2001 Sunday, 12:32 pm., AMC Released 22 years after the first version, this one, re-edited by Francis Ford Coppola and Walter Murch, is 53 minutes longer than the original and includes even more bizarre scenes. Added to the story of ...
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By Marc Topkin , Times Staff Writer Marc Topkin Tampa Bay Times In Print: Sunday, May 27, 2012 The scary-looking, metal, medieval-style helmet mask that sits in Carlos Peña's locker — and occasionally on his head and those of his teammates — se ...
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Source: Daily Mail - UK
The Gladiator star thought he was going to be killed in a Sydney alleyway when he was with top Aussie cop Mark Standen, recently jailed for 22 years for his involvement in a $120million crystal meth cartel. Russell was meetin ...
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, 5.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating In the U.K. to begin work on Disney’s Maleficent, newly-engaged Jolie, 36, spent Monday on a different film set with three of her six children: Maddox, 10, Pax, 8 and Zahara, 7. A source close to the fa ...
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Some people might object that I've left out some big names (Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Johnny Depp...), and while I do find them still hot, I also feel that we need to make room for some fresher hotness... Since we are in the middle ...
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Raffaello Follieri, a convicted con man who once dated The Dark Knight Rises actress Anne Hathaway, has been deported. TMZ reports that the Italian native was being held in federal prison in Pennsylvania. He ...
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Creighton and Southern Illinois get their shot Saturday night at a prize few thought was attainable for either team. The Bluejays and Salukis meet in the championship game of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament at ...
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Source: The Daily Telegraph
APPLE chief executive Tim Cook has opted not to take $US75 million ($77 million) in dividend payout on restricted shares of stock he owns in the maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macintosh computers. Documents on file with the US ...
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