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Russell Crowe: Crossing
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Audiences were applauding these developments in the entertainment industry when Russell Crowe was an infant. Frank Sinatra makes a comeback this year in From Here to Eternity. Marlon Brando wins the Best Actor Oscar for the classic On the Waterfront. And Judy Garland stars in her last big musical A Star is Born. Meanwhile, the mambo is the latest dance craze to sweep the nation bringing with it the song Papa Loves Mambo.
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Oscar winner Russell Crowe is Maximus, whom Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) had picked to succeed him. But Marcus's son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) snatches the throne, ordering Maximus dead. Instead, he's enslaved and learns to be a skilled fighter. Read More
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Synopsis: Gladiator duo Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe re-team for this adaptation of author Peter Mayle's best-selling novel about a London-based investment banker who relocates to Provence in hopes of selling a small vineyard he has inherited from his recently-deceased uncle. As a child, Max SkinnerRead More
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Russell Crowe has spoken out for the first time about the death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, and denied reports he is set to make a film about the naturalist's life. -Crowe has admitted to feeling hunt and angered over reports that he would portray Steve Irwin
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After appearing in the TV series Neighbours and Living with the Law, Crowe was cast in his first film, The Crossing (1990), a small-town love triangle directed by George Ogilvie. Before production started, a film-student protegé of Ogilvie's, Steve Wallace, hired Crowe for the film Blood Oath (1990) (aka Prisoners of the Sun) which was released a month earlier, although actually filmed later. In 1992, Crowe starred in the first episode of the second series of Police Rescue. Also in 1992 Crowe starred in Romper Stomper, an Australian film which follows the exploits and downfall of a racist skinhead group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne, directed by Geoffrey Wright.
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September 12, 2000: [Daily Telegraph] RUSSELL Crowe's album with his band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts will hit the shelves around Christmas time. Insiders are tipping the folksy-bluesy-rock album, Bastard Life of Clarity, will silence any critics. The vibes about the album, recorded in Texas, are very good. The band's gigs in Texas last month sold out with tickets going for as much as $500 a pop and USA Today comparing Crowe to an "Aussie John Mellencamp".
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