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When Russell Crowe entered the world, these stories made the front page of the nation's newspapers: President Eisenhower calls Sen. Joseph McCarthy a "plague" to the Republican Party. The Atomic Energy Commission awards the city of Pittsburgh a contract to construct the first nuclear plant to produce more than 60,000 kilowatts. In other news, the Soviet government offered to join NATO if Western nations joined the Soviet European security treaty. In London, the British government begins trade talks with Hungary.
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Gladiator star Russell Crowe is renting a new LA pad - and it’s Tom Cruise’s old house. The Oscar winning actor could be splashing out as much as $125,000 a month on the Beverly Hills mansion - the price the home was recently listed for.
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Crowe awoke in Africa, but before he could start punching people out, he was sold to a fat guy and made to fight as a gladiator. The fans continually pissed Crowe off by refering to him as "Spaniard". He tried to tell them that he was from New Zealand, but alas the people in Africa didn't speak English. The more pissed off Crowe became, the more famous he became until one day, the fat guy annouced that he was taking Crowe to Rome to fight in the Colliseum.
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The director will once again work with Russell Crowe, this time for Universal’s new take on the Robin Hood story. In the film, Crowe stars as a noble Sheriff of Nottingham, stuck working for an evil king and in a love triangle with Robin Hood and Maid Marion. Scott previously directed Crowe in Gladiator, A Good Year, and the upcoming American Gangster.
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Fastidious celebrity newssource In Touch Weekly recently reported that Russell Crowe was going to honor his friend and countryman Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin by playing the adventurer in the big-screen depiction of his life. It seemed a perfect fit of actor and role--Crowe knew Irwin intimately, and handling dangerous reptiles would be a natural extension of his considerable field experience in subduing mouthy hotel concierges with the closest available blunt object. As it turns out... the widely repeated item was false, giving Crowe an excuse to deliver an angry lecture to a CNN reporter on What's Wrong With The World: more
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All hailed Russell Crowe in 2001 as the New Zealand-born actor captured a best-actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Maximus, a general turned gladiator in ancient Rome. His commanding performance, which combined brutal fight scenes with emotional longing... helped Gladiator win an Oscar for best picture and made the epic one of the highest-grossing films of 2000.
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