Actor Russell Crowe Arrested for Assault

MyWay ^ | 6/5/05 | staff

[pissant]

NOt a movie buff. Prefer books tenfold!

[Horatio Gates]

Decaprio? He'd get creamed by that kid who played Napoleon Dynamite too. (Ashamed to say I watched that.) I'm a Gary Oldman fan btw, but I don't think he'd fit the bill either for Cinderella Man

[MikefromOhio]

Russell Crowe: Fightin 'round the World!!!


LOL

That is the FIRST thing I thought about when I saw the story this morning hehe

[Artist]

"Finding Neverland was a very moving story."

Yeah, it was, but the actual story it was based upon was not at all what was portrayed. A couple of real life spoilers: (Right click your mouse over the space below to see them if you wish.)

The father of the boys was alive when Barrie met the family and wasn't happy about Barrie's close involvement with his wife and sons.

There is evidence that Barrie personally altered the will of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in order to obtain custody of her children.

Two of the sons later committed suicide.

I detest it when Hollywood glorifies people like Barrie.

[Kellykoop]

But did they also arrest Tugger, his tugboat? ;)

[ARCADIA]

Drudge has an updated version of the story which reads in part:

"The Australian movie star was arraigned on charges of second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon - the telephone - before Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Martin Murphy."

Link here: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050606/D8AI8LM81.html

Comment:

How does having a telephone add up to criminal possession of a weapon?!?! (have we all gone nuts?)

[kaktuskid]

DeNiro used to be great, but is now a caricature of himself.
And has that expression of "chronic constipation"!

[mtngrl@vrwc]

*sigh*

This is exactly the type of thing that keeps me from becoming a full fledged RC fan.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the laugh, and the ping.

[Feiny]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/nyregion/06cnd-crowe.html

The attack occurred shortly after 4 a.m. in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel, the police said. Mr. Crowe was staying in a $3,000-a-day suite there and, unable to place a call to his wife in Australia, went to the lobby and threw the telephone at an employee behind the desk, cutting him below the right eye, the police said.

($nip)

The police arrived at the hotel at 4:21 a.m. and found Mr. Crowe both sober and cooperative, ...

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Mr. Crowe's publicist, Robin Baum, issued a statement denying that the actor had hit anyone: "After asking the front desk several times to replace a faulty phone in his room - and getting only attitude from the clerk on duty - Crowe brought the phone down to the front desk in an effort to address the situation in person. Words were exchanged and Crowe wound up throwing the phone against the wall. He regrets that he lost his temper, but at no time did he assault anyone or touch any hotel employee."

The criminal complaint stated that Mr. Crowe "admitted that he picked up the phone and threw it at informant because he was angry."

The employee was identified as Nestor Estrada, 28, of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He spent the afternoon in seclusion in his apartment, decidedly less glamorous than the actor's room, with its broken buzzer and peeling paint and tin shingles painted to look like wood.

[pissant]

Way to keep up on this. Lookin out for your man! ;o)

BTW, I like your new(?) tagline! ;o)

[Kinky]

I liked gladiator

So, was he? Gladiator?

[pissant]

SHE'S the one that should be glad! ;o)

BTW, I pinged you to a Kinky thread and you never came!

[Kinky]

SHE'S the one that should be glad! ;o)

Well, shut my mouth! You got my little joke!

I pinged you to a Kinky thread and you never came!

How do YOU know?

[pissant]

Very funny, chickadee! very funny.

[Clemenza]

Crowe is a modern day Oliver Reed, an OK actor on the rare occasions when he is sober.

Come to think of it, Reed's last film was Gladiator.

[Windsong]

And this from the loudest, foulest mouth on FR. (pot to kettle..)

[pissant]

Why thankyou.