Russell Crowe arrested for throwing another tissy fit... and a phone...

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Dissident
it's that stressful life of being a big time hollywood star

Not really. One of my Daughter worked at the Silverado Country Club here in Napa and she see a lot of stars, and once in while she will tell us who is in town. She has told us that most of them are very nice to her.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by DanS
He was in NYC. Probably more than one person being a pr1ck in that situation.

Talk to limo drivers and you will find out real quick who the Prlcks are.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by reds4ever


He puts a *A LOT* of weight on inbetween fights and gets *A LOT* of abuse for it from (mainly) American fight fans, so when he turns up for interviews to promote his fights he doesn't look anything like a boxer. He fights at 140lbs but walks around at closer to 170.

Ricky Fatton is one of the terms of abuse the USA boxing fans have for him, the T-shirt was just a "f$%k you" to them.

Ah yes, I remeber reading about that, didn't even occur to me.

ACK!

[Agathon]

How many of you ever met Russell Crowe? He's a fairly decent and ordinary chap.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Agathon
How many of you ever met Russell Crowe? He's a fairly decent and ordinary chap.

Are we to assume you've met him then?

[Lancer]

Originally posted by BeBro
Make him a governor

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Agathon
How many of you ever met Russell Crowe? He's a fairly decent and ordinary chap.

As far as New Zeelanders go

[rah]

I thought I read in an article that was longer that he had made multiple requests for his phone to be replaced which the staff ignored so he brought the phone down and threw it at the wall to force them to replace it and grazed the employee by accident.

I'm not saying which version is true, but both sides should be heard before people judge him.

We are talking about NY here. Rudeness and arrogance on employee's part are not unheard of in NY.


But having said all that, Russel was probably still being a jerk.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs

Are we to assume you've met him then?

Yeah. His brother lives in my home town. I used to be the barman/wine steward at the trendiest restaurant in town. A lot of well-known people would come in early in the evening to miss the rush. He came in with his brother one day. Nice guy – you wouldn't look at him twice if you saw him in the street. I've seen him around town a couple of times too.

I didn't talk to him much besides the usual pleasantries and barman chit chat. I've got better things to do than fawn over celebrities. A couple of times I've had long discussions about philosophy and politics with well-known Kiwis without realizing who they were until after they left. One NZ rugby bigwig who I'd always thought was a complete idiot turned out to be one of the brightest people I'd ever met.

I can also tell you that Lucy Lawless (Xena) has much smaller boobs in real life. She is still hotter than hell though and I'd hit it.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Sprayber

As far as New Zeelanders go

Pretty much.

I think he gets pissed off that people don't understand him. When he won the Oscar, people accused him of being ungrateful because he was self deprecating in his speech and seemed embarrassed.

There's a reason for that. If he'd done a Sally Field, he wouldn't have been able to go anywhere in Australia or New Zealand without people yelling "You Love Me!!" at him.

In truth it was obvious to every New Zealander that he was over the moon at getting the Oscar. It's just our way not to engage in extremes of self adulation in public.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by rah
I thought I read in an article that was longer that he had made multiple requests for his phone to be replaced which the staff ignored so he brought the phone down and threw it at the wall to force them to replace it and grazed the employee by accident.

I'm not saying which version is true, but both sides should be heard before people judge him.

We are talking about NY here. Rudeness and arrogance on employee's part are not unheard of in NY.


But having said all that, Russel was probably still being a jerk.

He admitted to a police officer at the scene to throwing the phone.

[Ming]

Hmmmm... in doing a search...

I've found different stories.
Many claim he hit the person in the face...
Others claim the phone hit the wall first...

Some claim it was an employee that went up to his room to answer a complaint...
Most claim he either unplugged or yanked the phone from the wall and went down to the desk to "discuss" it.

They all agree he was pissed... trying to get his wife on the phone... and that a hotel employee was injured.

But my favorite is that he is being charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon

Hmmmm criminal possession of a phone?

[Agathon]

Have you not seen Pulp Fiction Ming?

[Ming]

Originally posted by Agathon
Have you not seen Pulp Fiction Ming?

Yes, I've seen the movie

[rah]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


He admitted to a police officer at the scene to throwing the phone.

In my post I said he threw the phone. So I assume he admitted it to police. ????????