There are two sides to all celebrities: The squeaky-clean images forced upon the public by PR reps and their actual personalities. To provide you with a glimpse into the real Hollywood characters are Mollygood’s very own readers, telling tales of celebrity encounters big and small. Up this week: Choni B's date with Russell Crowe. CONTINUED »
COULD BE BRILLIANT, COULD BE TERRIBLE "How do you find an actor of Russell Crowe’s caliber to play against him? Well, Ridley Scott seems to have found the answer: let the Oscar winner play both roles! That’s right, in one of the odder casting ideas in at least a few days … Crowe is going to play both the sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood himself in Ridley Scott’s upcoming flick, 'Nottingham.'"
LAW TO BE WATSON TO DOWNEY JR'S HOLMES? "In what has become a guessing game that may have piqued the interest of the great detective himself, the latest name to surface in the who-will-play-Watson merry-go-round is Jude Law. Variety reports that Law is negotiating to join Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie’s 'Sherlock Holmes' after a host of other names like Russell Crowe, Gerard Butler and Colin Farrell were tied to the project via Internet rumors."
As you'll recall, this year's Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City was a huge, violent, crime-ridden success, much like the town on which it's based: New Yawk. So, in today's creatively bankrupt Hollywood, it was only a matter of time until someone started talking about a movie based on the title.
Because we'd like to get our hands on some of the bloody lucre that digital hooker-kicking has amassed, we've taken the liberty of casting the possible Liberty City movie. Thank us – with a lucrative back-end deal – when it's a hit.
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Tired of hating yourself and your boyfriend for not hating himself? Help is on the way! Just one week after it was revealed that Ryan Gosling's chunky physique may have contributed to his dismissal from a film role, directer Ridley Scott has reported that he demanded from the stocky Russell Crowe a 30 pound weight loss before filming began on their newest project, Body of Lies. Finally, everyone can be afraid of looking in the mirror.
Weirdly, Spike "Blacks Can't Be Real Racists" Lee isn't very close with Russell Crowe after Crowe suggested in a very roundabout way that the director need cast him as the black lead if he wants him in an upcoming film, a biopic about Joe Louis.
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Contrary to his costar Russel Crowe, whom 3:10 to Yuma cast members have called "a sweetheart," reports have pegged Christian Bale as a rather disdainful on-set presence. Besides never speaking to his cast mates unless the script called for it, according to Page Six, Bale also had a helicopter taxi him to and from the movie's set. Asked his opinion, the man Crowe bludgeoned in the face with a telephone said he still thinks Crowe's worse.
More stills from 3:10 to Yuma.
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Studio executives must look at Westerns as breathing room, in that they periodically give them a credible reason to not cast brown people.
A lot more after the jump.
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• If you're in Chicago, go see K-Fed for free tonight. Please. Please go and tell me about it. [TMZ]
• Just thinking about Pete Doherty's personal hygiene makes my skin crawl. [DListed]
• "He's a Mac" wants to leave commercials and return to his "movie career." [BWE]
• Every once in a while Andy Dick still makes funny. [PopSugar]
• Jessica Simpson is a Jezebel. [Yeeeah]
• Russell Crowe moves from one bad band name to another. Band itself stays exactly the same amount of bad. [Junkiness]
• A paparazzo hurt Madonna? Jerk. [A Socialite's Life]
• Mmmm, sigh. [CityRag]
• Kim Porter can take Diddy's sleeping around, but fathering some other woman's child? Oh, hell no. [Celebitchy]
• Turns out, kids don't care where Madonna crucifies herself, just as long as she never blasphemes something important, like MySpace. [Junkiness]
• Russell Crowe knows that there's no pouting, brooding, or anger allowed in Williamsburg. [OAN]
• And the Award for Carefully Worded Quote of the Day goes to: Paris Hilton! [DListed]
• Jessica Simpson has two reasons for you to go see her new movie, and they're not her zany co-stars. [Egotastic]
• Tara Reid's new friend looks like he will need to be rescued with the Jaws of Life. [Celebrity Nation]
• Take a pill and look like Carmen Elektra, or something like that. [PopSugar]
• Happy Friday, watch Pamela Anderson and Cindy Crawford have a Lap Dance Off. [X17, X17]
Cause, baby, look at him then. It's not often we get a Russell Crowe story that involves no rage whatsoever, so savor this one while we've got it. Early Thursday morning Crowe and his wife, Danielle Spencer, welcomed their second baby boy to this godforsaken world. I'll let People give you the goods:
Tennyson Spencer Crowe was born at 7:27 a.m. on Friday in Australia at Sydney's Royal North Shore hospital, and weighed in at 8 lbs.
"Mother, father and baby are doing extremely well," Vandenberg tells PEOPLE.
Crowe, 42, and Spencer, 35, are also parents to son Charles Spencer Crowe, born Dec. 21, 2003, in Sydney, Australia.
Tennyson Spencer is okay, I guess, but they should have gone with the suggestions given by their elder son. Charles would have chosen "Pumpkinhead" or "Stinky" (which has always been a personal favorite of mine).
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• Russell Crowe shocked no one by losing his shit and throwing a phone at a hotel worker's head. Luckily, money heals all wounds. [OAN]
• Tom Cruise continuted to alienate and mystify every fan he ever had with his constant Katie Holmes publicity stunt. One year later, those same fans are the ones trying to put him in the loony bin. [PopSugar]
• Meanwhile Katie Holmes, when left alone, sometimes had to answer quesions about Tom Cruise and how they met, which she was clearly unfit to do. [Defamer]
• It feels like just last week that Paris Hilton pulled off her top while being filmed, but this video is from a year ago. Oh, right that happened last week, too. [The Superficial]
• Stavros Niarchos started his ascension into Paris' vag, starting with Mary-Kate's. [A Socialite's Life]
• ARE BRAD AND ANGELINA DOING THE NASTY?? Fuck, yes, calm down, people. [CityRag]
• Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson are fine. Nothing to see here. Keep walking, folks. [PITNB]
• Michelle Rodriguez loves prison almost as much as she loves her short shorts! [DListed]
• Naomi Campbell caught wind of the hottest trend since Anorexia '05 and wants a baby of her own (to throw things at). [A Socialite's Life]
• Available soon at a Toys R Us near you: Babies First Scandal, so your infant can feel as special as Shiloh. [Gallery of the Absurd]
• So all this press about Russell Crowe being Mr. Nice Guy is a load of crap? It sounded a bit fishy. [Celebitchy]
• Petra Namcova caught James Blunt's eye, as she walked on by, and he could tell by her face…that she was, fucking smoking. [Egotastic]
• Kate Moss moves from a hardcore drug addict boyfriend to a hardcore sex addict boyfriend. I guess that's a step in the right direction. [Faded Youth]
• Angelina covered up her Billy Bob tattoo with the coordinates of her children's birthplaces. Expect copycat tats of where people were when they learned of Shiloh's birth. [US Weekly]
I know that Britney Spears has been looking rough for the past year and a half or so, but saying that she's going to look like Anna Nicole Smith in 20 years? That's a bit rough, US Weekly. Trimspa execs are probably looking at this and licking their lips with anticipation.
US made some other celebrity fast forward predictions, ranging from the obvious (Benjamin McKenzie into Russell Crowe, Dakota Fanning into Jodie Foster) to the incredibly insulting for one party (see above and to the side). Come to think of it Paris Hilton into Donatella Versace is mutually insulting.
I mean, Paris hasn’t yet opened that scalpel can of surgery worms. And Donatella didn’t spend all that time and money creating her masterpiece of Botox, plastic, and characteristics that give all children nightmares just to have some two-bit socialite jack her steez in a few years time.
Hey, good news for Sophia Loren, at this rate Nicole Ritchie's not going to be around 20 more years to see if this depressing prophecy comes true.
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