October 31 - Trick or Treat!

The Writers Almanac: "Today is Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, the time of the wandering dead. It's also a time for the young and the not-so-young to dress in outlandish attire and go door to door begging for candy. If you're looking for a scary story to read instead, there's no shortage of ghoulish material to choose from." Poe - Irving - Hawthorne - Lovecraft - Twain

Russell Crowe ‏@russellcrowe 6h ACMF DUETS 2013 Danielle Spencer and Damien Leith perform A Thousand Years: http://youtu.be/_kLnCUPbJEg via @youtube

Russell Crowe ‏@russellcrowe 7h Rode 4 different horses yesterday , one of them was my beautiful Honey back in saddle after a few years off to have babies

youtube: The ACMF - narrated by Russell

October 29

October 28

The Hollywood Reporter (Related): Box Office: Moviegoers Flunk Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor' - The Counselor marks one of Scott's worst openings when accounting for inflation. Top spoils go to A Good Year, which fared even worse when opening to $3.7 million in November 2006. Starring Russell Crowe, the romantic comedy earned only $42 million worldwide, including $7.5 million in North America.

From 2003 - HQ Magazine Article

October 27

CBC Live: The Russell Crowe - Republic of Doyle Connection

October 26

news.com.au: Check out the winners and losers as we pit A-List celebrities of the same age like Russell Crowe and Rob Lowe in head-to-head combat

Hollywood Reporter: Best Movie Posters 2013

October 25

Related (Ridley Scott): The NY Times - Wildlife Is Tame; Not the Humans -- ‘The Counselor,’ a Cormac McCarthy Tale of Mostly Evil (Critics Pick)

Yahoo News: Burgess brothers in England rugby league squad for Australia

The Toronto Sun: Ridley Scott’s best and worst films 

thewaterdivinerfilm: Russell Crowe taps Jai Courtney for ‘The Water Diviner’ - "In a sense this character is where the story of The Water Diviner began. In 1920, the real “Hilton” wrote a letter to the war historian, Charles Bean, describing how an Australian father had come to Gallipoli looking for his son’s body. I showed the excerpt of the letter to Andrew Knight and immediately we became intrigued with this grieving dad. We built the story from there. There’s more about the seed of the idea in an earlier blog."

Deadline.com: Jai Courtney Tapped For Angelina Jolie’s ‘Unbroken’, Russell Crowe’s ‘Water Diviner’ - Thanks, Steph

Studio System News: ROI INSIGHT: WHY IT’S BETTER TO DOUBLE-DOWN WHEN IT COMES TO RIDLEY SCOTT

October 24

Total Film: 50 TV Stars turned Movie Stars

NZ Listener: Bradford’s Hollywood: Olga Kurylenko, Russell Crowe, and Amanda Seyfried

October 23

LA Times: Russell Crowe's 'Noah' trailer: How leaked is leaked?

NY Times (Related): Revamped ‘Les Mis’ Finds Its Valjean and Javert for Broadway

October 22

Vulture.com: 100 MOST VALUABLE STARS OF 2013 (See #60. The text still looked at the past, with only a little of the future. In addition to Noah, The Water Diviner, A Winters Tale, Fathers and Daughters)

For good stuff from the past, check out the Thoroughly Russell Crowe monthly calendar

This is fun - 6 Degrees Russell's film kisses

On TV: 5 P.M. (Sundance) A GOOD YEAR (2006) Russell Crowe reunites with the director Ridley Scott (“Gladiator”) in this celebration of French food and wine, adapted from Peter Mayle’s 2004 novel about Max Skinner, an aggressive London bond trader who inherits a small vineyard from his Uncle Henry (Albert Finney). Max (Mr. Crowe), soothed by the memories of summers spent amid the grapevines, soon morphs into a bon vivant who falls for a beautiful bistro owner (Marion Cotillard). Then a young Californian (Abbie Cornish) shows up and announces that she is Uncle Henry’s daughter — which would make her Henry’s true heir. Writing in The Times, Stephen Holden advised viewers “to make a reservation at an upscale French restaurant immediately after seeing the film or risk going home feeling deprived.” - Our trip to Bonnieux

Last week, ET did a segment on Hunks at 50 which included an early interview with Russell- Thanks, Allison

October 21

The Australian: Packer's RatPac to fund Crowe directorial debut - The Water Diviner is being produced by Andrew Mason and Troy Lum for Hopscotch Features, which also developed the coming Disney film starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, Saving Mr Banks, and by Keith Rodger for Crowe's Fear of God Films. The screenplay is by Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios and the film will be shot by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Andrew Lesnie. Filming will begin in Sydney on December 2.

some pics from the past:

From Premiere Magazine 2004

Young Russell

October 20

Andrew Anastasios has updated his blog (The Water Diviner)

October 19

news.com.au: Russell Crowe's property portfolio could make him one of NSW's largest private land owners

10 P.M. tonight - (Cinemax) BROKEN CITY (2013) Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe), a New York City mayor, hires Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg), a disgraced cop turned private detective, to expose the infidelities of his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in this film noir, directed by Allen Hughes and written by Brian Tucker. But Billy always seems to be one step — or one gunshot — behind. “The screenplay remains the weak link in Mr. Hughes’s work,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. “But if you don’t listen to the dialogue too hard, if you tune out a bit and instead watch the screen — notice how the restless cameras prowl around the actors, and how shards of bright color pierce the pooling black night — then ‘Broken City’ satisfies like the solid B movie it is.”

Banksy Quotes 'Gladiator' In His Latest Mural - For today's installment in his month-long series on the streets of New York, he headed to Queens, where he painted a quote from the movie "Gladiator". A tipster let us know the work can be found in Queens at the southeast corner of 69th St. and 38th Ave. - Thanks, Jeannine

October 18

Deadline Hollywood: Olga Kurylenko To Co-Star In Russell Crowe’s Directorial Debut ‘The Water Diviner’ - "The story, which takes place four years after the battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I, centers on Australian farmer Connor (Crowe), who travels to Istanbul to discover the fate of his sons, reported missing in the action. He forges a relationship with the beautiful Turkish woman (Kurylenko) who owns the hotel he stays in."

TNT Magazine: Russell Crowe has donated $10,000 to a Blue Mountains foster father who lost his house in the NSW bushfires. - Thanks, Steph

October 17

Deadline.com: Amanda Seyfried To Join Russell Crowe In ‘Fathers And Daughters’ - Thanks, Steph

October 16

Screen Daily: More on the film -- Russell Crowe joins Voltage’s Fathers and Daughters

Yahoo News: Russell Crowe will star in "Fathers & Daughters," the forthcoming film from the Italian director behind "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "Seven Pounds." -- In "Fathers and Daughters," whose narrative alternates between 1980 and 2010, the actor will portray a successful writer who is also a widower, Deadline.com reports. While struggling with an acute case of mental illness, he tries his best to raise his five-year-old daughter. - on the director Gabriele Muccino's Twitter page, it looks like Amanda Seyfried is cast as RC's grown-up daughter (Les Mis reunion?)

Geographically Related: The NY Times: Eleanor Catton was awarded the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for “The Luminaries,” an immersive tale set in 19th-century New Zealand that explores identity, greed and human frailty.

The Hollywood Reporter: Darren Aronofsky, Paramount Spar Over 'Noah' Final Cut (Exclusive)

The Telegraph: Religious audiences slam Darren Aronofsky's retelling of the Noah story- Also at Slash Film - Thanks, Steph

October 14

Variety: Russell Crowe is heading to New York to play the lead in Voltage Prods.’ drama “Fathers and Daughters,” directed by Gabriele Muccino. -- Besides Voltage, production companies are Busted Shark Prods., Fear of God Films and Leone Films. Producers are Craig J. Flores and Nicolas Chartier of Voltage and Sherryl Clark of Busted Shark. Crowe and Keith Rodger will also exec produce via their Fear of God production shingle along with Romilda De Luca. AndreaLeone Films will also co-produce and handle Italian distribution rights. - Thanks Steph

Jo A at Libriscrowe has all the Bud caps up on site, enjoy.

Related: The NY Times Theater - A Russian Original With Irish Spin -- ‘The Seagull,’ at Culture Project, Stars Trudie Styler (Mrs. Sting)

Adelaide Now: Danielle Spencer loving life a year on from announcing split with Russell Crowe - Thanks, Ellen

October 13

hurriyet daily news: Russell Crowe meets Turkish culture minister, seeks assistance for new project

From CGee: Here a link to a vid of Russell speaking at the Topkapi Palace:

October 11

The Washington Post: Hollywood A-listers join Sir Elton John in honoring Hillary Clinton - "The invitation reads like the red carpet roster at the Oscars and Grammys – combined. There’s Courtney Love and Cyndi Lauper, Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman, Tom Hanks and Kevin Spacey." 

October 10

Russell at Twitter asking where he is, with pics - Turkey?

Rope of Silicon: Darren Aronofsky Discusses the Complicated Visual Effects in 'Noah'

Related: GQ: The New American Hustle Trailer: Tinted Lenses, Polyester, and Christian Bale's Gut

October 9

EE Times: A Beautiful Mind Explains Our Industry

au Channel 7 news: Rare 17th century map of Australia to go on show in Canberra -- "...Dr Woods says it is the first time many of the maps have been seen in the southern hemisphere. "The exhibition tells the story of the imaginings of Australia from ancient Greek days all the way through medieval Europe to the Dutch and French and Portuguese and Spanish explorations in this part of the world, and finishing with the original mapping by Flinders and Cook," Mr Woods said. Actor Russell Crowe, who has an interest in maps, will open the exhibition on November 7." - Thanks, Steph

October 8

Charley Rose: Full Episode (An Hour With Actor Russell Crowe)

Russell on Leno - Riding his bike to the show

October 7

LA Times: Classic Hollywood: 'Shane' comes back - Screening at Samuel Goldwyn Theater marks the 60th anniversary of the seminal western 'Shane.' -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the masterpiece Monday evening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater with a screening of the new digital restoration of the film. Director James Mangold ("The Wolverine"), who directed the 2007 remake of "3:10 to Yuma," will introduce the film.

Current article on Russell: Classic Ellis: Russell Crowe, 2005 (gives RC credit as a great actor and breaks down a VERY critical article from 2005 on RC by someone named Helen Garner

October 5

We've done it before, but tell us again your favorite Crowe film, and why (No Gladiator!)

October 4

Russell at Twitter: Mostly physical activity updates: Russell Crowe ‏@russellcrowe 3 Oct Tuesday was 3.5 km Elliptical, push ups/farmers holds. Wed more walking,4km. Thurs,day of movement, swimming, horse riding, walking & atv's!

PBS Video: Soar over Asia and Australia with cranes, swallows, lorikeets, cockatoos, budgies, pigeons and more.

My review of A Beautiful Mind from the past - The ABM page in the films section, thanks to Chats

October 2

From the past: 2001 - Manohla Dargis article on RC, the NY Times - The Times Page

October 1

BBC Sports: Rugby League World Cup 2013: Burgess trio in England squad - Thanks, Christine

The NY Times - Related: Trudie Styler on Her New Play and Being Mrs. Sting

September 29

The Advocate au: Burrowing into Burgess - South Sydney Rabbitohs star Sam Burgess is the subject of a new documentary,Slammin' Sam, which is screening on Fox Sports. The documentary, narrated by the club's owner, New Zealand-born Hollywood actor Russell Crowe, follows Burgess throughout the rugby league season, including a trip back to his native England and a family dinner on the night the four Burgess brothers made history by playing for an Australian top-grade side in the same game. Slammin' Sam: The Sam Burgess Story (The Telegraph au) airs on October 4.

Jo at Libris Crowe has updated her index page of character caps from Russell's films. Check it out.