El Mundo Magazine 9/11/2005 |
The Spanish fans of Russell are outraged at the latest blurring of truth and downright nastiness from the media. In the
current issue of El Mundo, an established newspaper, there
is a reprint in the magazine supplement of the Martyn Palmer story
on Russell from the UK Times. At
the end of the Palmer article, this opinion piece appears. I include
it in Spanish and with a translation by Mariola, from the Russell
Crowe Fan Club in Spain: Las
salidas de tono del “gladiador” ******************************************** The “Gladiator” outburts Russell Crowe is an excellent actor on screen and a non-equal brawler out of it, with a long record of fights and lawsuits. The last agression, in June, to a NY hotel receptionist who was thrown a phone to the head in an tantrum of the actor, was a fault that provoked his arrest and and incident that would had very possibly led him to prison if he hadn’t reached an extrajudicial money agreement with the victim (amount said to be $100.000 according to the media). This is only the last one of his already sadly losses of self control. “I’ve got a straight way and don’t believe in social hipocresy”, he apologizes. He got in his records to have thrown lit cigarettes to the face of anyone who bothers him, to stand the press up anytime he wants and, according legends on sets, he has even taken a gun in a filming to impose his point of view. Among his most notorious deeds, there is, in 1999, quite drunk, a brawl in a bar in Australia where he bit a guy’s face, beat a woman and removed another’s top clothes. The video recording of it caused him more than one headache. Louder was, however, the fight he started in 2002, in London, in post a post BAFTA party [...], when he pushed againts a wall and threatened the tv producer of the show because of his cutting of the broadcasting of the poem he insisted to read when receiving his Best Actor award for “A Beautiful Mind”. Juan Pando ************************************************ If you wish to make a comment on the untruths and exaggarations in Mr Pando's opinion piece, there is a culture blog at El Mundo where you can post and comment. |