Dial M for $10 Million
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy
Note to Russell Crowe: Next time you want to make a long distance call, maybe you should think twice about violently throwing your phone at the hotel clerk.
After being caught on camera, Russell Crowe is expected to dish out a crisp $10 million to squash this whole "reach out and hurt someone" fiasco, or else face a possible conviction that could land the hot-tempered actor in jail and force the cancellation of his work visa. If Crowe can't work here then Crowe can't act here, thus potentially ending his career for good. The heartthrob is due back in court on September 14th to face charges -- unless the case is mysteriously dropped. So, until that time, you're still allowed to think Crowe is one of the sexiest men alive. Phew.
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8-15-2005 @ 9:47AM
mick du russel said...
Next time Crowe wants to throw a phone, give me a call. I'll take 10 million dollars to have it thrown at me. That will solve both of our work problems and I could write blogs all day, everyday!
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8-19-2005 @ 12:42AM
Mark Rabinowitz said...
Granted this is all speculative, but....
Ten million dollars? TEN FUCKING MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS!!!??? Are you KIDDING ME!!?? Hey, Mr. hotel worker who got a boo boo....Grow the FUCK up. No one's saying Crowe isn't a dickhead. Hell, I've got friends in the Oz film biz (it's small, so everyone knows everyone) who have told me for years that Crowe is a prick. That said, if every time someone wealthy was a prick, it cost them $10 million, we'd have....wait, maybe that's a good idea....
No. Fuck that. Let's have some sense of proportion and perspective, here. Crowe has earned his money based on the capitalist principles that I abhor but that we live under. Supply and demand. He's a HUGE movie star. According to Boxofficemojo.com, Crowe's films have grossed almost $1.3 BILLION, worldwide. Does he not deserve a cut? If you are largely responsible for a multinational corporation making over a billion dollars, you deserve your slice of the pie.
According to the IMDB, Crowe made $20 million for Master and Commander. Why does this poor schmuck, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, deserve 10 MILLION dollars? Who the hell is this guy to say that he deserves $10 million for a black eye?
How about medical expenses plus $100,000 plus 10 lifetime passes to any Crowe premiere in NYC? Or every Universal film for 10 years? $100,000 is still more than 100,000 times what most people on this planet make each day.
How about all the above and Crowe has to rent a flatbed truck, park it in Times Square during Thanksgiving weekend and, with the aid of a very loud PA system and the Jumbotron, announce: "Hello, New York City! I am a huge fucking prick, but I am trying to deal with it. I was an out of control, violent asshole and need anger management classes. I apologize whole heartedly."
Get some sense of reality, here, people! I used to think the human race was going to destroy the Earth in less than 100 years. Now I see the truth. The American society is going to destroy itself, leaving the rest of the world to sort things out on their own, eating a mostly Mediterranean and Japanese diet and living to be 120 years old.
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