Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Russell Crowe is considering taking a break from Hollywood so that he can spend more time with his children. The actor has spoken to his wife Danielle about his plans to be there for two-year-old Charlie and four-month-old Tennyson as they grow up. "A big part of conversations Danielle and I are having is where are we going to be, and where’s Charlie going to school," he explained. "What are we going to do in terms of restrictions on work? I want to be the dad who takes him to school in the morning and picks him up in the afternoon, which makes making movies very difficult. "I’m not interested in being the parent that’s always away. I want to be present all the time."

Digital Spy 

Good for him! Fatherhood has really changed him, so why shouldn’t he enjoy it!

Actor Russell Crowe said on Monday he quit an epic movie about the Australian outback co-starring Nicole Kidman because he doesn’t do “charity work” for major studios. The New Zealand-born Australian actor had been scheduled to star in the as-yet untitled film directed by Baz Luhrmann, but dropped out and was replaced by another Australian actor, Hugh Jackman, in June. At the time, no reason for the cast change was announced. “I just didn’t want to work on that movie in the type of environment that was being created because of the needs of the budget,” Crowe told reporters while promoting his new movie, director Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year,” in New York. “I do charity work, but I don’t do charity work for major studios.” The Luhrmann movie was due to begin production this month, but has been pushed back to February because of scheduling conflicts and budget debates with 20th Century Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter. A spokesman for 20th Century Fox had no immediate comment. Media reports have put the budget for the ambitious film at between $150 million (79 million pounds) and $175 million. Luhrmann, director of the hit musical “Moulin Rouge,” has described the film to Australian newspapers as a sweeping romance in the same vein as “Gone with the Wind” and on the scale of David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia.” He said the film would be set in Australia from the mid-1930s leading up to the Japanese bombing of the tropical northern city of Darwin in World War Two. Crowe and Kidman were scheduled to have starred together in another Australian movie, based on the novel “Eucalyptus,” but the project collapsed last year because of difficulties with the script. “It will come around when it’s supposed to come around,” Crowe said of filming a movie in Australia. “The unfortunate thing about the way the media works these days, before the idea is even really solidified in people’s heads it’s already front page news. The film business is very complicated.”

Reuters 

What a jerky answer, but it Russell Crowe.

Russell Crowe wants to play Steve Irwin in a film based on the life of the ‘Crocodile Hunter’. The Oscar-winning AView the profile for Cameron Diaz on Celebrity Spotlightustralian actor – who has repeatedly spoken of his affection for friend Steve after he was tragically killed, aged just 44, by a stingray – is in talks with Universal Studios about making a biopic. Crowe, 42, is desperate to make the movie as he feels it would be a fitting tribute to the wildlife expert’s life. An insider told In Touch Weekly magazine: "It’s not about money for Russell – it’s about honouring his friend. "Steve once told Russell that he wanted him to play him in a movie version of his life."

ISE 

Actually he might work?

Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe, 42, and his wife Danielle Spencer, 36, have welcomed the birth of their son, Tenyson Spencer Crowe. The baby, weighing in at 8 pounds, was born at 7:27 AM on July 7 at the Royal North Shore hospital in Sydney, Australia.
 “Mother, father and baby are doing extremely well,” says manager Grant Vandenberg.
The couple already have a son, Charlie, 2. Both sons have the middle name Spencer after Danielle Spencer’s maiden name. Earlier this year, Crowe explained to Tonight Show host Jay Leno how they shared the happy news with their toddler.
 “He knows where the baby is in Mommy’s tummy and knows that he was a baby once and there’s another baby coming along,” Crowe said. “And we said, ‘Bubba, what do you want to call your brother?’ and his first option was Pumpkinhead. But then the next day, he revised it and he changed it to Stinky.”
 The couple met in 1989 when they costarred in the 1990 film The Crossing, and married in April 2003

Us Weekly 

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