Actor Russell Crowe has settled a civil lawsuit filed by the New York hotel clerk he assaulted with a telephone in June.
A statement released by both parties said the Oscar-winning actor and the Mercer Hotel employee, Nestor Estrada, had settled the case, but offered few details.
"Both sides expressed satisfaction at the resolution," the joint statement said.
Local tabloids said Crowe paid about $US100,000 ($132,000) to settle the civil lawsuit.

Manyl farmers are saying that Joyce got a raw deal on Telstra at 3.1 billion dollars...

Russell Crowe: "Angry? Me? Never"

It's family bliss for Russell Crowe now, but he'll raise hell in roles as a CIA agent and Robin Hood. He talks to Gill Pringle

Friday, 7 November 2008
Russell Crowe swaggers into our interview looking like he wants to pick a fight. Plonking himself into a chair, the 44-year-old actor alternatively sports a deeply sarcastic smile or an irritated scowl.

Russell Crowe swaggers into our interview looking like he wants to pick a fight. Plonking himself into a chair, the 44-year-old actor alternatively sports a deeply sarcastic smile or an irritated scowl.

"Okey, dokey. Goody, goody," he says, smiling affably. The effect is alarming, akin to a barracuda smiling at you.

Having put on 50lb of flab for his role as a CIA agent in Ridley Scott's political thriller Body of Lies, he's barely recognisable on screen, speaking in a Southern accent he says he based on Bill Clinton's. Today, he's solid muscle, with shoulder-length oily hair slicked back into a ponytail.

So how did he prepare for this role? "Preparation? I picked up a bag, I put a pair of underwear in it and I got on a plane. There you go – preparation done," he says, slapping his hands together.

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Gus likes Russell... see toon at top.

Truly, he is Lost in Showbiz's most beloved fauxstralian. Imagine my delight, then, to learn that at Sunday's Empire Awards, Russell called in only briefly, to accept his 'actor of our lifetime' with the following Billy Bragg / Patrick Kavanagh / John Lennon / Rudyard Kipling / Bee Gees poetry mash-up:

"I am celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo.
Imagine there's no heaven.

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Gus likes Russell. Crowe is not afraid of being himself... And Crowe can act... unlike some others.  And Crowe is generous too. And he's part owner of the Rabbitohs... South Sydney, see also on this site... Solomon is dead.

And the Rabbits have won two games out of three this season so far. 

see toon at top...

Russell takes on the fluffy media...

"Get on your bike. Russell wants you to go riding with him.

"Are you ready to die?"

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What possessed Anette Sharp to have a go and mock Russell?...