Charlie Rose

fallon  02/09/2011 03:51 PM Report

Lookin dapper Mr crowe!

_Ian_  02/07/2011 10:17 PM Report

30% of the interview was spent reminding people of Gladiator.

doodah  11/21/2010 08:19 AM Report

So Russell Croowe will do a martial-arts film? eh. Well let me guess, first he'll wrap a phone chord (hopefully one of those springy old-fashioned kind) around his nemesis's neck and strangle him; and then throw a bunch telephone receivers (like those Chinese flying-stars) at a group of mild mannered brothers on the street corner singing barber shop do-wop.

Or he could play 'Archie Bunker'; he does resemble, 'Carroll O'Connor'. .. 'Boy the way Glen Miller played...those were the days'.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/20/2010 04:22 PM Report

Hilarious question Charlie:

CHARLIE ROSE: ". . . want me to do full snot, as you say. That’s an Australian or New Zealand phrase?"

RUSSELL CROWE: It’s just a disgusting phrase. I’m not sure where it comes from.

(LAUGHTER)

Russell Crowe's "full snot" comment is reference to his scene in Gladiator where he has to dig deep emotionally when he finds the burnt bodies of his wife and son. This comment appears to be a way for Russell to explain how "a man's man" can have such emotion. His gender identity has to stay intact.

In any event, on my personal list of the 10 Best of the First 10 Years I have both Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003) and Gladiator (2000). So his gender identity works for me.

Gladiator was more than human spirit, Russell. It was honor facing a corrupt government. And yes, Ridley's visualization is fantastic.

800 emails Russell? Run a football team in Australia, have a cattle farm, a muscian/touring wife and two sons? Slow down mate and breathe.

JohnGelles  11/20/2010 05:01 AM Report

The main reason I write in this space tonight is that the interview on the DEFICIT with Dean Baker and Jan Schakowsky on Nov 19, 2010, is not yet ready for comment.

CR was obviously not in sympathy with Dean and Jan -- who were so much better informed than Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson as to make comparison false and misleading. Their view of jobs as the problem and the DEFICIT as a distraction is too true to register with brain-washed Rose and a host of others not much influenced by Maynard Keynes and the rational purpose of money.

CR's lack of sympathy registered in his facial expression and his tone of voice. I would kick CR off the air for a week as punishment for the way he has handled the crises we're experiencing. The media and Rose fiddles as America burns.

..... ..... We need Keynesian demand; Buffet's import certificates; Obama's list of real deficits in safe energy and its supply, industrial and scientific R&D, world class infrastructure, education and seamless attachment thereof to earning a living and supplying all needs, etc.; robotic weapons and security systems in the war on terror, etc.

We do not need distractions like nonsense about deficits, protection of the culprits stealing bonuses while we chase people using weed, and other pimples on the skin of Uncle Sam in potentially dire straits.

CR has given us moment with the left represented by Dean and Jan. Now let us hear from the heterodox scholars of political economy, like James Galbraith, Mathew Forstater, Randall Wray and others who understand the Federal Budget is a plan based on the policy of a giant who owns the money apparatus NOT the budget of firm, a bank or industry responsible for little things compared to what we saved for civilization in the Civil War and WW II.

JohnGelles  11/20/2010 04:26 AM Report

The art and craft of live TV interview was demonstrated by the two who made the SHOW tonight. There was tension in the air because Crowe will not be bested at anything he does. He came at Charlie as man and as performer determined to be frank with the audience and himself. He is obviously proud of what he has become. I remained glued to his talk and alert for the whole hour as the trivial concerns of one fine performer and one gifted interviewer went at it. Charlie had an honest line that set the stage for all of it. He said, '... that's why we did not talk before the show -- we hit the live broadcast with the energy we might have lost if we had talked too long before the SHOW began.'

..... well those are not his actual words. I did not review and copy the transcript. I just recalled the essence of this secret of how to do live interviews for a living.

I've only seen a few of Crowe's movies. They were his best and most famous. He's too plain and ugly most of the time for my taste in performers.

I like smaller actors, for one thing, like Bogart in the African Queen and Alan Ladd in Shane.

I was under 6 ft tall all my life and have shrunk to even shorter as I got older--and all the stars I liked died.

Crowe is bigger and far from fine featured. But his intelligence is there-- and his will to do the job as which he is so good.

I was going to skip the interview. I would have missed one of Charlie and Russell's best. Russell Crow is a real man, a competitor and a winner. He came across as true to himself and NOT false to us--his audience.

(As he said to Charlie, the incident in NYC was about nothing at all. I agree with him. Were I in Charlie's seat I would have arranged with my staff to prevent me from letting a hint of its exploitation by the press out of my mouth.)

GQtaste  11/19/2010 11:24 PM Report

No kidding, Master and Commander was a masterpiece. With all the talk about last decade's work I get the impression this new film isn't worth all that. Crowe did have one heck of a run starting w/ LA Confidential.

thinking  11/19/2010 10:50 PM Report

Thanks for the whole-hour interview. Not necessary to ask about old "issues" - however, he gave a good answer. Russell Crowe is my favorite actor. One thing I wished for in the interview was a little about Master and Commander - my favorite movie.

JBarry  11/19/2010 06:36 PM Report

on a show either last month or the month before you had a psychologist and I believe 2 others and you showed a sketch of a guy who had to make a decision to save a family member or 5 strangers. throw a lever to divert a train or to push another guy off a bridge to save the strangers. You didn't give the option of telling the guy on the bridge that he didn't have to worry about being pushed off and sacrifice himself and jump. they didn't give that option, why?

JBarry  11/19/2010 06:18 PM Report

charlie asked russell about new york and russell didn't want to talk about it can you tell me. thank you for your time.

anne4444  11/19/2010 02:37 PM Report

Thank you for the interview. He is my favor actor.