The Associated Press SYDNEY — An Australian newspaper mocked Russell Crowe for smoking and shoveling down a fatty meal during a recent bike ride, so the notoriously salty actor set out to prove he is still in gladiator shape — by challenging the paper’s gossip columnist to a duel by ...

.!. Russell Crowe saved fellow star actor Brad Pitt from a multi-million dollar legal bloodbath after Angelina Jolie’s other half quit the movie State Of Play. Crowe, not known publicly for such kindnesses, insisted that Pitt not be hit with a lawsuit. Actors had been hired, sets had been built ...