Alex Ross

Alex Ross from Rough Magic

When it comes to protecting the women of Crowe's Point, Bud White is the man to head for. But when he's not around, Alex Ross is your man. He's also the man that will know mostly anything going on. Once a photographer, traumatized by vision of Hiroshima, he's turned to being a detective who had once been hired by a disgruntled politician, and fallen in love with a magic woman who had not loved him.
Quotes on Rough Magic: ...He’s not thinkin’ he’s a hero, he’s thinkin’ he’s a killer of people, y’know, he’s thinkin’ he’s a murderer. So he can’t face it, and it’s a journey, that 90 per cent of service men went through at the end of the war.

Thank you!

Thank you to my favorite site: GasLightHotel who has been so kind as to link to my blog, and promote my character bios! Props!

Maximus Decimus Meredius Sketch

The drawing of Maximus Decimus Meredius is now finished. If anyone has interest in it, let me know and I will try to find a way to display it here. If I can find a way to reproduce the drawing itself somehow, I will then post it in the store (which, yes, will be coming!)

New Wallpaper

A New Russell Crowe Wallpaper

Check out this new wallpaper on my friend's blog!
If you like it, and want it, let her know! Enjoy it, but please don't just download it! Thanks.

New Feature of Russell Cove

New feature for my blog--I want a website feel. I know this is asking a lot for a blog, but maybe at some point I will be able to get a site put up!
So I'm adding a new label 'Store'. Here you can buy DVD's of your favorite Russell Crowe movies. Also, there are some CD's of TOFOG and some Russell Crowe biographies that will be available shortly.
Maybe I will put up some of my friends' drawings too.
Anyway, the store will be for your use, hope you enjoy it!
I will post an announcement when the store is up and running!

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Maximus Decimus Meridius from Gladiator

Everything he had--everything he was...wrenched from him with the drop of a rope, the lighting of a match. Everything, gone. Overcome by exhaustion, grief, and fever, Maximus was captured by a band of slave traders, taken to Egypt. The next phase of his life--he hated. Maximus hated everything. Hated to fight, hated that he could not be with his family, hated--to live. But somewhere amidst the sorrow and hate, crept another feeling. Vengeance. Maximus channeled his hate into this new emotion--and focused on Commodus. The man who had murdered his commander, his Ceasar. The man who had stolen the title that had borne the name of Maximus Meridius.
Now, as a new anger surged inside of Maximus, he fought for all he was worth, living for that day. The day that he would plunge something sharp straight into the heart of Commodus.
Sadly, Maximus Decimus Meridius died after defeating Commodus in the Coliseum. Maximus would have survived to become Ceasar had Commodus not secretly stabbed him before the fight. But his strength, and his honor is still in the hearts of anyone who will reach out and accept this heroic Gladiator's final challenge.
More details here.
In reality, Maximus Decimus Meridius was a true character. He lived from AD 152 to AD 187, dying at forty. His heroism was hailed all over the Roman world. His strength was recognized by all, as was his dream. His dream that someone with honor would restore Rome to the glorious kingdom it once was, a kingdom of democracy. With the Roman mob cheering the dead hero on, Maximus Decimus Meridius' dying wish was recognized and fulfilled.

Russell Crowe on filiming Gladiator and working with younger counterpart Jauquine Phoenix: "You can do a scene with him, and he can bust you apart. And you're thinking, whoa, this kid is cool. But he'll go, I gotta do that again, it was terrible. And I'm like, whatever, let's do it again mate. Then he does it again, and it's even better! But The Gladiator is a big movie, a one hundred and three million dollar movie. There's lots of stuff going on. And taking a little bit of extra responsibility to make it a smoother journey for other people benefits me in the long term. And I don't change my life, I don't tell people to call me Maximus. I don't, you know, do any of that pretentious sort of stuff. You know, because I work between action and cut. However, you do adjust your life. And you adjust parts of your personality within that character."
Quote thanks to ConstantCrowe--the only site that I could find any quotes on this movie! Thank you.

Bud White

Bud White from L.A. Confidential

Raised under an abusive father, Bud White watched his mother be chained and beaten his whole life. However, when he matures, he realizes that the same white hot anger runs through his veins. Instead of turning on women, though, he decides to vent on abusers themselves. But not good deed goes unpunished. Bud has earned himself a thug reputation in Los Angeles as a knight in shining armor--the punisher of all wife beaters. Unhappy, but realizing there's nothing he can do, Bud takes a job as an enforcer. But a call girl helps him to realize that he's not all bad, like the department says he is, and that somewhere inside of him is an incredible mind--a mind that solves murder, robberies...a mind that Bud needs to unleash.
More details here.
Characteristics: Brutish, tempermental, violent
Quotes: (this is the closest I could find--it's about Los Angeles) "I'd move to Los Angeles--if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed by a huge tital wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe, and if Africa disappeared in some Martian attack." --Russell Crowe
Apparently, any feelings he might've held for LA in his movie, he does not actually feel in reality!