Word: weir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This, in microcosm, is what Crowe has been doing to moviegoers since his breakout performance in 1997's L.A. Confidential. He jerks them around with surliness, then seduces them with immense talent and charm. "Russell is very unpredictable," says Master director Peter Weir. "In life and on the screen you're never quite sure what he's going to do in any situation. It keeps you watching." Says Ron Howard, Crowe's friend and the director of 2001's A Beautiful Mind: "He's a pretty intense guy. And he is definitely, uh, well, the mood can shift...
...Peter Weir, who directed Harrison Ford in Witness and The Mosquito Coast, and Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, admits to being fascinated and a bit frustrated by his leading man: "One evening when we'd just had a spectacular week of dailies, I looked over at him and said, 'How do you do it?' And he shot back, 'I don't know. How do you?' That's about as deep as we got. I think I knew Jack Aubrey better than I knew Russell Crowe...
While his screen characters are magnificently nuanced, Crowe seems paralyzed by the thought of integrating his various selves into an honest public persona. "It is strange," says Weir. "Just when you think you see him as a kind of an Aussie simple man--you know, what you see is what you get--there'll be a flash from those eyes, he'll say something penetrating or precise, and you'll remember that he is a savant of some kind. It reminds you how little you know...
...real Russell Crowe is not quite Aubrey, the unambiguously heroic fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...
Former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir teams up with Grammy-winning bassist Rob Wasserman to perform as Ratdog, a mellow acoustic duo. 8 p.m. $35, $25. Orpheum Theater, 1 Hamilton Pl., Boston...