Crowe on Irwin: appalling

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Make of this what you will. Personally, if I’d been an Aussie, I’d have died to portray Steve Irwin. Russell Crowe apparently feels differently.

Actor Russell Crowe called reports that he may play “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin in a film biography of Irwin‘s life “appalling,” he told CNN’s “Showbiz Tonight.”

“This is my friend,” Crowe told “Showbiz Tonight” anchor A.J. Hammer during an interview for Crowe’s new film, “A Good Year.” “All right? He just died. We’ve dealt with his funeral, we’ve dealt with a memorial to him. You know?

“I’m not doing business over the grave of my friend. I find that appalling. But, you know, that’s not just in the tabloid[s]. That’s in The Guardian, its in The New York Times. Understand? Absolutely disgusting.”

69 thoughts on “Crowe on Irwin: appalling”

  5. THIS IS SUPID U SHOULD BE CUTTING AND PASTING PICUTURS OF STEVE IRWIN, TO TRY AND MAKE HIM LOOK BAD JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE LIKE HIM AND U CANT…………………. STEVE IRWIN WAS MORE OF A MAN THEY ANY ONE WILL EVER BE.

  7. THIS IS A FAKE!!! IS A SCANDAL!!! IS AN INSULT AT MEMORY OF STEVE!!! HE WAS A GREAT MAN, A HERO AND A CARREFUL DADDY. THE ONE WHO DID THIS PICTURE IS A STUPID ONE.

  8. U know what the person who did this is a hated on!!!! EVERY ONE KNOWS THAT Steve Irwin WAS A GREAT MAN AND I THINK THAT THEPERSON WHO DID THIS IS JUS JEALOUS BECAUSE HE WASNT THAT DARING AND BOLD!!!!!

  12. no i mean its cruel to do this to steve The person who cut an pasted that picture is jealous of Steve and i love steve he was an inspiratoin to me I hate anyone who makes fun of STEVE IRWIN REST IN PEACE I KNOW STEVE WOULD NEVER DO THAT!!!!! AND BESIDES I DONT HAVE KIDS IM ONLY 14 THATS WAY TOO YOUNGE

  17. I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ARE SO JUDGMENTAL JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT AND BECAUSE OF WHERE WE COME FROM. I’m from the country part of land so YALL need to get over my talkin

  18. I love Steve Irwin I love animals I LOVE KIDS AND THAT INCLUDES BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  19. I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ARE SO JUDGMENTAL JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT AND BECAUSE OF WHERE WE COME FROM. I’m from the country part of land so YALL need to get over my talkin

    The difficulty we’re having here is that you are not, in fact, speaking, you are ‘writing’, and your poor grammar, spelling, and punctuation, plus continual use of capital letters have nothing to do with your geographical or sociological location. Until you mentioned you are from a rural area, one could have not in any way presumed to know where you may be.

    Were anyone to wish to make fun of you, there are acres [hectares] of material to harvest without using such weak mocking techniques as “y’all from th’ cuntry, ain’t ya?” Oh no, rest assured we could do far better than this.

    Try this: you are a blind fanatic when it comes to this ‘celebrity’ Steve Irwin, and if anyone does so much as suggesting that the correct place for him is anything less than atop a monument, you see red.

    Read a book or two. You’ll not only learn how to construct a sentence, you’ll learn about other views than those shoved at you by the Entertainment Media. Who knows, you might even learn how to think for yourself.

    I doubt it, as so far you’ve shown little evidence of being able to tackle the action in the slightest manner.

    The reason for you taking this position is simple: you’re an idiot.

  20. Reminds one of the old Tom Lehrer thing about National Brotherhood Week: “There are people out there who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE PEOPLE LIKE THAT!”

  21. Ok i’m not an ediot. I have a 5.5 grade point average and i know that the singular for lice is louse and that lousy comes from louse!!! And plus i love to read instead of watching t.v.!

  22. Plus i know when Steve Irwin was born February 22,1962 and that his parents were conservatoinalists.I even know that the aligator that died in his zoo was named Shiela!

  23. Ok i’m not an ediot. I have a 5.5 grade point average and i know that the singular for lice is louse and that lousy comes from louse!!! And plus i love to read instead of watching t.v.!

    ediot – idiot
    i know that – when 1st person singular, “i” is capitalised.
    i love – ibid
    t.v. – as this is an abbreviation for “Television”, it’s customary to capitalise the letters — “TV” — and doesn’t always need the periods. That’s a personal preference.

    I’d recommend reading something above the level of Curious George Goes to the Circus however. Paddington Bear is far more erudite for one thing.

    Plus i know when Steve Irwin was born February 22,1962 and that his parents were conservatoinalists.I even know that the aligator that died in his zoo was named Shiela!

    i love – op cit
    when Steve Irwin was born February 22,1962 – you probably are best replacing “when” with “that”, otherwise you need a colon to indicate that the information being provided is the date.
    conservatoinalists – “conversationalists” or “conservationists”, but not both in the same word
    aligator – “alligator” requires the double “l”

    And never confuse knowledge with intelligence. One can have either of them without the other. The truly wise knows which for them needs improvement.

  24. Well who taught you how to talk, you’re encyclopedia? Or are you the book yourself? Because I have never heard anyone talk like you. Everyone has their faults.Hey there’s a book i don’t think you have ever read, the Bible. You want to know my favorite verse? Plus it has someone that actualy HAS a heart.

  25. I learned my vocabulary and grammatical skills from a combination of wide reading (including studying The Lord’s Bible using several different editions of it; although I fail to see what relevance that has) and paying attention in English class. Given enough experience, you shall eventually find scores of individuals who can both write and speak in multi-clause sentences, just like this one.

    And, just to further taint my image probably, I — like Stephen King — do have a heart: it’s kept in a jar on my desk.

  27. Oh, nearly fogot: “you’re” is a contraction of “you are”, while “your” denotes possession.

    Also, one suspects by “encyclopedia” you actually mean “dictionary”, as an encyclopædia includes information on a wide variety of topics, whereas the dictionary is limited to dealing with the defining of words and language exclusively.

  30. What a shame, really. A dictionary would aid you in spelling its name.

    View all of the above as opportunities to improve your communication skills, and you’ll find your GPA rocketing forth like Icarus himself.

    You ought to look up Icarus in an encyclopædia, by the way, as you’ll get a much better explanation of who he was.

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  32. Your mother must have love you so much and i imagine you had many friends and maybe a black eye or two when you were in school! lol njk

  34. I suspect I only graduated from High School without having to re-take Algebra 11 due to Brother Short thinking I was cute (who was one of the three to be charged in both BC & Nfld).

  36. Keep in mind that I only [ahem] had him for Algebra 11 and one graduates in BC at the end of Grade 12. We were also the first year of the re-introduction of province-wide standardised exams for all schools, no matter public or no.

  41. Middle school. We don’t usually know the age of people who post and I notice that even I.A.M. is not revealing when he completed grade twelve. I think Shark Lover is brave to continue but the whole group should realize that it is beginning to sound rather nyaa, nyaa, nyaa-ish. It started with reaction to that disgusting “photo” of Steve Irwin/shark/”baby”. No one is defending that kind of slander. Oh, and there is a difference between spelling mistakes and typing mistakes. Shark Lover, you need to slow down and watch the screen when you type because you know it is “ion” at the end of words. Why am I writing this prissy, negotiation orientated slop? It must be a flashback from my elementary teaching days. Sigh. I shouldn’t post, but I will. Sigh (again).

  42. My dear woman, I think most (but not all) of the participants realized that the tone had become ridiculously nyaa-nyaa some time ago. For most of us, that’s become the point of this thread.

    And slander and satire are different, as I would expect a good teacher to know.

  43. well everyone makes mistakes now don’t we? Yes! i don’t watch the screen all the time and when i do i sometimes miss the mistakes i DID make. I like you Helen Martin your nice.

  47. That’s why i don’t like you guys… cause you are so mean to me just because I am a few centuries younger than Mr.Dictionary here.And a few years younger than rain coaster…Yes i realize that you are bot supposed to start a sentence w/ “and”.

  49. We are mean to you because you are both stupid and offensive. It’s perfectly okay to be dumb, or poorly-educated, but it is not permissible to be both aggressively rude and stupid.

  50. How odd to be declared centuries old, simply because I can construct complicated sentences; and odder still considering that’s my face over there on the left. However…

    I’d like to point out that my initial criticism of your comment was that it seemed far too unquestioningly supportive of the late animal educator Steve Irwin. While he wasn’t necessarily the most evil person on the planet (I’d argue George Bush Jr., Carl Rove, or Dick Cheney for that one), Mr. Irwin was hardly a saint. If you’d like to respond on that point with something other than “but he WAS! He really WAS a saint!” then please do so.

    I’d still recommend checking your spelling before hitting [post comment], however.

  51. This young lady has a point though, you are extremely rude to her and so that is why i am fighting on her behalf.

  53. Young lady, I must say calling someone “Centuries old” is a false fact.However, for you to be called “Dumb, stupid,and an idiot”, is rather rude and uncalled for.

  54. To which “lady” do you refer? The one who entered the thread shouting in all caps, calling us cruel, and saying, “I hate anyone who makes fun of STEVE IRWIN,” which would, of course, mean us. And Steve Irwin too, if you look at the historical record.

    When you enter a room screaming, name-calling, and spewing hatred for your hosts, you cannot really complain about your reception.

    But any well-socialized person would already know that.

  55. Yes, I realize that but my point is to say you should treat her with respect as you would want to be treated.Though if you were being made fun of you would be angry am I not correct?

  56. If I behaved the way she did, I would expect to be treated poorly. If there’s no negative feedback in response to unacceptable behaviour, it will become the norm.

    And you should see the Albania thread; you’re nobody online till you’ve gotten death threats.

  60. Your Grace

    Salve

    Je suis intrigued avec le concept de Monsieur H’s “false fact”

    AND presumably the enviably youthful & articulate Mr Martin is aware that “its” contains 2 errors :

    1. As poor Mr Tyndale would have observed before he went up in smoke and ashes at the behest of some of our Catholic Friends, the possessive for “IT” is :

    “HIS”

    and 2. The 18th Century Grammarians (whose heretical, anti-Soviet names will live on in infamy) changed this universally agreed spelling to “ITS” – but losing the apostrophe – instead of “it’s”

    Not many folk know this

    Vale

    L’Aigle Gris

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