Russell Crowe dumps cheergirls from football club
Oscar-winning Hollywood actor and phone-thrower Russell Crowe has revealed a sensitive side, axing scantily-dressed cheerleaders from his Sydney rugby league club because they make men uncomfortable.
Russell Crowe, who co-owns the South Sydney Rabbitohs, one of Australia's oldest rugby league clubs, will replace the cheer girls this season with a drumming band of men and women after his wife Danielle Spencer and other fans complained.
Research, Russell Crowe said, showed fans were uncomfortable going to games with girls on the sidelines dressed in skimpy green, red, white dance costumes.
"It makes women uncomfortable and it makes blokes who take their son to the football also uncomfortable," he told Australian media. "We've talked to a lot of people and everyone sees it as being progressive."
Russell Crowe, a long-term Rabbitohs fan, bought the cash and win-strapped club in 2006 with Peter Holmes a Court, the scion of one of Australia's wealthiest families.
The actor, who in 2005 pleaded guilty to throwing a faulty telephone handset at a hotel concierge, said wife Spencer liked the idea of percussion band.
"She likes the fact that game day entertainment will be multi-sex," he said.
Cheer girl Ashleigh Francis said the cheer squad had only tried to add glamour to the Rabbitohs games.
"Children at the games were constantly approaching us and asking for autographs and photos, and little girls would even ask if they were old enough to be cheergirls too," she told the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Hilary Clinton should ditch the trousers
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should tap into her feminine side and wear dresses and skirts instead of trousers, fashion designer Donatella Versace was quoted as saying.
"I can understand (trousers) are comfortable but she's a woman and she is allowed to show that," Ms Versace told Germany's weekly newspaper Die Zeit in an interview.
"She should treat femininity as an opportunity and not try to emulate masculinity in politics," Ms Versace said.
Skirts should reach to the knee and be worn with a short jacket or coat, she said. The best colour would be black rather than the blue Clinton currently favours, she added.
"I admire her for her determination, which will hopefully take her to the White House," Ms Versace told the paper.
Directing Johnny Depp a 'challenge'
Indian-born director Mira Nair has worked with Hollywood superstars like Denzel Washington and Reese Witherspoon but now Indian-born director Mira Nair is set to take on the "challenge" of directing Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp stars in her next project, Shantaram, based on the life story of Gregory David Roberts, whose book of the same name describes his escape from an Australian prison to Mumbai and his adventures with the city's powerful mafia dons. Mr Roberts, who was later captured and extradited to Australia, now lives in Mumbai and has set up a free health service for the poor and does some teaching, the author says on his website www.shantaram.com.
Mr Roberts's book "gripped" New York-based Nair and she decided to direct the film with Johnny Depp playing Lindsay - the central character who is modelled on Mr Roberts. Ms Nair was born in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in 1957 left for the United States at the age of 19 after receiving a scholarship from Harvard university. Her debut film, Salaam Bombay! (1988) about Mumbai's underbelly, won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival that same year. Some of Ms Nair's critically acclaimed works include Mississippi Masala (1991), Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), Monsoon Wedding (2001), Vanity Fair (2004) and The Namesake (2006).
Klinsman Coleiro - Song for Europe Festival
Singer Klinsmann Coleiro, who made it to the finals in this year's Go Mobile Malta Song for Europe Festival with the song She Gives Me Wings, still finds the time to balance both studies and his musical career while attending the Guze' D'Amato secondary school in Paola. He is currently sitting for his mid-yearly exams of his final year.
Oscar-winning Hollywood actor and phone-thrower Russell Crowe has revealed a sensitive side, axing scantily-dressed cheerleaders from his Sydney rugby league club because they make men uncomfortable.Russell Crowe, who co-owns the South Sydney Rabbitohs, one of Australia's oldest rugby league clubs, will replace the cheer girls this season with a drumming band of men and women after his wife Danielle Spencer and other fans complained.
Research, Russell Crowe said, showed fans were uncomfortable going to games with girls on the sidelines dressed in skimpy green, red, white dance costumes.
"It makes women uncomfortable and it makes blokes who take their son to the football also uncomfortable," he told Australian media. "We've talked to a lot of people and everyone sees it as being progressive."
Russell Crowe, a long-term Rabbitohs fan, bought the cash and win-strapped club in 2006 with Peter Holmes a Court, the scion of one of Australia's wealthiest families.
The actor, who in 2005 pleaded guilty to throwing a faulty telephone handset at a hotel concierge, said wife Spencer liked the idea of percussion band.
"She likes the fact that game day entertainment will be multi-sex," he said.
Cheer girl Ashleigh Francis said the cheer squad had only tried to add glamour to the Rabbitohs games.
"Children at the games were constantly approaching us and asking for autographs and photos, and little girls would even ask if they were old enough to be cheergirls too," she told the Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Hilary Clinton should ditch the trousers
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should tap into her feminine side and wear dresses and skirts instead of trousers, fashion designer Donatella Versace was quoted as saying.
"I can understand (trousers) are comfortable but she's a woman and she is allowed to show that," Ms Versace told Germany's weekly newspaper Die Zeit in an interview.
"She should treat femininity as an opportunity and not try to emulate masculinity in politics," Ms Versace said.
Skirts should reach to the knee and be worn with a short jacket or coat, she said. The best colour would be black rather than the blue Clinton currently favours, she added.
"I admire her for her determination, which will hopefully take her to the White House," Ms Versace told the paper.
Directing Johnny Depp a 'challenge'
Indian-born director Mira Nair has worked with Hollywood superstars like Denzel Washington and Reese Witherspoon but now Indian-born director Mira Nair is set to take on the "challenge" of directing Johnny Depp.Johnny Depp stars in her next project, Shantaram, based on the life story of Gregory David Roberts, whose book of the same name describes his escape from an Australian prison to Mumbai and his adventures with the city's powerful mafia dons. Mr Roberts, who was later captured and extradited to Australia, now lives in Mumbai and has set up a free health service for the poor and does some teaching, the author says on his website www.shantaram.com.
Mr Roberts's book "gripped" New York-based Nair and she decided to direct the film with Johnny Depp playing Lindsay - the central character who is modelled on Mr Roberts. Ms Nair was born in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in 1957 left for the United States at the age of 19 after receiving a scholarship from Harvard university. Her debut film, Salaam Bombay! (1988) about Mumbai's underbelly, won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival that same year. Some of Ms Nair's critically acclaimed works include Mississippi Masala (1991), Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), Monsoon Wedding (2001), Vanity Fair (2004) and The Namesake (2006).
Klinsman Coleiro - Song for Europe Festival
Singer Klinsmann Coleiro, who made it to the finals in this year's Go Mobile Malta Song for Europe Festival with the song She Gives Me Wings, still finds the time to balance both studies and his musical career while attending the Guze' D'Amato secondary school in Paola. He is currently sitting for his mid-yearly exams of his final year.