In this tournament, for the first time, Man of the Series was awarded and it went to Martin Crowe from New Zealand.

Crowe then went on to develop his practice in a range of media including film, drawing, new media and etched glass.

Paul Hogan went from painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to local TV star, then global film star with his hugely successful Crocodile Dundee in 1986 ( a film which begins with scenes of Sydney ) while theatre institutions like the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art nurtured the budding careers of actors Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett and elsewhere actors Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe forged their early careers in the city.

As a freelance writer for Rolling Stone magazine, Crowe went undercover at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California, and wrote about his experiences.

In 1975, Crowe went to the United States to take part in the North American Soccer League, taking the manager's position with Portland Timbers.

Crowe said, " The timekeeper smacked the mat with his hand toward the end of the fight to indicate ten seconds were left, and that's when I went after Greg with one last flurry.

He proceeded to travel through Europe and Africa signing players including Phil Woosnam, Vic Crowe and Peter McParland of Aston Villa as well as Kaizer Motaung who went on to found Kaizer Chiefs FC, who now play in the South African Premier Soccer League.

The film's screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, who also was a co-executive producer, and was inspired by William Prochnau's Vanity Fair magazine article " Adventures in the Ransom Trade ," and the book The Long March To Freedom by Thomas Hargrove in which Hargrove recounts how his release was negotiated by Thomas Clayton, played by Russell Crowe, who went on to be the founder of kidnap-for-ransom consultancy Clayton Consultants, Inc.

As a result, McGuinn ended up replacing three of Parsons ' lead vocals with his own singing on the finished album, a move that was still rankling Parsons as late as 1973, when he told Cameron Crowe in an interview that McGuinn " erased it and did the vocals himself and fucked it up.

Scott teamed up again with Gladiator star Russell Crowe, for A Good Year, based on the best-selling book by Peter Mayle about an investment banker who finds a new life in Provence.

Washington signed back on to the project as Lucas, with Russell Crowe co-starring.

Russell Crowe commented, " I like being on Ridley's set because actors can perform [...] and the focus is on the performers.

Crowe was born on 7 April 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Jocelyn Yvonne ( née Wemyss ) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom were movie set caterers ; his father also managed a hotel.

Crowe appeared in Robin Hood, a film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by Ridley Scott and released on 14 May 2010.

Crowe will be taking on the role of Inspector Javert in the musical film of Les Misérables.

Crowe singing on open mic at O ' Reilly's Pub in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | St. John's, Canada.

In March 2010, Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God's version of the John Williamson song " Winter Green " was included on a new compilation album The Absolute Best of John Williamson: 40 Years True Blue, commemorating the singer-songwriter's milestone of 40 years in the Australian music industry.

On 2 August 2011, the third collaboration between Crowe and Doyle was released on iTunes as The Crowe / Doyle Songbook Vol III, featuring nine original songs followed by their acoustic demo counterparts ( for a total of 18 tracks ).

Crowe also owns a house in the North Queensland city of Townsville: he purchased the $ 450, 000 home in the suburb of Douglas on 3 May 2008.

On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to GQ magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents had approached him prior to the 73rd Academy Awards on 25 March 2001 and told him that the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him.

On 5 November 2006, Crowe appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to announce that Firepower International was sponsoring the South Sydney Rabbitohs for $ 3 million over three years.

During a Tonight Show with Jay Leno appearance, watched by over 11 million viewers, Crowe showed viewers a Rabbitoh playing jersey with Firepower's name emblazoned on it.

Crowe helped to organise a rugby league game that took place in Jacksonville, Florida between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the English Super League champions Leeds Rhinos on 26 January 2008 ( Australia Day ).

Reuters, on 3 January 2008, reported that Crowe was " fighting a new gladiatorial combat to wean his countrymen off their addiction to gambling machines.

Upon hearing of this, Crowe called Carr and invited him to Australia to address his Rugby league team the South Sydney Rabbitohs, an offer Carr took Crowe up on the following summer.

Crowe is also a fan of the National Football League, and on 22 October 2007 appeared in the booth of a Monday Night game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Russell Crowe escorted from NYPD in handcuffs on a perp walk to his arraignment for the phone throwing incident.

Crowe called school officials to express his concern and wanted his message relayed to the students.

On Guadalcanal, Crowe and the others take the airfield and take down the Tokyo express, a Japanese supply route, defend the USS Enterprise from attack and return to Guadalcanal to defend the island from a retaliatory Japanese attack.

" Crowe was also sceptical on whether " the pledge of common action " against breakers of the peace would be honoured and Crowe thought that the balance of power and the considerations of national interest would determine individual states future actions.

Marble is common in the area and a giant marble rock stood on nearby Crowe Lake.

He is known for his roles in live action as The Kurgan in the cult classic film Highlander, Byron Hadley in the award-winning The Shawshank Redemption, Brother Justin Crowe in HBO's critically acclaimed Carnivàle, Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers and the killer Steve in Shoot to Kill.

Romper Stomper is a 1992 Australian action drama film written and directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie and Tony Lee.

Terry Thorne ( Russell Crowe ), an ex-Australian SASR soldier, who later served with the British SAS due to lack of action in Australia, arrives in Tecala, fresh from a successful hostage rescue in Chechnya ( Chechenskaya Respublika ).

Russell Crowe captained the ' Australian ' Team containing Steve Waugh against an English side in the ' Hollywood Ashes ' Cricket Match.

In September 2007, after Carr came under fire following the Wolverines ' 0 – 2 start, Crowe travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan for the Wolverines ' 15 September game against Notre Dame to show his support for Carr.

Sir Eyre Crowe, British undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, spoke against a union of East Galicia and Poland.

Martin Crowe, arguably the greatest batsman to have ever emerged from New Zealand, rates Viv Richards as the best batsman he played against along with Greg Chappell.

Entertainment Weekly felt she was " perfectly cast as an ambitious wonkette " while The Daily Telegraph noted that " McAdams, with her lively eyes and large, expressive forehead, holds her own against Crowe.

The A-6 pilot who crippled the Sabalan was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by Admiral William J. Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for the actions against the Sabalan and the Iranian gunboats.

John Crowe Ransom supervised his thesis, titled The Revolt against Humanism, a critique of the humanism of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More.

His subjects have been Star Wars movies The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Andrew Weil, Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan, Russell Crowe, Johnny Cash, The Matrix Reloaded, vegetarianism, yoga, The Blair Witch Project, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, Steven Spielberg twice, Dreamworks, talk radio, the 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike, the campaign against smoking, Candice Bergen, the divorce of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, David Lynch, Pornography, Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Mississippi Burning, Disney, Fatal Attraction, Steve Martin, Platoon, The Hidden Treasure Trove, Sigourney Weaver, Molly Ringwald, NBC, Nastassja Kinski, the new idea of beauty, On Golden Pond, Nicholas Nickleby, and TV's Dallas.

In January 2008, Australian club South Sydney Rabbitohs ( owned by Hollywood actor Russell Crowe and international businessman Peter Holmes à Court ) played a trial game against 2007 European Super League Champions Leeds Rhinos in Jacksonville, Florida.