Russell Crowe wifey-whipped

NY DAILY NEWS...RUSH AND MOLLOY

Is Russell Crowe wifey-whipped?

The actor kept his cigarettes hidden from spouse Dani whenever she was
with him during his publicity tour for Ridley Scott's "A Good Year."

But "he smoked nonstop when his wife wasn't there" on the
"smoking-designated" private jet chartered for the tour, a flight
attendant tells us.

Mortimer Schnerd, RN...

Does he really think she doesn't know? Every breath he blows in her direction
has to smell like an ashtray. Mints don't cover that up.

gungho637...

Dani doesn't smoke. It's just a simple matter of respect to not smoke
around her. He isn't hiding anything. He won't smoke around his kids
either. It's quite certain that Dani knows he hasn't given them up
yet and if he does, she'll be the first to know. So I don't quite see
the point of this other than yet another tabloidish attempt to take a
blow at Crowe.

puzzlr...

Perhaps it was put out by his people trying desperately to clean up his
image.

puzzlr...

Oh, come on! No is falling for the softer side of Russell no matter how
many press releases they put out. He's a hot head and that's all people
remember.

Crowe puddle-jumped Europe for 2 1/2 weeks for the 20th Century Fox
flick, based on Peter Mayle's novel. Like his character, who learns to
savor truffles and p=E2t=E9 in the South of France, Crowe enjoyed fine
food on the flights, custom-made to his health specifications: red
curry beef, green curry chicken, blackened chicken wings, chicken and
cashews, white-flesh fish, passionfruit, honeydew, natural yogurt and
dandelion tea.

The flight attendant tells us that an intermediary, perhaps aware of
Crowe's phone-flinging history, warned her, "If one item is missing
from this, you're going to have a very long and difficult flight."

One day, the attendant recalls, "he came into the galley and said,
'What do we have for dinner? The chicken satay looks good. I might have
some of that later.'

"But on the flight, his wife ate the chicken satay. He wakes up as
we're landing. 'I want my chicken satay,' he says, and I said, 'Sorry,
your wife ate it.' "

Rather than confront his wife, Crowe took it out on the stewardess. She
claims, "He said to me, 'If I tell you I want something, you put it
aside for me. Or wake me up. Is there some kind of language barrier
here?'

"I've flown actors, singers, boxers, princes. His wife is very polite.
She says thank you. He treated us like peons."

Not so, says Crowe's lawyer, John H. Lavely Jr., of Lavely and Singer
in Hollywood, who wrote a five-page letter denying the flight
attendant's allegations. In it, he told us, "We are informed that Mr.
Crowe was nothing less than a model citizen during the publicity tour."
Lavely's source? "Hilary Clark, the senior VP of international
publicity at Fox ... [who] told us that the director of European
publicity at Fox, and various Fox representatives, [said] that Mr.
Crowe was 'delightful ... very pleasant ... and gracious.'"