Comments on: Russell Crowe & Philip Noyce Prepping ‘Dirt Music’; Crowe Contributing Original Songs https://staging2.theplaylist.net/russell-crowe-philip-noyce-prepping-20100727/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 23:59:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/russell-crowe-philip-noyce-prepping-20100727/#comment-21653 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:58:35 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1951#comment-21653 I've had the pleasure of seeing Russell perform his music. Most people who have attended his concerts enjoy them, but there are some, mostly entertainment bloggers, who condemn his performances on principle.. on the basis of… what? That an actor shouldn't be creative in more than one format?
Those who denigrate Crowe as a musician/songwriter probably haven't actually seen him perform in person, but are speaking from some other prejudice… or trying to be smart alecs, to use an old fashioned term. Russell is a terrific songwriter and showman. He has a distinctive voice. In fact, he began his show business career as a musician, well before trying his hand at acting.

Dirt Music is a wonderful book. I have my fingers crossed that this film project finds it's funding.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/russell-crowe-philip-noyce-prepping-20100727/#comment-21624 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:29:09 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1951#comment-21624 Actually I'm a big fan of Russell Crowe's band, which since 2004 is called The Ordinary Fear of God. As you can imagine Crowe is an excellent showman and the live shows are terrific, though very sporadic given his 'day job'. His voice has improved a great deal since that 10 year old video you posted and he's an excellent and poetic lyricist – truly. For the past several years he has been co-writing songs with Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea and Doyle has been working with him on the music for Dirt Music.

The book, Dirt Music, by Tim Winton, is a beautiful story and for years I've been hoping this would make it to screen though I can easily see how it would be difficult to adapt.

Thanks for the links to the Mitchell interview with Noyce, I enjoyed it.

]]> By: ben https://staging2.theplaylist.net/russell-crowe-philip-noyce-prepping-20100727/#comment-21615 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:15:24 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=1951#comment-21615 He'd be much better suited for Weisz's over bearing husband. Get Farrell as the lover and you've got an interesting threesome.

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