OMg that is the place I eat at when I am drunk!

It's all yours. You can have it.

I like "solid" men.

1) Yay Ben's Chili Bowl!!!

2) What the hell is Russell Crowe doing in DC?

3) I wouldn't've recognized him, sans-caption.

@hammerimissu: ...and that's the gut I currently have!

@Her_royal_Highness: But when did this "solidness" come into being?

Do. Not. Get.

Ummmm...what is that pink thing at the top? Maybe it's ice cream? Or a rogue eraser?

@southernbelle: I think it's a floodlight or some sort of light.

he's filming a flick called "state of play" - ben affleck is here, or was, too.

they also filmed at heller's, i heard.

Russell Crowe is one of those actors, like Johnny Depp and Viggo Mortensen, who's really only hot when he's cleaned up and dressed for a role.

YUM! Ben's!

best milkshakes when drunk. best chili fries when drunk. hell, best everything when drunk.

@CherriSpryte: filming some movie (forget the name) with Rachel McAdams and I want to say Ben Affleck.

Is he schlubby for the movie or schlubby in real life too? In other words, will I ever get my Gladiator back? Please?

eeeeeeeeeeew. do not want.

@Superawesomerad: NOOO! Johnny Depp's bone structure is angelic. He should go on ANTM.

@RyanB: I was referring to body type.

fighing round the world...

godammit *fighting*

I always say all I need in a man is a beard, a belly and a twinkle in his eye. Sadly, Russ lacks a twinkle. no wantie.

It's just a bad angle shot. He is not with child.

What neighborhood is this in?

Shake that my way, Papi.

I too am part of the belly & beard club. I am not ashamed.

@SarahMC: U street corridor (it's on/near 13th & U)

whaaaa? this is like two blocks from where i work/live!

great, now i want some cheese fries.

I think he looks sorta cute like this. I don't know. why.

@SarahMC: girl you got to get out! Bens Chili Bowl is an institution. I will take you there some day.

@J.D.Regent:
Santa Claus?

@bigleggedwoman: As well you shouldn't be. His belly & beard remind me my husband's gonna be home soon

@screamingannie: i prefer age appropriate, but i wouldn't kick santa out of bed. PRESENTS.

Bill Bailey?

Don't care what you ladies say, I'd hit it anyways, anyhow.

He used to be total hotness way back when..

Either his hot manliness was sucked into Meg Ryan's top lip or his wife's brittled roots.. Either way I am sad!

Now every time I see the Crowe, I think of a hot shower with a degreaser...

Two thoughts:
a) Could be for a role. He gained lots of weight for the tabacco movie role (name escapes me?)
b) How can you criticize us for being hard on celebrity types when ya'll are all judgey pants yourselves??

@CherriSpryte: Filming a film, called "State of Play." He's in the role Brad Pitt was supposed to have. Le sigh.

I was about to get all high and mighty on you for judging Mr. Crowe's figure as "thick," but then I noticed the sign above his head. Duh.

Also, the woman next to him is OWNING those jeans.

@J.D.Regent:
I agree, he always reminds me of a slab of meat. No twinkle.
I am happy he's chubbed up because he used to say how fat American women are. Welcome to my world, Russell!

I love Ben's. Have not had that greasy goodness in many a moon. If I still lived in Mt. P I could definitely get the dirt about the Heller's filming. The owners love me.

One of my friends narrowly escaped having to work with Mr. Crowe. I cracked a joke about the phone throwing incident and got a total blank stare. How is there anyone who hasn't heard that story??

Shupe, shupa-dup.

@SarahMC: U street. Great now I want chili fries and beer.

O Maximus, you're lookin' a little maxi around the middle...

U Street indeed. Ben's Chili Bowl is the BEST. I'm booking a flight back to D.C. right.now!

@CherriSpryte: They've been filming a 'political thriller' in dc for the past month or so. base camp is the parking lot at 11th and H NW. today they filmed a scene inside ben's and in front of the metro entrance at 13th and U.
also they set up their porta-potty truck behind my apartment building and harassed my roommate on her way to yoga.

boo hollywood, go back to cali.

Can we write a ballot proposition that he has to keep the Gladiator haircut and figure?

@Superawesomerad: Umm I think viggo is hot when he is a dirty, unkept king.

I would so do him

I miss Bud White. *sob*

@southernbelle: Yep a light but it looks like a super plunger to me. Maybe coming down to unplug our Russell? He's looking a little bloated.

His weight fluctuates like crazy, but he's still in my top 5. I thought he was hot in The Insider. I'm a little crazy, though.

I thought 200Great was the year of positive body talk.

@Superawesomerad:
Umm, no. Viggo and Johnny look splendidly sexy even when messy.

He'll always be hot to me.

AAah Ben's! I must admit I'm not crazy about the food... but the banana milkshakes and sweet tea are todiefor!

He always adjusts his weight for film roles. He did it for The Insider, Master & Commander and now it's for Nottingham, a film directed by Ridley Scott he starts woring on right after A State of Play is finished. The sign of a real actor. Plus...weight on or off...HE IS HOT!!!

This is what happens when you live in DC for far too long.

How about working on a movie & playing a part in the movie in DC & LA (we think with McAdams, Affleck, Mirren, Bateman, Wright, etc). RC seems to not mind looking the part he is playing in any of his movies (whether he is scruffy, chubby, or whatever..we don't think he cares, as long as he looks the part of his character). Not to many of his movies that he has looked his real self..maybe 3 or 4???

I think what's most delicious (sorry) about this photo is that the last time I was at Ben's they were playing the original American Gladiators.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!

Cut the man some slack (or should that be slacks!) he is middle-aged, so what that he's a little chubby right now, Maximus was a long time ago - get over it! Anyway, I still think he's hotter than any other actor, and frankly it's the bulge beneath his belly that interests me more ;)

Even now that Dennis Quaid is a twinkly-eyed old chubster in golf slacks, and no longer the unstoppable sex machine of "The Big Easy", he is STILL in a region of hotness that Fatty Crowe can never aspire to. Look at those mean little eyes. Like pissholes in the snow. Bet his hair smells rank. And Meg Ryan hit THAT?????
P.S. I don't like him.

I can tell you don't like him! fair play to you. Personally I could not understand any attraction on either side for the Russ / Meg thing, and maybe, just maybe it was a 'set-up'to promote 'proof of life', I dunno call me cynical...but it's not like the relationship lasted beyond the hype. What I cant understand is why such a robust man likes such skinny skraggy women!!

I also believe that he was actually filming there for his new flick (his not 'boring' ben afflecks)state of play

@Rustyslut:
There are limits to which one shouldn't allow oneself to go EVEN to promote a film of such depth and scope as Proof of Life... and running off with a soap-dodging ocker with "anger management issues" may be a step too far.. Mind you with his eyes and her lips they could have had a baby that looked EXACTLY like Steve Tyler..

Russell Crow. I just don't get it. Not even in his "Gladiator" role. But Dennis Quaid. I sat through "Your's, Mine and Ours" just to check him out in in military uniform. Meg Ryan makes me sick.

I take it by that comment that you dont like steve tyler either! But whatever you think about 'chubster' crowe, he is not dirty and doesnt need a wash, in fact i read that he is very particular, he is growing his hair for his next movie when he plays the sheriff of nottingham. y'know i read at the time of the meg thing that he told her to get a boob job! You may have guessed I love Russ, but I think that was just a little OTT!!

@Step_Right_Up:
theres an 'e' on Crowe, and what is the place the dennis quaid appreciation society! or are you his relatives. can anyone tell me the last time dennis had a hit movie, or any movie for that fact, cos either i missed it or just didnt notice!

@Rustyslut: Sorry darl - it was more the Ryan I was trashing there than the Crowe. If we all liked the same people the world would be one big Chris de Burgh circlejerk. Vive la difference! Long live Maximus! (Wow this co-codamol makes me f