NEW YORK - Actor Russell Crowe went back yesterday to the court where he pleaded guilty last year to hitting a hotel clerk with a telephone -- this time as an actor rather than the defendant.
The New Zealand native was at Manhattan Criminal Court filming the upcoming movie AmericanGangster.
Crowe, the star of such movies as A Beautiful Mind and Gladiator, hit a clerk with a telephone in June 2005 at a trendy SoHo hotel.
The Oscar-winning actor pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges, and was fined US$160 in November and told to stay out of trouble and avoid arrest for a year.
Crowe plays a detective in American Gangster, which is about a drug lord who smuggles heroin into Harlem during the 1970s in the coffins of US soldiers returning from Vietnam.
