Democratic Underground - What's with Russell Crowe's being "total buds" with Rick Perry?

I've had a lot of respect for Crowe as an actor, but have lost a lot of respect for him as a person with this news.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/0911/The_Rick_PerryRussell_Crowe_bromance.html

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But don’t hold your breath for Rick Perry to snag the endorsement of his longtime celebrity bud Russell Crowe, though they’ve developed a bit of a bromance over the years.

Not only is Crowe an Australian citizen (so he can’t vote in or contribute to U.S. campaigns) whose reputation as a hard-partying bar brawler might make him a less-than-ideal endorser, but he told the Houston Chronicle in 2003,“I don’t think being a celebrity gives you any right whatsoever to air your political views.”

In that same interview, however, Crowe said, “I like very much as a bloke.” Though he’s known primarily as an actor (he won an Oscar for his role in the 2000 action flick “Gladiator”), Crowe explained that he and his Aussie roots-rock band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, got “a great deal of help in getting the visas we needed” to record an album in Austin in the late 1990s from Perry, then the lieutenant governor of Texas.

It turns out that they go back even further. Perry was serving as agriculture commissioner in the ’90s when he first met Crowe, whose brother had approached the state about an agriculture project.

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I hard to read twice that arguably my favorite director Ridley Scott attended Crowe's wedding, and not some event of Perry's which would have made me feel even more low.

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