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Russell Crowe reportedly had a rare, lighter moment with a British reporter in which the noted anger management flunkee openly shared his thoughts on certain asymmetrical enhancements made to Sharon Stone's famously naked acting instrument. But once the tabloids ran with the quote, the NY Daily News notes, Crowe's crack team of fire-fighting flacks were left to quench the runaway flames ignited by their client's loose lips:

London tabs are picking up on an interview in which Crowe is quoted as saying "a lot seems to have changed" about his "Quick and the Dead" co-star. "You can end up looking like a startled chimpanzee. The eyes are gone, the lips are like rubber tires - or more like an orangutan that has been kicked in the arse." Crowe's rep tells us the quotes were "taken completely out of context."

Of course what the flacks couldn't say was that the context error was Crowe's own fault, occurring when he momentarily confused Stone with Meg Ryan, whose facial rejuvenations were obviously what he had in mind with his graphic descriptions of a swollen simian's post-pounding rear end.