Russell Crowe, who's playing a hero journalist in his next movie, was on the Today Show bashing reporters, but, to tell you the truth, his description of the people at movie junkets is pretty apt.

Matt Lauer asked the raging Aussie if he shaped his character in State of Play based on his feelings about reporters. Crowe said not really, because if he had it would have been a far meaner caricature: one-eyed, limping spandex-wearers. His real problem is that sometimes reporters ask really dumb questions, but then get upset when they get a dumb answer. And he's right!

Why, just look at this disastrous snippet from an Robert Downey Jr.'s junket for The Soloist (hey Seth!), in which a reporter asked the actor what his character in Tropic Thunder would think about Jamie Foxx's character in The Soloist.

Um, what? Someone throw a hotel phone at that guy.