Russell Crowe battles Robbie Williams for Liberace role

Russell Crowe is going head to head with Robbie Williams to play camp pianist Liberace in a film. Movie bosses had already earmarked the British popstar for the gay role but Hollywood hunk Russell Crowe has muscled in, saying he would be perfect for the role. Crowe says he wants to take the lead in the biopic of the flamboyant musician, who died in 1987, aged 67. The Oscar-winning ˜Gladiator" heartthrob said: I would make a great casting. I can camp it up with the best of them. But Robbie is no stranger to playing gay roles after appearing as a transvestite for a charity comedy show. The star was said to be so enamoured with dressing as a woman on British comedy ˜Little Britain", he even took the floral dress and headscarf home. Comedian Matt Lucas, who appeared alongside Robbie on the show revealed at the time: "He couldn't get into that dress fast enough. I thought he was simply dashing as a lady." In the routine, the ˜Angels" singer discovers a love of female attire when he wanders into a store run by cross-dressing characters Emily and Florence who convince him to put on the dress. He then exclaimed: I do feel really comfortable dressed like this. I feel myself for the first time.
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