Around the time of Gladiator, Rusty caused a world wide sensation of female hormonal activity. Alot of women became
positively obsessed, (scroll down to "Gladiator Gone From Many Screens, but Hardly Forgotten" By Dawn Dixon Cotter
The Charlotte Observer
Sunday, October 1, 2000) but the most blatant example was a woman who wrote an article for
GQ in 1999. She was clearly enamored. The entire article was a long, slow, lovingly administered blow job. More fascinating still was the subtle implication of a hot little fling having occurred while she was staying at his ranch to interview him for the article. Read it and see if you agree. And who could forget the famous Satyr article from
The Village Voice, "Thus Spake Maximus"? I love the description in that article of how Russell reacted to Penelope Cruz. Soooo hot!