“So anyway, Brassky’s bow-hunting for wild boar in the jungles of Indonesia…”

As Russell Crowe told Letterman last night, he wanted to show how funny he could be on the set of Body of Lies. So he ad-libbed “my favorite line I ever delivered in a movie.”

“I swear to God, I didn’t know where this came from,” Crowe told Letterman, “but I’m standing there, and Leonardo says, ‘How was your flight?’ and I said, ‘I watched that Poseidon.’ And he said ‘How was it?’ And I said, ‘It was like watching a Greek girl get a bikini wax. I had no idea when it was going to end.’ ” [...]
 “But that didn’t make the taste level of Warner Bros movies,” Crowe complained. [via DHD]

Russell Crowe’s favorite line ever, cinematic history, ruined by some shrivs at WB.  It’s we the moviegoers who suffer. Why, just imagine if we’d been denied Humphrey Bogart’s line about tossing a Puerto Rican’s salad, or Rock Hudson’s zinger about teabagging an Armenian.