Gladiator star keeps his promise

Crowe, who won an Oscar for his performance alongside Harris in “Gladiator,” cheered for Australia as the team from Oz faced the Irish at an international rugby match at Lansdowne Road on Sunday. The wonder from Down Under reportedly sported an Irish woolen cap as he cheered for his countrymen, but was disappointed as Ireland defeated the Aussies by a score of 18-9.
Later, Crowe traveled to Harris’s native Limerick, where he visited the pubs favored by his late pal, including Charles St. George and Nancy Blake’s. In the latter pub, a waitress was refreshingly unimpressed by Crowe’s celebrity status. When the craggy-faced hearthrob turned on the charm and tried to order a drink after closing time, she turned him down flat. (Which would have amused the plainspoken Harris to no end.)
In one of the pubs on his tour, Crowe wrote a touching tribute to Harris, who died of cancer in lat October.
“I love Mr. Harris. I miss him deeply,” wrote Crowe.
“I respect him because of his work, I loved him because of his generosity and I am richer in my soul for knowing him. I came to Ireland to fulfill a promise. That is what men do for other men, dead or alive.”