Russell Crowe

Simon Baker plays a not-quite-psychic sleuth on The Mentalist and a shady brokerage boss in the new film Margin Call. But in real life, he's not trying to read the tea leaves of Wall Street to manage his money: His working class upbringing made him a very conservative money man.

Actor Russell Crowe died, or so rampant rumors online would have you believe. Rest assured that Crowe, the actor who is no relation to me, is alive and his reported death is another hoax all over Twitter and Google Trends that has been put together by the not-so-funny folks at FakeAWish.com. At...