RUSSELL CROWE HAS DECIDED TO BE BAPTIZED:

RUSSELL CROWE has decided to be baptized. Russell is 43.

He says, quote, "I'd like to do it this year. My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started thinking recently, 'If I believe it is important to baptize my kids, why not me?'"


He adds, quote, "I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man. There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."


He'll do it at the Byzantine chapel he built on his Australian ranch for his wedding to Danielle Spencer in 2003. That's where their 3-year-old son Charlie was baptized . . . and where their 1-year-old son, Tennyson, will be baptized, too.