From Brawn to Brains

Russell Crowe may have snagged an Academy Award for best actor as the spear-wielding warrior in Gladiator. But for his next role, the Australian film star is stepping out of the coliseum and onto the campus.

Mr. Crowe, directed by Ron Howard, began filming A Beautiful Mind at Princeton University last week.

The movie is based on the book of the same name, Sylvia Nasar's 1998 biography of John F. Nash Jr., who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1994 after

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