Russell Crowe misses his kids

The Gladiator star has two sons, Charlie, three, and six-month-old baby Tennyson, with wife Danielle Spencer, 36, and admits he longs to be close to them when he is away on set. 'I've got two boys now and the whole priority of my existence begins with what they and my wife need,' he says. 'Whatever they need is where every day begins. When I'm away from them when I'm working I get lonely for their company." Russell recently admitted fatherhood had made him realise how shallow Tinsel Town is and helped him put his priorities in perspective. 'The world of celebrity becomes this strange place to live in,' he announced. 'But marriage and kids have made me less concerned with it.' See more Celeb News .

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Extra funding broadens kids' horizons

E, as in do-re-mi. To add a vibrato depth to her classroom's wooden xylophone, her fifth- and sixth-graders at Edison-McNair Academy in East Palo Alto play single bars of one note. She had D, F, G, A, B and high C, but the missing E made songs sound, well, like they were missing a note. Thanks to a grant of $500 from the East Palo Alto Kids Foundation, "now we've got a beautiful E bar. We have the full gamut, so we're rolling," the ebullient Fitzhugh said. She is one of nearly 200 teachers in 11 Ravenswood schools who received grants this fall from EPAK, as the foundation is known. Previous grants funded maracas, snare drums and other instruments for her music classes, the only extracurricular courses offered to fifth- and sixth-graders at the charter middle school. The foundation is celebrating a milestone this year.

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