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Rolling Stones night 2: Distance no obstacle for fans

More than three hours before the Rolling Stones were actually due out on stage, fans lined up outside the Prudential Center wearing their tongue shirts and bomber jackets.

Few waiting were actually from New Jersey, many coming from hours and thousands of miles away.

David Richman made the 12-hour drive from North Bay, Ontario in Canada. He came to Newark with his son Scott, 18, who gifted him the tickets as an early Christmas present. Though each one had a face value of $95, the pair ended up costing $1,100. The elder Richman attended his first Stones show in Toronto in 1972, but not again until tonight. All these years he'd never seen the point in shelling out so much money, nor journeying so far.

"Now I'm really excited," he said, standing at the front entrance to the Prudential Center. His favorite Stones song: "Brown Sugar."

Alexa Pariseau, 19, traveled from Kenosha, Wis., with her father Darryl. It'll be the first Stones concert for both of them. Her favorite song: "Far Away Eyes." Her father:

"Jumpin' Jack Flash, that's his favorite."

Though Pariseau's boyfriend wanted to see the show, too, he'll have to watch back home on pay per view. Two tickets cost the Pariseaus $2,200, which meant a lot of saving up for Alexa, who works a part-time job. While the Stones performed in Newark Thursday, she thought band would have more pressure to deliver tonight since the show is being broadcast. Still, she wasn't exactly sold on one of the special guests.

"Lady Gaga's good, but not enough for the Stones," she said.

John Gomes saw his first Stones show in 1964 in Long Beach, Calif. The band flew in on a helicopter, he said, and once in a limousine, were pummeled by eager female fans. For tonight's show, it took Gomes nearly six hours to drive from his home in Mount Shasta, Calif., to San Francisco, then six more hours to fly into Newark, though he was solely focused on the band.

"What the hell I want to see New Jersey for?" he asked.

Jake Brunello came just as far, but his arrival was made sweeter knowing he was not only hours away from seeing Mick Jagger live, but also cancer-free. While in treatment Brunello hadn't been able to make it to a Stones show since the Licks Tour in 2002, he said.

Russell Crowe Can’t Wait To Get Home: I Will ‘Try To Bring My Family Back Together’

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Russell Crowe attends the ‘Les Miserables’ New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theatre on December 10, 2012Caption After a whirlwind year of filming (he’s starring in five films coming out within the next year), Russell Crowe – who is reportedly estranged from wife Danielle Spencer – wants to make things right with his family.

“As soon as I finish this job & can get home, my priority is to try to bring my family back together,” the “Les Miserables” star, who is currently shooting “A Winter’s Tale” in New York, Tweeted earlier this week.

The actor also slammed reports claiming he’d been spotted getting cozy with Billy Joel’s ex-wife Katie Lee, writing, “These latest reports are false & cruel.”

Russell, who has two sons with Danielle (the family resides in Australia), took to Twitter again on Saturday, counting down the days until he can get back to his family, and letting followers know he won’t put up with negative comments.

“I have 3 shooting days to go, then the journey home begins,” he wrote. “Blocked quite a few people this morning, spreaders of hate, stupidity and bs gone.”

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, reports of the longtime couple’s split surfaced in October.

Russell’s incredibly full film schedule was said to be part of the reason for the reported separation, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, as the Oscar-winning actor had six films slated for release within a one-year span, including “Man with the Iron Fists,” “Les Miserables,” “Broken City,” “Man of Steel,” “Noah,” and “Winter’s Tale.”

Russell and Danielle met 22 years ago on the set of “The Crossing,” and dated, but eventually broke up.

The couple reconciled years later, and married in a chapel built especially for Danielle in 2003.

Linsanity: Jeremy Lin finally breaks out for Houston Rockets

2:08AM EST December 11. 2012 - Jeremy Lin always has been a late bloomer: lightly recruited, undrafted, two years on the bench and in the NBA Development League.

It took a quarter of a season, but Linsanity has reached Texas. The Houston Rockets point guard had a season-high 38 points Monday night in a 134-126 overtime loss to the San Antonio Spurs.

GAME: Parker's triple-double carries Spurs

The Rockets were without their leading scorer, shooting guard James Harden, and Lin filled the void as he proved so capable of last season with the New York Knicks. His previous season-high points total was 21, on Nov. 2.

Lin had been mired in a funk lately, scoring 15 total points in his previous three games while losing minutes to backup Toney Douglas. But the expensive free agent busted out without Harden around.

Lin started out slowly, scoring two points in the first quarter, but then took over in the second and third, scoring 24 of Houston's 66 points in the high-scoring stanzas.

He finished 11-for-21 from the field, 4-for-5 from three and 12-for-12 from the line and added seven assists, three rebounds, two blocks and two steals for good measure.

BOX SCORE: Spurs 134, Rockets 126

Characteristically, Lin brushed aside his individual contributions.

"I'm thankful that I was able to get comfortable out there, but that's definitely secondary to the fact that we blew another close game," he said.

It was the breakout performance the Rockets needed from Lin, whom they invested $25.1 million in over the next three years. Lin burst onto the scene last February when the injury-plagued Knicks shuffled him into a starting and starring role, but his career before his two-month hot streak was full of D-League and DNPs.

Lin's game was not perfect. Near the end of regulation, with the score tied, he was ticking down the clock to set up a last shot when Danny Green poked the ball away from him.

"I had the ball to win it and didn't even get a shot up," Lin said. "That one hurt."

Jason Garrett leaned on players

IRVING, Texas -- When the Cowboys arrived in Cincinnati on Saturday night, coach Jason Garrett met with his captains Tony Romo, DeMarcus Ware and Jason Witten to discuss how the team would proceed after learning of the death of teammate Jerry Brown.

“I talked to our players about, ‘Hey, guys, what do you want to do Saturday night? Do you want to have a team meeting? Do you want to have offensive and defensive meetings? Is that the right thing to do? Is that the wrong thing to do? Does routine helps us? Does it hurt us? Just tell me what you think. I’m not going to stand here and say, This is the way you handle it. I can’t say that I know the way to handle it,’” Garrett said. “But I know collectively when we talked about it and worked our way through it, I think everybody was together on how we’re going to handle it.”

The Cowboys kept the Saturday routine as normal as possible with the exception of a 25-minute special teams meeting. Offensive and defensive meetings were shortened.

“Afterwards we had a snack in the dining room, encouraged everybody to go in there and hang out with each other,” Garrett said. “Some guys chose not to. A lot of guys did and kind of hung out and were together. Another thing I said at the outset of the meeting was if anybody wants to leave this meeting, leave the next meeting, you don’t feel up to hear all this stuff, leave. Do whatever you need to do. I'm not telling you how to handle anything. I’m just saying we are here for each other. If you feel like you don’t want to be a part of this, if you want to walk out of the room and take a moment for yourself, you do that. There were no restrictions. There wasn't a lot of structure. We just tried to handle it the best we could all together.”

Team chaplain Jonathan Evans ran chapel, “and did a great job, trying to provide some perspective on what the situation was,” Garrett said. “There were probably more players there than there normally would have been.”