Nah, he didn't whip out a poem he wanted to read during a Robin Hood PR interview and was declined the airtime; he got into a rage when BBC4's Mark Lawson suggested his Nottingham inspired accent was more diddleIrish in origin:

The Sun reports: "The Gladiator star raged: 'You've got dead ears mate - seriously dead ears if you think that's an Irish accent.' Lawson - in an interview for Front Row recorded at London's Dorchester Hotel - asked him if the accent was meant to be northern. The actor snarled before flouncing off: 'No I was going for an Italian... missed it? F*** me.' Crowe has seethed since critics at the Cannes premiere of Robin Hood slated his lilt. One likened it to an Aussie 'doing an impression of Jim Bowen off Bullseye'. The star has claimed he used a Yorkshire accent because some experts say the outlaw was really from there. But neither of his voice coaches said that was a twang he learned. Sara Poyzer, 39, insisted she taught him the Nottinghamshire accent, adding: 'I thought he did a pretty good job.' Judy Dickerson said she coached him to speak like someone from the Rutland area (ooooh, specific). Either way, people near Robin's old stomping ground scoffed at how their hero is depicted by the actor, famed for rages that include hurling a phone at a hotel worker. Nottingham postman Aidan Atkinson, 36, said: 'He sounds daft.' Phil Sergeant, 44, said: 'He talks like a Lord Of The Rings hobbit'."

Hey, at least Robinus Hoodius Maximus made a stab at something resembling a northern English accent, unlike a certain Mr. Costner... Or Daffy Duck. Or Kermit the frog. Or Ernie off Sesame Street... or the avalanche of others...