Crowe blasts mocking play

Actor Russell Crowe has launched a scathing attack on a playwright who accuses him of being a cheap, egotistical drunk in hit new Los Angeles play Killing Russell Crowe.

The Gladiator star is furious about Jeremy Kehoe's show, which has a scene in which a disgruntled bartender declares he wants to murder Crowe, because he doesn't pay for his drinks and leaves unsigned photos of himself instead.