Russell Crowe makes charity stop while filming ‘Robin Hood’

September 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Russell Crowe failed to get a VIP ticket to Cate Blanchett's highly successful play, A Streetcar Named Desire. According to the Daily Telegraph, some theatregoers told Confidential they spotted the Oscar-winning actor and his singer wife Danielle Spencer sitting in row J.

September 2nd, 2009 JAY-Z is sick of rappers referring to their lives in America's ghettos - insisting he has seen real poverty after a charity trip to Africa. The 99 Problems legend took time out from hip-hop superstardom to visit the largely impoverished continent to see the good work his Water For Life project is doing to help those in need.

September 1st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Aussie actor Russell Crowe is said to follow a fitness regime that involves a few cigarettes and eating fatty foods. Crowe, 45, who had this year lost 32kgs while preparing for his starring role in Robin Hood, has left many wondering about his trim waistline, and how he manages to keep it that way.

August 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Russell Crowe has lashed out at reports claiming he was recently banned from his local England pub. The actor, who is presently filming "Robin Hood" in Windlesham, Surrey in south-east England, was reported to have faced the ban over his alleged rowdy behaviour after the local tavern keeper told him it was closing time.

August 3rd, 2009 Actor RUSSELL CROWE has shot down reports he has been banned from his local pub in England, dismissing suggestions he and the landlord have fallen out. The Gladiator star is currently shooting Robin Hood in Windlesham, Surrey in south-east England and has been enjoying drinks at The Brickmakers pub - just miles from the set.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe shocked staff at a British charity shop recently after he walked in and made a $1,500 (1,000) donation. The "Gladiator" star is currently in Britain filming a new Robin Hood movie but took a break from his schedule to visit the Cancer Research store in Sunningdale, Berkshire, and made a generous contribution to the cancer charity, reports imdb.com.

July 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - Russell Crowe, who is currently shooting for a new 'Robinhood' movie, showed his benevolent nature by giving 5,000 pounds to a crew member after her car went up in flames. According to the Mirror, Denise Yarde, a boom mike operator was on the way to work in London when her car caught fire.

July 14th, 2009 LONDON - 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' star Danny Huston has reportedly bagged a role in Ridley's Scott's new movie, based on the Robin Hood story. The actor is said to appear alongside Hollywood biggies Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett in the film, the BBC reports.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sienna Miller believes that Cate Blanchett, who has replaced her in Ridley Scott's epic Robin Hood, will make a "better" Maid Marian than her. The actress, who was due to star alongside Russell Crowe in the upcoming big-budget drama, said that there were no hard feelings against 40-year-old Cate, who she said was "more suitable" for the role, reports the China Daily.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - Sienna Miller has said that there is a "vendetta" against her after the actress lost out on playing Maid Marian in Ridley Scott's epic Robin Hood. The Hippie Hippie Shake star, who was due to share the frame with Russell Crowe in the forthcoming drama, said that script alterations cost her the role.

June 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - Russell Crowe has revealed that his on-set chemistry with 'Nottingham' co-star Cate Blanchett is "an interesting gig". The two Oscar winners are in Britain filming Nottingham, the latest retelling of the tale about Robin Hood and Maid Marian.

June 19th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Russell Crowe has slammed media for blurring the line between news and entertainment. "If you trivialise the news decade after decade, if you turn news into entertainment, if you corrupt how people get information and corrupt that information in the first place and if you have a cynical view where you can take a piece of fluff that you know is not really true but you can bang it up because it fits nice on page 5 next to the ad of women's lingerie.

June 12th, 2009 LONDON - Aussie actor Russell Crowe is making demands to be flown daily by helicopter from Windsor to Wales for the filming of his new movie Robin Hood. Crowe, 45, who does not want to stay near the set in Cardiff when filming begins, has insisted that producers provide helicopter flights costing thousands of pounds a time to ferry him from the Windsor mansion where he is living.

June 12th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe is demanding he be flown by helicopter every morning to the sets of his upcoming film "Robin Hood". The "Gladiator" star has said he does not want to stay near the set at Freshwater West in Wales when filming begins next week and is insisting on daily helicopter flights to and fro from the Windsor mansion where he is living, reports mirror.co.uk.

June 10th, 2009 NEW YORK - Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott are caught up in a new tiff on the set of their film Robin Hood, according to reports. The pair was said to have been quarrelling for quite some time and their new flare up had allegedly made producers jet in to London.