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28-02-02 news
Russell Crowes Sanctity at the BBC...

Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe attacked a BBC exec for cutting his BAFTA acceptance speech featuring a Patrick Kavanagh poem.

The four line poem was cut from the BBC telecast of the BAFTA awards last Sunday, and when Crowe (whose family originally come from Ireland) found out he threatened the TV executive over the edit.

Crowe, who has now arrived in Australia, was very upset that his recital of the poem Sanctity by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh was cut from the telecast. He confronted the show's director Malcolm Gerrie to air his own views.

The BAFTA Best Actor winner sought out Gerrie at the post awards dinner according to reports. Crowe quizzed Gerrie about his previous work and demanded to know why he left the poem out of the broadcast.

"I'll make sure you never work in Hollywood," Crowe barked at Gerrie.

Crowe won the award for his work in A Beautiful Mind, which is about to be released in Australia.

The film company behind the movie, Dreamworks, and the BAFTA committee later apologised to 51-year-old Gerrie.

In his defense Crowe told the Australian press "as it's being reported in the English press, it's all come down to the removal of a four-line Patrick Kavanagh poem. But the thing is that it was about a one-minute-50 speech but they've cut a minute out of it, including thanking John and Alicia Nash for allowing us to explore their extraordinary lives."

The Kavanagh poem Crowe delivered reads:

To be a poet and not know the trade,

To be a lover and repel all women,

Twin ironies by which great saints are made,

The agonising pincer jaws of heaven.

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