Sienna Miller

Turns out Sienna Miller has a good excuse for slipping into a binding
pair of cranky pants (or, in her case, cranky leggings) when asked for
identification last month at a Pittsburgh tavern.

She was just plum tuckered out, according to the London Mirror.

"I'm very sorry about being rude, but I was working so hard on the
movie "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," the tab quotes the starlet, 24,
as saying. "I was really tired, and it came out wrong. I feel terrible
about it."

Jude Law's less famous half didn't exactly endear herself to locals
during her stay in the city, which she unwisely labeled "S**tsburgh"
during a sit-down with Rolling Stone. (She quickly apologized and
insisted her comments were taken out of context, although is there any
other context for "S**tsburgh"? Anyhoo, moving on ...)

The bar kerfuffle soon followed, during which an I.D.-less Miller, out
on the town with her parents, was allegedly rebuffed by a bouncer, who
reportedly spied her a few minutes later ordering a drink at the bar
and proceeded to march her toward the exit.

"Sienna ripped off her hat and said, 'I am Sienna Miller. I am a
famous actress!' That's what she did. She was basically throwing a
temper tantrum," the tavern's owner recounted to the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.

She was accused of pitching a half-hour hissy fit outside the bar,
with the bouncer claiming, "She was going crazy out there, stomping
her feet, walking up and down the street."

But Sienna adamantly denied the bratty behavior, brushing off talk of
acting in an "inappropriate manner when asked for identification," and
insisting, "I had no problem with this, and my family and I left
calmly without any further exchange of words."

In related tantrum news, Russell Crowe is once again offering up
excuses for an incident in which he winged a telephone at the noggin
of a New York hotel desk clerk last year, and, not surprisingly,
"Because I can just be a jerk sometimes" didn't make the cut.

In an interview with "60 Minutes," the ornery Oscar winner cites
everything from his well-known temper to cultural differences to holes
in the U.S. justice system for making too big a deal out of his
telecommunications tussle.

Crowe, who was attempting to place a call to his wife in Australia
when he blew a gasket, concedes that he "absolutely" regrets his
behavior, explaining, "Ya know, it was unreasonable of me, ya know, in
terms of taking out my frustrations on that individual."

But he dismisses the incident as "minor," and maintains, "Where I come
from, a confrontation like that, as basic and simple as that, would
have been satisfied with a handshake and an apology."

Crowe, who received a slap on the wrist after pleading guilty to
third-degree assault (he also reportedly made a six-figure payout to
the clerk), adds that he feels the U.S. legal system "is very open to
be misused."

As for his short fuse, the pugilism-prone thespian quickly owns up to
it, but he says he feels it's necessary to keep him from having a
major meltdown.

"Absolutely, man. I have a temper. My mum's got a temper. My brother's
got a temper. You gotta have one," he declares. "You know what happens
if you don't have one? One day you're walking down the street and you
just pop. You're lying there on the pavement, because you've been
holding and suppressing all this bull****, ya know?"