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"George Clooney appears to be friends with everyone in Hollywood -- but that doesn&amp;apos;t mean he doesn&amp;apos;t have a good ol&amp;apos; feud or two. Covering the December issue of Esquire, the Monuments Men star reveals that he had it out with another Oscar-winning hunk, Russell Crowe, after the Australian actor called him a &amp;quot;sellout&amp;quot; in an interview.\r\n&amp;quot;The truth is that [Crowe] did send me a book of poems to apologize for insulting the sh** out of me, which he did,&amp;quot; Clooney says. &amp;quot;He picked a fight with me. He started it for no reason at all. He put out this thing saying, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, and Robert De Niro are sellouts.&amp;quot;\r\nPHOTOS: Biggest feuds ever\r\nClooney continued: &amp;quot;And I put out a statement saying, &amp;apos;He&amp;apos;s probably right. And I&amp;apos;m glad he told us, &amp;apos;cause Bob and Harrison and I were also thinking about starting a band, which would also fall under the heading of bad use of celebrity.&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Fiery-tempered Crowe, perhaps predictably, didn&amp;apos;t drop it there, Clooney says.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;And that&amp;apos;s when he really went off on me. &amp;apos;Who the f*** does this guy think he is? He&amp;apos;s a Frank Sinatra wannabe.&amp;apos; He really went after me. And so I sent him a note going, &amp;apos;Dude . . . what the f*** is wrong with you?&amp;apos;\r\n\r\nAfter Clooney had a particularly critically-acclaimed year, the pair were fated to meet again at the Golden Globes, so Crowe sent a peace offering.\r\n&amp;quot;So he sends me a disc of his music and a thing of his poetry. I think he said, &amp;apos;I was all misquoted,&amp;apos; and I was like, &amp;apos;Yeah, yeah. Whatever.&amp;apos;\r\nClooney also has some critiques for Leonardo DiCaprio and his oversized posse of friends. Approaching DiCaprio, 39, about playing basketball sometime, Clooney recalls that DiCaprio bragged, &amp;quot;You know, we&amp;apos;re pretty serious,&amp;quot; he tells Esquire. &amp;quot;The thing about playing Leo is you have all these guys talking sh***. We get there, and there&amp;apos;s this guy, Danny A I think his name is. Danny A is this club kid from New York. And he comes up to me and says, &amp;apos;We played once at Chelsea Piers. I kicked your ass.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAfter Team Clooney roundly trounced team DiCaprio, Clooney observes that, perhaps, DiCaprio doesn&amp;apos;t surround himself with the best people: &amp;quot;The discrepancy between their game and how they talked about their game made me think of how important it is to have someone in your life to tell you what&amp;#x2019;s what. I&amp;#x2019;m not sure if Leo has someone like that.&amp;quot;\r\nOne more target? Twitter-loving Ashton Kutcher. &amp;quot;Why on God&amp;apos;s green earth would you be in Twitter?&amp;quot; asks Clooney, whose ex-girlfriend Stacy Keibler is a huge proponent of the social media site. &amp;quot;I mean, when you see, like, Ashton Kutcher coming out and going, you know, Everybody leave Joe Paterno alone,&amp;apos; or whatever he said, you just go &amp;apos;Fifteen minutes longer and a thought process and probably you wouldn&amp;apos;t have done that.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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