Shia LaBeouf Wishes He Could Limit Himself To Just One Barrel- Sized Cocktail Per Evening
Posted by Seth at 3:20 AM on July 30, 2008
It's been two days since Shia LaBeouf's early-morning DUI accident, in which the well-liquored star of the latest Indy Jones installment was sent hurtling through the air in his three-ton, American-built pickup truck (360 views, specs, and colour options available here) at the corners of Fountain and LaBrea. As it turned out, the only thing his heavy-duty ride had picked up that evening was his Transformers sequel co-star, Australian actress Isabel Lucas. While her reportedly miffed boyfriend Adrian Grenier was unforthcoming with status updates, we have it on good authority from the fine people at TransWorld News press release syndicate that her rep "can't confirm anything...but I have been informed she is at work, on the set of Transformers and is fine." Phew! We can't confirm anything, either, but we're informed we're extremely relieved for the young actress.
Witnesses from the crime scene have since emerged, including passerby Brian Perrulli—aka Tobey Maguire's long-lost goth twin—who recalls a bystander recommending LaBeouf flee the scene (perhaps after placing a floormat over the vehicle and hoping no one noticed it?). But as he told Access Hollywood, Shia was having none of that:
"Shia was tending to the other people in the car, signing over information, like insurance and stuff and basically, I overheard the guy tell him, 'You should just get out of here and go,' and Shia said, 'Nah man. I gotta deal with this. My licence plate, it's my car. I don't wanna go, I gotta deal with this.'"
No, seriously: That's Tobey Maguire in a fright wig taping an episode of Pop Fiction, right? Meanwhile, in a stroke of pure metrosexualist-magazine serendipity, LaBeouf appears on the cover of the upcoming issue of Details. (Pictured above, pointing to his ticking love-engine with a still-healthy index finger. *Muffled sob.*) Inside, he's made to address a past checkered by lesser-severe brushes with the law, beginning with his infamous Walgreens skin-care-aisle sit-in:
"It was two hotheads," he says, "one completely in the wrong, one who wasn't enjoying his job that night, going at it about minuscule bullshit." [...]
[On] one of his and his [recovering substance-abuser] father's longtime bonding rituals: "We would drink together and smoke together," LaBeouf says, "and it's just a bad deal. It's not something that is conducive to being a role model--no iconic actors that I know of have problems like that. And I don't know how to do it like a gentleman. I don't know how to have one drink."
Really? Not a single, fellow iconic actor, Shia? Off the top of our heads we can think of Drew Barrymore, Carol Burnett, Mel Gibson (not that he's going to help your case)...let's see—just about anyone interviewed for Suzanne Somers's Wednesday's Children: Adult Survivors of Abuse Speak Out. (What—Cindy Williams isn't iconic?) The problem isn't your dad, or learning how to "do it like a gentleman" and stopping after one. It's the minuscule bullshit of thinking your iconic actor beer-shit don't stink.
- SHIA LABEOUF CLEANS UP HIS ACT [Details]
- Witness Claims Man In Shia LaBeouf Crash Told Actor To Flee Scene [Access Hollywood]
- Isabel Lucas Fine After Car Accident with Shia LaBeouf [transworldnews.com]

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NoGrumpys
Posted 4:35 AM 30/7/08
Shia will soon be relegated to remakes like:
TrannyFormers - MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
TrannyFormers - they're just men in disguise!!
NoGrumpys
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 4:24 AM 30/7/08
i don't think shia is calling himself an iconic actor per se, but it's a status he hopes to aspire to and he's saying that being an alcoholic won't exactly get him to that status. obviously, he's blacked out (no pun intended) on that point because most of the greats abused one drug or another.
his problem isn't that he thinks he is above the law, the problem is that he hasn't acted on his affirmations. knowing you have the problem is the first step. actively doing it is another. we're just watching him relapse. unfortunately, he decided to do it and drive afterwards.
also, one must wonder what was isabel lucas' excuse for getting into the car. i'm going to assume she knew he was wasted. but she's dating adrian grenier so i'm also going to assume that she's not that bright anyway.
bess marvin, girl detective
Cam/ron
Posted 4:16 AM 30/7/08
@WGARefugee: And lost all of their teeth.
Cam/ron
EvilMinion
Posted 3:54 AM 30/7/08
Does anyone ever come out of a Details interview not sounding like a total douche?
Shame on Shia for borrowing from Ozzy's often told story about how he went into rehab thinking they were just going to teach him to drink like a gentleman.
EvilMinion
TurdBlossom
Posted 3:53 AM 30/7/08
Another day. Another DUI. Another Mea Culpa from a celeb with an army of lawyers that will ensure he does nothing more than some community service, some AA meetings and maybe a stint at Promises in Malibu. Yawn.
The real story here is what Grenier's girlfriend was doing with Shia at 3am. I smell a smutty scandel in the making.
TurdBlossom
Breadbowl
Posted 3:53 AM 30/7/08
@ OldNo.7 Hahaha
Breadbowl
NoWireHangers
Posted 3:52 AM 30/7/08
And that Details cover is mesmerizingly disturbing.
NoWireHangers
Old No.7
Posted 3:50 AM 30/7/08
Point to the douche, Shia.
Old No.7
NoWireHangers
Posted 3:47 AM 30/7/08
"No iconic actors that I know of have problems like that."
Oh, Shia. Like 90% of good actors and writers are either crazy or alcoholic. Most people are fucked up. Why, I'm sure at least a few Defamer readers are drunk or high right now. Besides, you're no Amy Winehouse, kid.
NoWireHangers
WGARefugee
Posted 3:39 AM 30/7/08
"Hollywood's baddest boy?" What a lame enabling moniker. If Details needs role models for bad behavior, I'd recommend musicians like John Frusciante or Bob Forrest who spent their season in hell and lived to tell the tale.
WGARefugee
RocketRockit
Posted 3:32 AM 30/7/08
Hmm. Hand injury. Out of commission for a month. Rehab?
RocketRockit
JimRockford
Posted 3:32 AM 30/7/08
LaDeoufus.
JimRockford
Reason
Posted 5:32 AM 30/7/08
Cripes, why do I find this guy attractive? Even cutting hasn't helped me ward off the tingling feelings.
Reason
kookla
Posted 5:54 AM 30/7/08
"No iconic actors that I know of have problems like that."
Last time I checked, no iconic actors were in movies with transforming robots either.
kookla
Superawesomerad
Posted 5:50 AM 30/7/08
His head seems freakishly large in that photo. I'm scared.
Superawesomerad
FlangeSqueal
Posted 9:15 AM 31/7/08
Poor Kweer-named boi.
Better get into rehab as fast as your little legs can carry you - else you'll end up as irrelevant and underemployed as the Two Jew Coreys.
Best wishes, stoopid.
FlangeSqueal