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Walking Wounded Shia LaBeouf Gifts Jay Leno With Portion Of Severed Pinkie
3:20AM Seth | Armed with his own circuitous logic and a disarming smile, Shia LaBeouf has proven himself as masterful at one-handed P.R. spin as he is twirling a stiletto. Remember how he turned his Walgreen’s arrest into a hilarious comedy pitch about a young movie star’s escalating feud with a drugstore security guard? (Throw in Bow Wow and Martin Lawrence, call it Crunk & Disorderly, it’s as good as a slam dunk.) A terrible Indiana Jones installment only seems awful and cartoonish because the audience has devolved (or evolved? We still don’t quite get this one), not the movie. And a DUI arrest and near fatal car accident becomes a life-affirming anecdote on The Tonight Show. By the end of the telling, the whole “DUI” part seems but a distant memory, as you’re entirely too preoccupied with the closeup of the gnarled fingernail LaBeouf touchingly presents to Leno—a trophy from his ordeal, suitable for mounting—to concern yourself with the details of the case. [The Tonight Show] More »
Nick Nolte Tells The Amazing Story Of The Infamous Mugshot That Wasn’t
2:40AM Seth | Having played everything in his long career from Barbra Streisand’s sodomy-repressing patient in The Prince of Tides to a hook-handed war diarist in the upcoming Tropic Thunder, it seems a small tragedy that the single image most associated with permagrizzled thespian Nick Nolte is his infamous mugshot. Generally regarded as the gold standard to which all celebrity booking photos are held, there was virtually no aspect of the portrait that failed to convey a purity of wrongness: the sunken features, the pained grimace, the waterlily print buttoned up to the neck, and, of course, that shock of stringy chaos atop his head, defying all laws of physics as if fashioned by some oversugared pre-schooler out of a box of golden pipe-cleaners. Entire post-graduate seminars were dedicated to exploring its mysteries and beauty. So imagine our shock when the model himself finally revealed the true story behind its conception on The Tonight Show. This wasn’t a mugshot at all, it turns out, but Nolte’s selfless contribution to the Sacramento Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund. More »
Shia LaBeouf Concerned The Business Is Losing Its Drunk-Driving -Actor Magic
2:18AM Seth | Shia LeBeouf continues to recover from hand surgery after some spectacular Bayian stuntwork at the corners of LaBrea and Fountain early Sunday morning, resulting in an overturned pick-up truck, plus a massive fireball after the frazzled actor exhaled a gust of 80-proof breath while trying to light a cigarette. We’ve already explored his conveniently timed Details interview, in which he spoke freely of hard-partying father-son bonding moments, and his inability “to have one drink.” ET has video (above) of the interview, in which he charms a giggly off-camera reporter with flippant observations about his renegade drugstore exploits (”Walgreens is a formidable foe, let me tell you guys right now. It was the battlegrounds of my life. The coliseum where all the rumbles happen.”). He also openly longs for a time when “actors were magical. Now that paparazzis are rampant the business is losing the magic a little bit. You always feel like people know too much.” More »
DUI Expert Khloe Kardashian Butts In To Offer Unsolicited Advice to Shia LaBeouf
6:10AM Defamer Hollywood | For anyone who had a sneaking suspicion that yesterday’s earthquake was just the beginning of the end, we offer you more proof: marginally recognisable drunk driver Khloe Kardashian has taken it upon herself to give advice to accident-plagued Shia LaBeouf … and she suggests exactly what countless Defamer commenters have already recommended (namely, why don’t these rich kids have drivers already)? Says Us Magazine: More »
4:15AM Seth | Breaking! It now emerges that Shia LaBeouf may not have been completely at fault for his DUI accident: “L.A. County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the investigation suggests that another driver may have run a red light, hitting LaBeouf’s truck. That driver was cited at the scene for running a red light.” Do you suddenly find yourselves confused about how to feel? If a drunk driver gets hit by a red-light-runner at Fountain and LaBrea, flipping over his three-ton truck in the process and necessitating hand surgery, does it make a sound? We’ll let you ponder these imponderables as we attend to a specially designated Ethical Dilemma Boston Cream Donut. Mmm…morally ambiguous cussstarrrrrd. [LAT] More »
Shia LaBeouf Wishes He Could Limit Himself To Just One Barrel- Sized Cocktail Per Evening
3:20AM Seth | 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. More »
Free Spirited Isabel Was In Shia “One For The Road” LaBeouf’s Crashed Car!
1:07PM Clem Bastow | This just in – apparently our free-spirited whale saving heroine Isabel Lucas was the passenger in the car that Transformers and Indiana Jones star Shia LaBeouf crashed while driving under the influence! And she’s going out with Adrian Grenier! Who is pissed off! How many more exclamation marks can we use!!!
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LaBeouf’s 23-year-old Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-star was reportedly sat next to him when he made a left turn on a red light and crashed his Ford F150 around 2.45am (local time) on Sunday in Los Angeles.
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When the New York Daily News contacted Lucas’s Entourage boyfriend Adrian Grenier, who she began dating in February, he was reportedly “none too happy that his ladyfriend was partying with her handsome co-star at 3am”.
The New York Daily News said: “Grenier was testy when we asked him how Lucas was feeling post-crash, and refused to comment.”
Jeez, Shia – you were cute and funny in Transformers (and also hilarious in Freaks & Geeks when you were a wee bairn), but this is testing our allegiance to you. Hands (and cars) off our hippy princess! More » 
Shia LaBeouf And The Kingdom Of The Royally Screwed
5:00AM Seth | The signs, as they say, were there. A rough-and-tumble kid from the hard streets of Echo Parque, Shia LaBeouf traded in tubesteak and greasepaint as a child, raised by hot-dog-vending clown parents. (A profession, if the lessons of Momzo are to teach us anything, which can frequently lead to movie star delinquency.) It would not be long before his magnetic screen presence and deft improvisational skills would catch the eye of a Hollywood in a desperate search for its next everyman superstar. But while he seemed up to the tasks of blockbuster movie-making—whether sexing a hyperdeveloped co-star on the hood of an anthropomorphic Camaro, or getting thwacked in the balls by jungle vegetation—it was off-screen that LaBeouf began developing a reputation for recalcitrance. Shia, they whispered, was capital-t trouble.
Fear And Loathing In Palm Springs With Former ‘CSI’ Star Gary Dourdan
7:35AM Seth | As we write this, recent CSI casualty Gary Dourdan is likely recovering from an even gnarlier Coachella hangover than most: TMZ reports the actor was discovered by Palm Springs police asleep in his car at 5:21 a.m., upon which he was arrested on “suspicion of possession of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription drugs,” otherwise known as the bare minimum required to make a Jack Johnson set seem remotely exciting. His genuinely pained mugshot—we seriously can’t stare at it for more than a few seconds—is pictured above. Developing… “CSI” Star Popped for Heroin, Coke, Ecstasy [TMZ] More »
