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]
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