For absolutely no reason at all, Shia LaBeouf appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” on Monday evening. Actually, there is a reason it happened — officially, to promote The Company You Keep (the movie where he looks like a hipster Unabomber) in limited release — but it really seems like Shia merely stopped by to talk with Dave about his ongoing feud with Alec Baldwin. I’ll let that settle in for just a moment.

To recap, Shia is still trying to recover from his failure to execute a Broadway debut alongside Alec and Tom Sturridge in Orphans. Shia left the play after he and Alec clashed, and Shia ended up being the first one to punch a hole in a door backstage. Shia was quickly replaced by Ben Foster, and Shia didn’t know how to handle his first professional failure. To be certain, Shia’s been acting like an immature dweeb and biting the proverbial hand for the past few years with no repercussions. He even gets into bar fights and then Bob Redford merely slaps him on the back on set the next day. Now Shia has actually failed at a job that has quickly moved on without him, and the dude just can’t handle it.

Hence Shia’s need to post a plagiarized apology letter to Alec online, and his inability to stop publishing private email conversations between himself and co-workers just to make himself (in his eyes) look good. Then he started posting not-so-cryptic summary dismissals of theater as an art form, and Alec once again managed to look like the good guy in this fight by refusing to engage Shia other than to say Shia has no experience to judge in this matter. That had to kill Shia, so he tried to make himself look like a big man last week by purchasing a $127 orchestra ticket to a preview performance (and posting photo proof) of Orphans, and now he’s visited Letterman to make his case.

Naturally, Letterman gave a wonderfully stitled lead in to this interview and basically let Shia destroy himself in front of the audience. Letterman provided some leading questions to get Shia to admit that he was fired (and didn’t quit, which was the assumption that Shia let ride until now). Quite amusingly, Dave also suggested that it could have been Alec (who is Dave’s real-life friend) who told the producers to fire Shia, and Shia just let that one slide too (“I think that might’ve been what happened) either because he was too dumbfounded to deny it or because it really happened. Who knows?

Shia went on to describe why he and Alec clashed during production of the play — because they’re both so “passionate and impulsive.” He further dug that hole by adding, “Me and Alec had tension as men, not as artists,” which was met with awkward giggles from the audience. LOL. Then Shia delivered a weak attempt at reconciliation: “Alec, I think you’re awesome, man. That’s it.” Here’s a video clip if you want to witness this tragic douchery for yourself:

For what it’s worth, Shia also talked about why he’s walking around in a boot after hurting his foot. That part isn’t so interesting, but here’s a clip anyway:

After Shia bid farewell to Dave Letterman, he headed towards the The Company You Keep NYC premiere. Ireland Baldwin was at the premiere too! Alec needn’t worry about Shia putting his moves on Ireland, since he’s already taken, and I’m sure Ireland will manage just fine without breaking off a piece of that hipster douche.

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Shia LaBeouf and Alec Baldwin’s bitchfight rages forth in a wonderful display of dual douchetasticness. To recap, both men were signed (along with Tom Sturridge) to star in an upcoming Broadway play, Orphans, but then Shia broke down (interestingly enough, before Alec) during early rehearsals and punched a backstage door before quitting the show. Then Shia decided to (for unknown reasons) apologize to Alec Baldwin, but he made the mistake of plagiarizing his apology and then posting it to Twitter for all to see. In response, Alec decided to take the high road by declaring to Shia “I don’t have an unkind word to say about you. You have my word.”

Well … that was before Shia started posting everyone’s personal conversations with him on the internet, and it turns out that Alec does have a few unkind things to say about Shia, but it’s not like Shia didn’t ask for it because Shia just couldn’t help but to stir things up even more by tweeting, “Theater caters not to the great but to the brash. acting is not for gentlemen, or bureaucratic-academics, what they do is antiart.”

Hmm. Where to start? Well, the great John Malkovich would beg to differ with his opinion: “A movie is like a line drawing, but a theater performance is like a painting.” Alec also has a few words to add (via Vulture) in regards to Shia’s summary dismissal of theater actors:

“I can tell you that, in all honesty, I don’t think he’s in a good position to be giving interpretations of what the theater is and what the theater isn’t. I mean, he was never in the theater. He came into a rehearsal room for six or seven days and, uh – you know, sometimes film actors – I mean, there are people who are film actors who have a great legacy in the theater. Some of the greatest movie stars had really serious theater careers and still do. And many film actors, though, who are purely film actors, they’re kind of like celebrity chefs, you know what I mean? You hand them the ingredients, and they whip it up, and they cook it, and they put it on a plate, and they want a round of applause. In the theater, we don’t just cook the food and serve it. You go out in the garden and you plant the seeds and you grow it. You know, it’s a really very, very long, slow, deliberate – it’s the opposite of film acting. It’s a much more intensive and kind of thoughtful process. And there are people who that’s just not their thing. So for those people who I think it’s not their thing, I’m not really interested in their opinion of it. But thanks.”

[From Vulture]

As much as it pains me to admit, Alec makes a great deal of sense in his assessment of Shia as a theater neophyte who knows not of what he speaks. In response to Alec’s response (this is getting good, right?), Shia has decided to upload screenshots of yet more email conversations. This time, he’s posting emails from Orphans director Daniel Sullivan that enthusiastically bestow praise Shia even before rehearsals began. And of course, Sullivan just had to say that Shia would probably be more prepared than Alec … because Shia was likely thought to be a great catch (his Broadway debut!) before everything fell apart. At this point, Shia just needs to shut his mouth. Nothing good can come of this, but if Shia disappears for a few months, perhaps everyone will forget about it.

Also Shia, stop posting private email conversations!

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Hmm. If you couldn’t tell from the above photo, I’m sort of torn on how to best illustrate this latest Shia LaBeouf post. Most of the candid paparazzi photos of this guy have him looking utterly grungy and completely unwashed, so I opted for some photos of Shia at the Berlin film festival premiere of The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. Then I decided that if he was facing away from the camera, that was even better. I’m not disgusted by Shia’s looks when he cleans himself up, but he’s got such a terrible attitude that gazing at him is a real turnoff. We’ll get to the forward-facing photos in just a moment, so prepare yourself.

To recap yesterday’s weirdness, we covered the story of Shia “quitting” his big time Broadway debut, Orphans, after he threw a hissy fit and punched a hole in a backstage door. For whatever reason, Shia has endured the aftermath of his discontent by posting private emails on the situation to his Twitter account, and the most amusing thing about Shia’s departure is that he managed to go all ragey before Alec Baldwin, who is a notorious rage monster. Indeed, it seems that Shia’s departure from Orphans had to do with a personality clash between him and Alec. According to one particular email posted by Shia, a producer revealed, “You’re one hell of an actor. Alec is who he is. you are who you are. you two are incompatible.” For what it’s worth, Shia also tweeted this email containing an apology poem of sorts to Alec, which was all well and good except that he plagiarized all but the first and last lines from Tom Chiarella’s essay, “How To Be A Man,” for Esquire magazine. How charming:

A man is good at his job. Not his work, not his avocation, not his hobby. Not his career. His job. It doesn’t matter what his job is, because if a man doesn’t like his job, he gets a new one.

A man can look you up and down and figure some things out. Before you say a word, he makes you. From your suitcase, from your watch, from your posture. A man infers.

A man owns up. That’s why Mark McGwire is not a man. A man grasps his mistakes. He lays claim to who he is, and what he was, whether he likes them or not.

Some mistakes, though, he lets pass if no one notices. Like dropping the steak in the dirt.

He does not rely on rationalizations or explanations. He doesn’t winnow, winnow, winnow until truths can be humbly categorized, or intellectualized, until behavior can be written off with an explanation.

A man knows his tools and how to use them — just the ones he needs. Knows which saw is for what, how to find the stud, when to use galvanized nails.

A man does not know everything. He doesn’t try. He likes what other men know.

A man can tell you he was wrong. That he did wrong. That he planned to. He can tell you when he is lost. He can apologize, even if sometimes it’s just to put an end to the bickering.

[From Esquire]

Beyond the douchiness of Shia blatantly lifting Esquire’s essay, does anyone else find it incredibly self-destructive that Shia is posting self-serving emails between himself and his (former) colleagues? I mean, he even posted Tom Sturridge’s confused “Wha?” message about this mess. Besides the fact that Shia is a whiny baby (and not a “man” as he seems to believe), he’s also airing emails that other people figured would be entirely confidential. That’s pretty unprofessional to say the least.

Shia also posted Alec’s response to his plagarized apology, which is below and included, “I don’t have an unkind word to say about you. You have my word.” So there’s that, I guess. This is such drama between boys. Oh, and Shia’s already been replaced by Ben Foster. Good plan.

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Here are some photos of Shia LaBeouf and his semi-new girlfriend, Mia Goth, way back in December. We never got around to publishing these pictures because, well, it’s Shia LaBeouf. He’s not exactly of the “would you hit it?” variety. Anyway, Mia is also Shia’s co-star in Lars Von Trier’s upcoming film, N-mphomaniac, which is the movie where Shia says that he does actual sex onscreen. You know I’ll just have to gross myself out by watching that movie.

At the moment, however, Shia’s career has hit reverse. You know how he was supposed to be abandoning mainstream movies in favor of being an indie king? Well, a Broadway debut was also part of that plan because Shia wanted to build up some serious acting cred. It was a decent plan, and he managed to land a respectable play, Orphans, which will also star Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge. Sadly, Shia’s plans for onstage glory have been cut short due to what Playbill calls “creative differences.” As in, Shia got angry, punched a backstage door, and quit that bitch. Playbill doesn’t mention the true reason for Shia’s departure, but Shia admits as much via his Twitter account, in which he posts an “I’m sorry” email that reads, “I’m a child / don’t mind me” to one of the producers of the play. Here’s the sugarcoated Playbill postmortem:

The producers of the Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans announced Feb. 20 that film star Shia LaBeouf has departed the upcoming production “due to creative differences.” The play would have marked the actor’s Broadway bow.

An announcement on the replacement for the role of Treat will be made shortly.

The three-person drama, starring Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge, will begin previews March 19 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with an official opening scheduled for April 7. Daniel Sullivan directs.

In the play, according to press notes, “two orphaned brothers are living in a decrepit North Philadelphia row house. Treat, the eldest, supports his damaged younger sibling Phillip (Sturridge) by petty thievery, and makes the house a virtual prison for the seemingly simple-minded Phillip. One night he kidnaps a rich older man, Harold (Baldwin), who turns out to have his own motives and becomes the father figure the boys have always yearned for.”

Orphans premiered in 1983 at The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles where it won the Drama-Logue Award. Following its 1985 engagement at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the play had a successful run at New York’s Westside Arts Theatre and was subsequently produced in London. A film version was also produced.

[From Playbill]

Is anyone else surprised that Shia is the one who “quit” this play after resorting to violent measures to express his frustration? I mean, this could have easily been Alec Baldwin, whose well-documented rage monster incidents persist to this day. Maybe Shia and Alec aren’t so different from each other — after all, Shia has his fair share of bar fights. The difference? At least Alec knows how to suck it up and be a professional while he’s getting paid.

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As much crap as I give Shia LaBeouf for claiming to be the new indie king while demanding $18 mllion for Transformers 4 (and, in the process, getting his greasy butt replaced by Mark Wahlberg), Shia’s sort of planning a really smart career move. He’s heading to Broadway! Maybe he can actually prove himself beyond a former child star who has only demonstrated enough range these days to be able to yell, “No no no no no” while running and driving. Shia could truly sink or swim here, and he’ll be starring opposite Alec Baldwin:

Good thing Shia LaBeouf has officially kissed big blockbusters goodbye — he’s now free to star in a Broadway production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, which premiered in 1983 in Los Angeles. This will mark the play’s first appearance on Broadway.

LaBeouf will play Treat, a young, orphaned thief who lives with his mentally damaged younger brother Phillip (a role that has not yet been cast). When Treat kidnaps the wealthy, older Harold (Alec Baldwin), he and Phillip realize that they may have found the father figure they’ve always yearned for. Baldwin last appeared on Broadway in 2004, when he starred in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Twentieth Century.

Orphans begins previews March 19 at the Schoenfeld Theatre, currently home to a Glengarry Glen Ross revival starring Al Pacino. Its opening night is set for April 7. Think Michael Bay might show up in the cheap seats?

[From EW.com]

I generally think it’s a good thing when Hollywood actors try their hand at doing plays. John Malkovich has famously stated, “A movie is like a line drawing, but a theater performance is like a painting.” So I guess very soon, we’ll find out whether or not Shia can paint on a canvas or merely scribble on the wall with Crayolas like a bad little boy.

In other Broadway news (since there’s hardly ever an occasion to talk about Broadway here), Scarlett Johansson has just scored a $40,000 per week payday for her upcoming role as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She will also get 7.5% of ticket sales above $530,000 based on an average of four weeks of ticket sales. Not bad, right? People often forget that, after all, she is a Tony winner. Now she’s cashing in on that win, and she can tell all those people who say she can’t act to suck it. Go, Scarlett!

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Here are some photos of Shia LaBeouf pumping gas yesterday (Wednesday), and it’s safe to say that Shia is definitely no Joseph Gordon Levitt, right? Shia just doesn’t have the same level of nonchalant aplomb as JGL even though are both entirely unrepentant hipsters. In any event, here’s a follow-up on our recent story of Shia’s breakup with his long-suffering girlfriend, stylist Karolyn Pho, after two long years of dating. It turns out that perhaps the very public fight between Shia and Karolyn in August may have been an indication of the beginning of the end. That was about the same time that Shia had confirmed that he’d be having actual (totally “method”) sex while filming Lars von Trier’s N*mphomaniac. Now and in a not-so-surprising move, Shia has been revealed to have started a new relationship with his N*mpho co-star, Mia Goth (shown here with Shia.) Here are the details:

Is Shia LaBeouf a real-life n*mphomaniac? The actor has reportedly parted ways with his longtime girlfriend in favor of N*mphomaniac costar Mia Goth, the 19-year-old actress he got close to while shooting Lars von Trier’s upcoming film.

LaBeouf quietly split from stylist/designer Karolyn Pho “a while ago” after two years of dating, a source told UsWeekly, and things have reportedly been heating up with Goth ever since. “They’ve kept their relationship under wraps, but they pretty much started dating after he broke off things with Karolyn a few months ago,” a source told RadarOnline.

LaBeouf and Goth were spotted together on the day before Thanksgiving as they made a low-key Starbucks run in Los Angeles, and the new couple are reportedly already very comfortable together. “He got to know Mia on set and quickly became enamored of her,” the source said, according to Radar. “They have similar interests, they love alternative music, thrift stores and she is edgy and funny, which Shia loves.”

And despite his recent split, LaBeouf is apparently ready to dive into his new relationship, even meeting Goth’s parents in her native London. “They’re already spending a lot of time together, not just with work, but also have been hitting the town,” the source said. “Mia has made Shia very happy and he’s certainly found a party buddy for the time being.”

LaBeouf’s breakup may come as no surprise to fans who saw him engage in a heated fight with Pho on the streets of Los Angeles this summer. The couple’s relationship reportedly hit the skids over LaBeouf’s work on von Trier’s controversial new film, in which the actors engage in real sex scenes. “They’ve been on the rocks ever since Shia agreed to star in N*mphomaniac,” a source told RadarOnline. “Karolyn doesn’t want him having sex with somebody else – simple.”

“Karolyn gets that Shia likes to go method and appreciates his artistic integrity,” a source told RadarOnline at the time. “However, she thinks performing a real sex scene in a movie is going too far. It’s difficult for her to understand why it can’t be simulated — just like in other films.”

But Pho, 23, later told the Daily News the split wasn’t over LaBeouf’s onscreen sex life. “It’s none of anybody’s business,” she said. Everything is fine with us. It was nothing affiliated with his movie.”

[From NY Daily News]

Seriously, I can’t blame Karolyn for having a serious problem with Shia performing actual sex as opposed to simulated sex on camera. There’s a reason it’s called “acting,” you know? But it also seems like Shia may have broken it off with Karolyn before filming started, which means that he at least deserves a few points off his douche score. In any case, I expect that this new relationship with Mia is only based upon sex, and hopefully Karolyn will suddenly find herself in a new relationship that culminates in utter happiness and the proof of Shia as a Good Luck Chuck. Soon enough, Mia will be done with Shia too, and he’ll get in more bar fights and then give more passive-aggressive interviews about how “method” he is. Good times.

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Shia LeBeouf and his long-suffering girlfriend, Karolyn Pho, have split after two years of grumpy, crotchety behavior on his behalf. Of course, I’m assuming a few things here: (1) That Karolyn has, like many of us, had it up to here with Shia’s “method” attitude; and (2) Shia is as much of a douche in private as he is in public. Some of you have questioned my bias against Shia in previous posts, but all I really know about this relationship is that these two were often (as these photos show) lovey dovey on red carpets and on movie sets, but when they didn’t know the cameras were around, things didn’t seem to go so well. After all, they were spotted fighting in public in August, and Karolyn seemed quite infuriated about something while Shia looked like he was trying to dismiss whatever it was she was upset about. I could have read the situation wrong, but it really looked like she was legitimately freaked out, and he just wanted her to shut up.

Anyway, now Karolyn and Shia are over, and because this is a gossip site, we are free to speculate what went down. Was Karolyn upset because Shia not only signed on to do actual sex in Lars von Trier’s N*mphomaniac but also that he told everyone that his audition process basically consisted of him sending videos of him & Karolyn doing it for Lars’ viewing pleasure? I think that would have been the end of the relationship for me, but here’s the story from Us Weekly:

Shia LaBeouf is a single man once more.

The Lawless actor has split with his girlfriend of nearly two years, Karolyn Pho, a source confirms to Us Weekly.

According to the source, the former Disney Channel star broke up with his stylist love “a while ago.” Now, he seems focused on moving forward — LaBeouf, 26, was spotted cozying up to a mystery blonde at L.A.’s Magic Castle Saturday night.

LaBeouf first met Pho in early 2011 during a trip to a karaoke club in L.A.’s trendy Echo Park neighborhood. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times that summer, the famously hot-tempered Transformers star credited his then-girlfriend with helping him grow up a little — which included encouraging him to expand his culinary palate.

“Pate? A cheese plate? That’s a very 25-year-old deal,” he shared. “I can get down with some fig jelly and some cheese on a cracker . . . [Karolyn's] having me try different things.”

Prior to meeting Pho, LaBeouf dated Carey Mulligan for about a year (the couple split in October 2010). Mulligan has since moved on with — and gotten married to! — rocker Marcus Mumford.

[From Us Weekly]

Karolyn will bounce back in no time. She’s an attractive girl with a career as an up-and-coming stylist, and perhaps she (like Carey Mulligan) will find the right dude in her next relationship and totally get married. Like, maybe Shia is a Good Luck Chuck type of talisman. Wouldn’t that be funny? Then Shia could give a passive-aggressive interview about how Karolyn (like Carey) was “chasing marriage,” and we’ll all just roll our eyes. Poor Shia. At least he still has his sexy mom and a banana.

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Here are some photos of Shia LaBeouf out for a walk (for whatever reason) on Pacific Coast Highway in September. Isn’t that a good way to get run over by a non-braking Lindsay Lohan? Well, Shia is doing his best to become a hot mess on his very own because he just got into a random bar fight in London. This isn’t the first time he’s flown into someone else’s fists (and vice versa), but it’s been nearly two years since he’s let his temper get the best of him. Shia is obviously — what with all of the gross, literal sex he’s having while filming Lars von Trier’s N-mphomaniac — under so much pressure that he couldn’t help himself when some dude pulled the hat (the one in these pictures) off his head. I mean, it’s a hat. Who does Shia think he is, Raylan Givens? I wonder if Bob Redford will pat him on the back after this silly fight:

Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf got into a scrap — while drinking in a student pub in a scruffy South London suburb.

Regulars at the Hobgoblin in New Cross were stunned when the Transformers actor walked in with Mia Goth, his co-star in new film N-mphomaniac.

Shia, 26, spent several hours drinking and happily posing for photos with fans. But the mood turned sour when a student prankster pinched the star’s baseball cap – a souvenir from Laos in Asia – and refused to give it back.

A scuffle broke out and drinkers had to separate the pair before Shia left in a taxi. Police were not called.

One witness said: “No one could believe that a well-known Hollywood star had rocked up at a bar in dingy SE14. Everyone was getting their photos taken with him.

“The scrap all started when this guy took his hat. I think he was just joking, but Shia didn’t like it.

“The guy just took it off him and wouldn’t give it back. He tried to get it back and they ended up tussling. It was handbags really. But it shows that even Hollywood stars can’t avoid grief down this way.”

Landlord Mark Harris confirmed Shia was in the pub with model and actress Mia, 19. Mark said: “Her mum lives just down the road. She came down to see her mum and he tagged along. He did get a bit frustrated and there was a bit of a scuffle.”

[From The Sun]

Radar Online adds to the story with a faux-poor Shia stance about how Shia thinks everyone starts crap with him just because he’s famous. According to one of Shia’s (nameless) pals (are there any other who grant “exclusives”?), Shia thinks that this dude who stole his baseball cap was just trying to egg him on, and “it’s not [Shia's] fault” that “he lost his temper,” right? Further, “Shia believes he is picked on by people simply because of his fame. He feels he gets victimized for who he is and says that people often try to start a fight with him just for fun. He only wants to have a little downtime after a hard day of filming and wants to be treated with a little bit of respect.” Yeah, okay. Shia’s had a hard day of work with all of that actual sex going on at the set. You’d think instead of placing himself in a situation where he’s very likely to punch someone for a variety of reasons that, you know, he’d just roll over and go to sleep after the “O-face.”

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Here are some photos of Mark Wahlberg on the set of Pain and Gain in April of this year. This is, of course, a movie directed by Michael “Blinding Douchebaggery” Bay, so it’s sure to be cheesy as hell and not exactly an intellectual viewing experience, which is fine if you’re into that sort of thing. As a side note, I wonder if Wahlberg had to wash Bay’s Ferrari to get this role. In his Calvins, no less. What a mental picture.

This story is a bit of a roundabout mess, and it centers upon some initially internet-based rumors about Mark taking over the lead role in the Transformers 4 movie. Michael Bay inititally denied the veracity of the rumors involving Mark’s involvment, but word on the street is that the fourth movie in the franchise would revolve around “an adult star and his teenage child with the idea being that the child would then grow to be the focus of subsequent entries in the series.” Regardless of whether or not Wahlberg is actually involved with the project, it sure sounds like Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky character is being written out of the franchise, doesn’t it? Maybe this has something to do with Shia’s alleged salary demands and assumption that he’s on board for the fourth movie after crapping all over the franchise by saying, “I would just like to make movies about people now” as well as whining about the studio system, right? In an interesting move, Bay has decided to publicly declare that having Wahlberg on board for the T4 lead might not be such a bad idea after all:

Rumors had been swirling around the Internet that Mark Wahlberg was in talks to star in Transformers 4 (a.k.a. Trans4mers), until Michael Bay quickly dismissed them; however, the rumors apparently sparked something in Bay’s part-human, part-robot-alien brain. He writes on his website:

“I had such a great time working with Mark on Pain and Gain, and he gave such a great performance — well let’s say that very internet chatter gave me some ideas. We are at the inception of our story process right now on T4. Let’s say some ideas are gaining traction with me and my writer — so I’m here to say thanks internet chatter.”

So there you go, Internet. You have no one to blame but yourselves for this.

[From Vulture]

Something tells me that ungrateful loudmouth Shia LaBeouf might be soon experience a sharp downward trajectory from his current lofty (and inexplicable) “Hollywood leading man” status. If Bay can easily replace Megan Fox, he can replace Shia in a douche-laden heartbeat too. Watch out, Shia! And get back to spit-polishing Bob Redford’s shoes before he dumps you too.

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These are photos from a few months ago of the premiere of The Company You Keep at the Venice film festival. They’re not really noteworthy except to say that Shia looks gross (as he always does these days) and that he’s obviously thrilled to be hanging on the arm of Robert “Bob” Redford, who apparently feels the same way and will let Shia get away with bar fighting and then welcome him on set with open arms the next day. If I were Shia, I’d make sure I didn’t screw up this professional relationship with “Bob” because it turns out that Steven Spielberg has finally had enough of Shia’s crap.

It turns out that Spielberg has been quietly resenting how Shia publicly rambled on about Spielberg “dropping the ball” in regards to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Of course, Shia had already decided by that time that he was going to go on to rule the world of indie film, so (during the promotion for Lawless) he progressed into ranting about how studios “stick a finger up your ass,” and he claimed to be totally done with blockbusters. Then Shia took a shot at Transformers by saying, “I would just like to make movies about people now,” and “If I could give the money back and get all the credibility in the world that I’m seeking, I would do it tomorrow.” Well of course Shia didn’t mean a damn word of what he was spewing because he’s apparently on board for the fourth Transformers movie, and he’s demanded an $18 million salary as if the franchise should be grateful to have him. In an interesting twist and according to Star, Spielberg has apparently told Shia to stuff it. No raise for him, and if he doesn’t like it, get lost:

Just kidding! Shia LaBeouf is backtracking on his vow to stop making blockbusters. Despite his repeatedly bac-mouthing the Transformers franchise, he is on board for the next flick, Star has learned. Not only that, he wants a $3 million raise from the $15 million paycheck he received for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. But his lips may have cost him!

“It wasn’t lost on producer Steven Spielberg how well The Amazing Spider-Man didwithout Tobey Maguire,” reveals the source. “Besides, special effects are th real star of Transformers. And Steven isn’t about to divert CGI funds to please Shia — he’ll find another actor.

But the 26–year-old is dissing his studio bosses and demanding more money. “Shia complains about the lack of a script but talks like being in the movie is a foregone conclusion.” With all this flip-flopping, maybe he should run for public office!

[From Star, print edition, November 12, 2012]

Shia is so deluded if he thinks he’s indispensible to Hollywood. While it’s true that he should have been thrown out on his ear a few years ago, he ended up outlasting the likes of Megan Fox (who also said some really stupid things, but nothing worse than Shia) because he’s “one of the guys.” Eventually, he’ll get his due, but first, he’ll make us watch him have actual sex first. Gross.

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