Rosie-Huntington Whiteley covers the November issue of German Vogue, and for those who’ve lamented that models (i.e., Gisele “Broccoli” Bundchen) shouldn’t sit for interviews with magazines, you’ll be happy to learn that Rosie does not breathe a word to accompany this photo spread. While I have still rustled up a few stories about her to discuss below, let’s first take a look at the three (?) different covers for this shoot. One features Rosie nude except for a diamond necklace; the next shows only her face; and the third shows her wearing a pretty awesome red leather trenchcoat and nothing else:

Of course, Rosie isn’t just a model but an actress too, and she and her mood lips starred as “the chick” in this summer’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon movie. During the film’s promotion, Rosie hinted that she wanted a sniff of Angelina Jolie’s career. Well, that hasn’t happened yet because a quick peek at her IMDb page reveals that she has absolutely nothing going on in the acting department in either the current or future tense. However, a sketchy source has revealed to the Mirror that “She’s had offers on the table for roles in Hollywood blockbusters – two serious ones. But she doesn’t want to do that. She’s taking her time for the right script to come along and then she’ll take another role on.” So apparently, Rosie is very selective and doesn’t want to taint the illustrious image that she’s so carefully coveted thus far; that is, writhing in front of a wind machine for a Victoria’s Secret lingerie commercial or running with slo-mo boobs in a Michael Bay movie.

Actually, I’m betting that since Rosie arched her back just right for Michael Bay, her next role will probably be in another Transformers movie. Rosie herself has already predicted that Shia will probably relent and sign on for the next one too, but she adds, “He’ll kill me for saying that.” Probably so, and then he just might claim to have hooked up with her on set the next time he’s promoting a movie because, you know, that’s how Shia rolls. Like a douchebag.

Meanwhile, Rosie is still going strong with the ruggedly hunky Jason Statham, whose fans will be crushed to read of rumors that Jason is planning to propose to his lady love: “Jason is besotted with Rosie and wants to settle down. They could be married as soon as next summer – as long as Rosie says yes!” Ugh. While I don’t deny that Rosie has a bod to die for, she seems so … vacant. Could it possibly be true that Jason feels absolutely fulfilled with a pair of legs that are attached to a silly model? Speaking of legs, here are more of Rosie’s stems in various states of undress:

Photos courtesy of Vogue Germany

Shia LaBeouf is no stranger to liquor-soaked, debauched nights. He’s also no stranger to getting his ass kicked. Back in February, Shia got into a bar fight at his local LA pub, where sources said that he and his friends are douchey regulars. To be fair to Shia, most said that he didn’t pick the fight, that he was only reacting to some dude with a chip on his shoulder. Shia later tried to explain what happened (here and here) and said that at the end of the day, only his sexy mom’s opinion matters to him. Well, I wonder what his sexy mom has to say about this? Shia got into another bar fight, this time in Vancouver.

TMZ got video of the incident, which… seems very weird. Apparently, Shia was “punched in the head” repeatedly by a shirtless dude. Sources say that security had kicked both of them out of a bar called the Cinema Public House. Shia has been a regular there while filming The Company You Keep. Here’s the strange video:

Radar has more details about what went down:

The notoriously hot tempered Shia LaBeouf is back to his bad boy ways after getting into a massive bar fight on the streets of Vancouver, Canada, over the weekend, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. The actor managed to get in not one, but three fights in the early hours of Friday morning as he partied solo on the Granville Steet nightclub strip.

According to an eyewitness, Shia, who appeared visibly drunk, just didn’t know when to back down from the fight.

“He got into a confrontation with a couple of people,” the witness said. “He took a few punches to the face. He was obviously pretty intoxicated.”

According to the eyewitness Shia had to pulled away from a bar patron by security when the pair clashed inside the Cinema Public House just after 12:30 a.m.

Shia and the much larger patron exchanged some heated words before security pulled them apart and sent them both packing. However, once outside, the patron — identified only as Mike — spotted Shia waiting for a taxi, ripped off his shirt and unleashed a one sided attack on the star.

Mike ran up to Shia hitting him to the ground with at least three punches to his head before bystanders came to his aid, the witness says.

Then, according to the witness, when another bystander tried to calm down a fuming Shia, the actor once again exploded and had to be restrained.

“The guy had to tell him something like ‘calm down or I’ll have to lay you out’. Then Shia just put his hands up and gave up,” the witness said.

Photos taken over the weekend of Shia on his usual morning coffee run, show a sore and sorry Shia sporting grazes and swelling to his left side of his face.

The 25-year-old actor is currently in Canada to film a political thriller called The Company You Keep.

This is not the first time Shia has found himself in a bar fight. Earlier this year, Shia was handcuffed but later released, after getting into a fight at a bar in Sherman Oaks, CA when a fan took exception to the Transformers star refusing to pose for a photo.

LeBeouf has a history of drunken adventures. He had a DUI arrest in 2007. A year later, he was busted for being openly intoxicated in a Walgreen’s drug store in Chicago, and ended up being charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing.

Of that misadventure, he told David Letterman he was “pretty messed up on the special magic sauce.”

[From Radar]

I don’t know what’s going on with him. I used to like the kid and cut him some breaks, but I think he has issues with alcohol, and I think he gets hyper and aggressive when he drinks. Maybe he’s not the one instigating these fights, but it doesn’t seem like he’s the one backing down and being an adult, either. Plus, he just needs to stop hanging out in bars all the time. Drink at home for a few months, if you really need to drink. Throw a little private party in your hotel room. Don’t mix with the bar dudes who want to tell people, “I punched Shia LaBeouf in the face!”

Photos courtesy of Fame & Pacific Coast News.

Yesterday, Kaiser brought us news of Megan Fox, a.k.a., “Megan 2.0: The Supporting Actress Years,” who has evidently taken some public relations lessons and now speaks quite rationally in terms of waiting to have a baby until she makes more money. In addition, Megan also recently quit her restrictive vegan diet and has subsequently gained a few pounds, which makes her look a lot more human. Here’s a question though — why would a vegan have ever claimed to eat red velvet cake every night before bed? Sure, maybe it’s an adapted “vegan” recipe, but Megan has also said that she’ll starve to death before cooking for herself, so I imagine that her version of veganism was a lot of raw food and, basically, not eating much at all. Why am I even bothering to question Fox’s words? It’s not that I think Megan Fox is a liar, but I do believe that she has a history of making sh*t up in interviews (like when she claimed to be “OCD”), and that’s hard to forget. She probably didn’t say all that wacky stuff out of any malicious intent, but I have a hunch that she’s probably socially awkward to a degree and resorted to making things up to sound more entertaining during interviews.

At any rate, Megan is trying to revamp her reputation in the industry, so during her TIFF promotional duties for Friends With Kids, Fox sat down with Moviefone to discuss her relief at not only trying her hand at ensemble comedy but also playing a character who is “not a jerk” and is “more human” than those she’s taken on before. She also expresses concern that people view her as “a robot,” but that impression might be less about her previous roles and more about her botoxed, Photoshopped face. Just saying.

Speaking of humanization, a strange thing happened during the recent promotion for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon; that is, the boorish behavior of Michael Bay and Shia LeBeouf, which was geared towards promoting the film at the expense of humiliating Megan, actually caused a lot of people to feel sorry for her. Yes, she deserved to be fired for badmouthing Bay in the press, but she didn’t deserve the promotional mudslinging from Bay. She also didn’t deserve to be called a Spice Girl feminist by Shia, nor did he have any right to expose their prior hookup(s) in a Details interview. However upset that Megan might have been about all of this “Boys Club” behavior, she kept her mouth shut in an unprecedented display of restraint. Now, Megan tells Moviefone what she was really thinking during that whole mess:

On Why She Didn’t Defend Herself Against Shia’s Words: I didn’t want to talk about it while they’re on the press tour because I didn’t want to try to throw mud at them. I didn’t want that movie to suffer. Especially because I love Shia. I wanted that movie to do well for him. I didn’t want to have this big media war over something that really was so silly and it would have just been my ego needing to engage in a war, at that point. Of course, there will be a time when I want to tell my side of the story. I just don’t feel it was appropriate while they were promoting the movie. Like, “She’s trying to take away from the movie.” So it was best to let them say what they were going to say. It’s fine.

On Watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon: I haven’t seen it yet, but I will see it. I mean, if they hadn’t been hitting me so hard on the press tour, I would have gone to the theater. But I felt like that would have been a disaster: Me sitting with a packed theater of people watching the movie. So I didn’t go. I mean, I have nothing against watching it. And I love Shia to death; I love him unconditionally. And I love that crew. I’m really close to the hair, makeup and wardrobe that made that movie. I want to see it for them. I know it looked amazing in the trailer. Out of all three trailers, that was the trailer that I was like, “Wow, sh*t, this is a huge movie.” So I think it will be an interesting, fun thing to watch, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

On Her Past Interviews: That’s sort of the most … like the feeling of betrayal — that you have as a celebrity or an actor or entertainer — I think comes from meeting with journalists and feeling like, Hey, I had a good conversation with you, then you read the article and it’s like, Wow! Well, that’s not the angle that I thought you were going to take. You need to sell this magazine, I understand, but, sh*t, I just didn’t realize it was going to go in that direction. So you have to become a little bit jaded with press in that sense. You have to just guard yourself, because you never know what people are going to do. Like I said, I used to have a lot of fun in interviews — I’d be playful, I’d be sarcastic. But there’s too much room for someone to take what I was saying and cut it up, rearrange it, and throw it on “Extra.” It’s insane. You have to be really strong. You have to just shut yourself off to the criticism at some point.

On Being “More Human” In Friends With Kids: I just think the idea is that because most of the way that people have seen me, it’s the glorified pin-up girl with motorcycle boots who is also fighting to save the world. It’s not necessarily someone who you connect with because they’re not real people necessarily who exist like that — the glossy lips in the middle of the desert. In Jennifer’s Body I was this crazy — it’s this wonderful Diablo Cody script, but it’s so kooky and so weird and I was eating people. It’s just a very strange movie. You don’t necessarily see the human side of whoever is playing that person. And I just think the media, in general, I just don’t really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic. Or I sort of am portrayed as this — I feel — like a self-absorbed ice queen. Maybe. And I think the people who see me in a role that allows me to be more human — I don’t know another word to use to describe it — is why people are saying it’s a good move to have done.

For the most part I’m really strong with how much bullsh*t I had piled upon me for so long. But, you know, I care about people. I care about my life and I love people. I’m not this robot. I feel people think I’m almost like a robot — like an android. And that I’m all about me and my thoughts are all about me. That I want to be famous. I know one thing I’ve heard a lot is, “Does she say the things that she says because she wants attention? It’s attention-seeking.” But I always felt like, if that were the case, wouldn’t I display some sort of attention-seeking behavior, which I’ve never done. I’ve always tried to live a really normal, private, quiet life. So I just think I’ve always really allowed room for the media to sort of chop my words and put their own narrative on it and create this salacious sound bite that goes everywhere. And because of that I feel like people just have no idea what I’m like or who I am. I feel like it’s a mystery. Which is OK. It could be a good thing. But obviously there are times when you struggle with it because being misunderstood 90 percent of the time is difficult because you want to clarify. But you deal with it.

[From Moviefone]

Yes, Megan’s getting some good PR advice right now, and it’s flowing into this interview. She sounds more mature than ever before, and I hope the trend continues. She very nearly almost slipped up while talking about her role in Jennifer’s Body but redeemed herself by praising Diablo Cody’s script. So Megan is steadily learning to play the Hollywood game, which at least gives her some promise towards not messing up any possible goodwill that she might earn in these ensemble comedies that she’s got going on right now. Hopefully, her role in The Dictator with Sacha Baron Cohen will take her a few places as well. Of course, I admit that I’m secretly rooting for Megan Fox not so much for herself but because it would be nice to watch Michael Bay eat his words someday too. After all, something needs to take that douchebag down someday.

Photos courtesy of WENN and AllMoviePhoto

Shia LaBeouf’s mother is the sexiest woman ever. He’s said so. A few years ago, Shia told Playboy that his mom is “probably the sexiest woman I know… She’s an ethereal angel. Nobody looks like that woman. If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.” Shia’s mom is the nice lady in the photo above. Just FYI. Anyway, Shia later had to backtrack just a bit and clarify that he is NOT currently having sex with his mom. But the Enquirer has an interesting story about what Shia is giving his mom access to – his back account.

Shia LaBeouf’s mom controls his purse strings – and Shia’s girlfriend is fed up with his mama’s boy ways. Shia has earned millions starring in the Transformers franchise and other films, but he doesn’t spend it unless his mother Shayna approves.

“Shia’s a huge movie star – but he’s not the big spender he’d like to be,” a source told the Enquirer. “Shayna has complete control over Shia’s finances, and he has to ask her what he can buy and can’t buy.”

Insiders say Shayna’s goal is to keep her son grounded – and so far, Shia has obliged her demands. Recently, he told pals he wanted to buy a Porsche but he “knows his mom would freak,” says the insider.

Shayna, 68, also has concerns about Shia’s ability to make responsible decisions, the source added. But Shayna’s tight grip on Shia’s finances isn’t sitting well with his girlfriend of seven months, Karolyn Pho, says the source.

“Shia and Karolyn have become pretty serious, but they’ve hit a roadblock because she feels he’s too much of a mama’s boy,” the source revealed. “Karolyn has told Shia that she is annoyed with Shayna for interfering with his finances. She wants Shia to step up and show her that he truly wears the pants in the relationship.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

I understand the idea of a mom looking out for her son and actively participating in how he manages his money, but Shia is 25 years old. It’s past time for him to learn how to manage his own finances and spend his money on what he wants. Granted, I think if Shia had control over all of his money, it would be a mess. He would probably be like a mini-Charlie Sheen. But he’s a legal adult, and that’s the way it goes. Maybe instead of babying him, his sexy mom could force him to take a class in personal finances?

The photos below are from last night – Shia and his girlfriend out with Marilyn Manson. Shia and Marilyn are working together on a book of photography and a short film about photography or something. It sounds very pretentious and hipster-douchey, and you can read about it here. Shia is giving me major James Franco vibes.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Shia LaBeouf has issues. We’ve documented those issues from time to time, but it’s always difficult for me to subscribe some nasty motive to Shia – by most accounts, he’s very professional, he’s nice to his fans, and in interviews, he seems intelligent, interesting and humble. Maybe it’s all just an act, or maybe he just turns into a monster when he’s drinking. And he’s a big drinker too – I suspect he’s an alcoholic, and in the years to come, I do see a stint in rehab for him. Anyway, Shia + alcohol = mess, forever and always. This is the latest story, via Life & Style:

Onlookers at an LA party were concerned for Shia LaBeouf last night after the actor exhibited some very strange behavior.

The Transformers star had what one witness tells Life & Style seemed to be “a public meltdown,” spitting water over his date and rocker Marilyn Manson before charging through the crowd to the exit.

At the Aug. 26 (BELVEDERE) RED at The Box party, the witness tells Life & Style, “Shia picked up a water bottle and shot a mouthful of water all over his seated date’s legs.

“Then he put more water in his mouth and started spitting it all over his tablemates, including Marilyn Manson. He seemed wasted.”

But according to the witness, neither his date, his friends nor Marilyn could calm Shia down — even after Marilyn offered a fist bump, as if to say everything was fine.

“People started taking their seats in front of the stage at the event, but all of a sudden Shia started shouting at his date and getting visibly angry,” the eyewitness tells Life & Style. Then he headed for the door. “He lunged through the very thick seated crowd, and the crowd pleaded with him and encouraged him to sit down. They tried to hold him back — but he kept struggling through.”

And the audience at the event got more than just the show it came to see. “Shia had to climb over people and tear himself out of the grasp of various strangers who were trying to keep him from going crazy,” the eyewitness says. “His date panicked and ran out after him. Marilyn looked shocked and annoyed but stayed seated. Shia and the girl did not return.”

“It was so insane — he just had a total meltdown right in front of everyone,” the eyewitness tells Life & Style. “It was completely out of control. He was so angry and physical. He was determined to get out of there.”

[From Life & Style]

So… wait, what? He was blitzed out of his skull, he spit water on his date (“water”), he started yelling at people, and then he wanted to leave and people were holding him back? Why were people holding him back? If a drunk, belligerent jag wants to leave a place, let him. Don’t lay hands on him. That’s a good way to lose a hand.

But yeah… sounds like a d-bag move, and it sounds like he was wasted. What else is there to say?

Here’s a photo of Shia with his confirmed girlfriend Karolyn Pho – I don’t know if Pho was the chick with him at The Box.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last month, Shia LaBeouf admitted in a Details cover story that he and Megan Fox had some kind of affair while they were working together on one (or perhaps both) of the first two Transformers films. At some point, people were like, “Um, wasn’t Megan Fox still with Brian Austin Green when the Shia stuff went down?” To which some well-placed “source” went to Us Weekly and claimed that at the time of Shia and Megan’s hookup, Megan and BAG were on a break. Nevermind that Shia never detailed the exact time frame of his affair with Megan… or that Megan and BAG’s relationship, while at times off-and-on, seemed pretty “on” for most of the Transformers time frames. Nevermind that last year, when Brian was asked about the “off” periods in his relationship with Megan, Brian replied: “We’ve been together for six years. Find a picture of one of us with any other boyfriend or girlfriend—I challenge you. You’ll only find pictures of her doing press with Shia LaBeouf or me with my son. That’s it. We never once dated anyone else or did anything else.”

So, it’s looking more and more like Megan has some explaining to do to her husband. Thus, this story from OK! Magazine/Hollywood Life – Megan is holding on to her story that she and BAG were on a break BUT she’s still really pissed off at Shia. For why?

Shia LaBeouf admitted to hooking up with Megan Fox while she was on a break from Brian Austin Green and the couple isn’t happy he’s blabbing about it!

Although Shia LaBeouf is basking in the glory of the multi-million dollar blockbuster Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he is not on good terms with his former Transformers star, Megan Fox, and her husband, Brian Austin Green, after revealing he hooked up with Megan while she and her soon-to-be husband were taking a break! Now OK! Magazine reports that the couple are fighting to save their marriage — at the expense of Shia’s friendship.

Megan and Brian have been dating on and off since 2004, however finally tied the knot in a discrete ceremony just one year ago. The couple took a break during Megan’s filming of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in 2008 — the same time when Shia recently admitted to engaging in a physical relationship with his co-star.

“Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them…but the time I spent with Megan was our own thing…” LaBeouf reveals in the August issue of Details magazine.

Though now, OK! Magazine reports that Megan and Brian are desperately trying to save their marriage.

“He has really upset Megan and Brian,” a close source explains. “They went through an incredibly rocky period when she and Shia were filming Transofmers: Revenge of the Fallen…having Shia run his mouth now and brag about sleeping with Megan is awful for them.”

Though was it really cheating? “…technically [Megan] didn’t do anything wrong since they were on break. [Still], they are so angry at Shia.” We hope this love triangle dies out very soon!

[From Hollywood Life]

Is it possible that Megan and BAG were on a break, and that’s when she and Shia boned, and Megan is just apologetic and upset because her former (secret) lover told the world that they boned in a most ungentlemanly fashion? Of course. But I still don’t know why that BAG quote from last year isn’t getting more play, and I think that whether or not there was technically a “break” somewhere in there and Megan is completely blameless, in BAG’s mind, he was Megan’s only love and he had no idea about Shia.

Now, will this whole scandal put a crimp in their marriage, long-term? I don’t know. After staying quiet and low-profile throughout the Transformers publicity tour in which her name was constantly being mentioned, Megan has come out of hiding with a series of public moves. There was that completely weird Facebook-Botox thing, and now here are some “candids” from the set of The Dictator, in which Megan has a small part (photos of Megan in blue). I’m not sure what she’s doing, but it’s interesting.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

It was never a question of what movie would end up in the #1 position at the box office over the holiday weekend but only how high the numbers would go. In this case, Transformers: Dark of the Moon made $97.4 million for a five-day total of $162.1 million over the lengthy holiday weekend; in doing so, T3 has effectively broken the Independence Day weekend record that was previously held by the likes of Spider-Man 2, which (consequently) is now only semi-memorable for the moment when Kirsten Dunst nipped out while screaming for Tobey Maguire to rescue her damsel-in-distress self from certain demise.

Of course, Transformers 3 was exactly the type of mindless movie that everyone hoped it would be, and it even threw in a few anti-Megan Fox jokes for the benefit of all fans of The Oral History of Michael Bay; that is, if there are any Bay fans at all who don’t just go for the explosions. Certainly, Bay had a hand in the fact that Sam Witwicky’s (Shia LeBeouf) pet robots made explicit mention that his ex-girlfriend, Michaela (Fox), was super mean to them, which resulted in the robots’ declaration that they’re incredibly happy that she was no longer present in their lives (and, by extension, the franchise’s third installment). Yeah, keep stoking that fire, Bay, and stroking your own dong in the process.

Paramount’s latest Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is the giant #1 movie after opening with some 3D-only nighttime sneaks on Tuesday ($5.5M), followed by a full release into 4,013 theaters on Wednesday ($37.7M) and Thursday ($21.4M). Now Friday brings in a big $32.8M, and Saturday $34M. As of Friday, that’s still -24% behind 2009′s Transformers 2 ($98M vs $128M) despite TF3‘s higher 3D ticket prices. Michael Bay’s robot actioner should near $100M domestic this three-day weekend, and $180M through the Fourth of July. “We expected to start behind the last one,” a Paramount exec tells me. “This one has an ‘A’ CinemaScore and better reviews, so it should play to a better multiple.”

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon could break these July 4th holiday box office records: 3-DAY RECORD (bettering Spider-Man 2‘s $88.2M); 4-DAY RECORD (bettering Spider-Man 2′s $115.8M), 5-DAY RECORD (bettering Twilight Saga: Eclipse‘s $157.6M).

[From Deadline]

In second place was Cars 2, which added an additional $25.1 million for a total of $116.0 million after two weekend. In third place (and also in its second weekend) was Bad Teacher, which paired Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in a raunchy R-rated comedy with $14.1 million for a total of $59.5 million. Besides the latest Tranformers flick, there were two other openers this weekend. One of them, Larry Crowne, landed in fourth place with a measly $13.0 million, which is positively abysmal considering that the movie starred two A-listers, Tom Hanks and Julia “Bitchface” Roberts (perhaps she’ll have slightly better luck with that ill-fated Snow White reboot). In fifth place, Monte Carlo took in merely $7.6 million, which solidifies the fact that getting one’s toes rubbed by Justin Bieber has done absolutely nothing for Selena Gomez’s big-time Hollywood feature film career.

Movie stills/posters courtesy of AllMoviePhoto

A few days ago, Details Magazine released their cover profile on Shia LaBeouf, and I have to say, they buried the lead. We get press releases from Details, and when we were sent the info on Shia’s cover, there was no blaring “BREAKING NEWS” alert that he was talking about how he and Megan Fox had some kind of affair/hookup on the set of one (both?) of the Transformers films. My point: Details buried the lead. I still love them and everything, but give us a giant “MEDIA ALERT” please. Anyway, if you’d like to review our coverage of Shia’s interview, go here. He confirmed something I suspected long ago: that he and Megan had something going on for a while, although Shia makes it sound like it was just an on-set hookup.

Anyway, Us Weekly has an interesting piece about the timeline of it – the hookup could have happened while Megan was still technically dating Brian Austin Green, and thus far, Megan hasn’t released any statements about Shia’s interview… directly. I think this may have originated from Team Fox though:

Yep, it’s true. In an instantly viral Details interview, Shia LaBeouf spoke at length about a supposed onset fling with Megan Fox, his former costar in the first two Transformers flicks.

“Yes, Megan and Shia hooked up,” a set source confirms to Us Weekly. In his Details chat, LaBeouf, 25, sputtered when asked if Fox was then involved with her now-husband Brian Austin Green during their tryst (he repeated “I don’t know” 12 times).

But the kissing costars are in the clear, the source says. “It was when Megan and Brian broke up,” the source explains. “They had a 10-month break before getting back together.” (Indeed, Fox and Green, 36, did have a break of nearly a year before reuniting and eventually tying the knot in June 2010.)

“[Shia and Megan] bonded while filming,” the source explains of the epic shoot, which was worsened by director Michael Bay’s rumored temper. “Believe me, that was an unhappy set. I think they were drawn together because it was so ugly working on that film.”

Although Bay has said that Fox was fired (at Steven Spielberg’s demand) from the flicks for public comments she made about him, “she was never fired,” the source insists. “She said enough was enough and quit.”

[From Us Weekly]

When pressed for specifics about this ten-month breakup, like when it began and when it ended, Megan’s rep looked at me blankly and then said, “Uh… I don’t know, when did Shia say he boned Megan? Go with that.”

And as for Brian Austin Green and what he thinks about all of this… am I the only one who remembers HIS interview in Details Magazine last year? Here’s the relevant portion:

Details: Your relationship [with Megan] was often described as on-again, off-again.
Brian Austin Green: We’ve been together for six years. Find a picture of one of us with any other boyfriend or girlfriend—I challenge you. You’ll only find pictures of her doing press with Shia LaBeouf or me with my son. That’s it. We never once dated anyone else or did anything else.

[From Details Magazine, October 2010 issue]

Fascinating. And it’s especially interesting that he name-checked Shia, right. But that was just “going press” – that’s probably what Megan said. Shia LaBeouf is totally a homewrecker.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

For whatever reason — and I’m thinking that Paramount must have paid handsomely for this service in light of the impending release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon — GQ has published a so-called complete “oral history” of Michael Bay. Kaiser already covered the Megan Fox stuff, but GQ has finally presented its audience with the entire eight-page almanac, which is positively epic in its sweeping vision of douchetasticness and purports to “reveal the secret genius behind a true Hollywood visionary.”

Within this article, more than sixty people chime in to lend their support to “the most underappreciated man in show business.” Included in this ass-kissing plethora are fellow directors, producers, actors, and Bay’s mommy, all of whom are engaged in a quasi-heroic effort to both mythologize and humanize Bay. Here are a few highlights:

On Bay’s Directing “Style”

Ben Affleck: I think Michael is actually an auteur in the true sense of the word. Every movie he makes reflects his personal creative vision. You may like it, you may not–but those movies are him without compromise. There’s something to be said for sticking to your guns.

Steven Spielberg: He has the best eye for multiple levels of pure visual adrenaline.

John Turturro: He likes blowing things up

George Lucas: Michael’s films are immediately identifiable.

Ehren Kruger (screenwriter): He’s like this cross between General Patton and Willy Wonka. He’s in command of a massive army, all in the effort to create the ultimate Everlasting Gobstopper.

Michael Bay: I’m, like, a true American.

A true American, really? That’s not even worth arguing over, so now let’s travel back to Bay’s (not so) humble beginnings:

On Bay’s Early Work Directing Music Videos:
Bay: This guy called me in from Capitol Records–he was a hard-ass marine, kinda scary in the meeting. He said, “If you can wrap this Donny Osmond video up for $165,000…” Meanwhile, I’m like two weeks out of school. The most I’ve ever spent is $5,000. I ended up getting paid $500. But I got to make my first thing.

Harriet Bay: I remember going out to watch him shoot it. It was in the Mojave desert, and there’s like 200 people. It’s this big deal. It was so exotic. It was the first time he got to use a helicopter. And he whispers in my ear, “Mom, can you believe I’m getting paid to do this?”

Fuller: The first time I saw Michael on a bigger set, he was doing a video, and there was the hottest blonde girl I’ve ever seen in my life, and she’s got a wind machine on her. She’s dancing, she looks hot, she’s wearing a short skirt. He’s shooting her from a low angle. And he looked at a few of us, and there was this look in his eyes, like he had reached nirvana. It was childlike wonderment.

Scott Gardenhour (producer): There was no question Michael would go on to do other things, and that they wouldn’t be small.

Bay: I had gotten movie offers and turned them down. I took my time. They sent me Saving Private Ryan, but I wouldn’t have known what to do with it.

Oh man, can you imagine what a sh-tstorm Saving Private Ryan would have been with Bay at the helm? Perish the thought.

On Why He Was The Go-To Director For Transformers

Adam Goodman (President, Paramount): Transformers are essentially cars that change into robots, and who better at shooting cars than Michael Bay?

Spielberg: I couldn’t think of a better director to turn a truck into a robot and make us believe it was really happening.

Bay: I thought it was a dumb idea.

Josh Duhamel: Michael poked his head [into a meeting] to say hello and started telling me about his next project, a movie called Transformers. And I go “Transformers? Like the cartoon from the ’80s?” and he’s like “Yeah, yeah,” and he’s all excited about it. And I was thinking, This is the worst idea ever.

Alex Kurtzman (screenwriter): It’s about a boy who’s really obsessed with getting a car. That’s when we saw Michael’s eyes light up like he was a 12-year-old again.

Shia LaBeouf: When I met Mike, I was a seventeen-year-old boy. He was my f&*#king god.

Finally, let us not forget that Bay is not just a directing machine but also flesh and blood.

On Michael Bay, Ladies Man

LaBeouf: I’ve only seen Mike with two women in the six years that I’ve known him. He wants a family and has the heart for it.

Roger Barton (editor): My wife tries to limit my outings with him.

Jon Voight: He has his girlfriends, all of that stuff. He’s an active guy with his gals.

Bay: Well, it was only two [blonds]. But that was two in a row. Normally I don’t go out with blonds.

Harriet Bay: I said, “Oh, Michael, I guess you’re going to be like Warren Beatty. He didn’t get married until he was fifty.” So Michael feels he’s got three more years to go.

Bay: It’s about finding a wife. I’ve had a lot of great girlfriends.

White: I just can’t see him with somebody over 35.

Bay: I’m a serious guy, but I don’t take myself so seriously. Some people are so serious. The persona comes from…I’m a frank guy.

John Malkovich: You know, it’s an incredible amount of pressure. And sure, somebody could say “He’s a junkie for that,” or “He likes the authority,” but I always think, God, that must be so lonely.

Shia LaBeouf: Mike is a vulnerable guy. He’s the guy who laughs at a joke, then asks you why it’s funny.

Scarlett Johansson: I ran into him leaving a party once and asked him if I could be the Easy-Bake Oven Transformer. He looked at me in all seriousness and said, “There isn’t one.”

[From GQ]

The article then goes on for several more miles of unbelievable buttkissing from all angles. While this may seem like a lot of excerpting, believe me when I say that it doesn’t even scratch the surface. If you have the stomach for it (not to mention an excess of free time), the rest of the article will figuratively “blow” your mind in its blatant disregard for any reality outside of explosions and slo-mo running sequences. There is, however, an interesting tidbit about why Bay feels that he really made Will Smith the movie star that he is today because of Bad Boys. While that may or may not be true, one thing is for certain: Michael Bay really is King of the Dipsh-ts. And he might very well be the guy with the pretty blonde dangling from his arm, but there’s no question to the fact that she was paid to be there.

Photos courtesy of Fame Pictures

I can’t help it – sometimes I find Shia LaBeouf very attractive. Not in a “I must have the Fassbender RIGHT NOW” kind of attractive, but sometimes Shia looks kind of dirty and sexy, and I could totally see getting drunk with him and bringing him home. He’s the cover boy for the August issue of Details, and some of these photos are… nice. You can see the slideshow here. His scruffy facial hair is working, his arms look good, he’s kind of dirty and sweaty, and YES, I have issues with men. Don’t even start. Anyway, the Details piece is called “Hollywood’s Last Bad Boy” – er… but it’s a decent read. Shia usually gives a decent interview. Here are some highlights:

On his reported bar fight: “I’m at a bar, trying to be with my friends,” he begins, still a little peeved several months after the night in question, “and a dude comes up to me and says he wants a photograph, and I say no.” He’s talking about the widely reported incident at Mad Bull’s Tavern in Sherman Oaks in February that ended with one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars chilling on the curb in handcuffs. “Then he comes up with his girlfriend and says it’s for her, and I say, ‘Actually, I’m a little topsy-turvy, man. Can I not?’”

On his lack of diplomacy: “I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic,” the 25-year-old star concedes. “I just don’t have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. My bullsh-t meter is tuned very sensitive. The minute it starts kicking up, I get back to truth, and sometimes that involves, you know, ‘I don’t want to take a picture.’ And if that’s the case, am I an a–hole for being honest? Or am I an a–hole for being dishonest, smiling in your picture and I f–king hate being there? Which one is worse? These are the questions I ask myself that George Clooney doesn’t ask.”

How he is, one on one: LaBeouf is good company, garrulous and intense, with an appealing touch of the angry young man about him. He spits constantly when he’s outside (“I have a wet mouth”) and is given to reciting poetry, reading me Charles Bukowski’s “Bluebird” and “B as in Bullsh-t” off his iPhone. He drives an enormous black Silverado pickup and a Thruxton Triumph 900 motorcycle, carries a folding Kershaw knife, and displays a Holden Caulfield—esque allergy to phoniness that makes one wonder how he can stand Hollywood at all.

Fan favorites: “This is not to be comparing myself to DiCaprio, but I remember the hatred for him when every girl I liked wanted to . . .” He pauses. “It’s not extraordinary envy, like Robert Pattinson fan-worship shit, but I do feel animosity from men. They feel like they want to challenge me. ‘I just f–ked up Shia LaBeouf!’ It’s a story you can tell, and I guess you’re cool for it.”

His torrid past: There was that time he rolled his truck while “philandering around,” as he says, with his Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen costar Isabel Lucas (then in a relationship with Entourage’s Adrien Grenier). “It was sort of disastrous,” LaBeouf says. “Neither one of us, I think, were in love. Just sort of experimenting or whatever.” Technically the accident—in which LaBeouf’s car flipped three times, pinning his arm and leaving his hand mangled—was the other driver’s fault. But LaBeouf admits he’d had “three or four” beers a few hours before getting behind the wheel. Then there was the time he pulled his knife on a guy who’d gotten into a traffic beef with his mom, and the well-documented altercation with a security guard in a Chicago Walgreens. The misadventures that didn’t make the papers, he says, are legion—including the day a few years back when he and Megan Fox were at a Taco Bell and the cashier made a rude comment to her and LaBeouf wound up going behind the register and whaling on the guy… LaBeouf proceeds to offer up so many noteworthy yarns—his near blinding when a spike punctured his eye socket while he was filming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (after 20 stitches, he returned to the set and “they shot from the other side,” he says); his ill-fated sushi dinner with Hilary Duff (“probably the worst date either of us has ever had”); his backstage throwdown with Tom Hardy after a joke gone awry (“He never did that roughhouse stuff with me again”)—that I suggest he write a book. He laughs. “Nah, dude. People write books about important sh-t.”

Harrison Ford on Shia‘s criticism of the last Indiana Jones film: “I think I told him he was a f-cking idiot,” the famously reticent star says. “As an actor, I think it’s my obligation to support the film without making a complete ass of myself. Shia is ambitious, attentive, and talented—and he’s learning how to deal with a situation which is very unique and difficult.”

On hooking up with Megan Fox: Asked if he hooked up with Fox, LaBeouf nods affirmatively. “Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them,” he explains. “I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry onscreen.” When I inquire about Fox’s status at the time with her longtime boyfriend, Brian Austin Green, LaBeouf replies, “I don’t know, man. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. . . .”—repeating the phrase exactly 12 times with various intonations, as if trying to get it just right. Finally, he says, “It was what it was.”

[From Details]

OH DAMN. That Megan Fox thing is interesting, right? She and Brian Austin Green did break up a few times – allegedly, reportedly – and during the last Transformers film, it was widely believed that Megan and Shia were hooking up, but this is the first time either has ever confirmed it.

As for the rest of the interview – it’s a good read, like always. Shia is, I think, in essence, a hustler, a grifter, a born bullsh-tter. He loves to brawl and drink and tell tall tales about his shenanigans. After I read one of his interviews, I always like him more, but then I forget about it once he gets into another liquor-soaked fight.

Photos courtesy of Details and WENN.