Shia LaBeouf, whose appeal has always eluded me, was looking especially scruffy while while he was out and about pumping gas and popping by the post office in Sherman Oaks over the weekend. Of course, I was quick to label this Shia’s Unibomber look, which isn’t entirely off base because he’s currently starring in The Company You Keep as Ben Shepard, a former Weather Underground activist on the run from a journalist played by Robert Redford, who is also directing the movie. If you’ve heard anything at all about the Weather Underground, you’ll know that it was a radical group (mostly active in the 1970s) which aimed to violently overthrow the US government and targeted a number of government buildings in various bombing plots. So the Unibomber beard is part of Shia’s look for the movie, but he’s accessorized it here in his own hipster way by slicking his hair back and tying it off with a green rubber band. I’m not loving it.

Meanwhile, Shia has also been named #16 on GQ’s Stylish men Under 30 list, which says, “Long gone are his days of floppy pants and oversized T-shirts from the set of Even Stevens. Even making beer-runs, he’s dressed with a cooler confidence in his leading-man years.” I’m not putting much stock in this list since Kellan Lutz grabbed the #14 spot, and two Jonas brothers scored top 5 positions. At least they had the decency to leave Ryan Gosling off this list, but he probably would’ve made it too if he weren’t too darn old at age 31. Relatively speaking, of course.

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