• Katie Couric is thisclose to being out at CBS News. Again. [Jossip]
• Jack Black said Brangelina forgave him for spilling the beans about their fetus twins because they didn't want to hold in their secret any longer. Because they were staying quiet against their will? [ICYDK]
• The world can rest easy: Christina Aguilera plans to produce more babies. [INO]
• In a matter of 24 hours, Cameron Diaz has dropped Diddy and is now flirting with Jennifer Aniston's ex. Hollywood is so incestuous. [Us]
• Shia LaBeouf's healthy reasons for taking up acting: "I thought it could bring me security, it could bring me structure, it could bring me my family." [PS]
Shia LaBeouf stopped by the Late Show with David Letterman last night to explain what happened on that fateful night when he was arrested for causing a ruckus at a Chicago Walgreens. We've heard quite a few good drunk stories in our day, but this one is pretty entertaining. He's kind of an ass at times, but he owns up to his actions and for that we applaud him. Also? He uses the term "doo-doo crayon," thus making him forever a winner in our book.
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• Here's Lindsay Lohan's new track, Bossy. Check it out before it's yanked off YouTube, then be all, "'Bossy'? More like sucky!" You genius, you. [INO]
• A Tyra Banks television show has prompted yet another act of violence. Nope, not kidding. [DListed]
• Lots of famous people drank tequila yesterday to celebrate the Mexicans beating the French 150 years ago. Very cultured, obvs. [PS]
• "There’s nothing cool about getting arrested for stupid stuff at my age." -Shia LaBeouf, who will be totally cool when he's arrested for stupid stuff at age 40. [ICYDK]
• Who keeps giving Paris Hilton all these dogs, and why? Doesn't everyone know she kills them by starving them to death? [CityRag]
Coachella banished hippies from this year's festival but still allowed all of these tools to partake in the action. Life isn't fair.
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INDIANA JONES AND THE SELF-INDULGENT COMEBACK "Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount, 5.21) is locked and runs around two hours and twenty-something minutes. Screened for the first time only recently … the final elements will be sent to the printer next week, in part so the subtitled Cannes version can be prepared in time."
A warrant has reportedly been issued for former Disney star Shia LaBeouf after he skipped out on a court appearance today.
Shia was ticketed in Burbank last month for unlawful smoking — a misdemeanor — outside a gift shop. Smoking? Outside a gift shop? That's hardcore.
A court appearance was scheduled for this morning at 8:30, but neither Shia nor his lawyer showed up — so a $1,000 bench warrant has been issued for his arrest.
We appreciate the effort, Shia, but you will never be Britney or Lindsay. It was a great attempt at entertaining us, though. Really. Now go back to Walgreens.
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Here's a cute couple: Rihanna and Chris Brown. The two went public at her surprise 20th birthday party in LA.
After the crowd — including guests Kanye West and Wilmer Valderrama — belted out Happy Birthday, 'Chris stood up and serenaded her with his own version, and she was beaming. He grabbed her when the song was over and kissed her.'
The source adds that aside from Brown's friendly dance-off with Valderrama that night, he and Rihanna 'constantly had their hands all over each other and were rarely apart.'
Remember when Rihanna was dating Shia LeBeouf? That was bizarre. Hopefully she's over that whole Walgreens Rebel stage. Lord knows it took us a few years … and lots of drug store arrests.
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We're going to fess up to getting goosebumps when the theme song kicked in because we trust you'll be as forthcoming.
What a year of decadence and depravity in Hollywood, huh? Throughout the last 12 months, Lindsay Lohan went to rehab and jail, Britney Spears went to rehab, Paris Hilton went to jail, Nicole Richie went to jail, Kiefer Sutherland went to jail, Michelle Rodriguez went to jail and Anna Nicole Smith died.
We'll probably never know for sure exactly what the hell is wrong with these people (we assume it's a combination of too much fame and money and too little education), but we're almost certain their steady decline into mediocrity, criminality and early graves will not cease in 2008. The question is who will falter this year, and in what way.
Here, let us make some predictions:
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People magazine has compiled a grand gallery of pictures of celebrities mid-meal. We think Eva Longoria is eating a Pringle in one photo, and in another Snoop Dogg skewers the largest cut of meat we've ever seen.
While very banal, watching someone eat humanizes them in a way few other acts do. Feast your eyes.
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Onetime bastion of good deeds and morality Shia LaBeouf has finally morphed into the chilly hellion we all knew he could be.
Recently arrested for drunkenly loitering at a Chicago area Walgreens, LaBeouf's latest jaunt into the Hollywood Brat danger zone involved an inebriated flap at LA nightclub Les Deux(che) that ended with his eviction and him demanding, "Do you know who I am?" We think so: Some dick content with being a burnout?
In April, Transformers kid Shia LaBeouf said this: "To not party is part of the plan. I have made a calculated effort to stay away from the party scene because that can have as much impact on your career as your performances." Well it only took that little fibber eight months to not not party; and hard enough to think that creepily loitering around a pharmacy by himself was so fun he should ignore requests to stop.
"Shia LaBeouf was arrested for trespassing early Sunday morning after refusing to leave a Walgreens pharmacy near downtown Chicago.
The actor, 21, reportedly ignored repeated requests from a security guard to leave the store and was taken to the city’s Near North police district around 2:25 a.m. (The guard also filed a complaint against the actor.)
A source tells Us that LaBeouf was partying with friends at Chicago hot spot The Underground shortly before his arrest.
There's that word: "partying."
• Never is the creativity of most Americans better tested than on Halloween. These costumes say more than "ill-fitting." [ICYDK]
• Turds of a feather… [EBG]
• When alcoholism is the least of one's concerns, perhaps one is in poor shape. [DListed]
• Shia LaBeouf finally giving up on all that "I'm not a clubber" jazz to become the drunken kisser you knew he could be. [PS]
• Why more than one swimsuit? [HT]
• Another one bites the mustache. [INO]
• Oxygen masks? Isn't that called living. [Yeeeah]
• Guacamole in a baby's chest cavity? So great. [CityRag]
Last evening, everyone from Samuel L Jackson to Dane Cook (yeesh) turned out for the annual MTV Movie Awards, that glorious time of year when the network transforms itself from being simply a constant commercial for bad pop culture into a vastly more obvious constant commercial for bad pop culture.
Highlights of the evening included very high-minded comedy like a fat guy chasing Sarah Silverman (brilliant!) to Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen kissing (I mean, men kissing—can you believe it?).
The most inexplicable photo grouping of the night must be Chris Tucker, Victoria Beckham and Bruce Willis, whose mere proximity to one another must have led to a completely unnecessary picture. I guess it's up to you to name the star, the has-been and the never-was.
PS Megan Fox, the awe-inducing beauty from Transformers, will be the new "it" girl. I'm calling "it."
There's a lot more pictures after this jump.
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Make way, you spoiled, pilled out babies! There's a new sheriff in town, and even though his name sounds light as a feather, his motivations are weighty. It's Shia LaBeouf!
"When you're putting together a career plan, you have to take into account the potential pitfalls of a career and, in Hollywood, that means partying.
"To not party is part of the plan. I have made a calculated effort to stay away from the party scene because that can have as much impact on your career as your performances. If the industry takes you lightly because you're always partying, then they will take your work lightly as well."
LaBeouf said he's watched other actors his age self-destruct on the party scene, although he declined to mention specific names (but we know who they are).
"Who wants to be around those people?" he asked in typical straight-talking fashion. "Who wants to show up on a set and find someone who's not prepared because they've been partying all night?"
Shia has also said that he got into acting because his family was "broke," and that he currently lets his recovering addict father live in his garage.
Here's where we begin to hope that more and more responsible, goal-oriented people with good ideas will gradually populate Hollywood, thereby raising the bar slowly but surely until all the story lines are going so far over Lohan and Paris' heads they're forced into seclusion with no idea as to how they became obsolete.
Keep your fingers crossed for Shia.
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