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Police announced today that actor Shia LaBeouf was not at fault in the car accident that put him in the hospital and then the clink. The other driver reportedly ran a red light, turning LaBeouf’s car over onto its roof.
Of course, he was still wasted, so that charge hasn’t been dropped.
He also has the cover story for Details magazine’s September issue. In the interview he completed weeks ago, he eerily had this to say about his Walgreens arrest last year:
And the glee with which the mainstream news media, itching for a YOUNG ACTOR FLAMES OUT headline, seized on it led to the end of one of his and his father’s longtime bonding rituals. “We would drink together and smoke together,” LaBeouf says, “and it’s just a bad deal. It’s not something that is conducive to being a role model—no iconic actors that I know of have problems like that. And I don’t know how to do it like a gentleman. I don’t know how to have one drink.”
Yeah, we know.
Intriguingly, being a role model often seems to be on LaBeouf’s agenda:
Back in June, at the premiere of “Surf’s Up,” LaBeouf said he avoided the kinds of troubles other young stars have fallen into by dedicating himself to his work.
“Work is important to me and I treat it important and it’s been good to me,” LaBeouf previously told Access [Hollywood]. “It’s like one of the best relationships I’ve had with anything. It’s been really good to my family so you gotta be good to it. Perception sometimes is more important than performance. If people perceive you as a good actor then they’ll wish for you to be a good actor and they’ll root for you when they watch you but if you come out and you’re going to clubs every night and people don’t root for you anymore.”
He’s not particularly good at it, but at least he’s aware that he’s supposed to behave himself.
Lee Stranahan — author of the 
