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Shia LaBeouf has had a rough last couple of weeks.
Allegations of plagiarism, public brawling and some high profile Twitter
feuds. Here's everything you could ever want to know about
it all. Starting off with something you probably didn't want
to know, how's this for a headshot. The actor just
revealed he sent a picture of his *** to director
Lars Von Trier to land a starring role in the
drama Nymphomaniac Volume -One and Two. -My first-- the first
request on their-- on the production, and nothing large but
from production was pictures of my ***. -Not quite the
audition he joked about last year. -I sent them a
video tape of me and my girlfriend having sex and
that's how I got my job. -Sex, pictures of his
***, and then there's the more serious P word, plagiarism.
An amateur short film LaBeouf released lifted from a Daniel
Clowes comic without credit which resulted in this apology tweet--
an apology which bizarrely looked awfully similar to this Yahoo
Answers' definition of plagiarism. So, the actor maybe plagiarized an
apology for plagiarizing and then, followed up with this bizarre
sky-written apology over Los Angeles. It tops sending flowers-- we'll
give him that. Clowes by the way lives in the
bay area so he wouldn't have even seen that apology.
But what's more, LaBeouf's various subsequent Twitter apologies and yes
there were several sent to Clowes were apparently inspired by
different people. One apology tweet had the phrase, "I wish
I hadn't made so many of you angry." Exact words
from a Mark Zuckerberg apology in 2006. Another apology tweet
mirrored even the spelling of a 2012 apology from UK
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. One from earlier this month
looked exactly like one from rapper Gucci Mane-- makes you
wonder if the whole thing is some kind of joke
but then, LaBeouf ups the antic even more, he tweeted
this. What he called a storyboard for his next short
"Daniel Boring" A similar name and seemingly concept as, of
course, yet another Daniel Clowes work. Needless to say Clowes
is considering legal action against the star but LaBeouf is
not backing down. Also Wednesday, he posted pictures of a
Cease and Desist letter from Clowes' lawyers who called LaBeouf,
"seriously out of control." No word yet on whether LaBeouf
responded by calling the lawyers, "seriously out of control." For
TIME, I'm Lauren Zima.