You know Shia LaBeouf don’t you? Yeah. He’s that insultingly dim thing that’s like shrink-wrapped ham on legs, waddling around with his film career and floozies. What else does he do?
Oh yeah! He gets in fights in bars! That’s a hoot isn’t it?
What’s even better is that someone’s accused him of threatening to stab someone. STAB! STAB! VENDETTA! VENDETTA! Yup. That’s right. A famous face thinking that no-one will mention it to anyone if he starts offering to slit people’s throats.
You’ve got to pick sides these days. There’s no grey in life anymore, no nuance. It’s black and white. Guilty? Then throw away the key!
A victim? Then everything you say is sacred and righteous. Think the most recent album by x band is okay, but not as good as their last one? No you don’t- you’re a HATER!
Israel vs Palestine. Dawkins vs God. Left vs Right. 0 vs 1. But even in these binary times we’re stumped on where we stand on Harrison Ford vs Shia LaBoeuf .
There is some news that just gets swept under in the grand scheme of things, even if it’s Twittered about and – as we all know – everyone in the world reads that pile of tripe.
Even news about Lucasarts classics being remade and re-released on one of those new-fangled ‘digital distribution’ platforms, called ‘Steam‘, or something, which has suffered in the wake of the news of Michael Jackson‘s death.
Wait – what do you mean Michael Jackson is dead?!
We hadn’t heard. Three hundred times a day. For the last four months.
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For once it would appear that there’s some good news about Shia LaBeouf – both with regards to his mangled hand and his movie career.
In news sure to bring a smile to The Beef’s little face, it turns out that his recent car accident will not result in the amputation of his little finger, as has been reported all over the world of the superstars these last couple of days. While the rumours were rampant that Shia himself had told producers on Transformers 2 that he would have to have his Beef pinky removed, these have been greeted by his rep as being ‘fabricated’ and ‘totally untrue’.
Which is good for him.
What’s good for everyone else in the world, though, is the news that George Lucas has seemingly gone back on his original statement that Shiny McBeef would be the new Indiana Jones. For the first time in what would appear to be an absolute age, Lucas seems to have made ‘the right decision’.
Obviously he followed it up with another bad decision immediately thereafter, but you have to really learn to love those small victories.
George Lucas has come up yet with another plan to convince you to hand over your hard earned money to him.
After he made millions with Indiana Jones 1, he sat down for a while, thought about what to do next and came up with Indiana Jones 2. It worked. But what next? He sat down for a while, thought about what to do next and came up with Indiana Jones 3. Incredible.
How was he to beat that? It wasn’t easy. For twenty years he brooded, furrowing his brow and scratching his little beard, and finally his eureka moment came: Indiana Jones 4.
But, people asked, what about the fact that Indiana Jones will be far too old? Don’t worry, said George, if we make jokey references to it throughout the film no one will care. Wow, he’s good. What next? George says ‘how about Indiana Jones…5, with Shia Labeouf as the lead?’
After weeks of carefully sifting through piles of rubbish, they came across a fossil that they saw as another useless dinosaur, but wait! It’s not just a useless dinosaur; it’s a useless dinosaur with an earring! It must be Harrison Ford. The discovery was confirmed by the presence of a frail skeleton next to the fossil that was classified as ‘the old dinosaur’s girlfriend, Calista Flockhart’.
All of this excitement has prompted the American Archaeological Society to put Harrison Ford on the board of directors. So, we may be a bit fuzzy on the details, but the board of directors thing is for reals.
People love Star Wars and Indiana Jones so much that George Lucas never has to have another original thought for the rest of his life.
And it’s an offer he’s been keen to exploit. This year George Lucas has a new Indiana Jones movie coming out and a new Star Wars movie coming out, plus he’s got a 100-episode Star Wars TV show in the pipeline. And the time has come for George Lucas to spout off about all of this at once.
In a nutshell, then – George Lucas expects everyone to hate Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, doesn’t really seem too fussed with the new Star Wars movie and has compared the TV show to The Wire. Yay! Possibly.
What’s in your wallet? Dunno. What’s in our wallet? Money. That’s right.
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* Online Lego Indiana Jones game (only play on weekdays – you need your weekends)
* Duffy (great singer, foxy and not dead like Amy Winehouse)
* Bulldog toiletries (finally something bathroomy for guys that’s cheap, cool and doesn’t smell like Lynx)
* Hetty (too cute, doesn’t sing)
* Trevor Nelson on Radio 1, Saturdays 7-9pm (accessible if you know nothing about hip-hop/RnB and, surprisingly for Radio 1, not illegal for those over 25)
Creased:
* Jumper (such a big disappointment we threatened to burn down the cinema)
* Having a planned lie-in (it never happens though, does it? You just can’t sleep)
* No Fat Homer figurines (anyone know where to find one of these to brighten up the desk?)
* PS3: not sexy (great machine, lots of fun, some exciting games in the pipeline, but it looks like a prototype Betamax player)
* ‘Your morning coffee will make you look like W.C. Fields’ (hmm, fattening)