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August 7th, 2008 | 
Author: star magazine claim : Doctors have told Shia LaBeouf they may have to amputate one of his injured fingers, Star has learned exclusively.
The young star, now working on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is likely to lose the pinky on his left hand, a source on the movie set says.
“Shia called producers yesterday and told them,” the source on the set in Alamogordo, N.M. says. “It’s really thrown the movie into turmoil.”
Shia, 21, mangled his hand when his SUV rolled over twice in a July 27 accident in West Hollywood. He was cited for DUI although cops say they do not believe the accident was his fault.
A request for comment from Shia’s rep was not answered at press time.
it has now been learned that this claim is false. Shia is not facing this procedure , as it is unneccesary. If any other word is heard on this subject , we’ll keep you informed.
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I can’t find the mag where I live , so These are credited to shialabeoufdaily . the article is good and the pictures are great…. he looks hot as hell!
10 scans in total – view album
Shia Labeouf is likely to attempt to beat a drink driving conviction by checking into rehab.
The Transformers star suffered serious hand injuries and was charged with driving under the influence after a serious car crash in Hollywood on 27 July.
Investigators have ruled the other driver caused the accident by running a red light, but LaBeouf is still facing a sentence for drink driving when he appears in court later this month.
And he’s prepared to do anything to help his cause, according to the New York Post.
The newspaper claims LaBeouf is readying himself for rehab because “judges like to see it (rehab)”.
A spokesperson for the actor – who checked out of hospital on Saturday – declined to comment on the allegations, adding: “Right now, we’re focusing on Shia’s hand.”
past May, two weeks before “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” opened worldwide, George Lucas told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival that he already had an idea for a possible “Indiana Jones V,” and that it centered, not on Dr. Henry Jones, but on his son, Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf).
Three knife-flipping, tree-swinging, accident having months later and that idea? It’s kind of, well, “Nuked the Fridge,” Lucas told MTV News.
Asked whether he still considered Mutt Williams a strong enough character to drive an “Indiana Jones” film, Lucas was adamant that Indy just isn’t Indy without Indy. Or, to put it another way: No.
“Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones,” Lucas said, dismissively adding about a character he helped create that, “If it was Mutt Williams it would be ‘Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis’ or something.”
It’s unclear what changed Lucas’s mind about the character, or whether he would necessarily return at all – even in a sidekick capacity. That said, “The Search for Elvis” is hilarious.
Of course, talk of an eventual “Indiana Jones V” is something of a giant hypothetical anyway, even as Lucas continued to stroke the fire of anticipation at his Big Rock Ranch near San Francisco, insisting that work IS being done to find a suitable object for another installment.
“We ARE looking for something for him to go after,” Lucas said. “They are very hard to find. It’s like archeology. It takes a huge amount of research to come up with something that will fit.”
Shia LaBeouf shows off the extensive injures to his left hand while taking a quick smoke break outside a hospital in Los Angeles on Thursday. He still has blood stains on his jeans!
This past Sunday, the 22-year-old actor was arrested for suspicion of a DUI misdemeanor after a collision that resulted in his truck flipping upside down.
Shia’s boss, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen director Michael Bay opened up to Access Hollywood about the situation. Here’s what he had to say:
On Shia being sober during the time of the incident: “He was not drunk. He was drinking hours and hours before.
His passenger and Transformers co-star Isabel Lucas (not pictured) walked away with minor injuries, as did the passengers in the other car.
On writing in Shia’s injury into the movie: “I spoke to him yesterday in the hospital. His two fingers are pretty mashed, but we’re figuring out a way to shoot around it, kind of write it in the story.”
On a conversation he had with Shia about safety days before the crash: “We had a little heart to heart the week before when he bought a brand new motorcycle and I [said] ‘Dude! You cannot ride that motorcycle! If you crash, you put 1,500 people out of work,’” the director recounted. “He said, ‘Ok, I won’t ride it, I won’t ride it, I’ll just drive my truck.’”
On Shia being a good kid after all: “The kid really has his head together and you know, he’s only 22. He’s doing a great job on this movie. He’s really matured since the last one and I love working with him.”
source – just jarred
Trust me , I feel his pain… in november I crushed my hand at work on a trash compactor. I’ve never felt pain like that before , but it got better as time went on. Now I just get cramps once in a while , but back then it sucked. Can’t do much when you’re hand is like that. I hope you feel better soon Shia! – webmaster
If you ever have reason to meet Shia LaBeouf, you should be prepared to be addressed as “boss.” Or “bro,” or “man,” or “baby,” or possibly “son,” depending on how much you know about hip-hop. “Hey, boss,” LaBeouf says to the guy behind the counter at a Santa Monica restaurant one afternoon in late May, “is it cool if we just get a couple of coffees and sit outside?”
It’s hard to tell whether the waiter recognizes him. LaBeouf is doing reshoots for this month’s Eagle Eye, directed by D.J. Caruso—it’s a highbrow thriller about two Americans framed as political assassins by a terrorist cell—so he has a little more scruff than usual, and with his cap pulled down far enough he could be any underemployed L.A. actor getting his caffeine fix. He’s wearing skinnyish black jeans, a threadbare Emerson, Lake & Palmer T-shirt, and beat-up brown Nike Cortezes. His girlish eyelashes, cheeks, and mouth are obscured by the beard and the cap, which makes him look older than he does in the YouTube video that made the rounds in the spring—the one of him drunkenly calling his friend a “faggot” and begging to be slapped in the face. But LaBeouf’s swagger—the “boss”ing and “man”ing—suggests fresh confidence, the kind that comes from having recently had your name attached to two blockbuster franchises. It also suggests some defensiveness. That “faggot” video, plus a misdemeanor arrest and a few other glancing blows this year to his still-developing image, has made him zip himself up a little tighter. While once he publicly joked about his regrettable movie choices, like Dumber and Dumberer, and break-danced with abandon for Craig Kilborn, LaBeouf is more inhibited now, more likely to use terms like role model.
Since his first major part, in Disney’s 2003 sleeper hit Holes, LaBeouf, 22, has been in some very big movies. Last summer’s Transformers grossed $700 million worldwide, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull may whip-crack past that. He’s also been in some smaller movies that outperformed expectations—last year’s teen thriller Disturbia made more than five times its $20 million budget at the box office. But he hasn’t really been the focal point of a big movie—until now. Much as Disturbia recalled Rear Window, Eagle Eye, in which LaBeouf stars opposite Michelle Monaghan, brings North by Northwest into the age of the Patriot Act. LaBeouf, who cold-called his first agent at the age of 12 and promptly nailed an audition with a Disney casting director, leans heavily on his swagger to downplay the pressure of doing a movie with a $100 million-plus budget that is executive-produced by Steven Spielberg—who has reportedly called him a young Tom Hanks. “I never chose to do this because there was meaning in it or I was talented or gave a shit about acting,” LaBeouf says. “I got into this because I was broke.”
Working actors are generally either enigmas or exhibitionists. Usually the good ones are the former and the bad ones the latter. But if you want to propel yourself from noteworthiness to superstardom, you have no choice but to sacrifice some of your mystery for relatability. George Clooney did this with his ring-a-ding-ding boys’ club; Tom Cruise does it by styling himself the village elder of Hollywood—Mr. Propriety. Demigods of the public imagination onscreen and in life, these actors are insulated from the damage that a few lackluster films—or even a box-office bomb—can do. “There’s a form of selling out,” LaBeouf says. “It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.” Right now, he’s doing that two ways: by joining up with two tent-pole franchises—Transformers and Indy—and by micromanaging his own palatability. Being a 22-year-old kid, though, he sometimes runs into image-management problems.
Over a three-month period in the past year, LaBeouf got into a series of entanglements with the law. Last November, he walked into a Chicago Walgreens to buy cigarettes, had a drunken argument with a security guard, and was arrested for trespassing after refusing to leave the store. In February, he was cited for smoking a cigarette on public property in Burbank, California. A few weeks later an arrest warrant was issued when he failed to appear in court for that charge. “I don’t ever remember getting arrested sober. I was always arrested drunk,” he says. “It’s when I’m drinking that I don’t have the wherewithal to be able to realize the position of my life. There’s too much at stake for me to throw it away. I enjoy what I’m able to give my family. I enjoy the people that I’m able to wake up and work with. And I don’t want to throw away what I’ve worked so hard for 12 years to achieve, based on an argument that takes place in 20 minutes.” By the time LaBeouf lit out on the Indiana Jones promotional tour in the spring, the mini-scandals were regularly being used by reporters as segues into questions about his upbringing.
An only child, LaBeouf grew up poor in Echo Park, then a working-class Latino neighborhood in L.A. “None of my friends were ever as broke as I was,” he says. “That’s not some dramatic spinning of a tale—my uncle was going to adopt me at one point because my parents couldn’t afford to have me anymore. They had too much pride to go on welfare or food stamps.”
Whether it’s a dramatic spinning of a tale is beside the point; LaBeouf’s childhood has become his chosen mythology. Before the milk for his coffee has arrived, he’s run through the highlights in an uninterrupted stream: His parents sold snow cones and hot dogs in a park near their apartment while LaBeouf, in a clown costume, japed for customers; as a 12-year-old, he did X-rated stand-up in Pasadena comedy clubs; his mother, Shayna Saide, is an American-born Russian-Jewish ballerina whose mother ran with Allen Ginsberg; her mother played piano on Lucky Luciano’s gambling boat. LaBeouf says his father, a Vietnam vet named Jeffrey LaBeouf, had a heroin problem. And that in addition to being a commedia dell’arte—trained mime, he was a weed dealer who grew his crop on the sides of freeways. And that he’s credited with bringing the sinsemilla seed to Hawaii, giving a continent of thankful stoners the Thai stick. The lore cascades out of LaBeouf in unsolicited torrents—and free of taboos. “It’s just my family was raised differently,” he says. “It was never ‘Drugs!’ It was never like that for my family, which helped me because I never had a curiosity, it was never closed off. It was always out in the open and it was always explained to me. I’m so grateful for that. It’s why I never tried anything beyond marijuana or drinking. I mean, I know that I personally can’t do any of it. And so I don’t.”
“Every actor chooses their story at the beginning,” he says. “There’s this weird dichotomy of having to appear human yet be a mysterious entity in order to continue doing your craft. I need something to talk about, and then you don’t have to get into deep, personal introspection.”
as you know Shia is the cover boy for the september 2008 issue of the men’s fashion magazine deails , well details has a video of shia on their website talking about some of his memories and the press / walgreens.
it’s cute check it out.
WATCH VIDEO CLIP HERE
LaBeouf, who played Sam Witwicky in last year’s live action Transformers, was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving last Sunday following a collision between his car and another car in Hollywood. His hand was crushed in the accident.
Bay was quoted as saying, “His two fingers are pretty smashed. But we’re figuring out a way to shoot around it, kind of write it into the story.”
LaBeouf’s lawyer Michael Norris also has admitted there is a chance the 22-year-old actor will not recover from the injury to his left hand.
“He will need regular medical supervision until his doctors clear him to return to work,” said Michael Norris.
“His doctors remain hopeful that he will fully recover, but due to extensive surgery and the nature of the injuries, there remains a substantial risk of both infection and other complications.”
LaBeouf’s passenger, Transformers co-star Isabel Lucas, and a female passenger in the other car both required minor hospital treatment following the incident.
But the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department has suggested it may not have been LaBeouf’s fault.
A spokesman explained that police believed the male driver of the other car had ignored a red light.
The actor Shia LaBeouf (“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”), who was injured in a car accident in West Hollywood, Calif., last month, was hurt more seriously than initial news accounts suggested, The Associated Press reported. Mr. LaBeouf’s left hand was crushed and he underwent four hours of surgery, his lawyer, Michael Norris, said. “He will need regular medical supervision until his doctors clear him to return to work,” Mr. Norris said of his client, who has been filming “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the sequel to last year’s “Transformers.” The film’s director, Michael Bay, said the injury may force some script changes. “His two fingers are pretty smashed, but we’re figuring out a way to shoot around it, kind of write it into the story,” Mr. Bay told “Access Hollywood.” Mr. LaBeouf’s passenger, who was not injured in the accident, was Isabel Lucas, 23, who will also appear in the new film. The name of the other driver, who the police said ran a red light, has not been released. Mr. LaBeouf was charged with drunken driving after the accident.
