Shia LaBeouf has made a new best friend in the form of director, Steven Spielberg. Judging by the inferences one can make from the interview snippet below, there is some serious man-crushage going on between the Academy Award winning filmmaker and his 22-year-old muse.

The Beef has caught more than one lucky break. Before he starred in the Transformers franchise, the scrawny actor was best known for being the sidekick to actual leading men. He was the mini me of both Will Smith and Keanu Reeves in I Am Robot and Constantine respectively. The boy has to grow up and become a man sometime. In Hollywood, that comes in the form of being the headlining star in a movie that costs more than a buck fifty and not sinking the entire damn thing.

Having broken through in 2003 with the acclaimed kiddies’ film Holes, LaBeouf became a box-office star in 2007 when the Spielberg-produced Transformers and the Rear Window-for-teens outing Disturbia both hit the No1 spot around the world. Suddenly, Shia LaBeouf found himself an unlikely leading man.

“A lot of that had to do with Steven’s faith in me,” says the 22-year-old today. “It does a lot for your confidence, when you have someone like Steven Spielberg telling you that he wants you to lead his picture. It also makes the rest of Hollywood sit up and listen . . .”

And the tabloids weren’t too far behind. Throw in a pivotal role in last year’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and now, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and you’ve got yourself a glittering career. (full interview @ The Herald)

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Christian Bale, 35, will most probably never live down the angry rant taped on the Terminator Salvation set.

Though he has admitted sole fault over the angry tirade that was secretly taped and leaked to the media, Bale is being asked in pretty much every interview at the moment whether he regrets his actions and if he is really “sowwy”.

Until this week, the actor had said essentially that he was 100% responsible for being so shouty. However, in a recent GQ interview and an interview I caught him on on the Today Show, the star claims that his on-screen persona John Connor should take at least 50% of the blame.

This is much the same thin argument that Beyonda Farce uses to excuse her on-stage hyper-sexuality, when she spontaneously turns into Sucha Farce. Bale should know that this kind of nonsense does not fly and that only I (blinded and distracted by feeling all warm and fuzzy in my pants) and is wife are going to buy this. 

It [the rant] wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t been playing that scene, for Christ’s sake, between John Connor and his wife, which is probably the most intense one in the movie. [an irritated sigh] I’d definitely say that that guy who was yelling was at least half John Connor, and the rest was me. (via GQ)

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Shia LaBeouf gave an interview for the June issue of Playboy magazine, to promote his upcoming movie ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’.

In the interview, the actor, 22, explains that his mother (pictured standing behind) used to wander around his childhood home naked, regardless of who was around.

“The nudity was weird, especially when her friends came over. ..All of them would just be naked around the house. That was strange for me, and it was really bizarre when my friends were there. You’ve got your little buds over, and Mom’s, like, playing naked connect the dots or whatever. She’s in the middle of goddess-group time, where it’s literally a bunch of naked women tracing auras around one another’s bodies with incense and then sitting together and humming for prolonged periods of time.” (via Star Magazine).

If you are not grossed out enough already, you’re gonna love this… to make the nasty a little nastier, the actor also says that his mother is the sexiest woman he knows. Yep.

“Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother. She’s an ethereal angel. Nobody looks like that woman. If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.” (via DListed)

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Anne Hathaway has spoken at length to USA Today about her situation with her ex-fiance, Raffaello Follieri. The star has until now kept a relatively dignified silence about the scandal surrounding their breakup… but now the girl has a movie to promote damn it [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

Hathaway split with her former beau, after it was revealed that he peed with the toilet door open and snored… ok well maybe not, but the relationship problems of the average non-celeb can’t even compare to the off-the-scale F*CKERY that was Follieri’s arrested for fraud and money laundering (for which he was later sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison).

According to USA Today newspaper:

“I started making fun of it around my friends and family and also to let everyone know it was okay to be struggling with it, as well. If I can find humour in it, that means I’m going to be okay. If something happens to me that I can’t laugh about, look out, there goes my soul.

“As horrible as what I went through was, it’s not the worst thing that could happen to a person. In the history of humanity, it doesn’t even come close.

“But I was talking to someone the other day and said, ‘There’ve been a lot of lessons, maybe not quite enough life’.”

Hathaway says that she is determined to learn from the traumatic events of 2008 and will now ask a guy if he snores BEFORE getting engaged to him:

“I’d say this is the year (08) that I began to learn how to love, if anything. Going forward, it’s just crying all the time because I love everybody so much. It’s profound, and life-altering, and glorious.

“People who knew me and loved me best, like my parents, always respected my desire to be independent. But I couldn’t get by this year being independent. There’s merit in the lone-wolf, go-it-alone, follow-your-own-drummer thing, but I think I was taking it a little too far. And I got knocked on my (butt) this year in a big way.”

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Celebrities including Ashlee Simpson, Britney Spears and Kanye West have revealed their New Year’s Resolutions for 2009 [Website –Amy Grindhouse].

Check out the resolutions of your favourite celebs, below. They stars mainly talk about their diet and fitness over the next year, the rest talk about their familes and relationships. You can find even more details and more stars over at US Online!:

Ashlee Simpson: “All my focus is on my son. Every day, being a better mom and learning with him. It’s an incredible experience.”

Britney Spears: “I would like to stop worrying so much because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. And to stop biting my nails!”

Kanye West: “My resolution is to be as nice as possible to the press.”

Spencer Pratt: “To stop eating pizza every day. I think my wife [Heidi Montag's] resolution will make that happen. She says she’s going to cook.”

Eva Longoria: “To give up meat.”

Kathy Griffin: “To eat more carbs!”

Cameron Diaz: “I have always had the same New Year resolutions: to stop smoking, to start wearing a bra and to stop shopping.”

I think this is a good solid list for the most part, although Spencer Pratt missed a trick, as I don’t see the word DOUCHE anywhere in his quote. It would have been less effort to just write “I will be less of a douche” 10 times on a piece of paper and staple it to his forehead. I’m less concerned about his diet than of his ASSholiness. 

In addition, I am pretty sure Kanye has already broken his resolution and is somewhere CAPS BLOGGING about a flack who got on his nuts. Unless someone is going to handcuff his hands behind his back and confiscate his MacBook Air, I’m pretty sure there is about as much chance of him being nice, as there is me letting all my sex-slaves out of my basement.

WHAT RESOLUTIONS DO YOU THINK THE CELEBS WILL BREAK FIRST?

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Cate Blanchett was interviewed by Reuters, about her role in ’The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. Check out the highlights below [Website –Amy Grindhouse].

This is your second film with Brad Pitt after co-starring with him in ‘Babel’. Is there anything noteworthy about working with him that the moviegoer might be interested in knowing: He is unbelievably committed to what he does. In both films, there’s been a sense that he’s asked really difficult questions of the film before he’s committed, and he sort of tends to be, I suppose from the outside, a little bit reticent to jump in. But that’s only because he wants to know if he’s going to commit 100 percent, he wants to know that the film’s going to be as committed as he is. And so I really admire him for that. He’s really tireless.

You’re not a dancer by trade, but is it true that you had some childhood dance instruction: Yeah, I studied ballet, but also in drama school the most powerful training for me was the movement training. And look, if I had my way over again, I’d be a Butoh dancer (contemporary dance form originating in Japan), or I’d desperately try and finagle my way into working with (modern dance choreographer) ‘Pina’ Bausch. So, (in Benjamin Button) I worked with Michelle Johnston, who was the choreographer.

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, starring Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt, is out in theaters now. 

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Eva Longoria may be 5 foot nothing, but homegirl says that she HATES cheaters and is a force to reckon with, if or when she catches a guy playing away from home [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

Longoria, better known as Gabrielle Solice of Desperate Housewives, spoke in the Glamour magazine February Man issue. The diminutive diva states that she would go private eye on a cheating partner and would even resort to stealth tactics to catch a cheating man in the act.

 According to NY Daily News:

If she discovered a pal’s man was unfaithful, “(I’d) tell her,” the Desperate Housewife declares in Glamour magazine’s February Man issue, adding that she’d even resort to sneaky tactics to expose the guy.

“I would probably take a picture with my camera phone first,” she says. “It’s tough, because sometimes people kill the messenger. But I think the truth always comes out, regardless of who tells us.”

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Courteney Cox has opened up to the Mail on Sunday about motherhood. The 44-year-old former Friends actress spoke to the newspaper about her marriage, Jennifer Aniston and how daughter Coco is a “princess” [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

On making her marriage to David Arquette work: “I get shocked by people getting divorced all the time, that’s why I choose to work on it. Therapy helps us. It’s so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work. I suppose you can work it out by talking to each other – I would just prefer to have a referee, it reminds us why we’re together.”-

On her 4-year-old daughter’s obsessions: “Coco’s favorites are Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, she’s totally into princesses.”

On her holiday plans: “Christmas is insane in our house. I say: ‘Let’s buy Coco one good toy,’ but he wants to buy her 900 presents. Our compromise lands closer to David.”

On her BFF Jennifer Aniston also spoiling Coco: “Coco calls her Nouna, which is Greek for godmother; they see each other and play together every weekend. The other day Jen came over with her yoga teacher and Coco stuck it out for an hour doing yoga with them!”

Courteney Cox’s next attempt at a big screen movie career sees her starring next to Adam Sandler, in ‘Bedtime Stories’, which is opening Christmas Day.

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Reese Witherspoon is one of many mega-famous woman who just do not understand how fame works [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

‘Spoon tells Parade Magazine about how she is wide-eyed with shock that her being famous is having a negative impact on her children. She even mentions, without a hint of self-awareness, that she has had to pull daughter, Eva, out of a ‘wonderful school’, because the paparazzi have been harassing the little one so much!

Says ‘Spoon:

“She was so harassed that we had to take her out.

And it doesn’t stop on school grounds. The photographers even ruin family occasions like Halloween egging on the kids to get the right shot.

“The most difficult part is seeing my children being followed and harassed. They’ve been treated terribly. They were shouted at in their Halloween costumes, photographers screaming, ‘You don’t look scared.’”

The drama has prompted the ‘Spoon to think twice about life in Hollywood.

“I hope not to live in this place forever.”

I bet that the pap-smear-azzi have probably done nothing of the sort… I would bet a whole packet of Cheetos that they just took a few totally non-creepy, long-lense-candids, whilst hidden under a camouflage tarp and Eva The Diva threw celeb-spawn tantrum. Who does Eva think she is, Alien Princess - Suri Cruise?!?

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The woman with the same initials as my identical bottom twin (KK) Keira Knightley, has been waxing idiotic, to Glamour magazine, about her frequent movie nakedness [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

GLAMOUR: What about nudity? Are you comfortable doing it in a film?

KK: Pretty comfortable. I certainly wouldn’t do it if I wasn’t…. I detest unnecessary nudity and what it says about women in society.

GLAMOUR: What do you think it says?

KK: I think you see a lot of films where, Oh, yes, the woman gets her tits out again and runs around naked for no reason. And you kind of go, Ugh, do we have to?

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