The TV Addict 

This isn’t the first time I’ve ranted about celebrities driving drunk, but this time it stings a little more because I genuinely like Shia LeBeouf and have stood up for him. Ever since his Disney TV days of “Even Stevens” I’ve enjoyed watching his career flourish and especially explode astronomically in the last two years alone. He has a charming, natural movie presence that makes him fun to watch no matter what he’s in.What I don’t like watching is seeing him piss his career away Lindsay Lohan style just as it is taking off and people like Steven Spielberg have put their creative trust in him. What I like to watch even less is him pissing his career away by being an inconsiderate asshole who I think should be put behind bars (even if the accident wasn’t his mistake, as it turns out).

Young people will make mistakes, sure, but if they make ones that recklessly endanger other people’s lives, they should have to pay for them. Full stop. All the more so when - as I said in my previous rant - there is no f***** reason a celebrity of his financial status can’t call a cab or a limo service.  As John’s excellent (though a bit more colorful) rant over at The Movie Blog points out, LeBeouf (and those like him) are making an arrogant choice, and should face the consequences of that.

I am capable of separating the person from the artist, which means I will still go check out EAGLE EYE and TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, but as soon as the credits roll I’ll still probably mutter to myself: “Idiot.”

What initially looked like a poor man’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (that made me wonder if all D.J. Caruso was going to do with his career was update Hitchcock films like he did with DISTURBIA via REAR WINDOW), now looks much more promising. This actually looks, well, pretty exciting to me. Neat premise, good actors, and a classic wrong man scenario mixed in with a little modern day technology and terrorism paranoia. I’m actually looking forward to this now.

On another note, can anyone tell me whose voice that is on the phone? I have a strange ability to uncannily recognize actors just by their voices (great party trick actually), but I am struggling with this one. It sounds like Diane Lane to me, but I’m not sure. Anyone else have thoughts?