Shia: Raised By Hippie Freaks…
Posted by Dirty Harry on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
How about: Almost All Of Them. Why? Because like too many of the others he has parents like this:
LaBeouf is no stranger to awkward moments. Before the L.A. native started acting professionally, at age 11, he and his hardcore hippie parents sold hot dogs and shaved ice in predominantly Latino Echo Park, dressed as clowns. They called themselves the Snow Cone Family Circus. His father was a Vietnam vet who cultivated Thai sticks and, LaBeouf says, became addicted to PCP, heroin, and cocaine. “I got to watch his downfall,” recalls LaBeouf. “You’d sit there and watch him with his junkie friends and my mom trying to hold down three jobs.” This explains why LaBeouf doesn’t do drugs or party with, say, Lindsay Lohan.
An enabling Hollywood press doesn’t help much, either. Nor do the Hollywood yes-types around him. Bet: In ten days we’ll hear that LeBeouf’s parents are shopping a reality show. Why not, when pimping your child’s self-destruction has worked so well before?
There will always be parental-abominations but an industry built around enabling them? Only in Hollywood.
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Fiftyfooton 29 Jul 2008 at 7:48 am 1Never heard of this guy and never will.
Johnon 29 Jul 2008 at 7:49 am 2In the worlds of celebrity entertainment, if you have no shame and don’t care what anyone thinks about you — as long as they’re thinking about you and not about someone else — you can last a long, long time based on your own willingness to humiliate yourself. Since that usually includes embarrassing those around you or getting them to also embarrass themselves, and everyone is battling to come up with the most scandalous high-profile act, the celebrity wanna-be circus is always going to be in need of a carload of clowns.
mido505on 29 Jul 2008 at 7:59 am 3This is sad. I think the kid’s got talent, and hope he learns enough from this debacle to not end up like River Phoenix.
Kiton 29 Jul 2008 at 8:24 am 4If Shia can keep from becoming like Lindsey Lohan, I don’t care who his parents are.
Tommy Von 29 Jul 2008 at 8:41 am 5I think one needs to tread lightly on such topics. Politics and art is one thing, but we should be careful not to lose compassion.
But for the grace of God, go I… I suspect there is not as much daylight between us and terrible stories like these as we like to think.
Obviously, horrible decisions were made, but I would hate to have had my horrible decisions posted everywhere in the press. I made plenty of them and I still have quite a few left to make.
LA has a great AA community filled with people who have great parents. Lets just hope the guy gets some help and doesn’t torture himself and his loved ones anymore than he has to.
maatkareon 29 Jul 2008 at 8:57 am 6Stupid, stupid, stupid. Thank God he didn’t kill the person he hit. But if Robert Downey Jr. can redeem himself so throroughly, hopefully someone will slap some sense into him before its too late. But slap him in jail in the meantime.
Since the days of giving Judy Garland “vitamins” to keep her going, Jackie Coogan and Gary Coleman’s greedy parents robbing them, there have been insanely irresponsible adults in charge of kids in Hollywood. If it’s any consolation, remember that Seth Rogen, Fred Savage, Raven-Symone, Seth Green, Jodie Foster, Ron Howard, Christian Bale (I think the recent arrest very fishy), Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Elijah Wood, Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kirk Cameron, the Cosby kids and the Fact of Life Girls worked as children, (mostly) continue to work as adults, and have all thus far stayed out of jail/refrained from a life of drug use/crime. Some parents get it, some parents are rotten. There are a lot of failures, but it’s not an automatic death sentence.
Stephanieon 29 Jul 2008 at 9:07 am 7Wankette Rich over on his blog has a story about Christian Bale you might want to read. Seems to me if one of the other posters is correct that the charges will be dropped. But read the artical. Bale’s parents define the words Hippie Freaks, and Christian seems to have rebelled against them in more than a few ways.
Stephanieon 29 Jul 2008 at 9:08 am 8Shoot I mean Maatkare…sorry I wrote the wrong name. My bad.
E Porvaznikon 29 Jul 2008 at 9:17 am 9Ahhh, if only Saturday Night Live were still funny. The America’s Most Wanted Child Actors still cracks me up — Chris Farley as Mindy Cohn, Michael J. Fox as Danny Bonaduce, David Spade as Michael J. Fox, Sandler as Barry Williams, etc. — and the current climate is too ripe for a follow-up.
Audietooon 29 Jul 2008 at 9:36 am 10Thank God he didn’t kill someone. And he maybe was staying with alcohol, the socially acceptable, “drug” for those trying to avoid “hard” drugs. I hope he discovers soon enough that alcohol can become a very “hard” drug when over-indulged or abused.
Moon 29 Jul 2008 at 10:11 am 11These people have EVERYTHING going for them, and yet they choose to throw it away by making stupid life choices.
And yet these Hollywood types keep bringing more children into the world - to be raised by nannies and in a level of insanity that most normal people cannot even imagine.
It makes me sick.
Full Metal Deer Platoonon 29 Jul 2008 at 11:44 am 12Stephanie,
Got a link for that Christian Bale article? Sounds very interesting.
Kiton 29 Jul 2008 at 12:00 pm 13DH,
The car wreck doesn’t look as bad as the Madonna picture you have on another post.
Stephanieon 29 Jul 2008 at 12:03 pm 14Go to Rich’s blog Deer…its there.
Full Metal Deer Platoonon 29 Jul 2008 at 12:52 pm 15Stephanie,
Where’s Rich’s blog? I don’t see it on the right sidebar.
maatkareon 29 Jul 2008 at 4:59 pm 16So…it doesn’t excuse drinking and driving one little bit, but apparently he didn’t cause the wreck: cops are saying the other car ran a red light.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_en_ce/people_labeouf_12
Jodyon 29 Jul 2008 at 10:48 pm 17There will always be parental-abominations but an industry built around enabling them? Only in Hollywood.
Or in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Can you say Bush? No? What about Kennedy? Anyone?
Alcoholism isn’t partisan, nor is it exclusive to Hollywood. Trying to argue it is, is asinine .