TMZ has posted a post-fight video of Shia LaBeouf outside a French Quarter bar…it’s Mardi Gras time…Shia got into a scrap over something-or-other… paramedics, cops, cuffs, jail. The fight happened two nights ago (technically Tuesday AM).
When John Ford included a fist fight between John Wayne and Lee Marvin in Donovan’s Reef (’63), he was pitching a certain affectionate vibe…drunken combat between charismatic movie stars was a “dudes will be dudes”-type deal. That’s how we all process it…good rowdy roughhouse. But when boozy fisticuffs happen in real life, it’s ugly or at least pathetic.
LeBeouf, 39, is probably going to pass from this realm at a relatively early stage. Between the ages of 55 and 60, I’m guessing. Richard Burton was only 59 when he passed on in ’84, and John Barrymore was 60, which, given his relentless carousing, he wasn’t expected to reach. This isn’t to say that all the big showbiz drinkers have left early. Richard Harris died at age 72 in ’02…not bad. And let it never be forgotten that Peter O’Toole, a legendary boozer on both sides of the Atlantic, lived to the ripe old age of 81.
It seems curious that LaBeouf, who was playing young buck roles 10 or 15 years ago, is now almost completely gray-haired. He’s not even 40.
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