A few actors–Shia LaBeouf, Andy Dick, Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright–show their stripes…
Runners-up for top story of the month:
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”actor Shia LaBeouf, 22, busted on suspicion of DUI. After failing to negotiate a turn at around 3 a.m., he crashed his truck into another vehicle and rolled it. It was “immediately apparent”to responding officers that LaBeouf was intoxicated. It’s not his first public indication of early-stage alcoholism. He was taken into custody in Chicago last November after security officers made repeated requests that he leave a Walgreens pharmacy. (I can’t even imagine what he was doing to merit such attention.) He also had a warrant out for his arrest because he skipped a court hearing over a smoking violation. If the “public policy recommendation”for this month was implemented nationwide, this might be the last we hear of LaBeouf. Unfortunately, this may instead be only the beginning of his death spiral.
Comedian Andy Dick, 42, arrested on charges of sexual battery and drug possession. Dick was warned by police to leave the scene of an altercation at the Corner Pocket Sports Café in Murrieta, California at about 9 p.m. or face arrest on charges of public intoxication. Four hours later, in the parking lot of the Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar, Dick allegedly grabbed and fondled a 17-year-old girl as he pulled her top down. Police described Dick as “heavily intoxicated.”As was true for LaBeouf, this was not his first public indication of addiction. Dick was cited last year for urinating in public and was kicked off the set of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”for repeatedly touching fellow guest Ivanka Trump. In 1999 he drove into a telephone pole and was charged with cocaine and marijuana possession. As is the norm in the lives of addicts, there have been plenty of opportunities for legal intervention”without which we have likely not heard the last of Andy Dick’s escapades.
Actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, filming the Oliver Stone movie “W,”arrested in a bar fight at the Stray Cat club in Shreveport, Louisiana at about 2 a.m. after a call to deal with a rowdy patron “drew interference”from other patrons. How about that”a movie about a (recovering?) alcoholic, directed by an alcoholic, starring an alcoholic (Brolin) playing an alcoholic? Sort of reminiscent of alcoholic actress Vivien Leigh playing alcoholic Scarlett O’Hara in a story written by alcoholic writer Margaret Mitchell, but I digress. (Rhett: “You must need a drink badly.”Scarlett: “I do not.”Rhett: “Take it! I know you drink on the quiet, and I know how much you drink. You think I care if you like your brandy?â€)