Broadway veteran Alan Cumming has been named the sexiest man alive by Shia LaBeouf, who says he was arrested outside a Broadway theater in June for basically trying to seduce Cumming during a live performance.
LaBeouf’s erratic behavior was documented that day by paparazzi in New York, who claimed he had been visibly intoxicated while sparring with a homeless man in Times Square hours before.
LaBeouf says he had been drinking whiskey continuously for almost 24 hours before he was invited by a male dancer to a performance of Cabaret on Broadway, in which Cumming plays Emcee:
“Alan Cumming walks past me, and all I can think about is his leather pants and him winking at me. So he walks past me and I give him a slap on the ass because I think he deserves it. He’s seducing me — he’s the sexiest man I’ve ever seen, and I didn’t just slap it, I slapped and grabbed him. Like I grabbed a whole cheek because I wanted the party right here in my pants.”
Hear the thrilling eight minute tale below:
http://youtu.be/jtAkNf_b_TM
Billy Budd
He is trying to divert attention with this tale of gay sexuality. He has serious issues and he is trying to minimize them.
AxelDC
Poor Shia. He was so cute a few years ago and now he’s just throwing away his career with both hands.
NiceNCool1
I thought they only let celebrities on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
jmmartin
It’s not just getting trendy to flaunt your seeming openness to sexual experimentation: rock stars have done it for decades. When I wrote rock criticism and interviewed several groups, I cruised and was cruised back by two rock drummers, one for a very well known group. Jagger and Bowie went through their anything walking period, and in its wake, some stars who were closeted before finally came out. No names! No names! But the love that dared not speak its name has become the love that won’t shut up, and, uh, excuse me, I think Mr. LaBeouf loudly dissed lgbtq people by homophobic epithets. When I saw the recent photo of a mostly naked James Franco and his actor friend Seth Rogen in a friendly clinch of sorts, I hardly noticed. Mr. Franco has spread himself so thinly upon the celebrity scene I am tired of seeing him, a horrible development since, when he acted in the TV docudrama on James Dean, then made a pretty mediocre movie with DeNiro, I thought he was hot hot hot. But as they say in parts of the upper East Coast, forgeddaboutim. Franco is too old now to flirt about his sexuality. He should declare what he is and get over it.
Cam
I didn’t know Lindsay Lohan grew a beard.
Chris
Wow; talk about sexual harassment that slipped across the line to abuse and violence. If you don’t believe me, just replace Alan Cumming’s name with the name of your favorite starlet and change all the pronouns and adjectives from masculine to feminine.
james_in_cambridge
@NiceNCool1: Shia, despite some obviously serious mental and/or drug problems, has an excellent record at the box office recently. Granted, the “Transformers” movies would have been a hit regardless of who was the lead but let’s not forget: Shia pushed even the mediocre “Eagle Eye” to an astounding 101 million dollar gross in the U.S. and 178 million gross worldwide. Box office pull is pretty much the only thing movie execs care about; they’ll put up with any kind of demented behavior from a star if he can pull in a substantial audience (look at Charlie Sheen, who is still busy abusing drugs and everyone around him*. Because he pulls in 3 million or so viewers consistently every week to TBS, TBS executives and his handlers are willing to cover up Sheen’s disgusting and destructive behavior.) Also,look at Robert Downey Jr.; he was all but living on the streets a decade ago. But when he finally cleaned up his act, the studios slowly started hiring him for bigger and better projects, and he finally became an A-list star. Hell, he is now one of the top three moneymaking stars in the world and he can command up to $50 million for one picture. He even opened that new movie “The Judge”; that’s the kind of small, intimate drama that needs a star to pull in an audience. And Downey certainly did!
Mikah
Wasn’t he in the news for being homophobic or something? I didn’t really care about his outburst enough to remember,anyways his story was funny.I hope he gets it together.
Cam
@james_in_cambridge:
The thing is Robert Downey Jr. was ALWAYS praised for his acting even before he crashed and burned, whereas LeBouff hasn’t. The last Indianna Jones movie was basically an abortion for the series.
And as for your comment of “Shia pushed even the mediocre “Eagle Eye” to an astounding 101 million dollar gross in the U.S.”…
I get what you are saying, but remember, that movie had a production budget of $80 million that does NOT count Advertising. So even if they only spent $15 million advertising it domestically that would mean it only pulled in $6 million domestically. Those aren’t the kind of numbers that will make a studio bank another $80 million production budget on this guy.
demented
@Cam: Admittedly it got $180 million worldwide, but you have a point. The numbers aren’t exactly “Iron Man” levels of awesome… and that was six years ago, when he was in “Transformers”! His stock has dropped a lot in the last couple years.
It’s not just because of his bad behavior and substance abuse either. The whole plagiarism suit and his bratty, entitled, whiny reaction to getting caught really left a bad taste in people’s mouths. It won’t keep him from getting hired in Hollywood, but it will make them less likely to snap him up unthinkingly – they’ll have to weigh the pros and cons, and bigger movies won’t bother with such a liability.
And I agree that Downey was amazing even at his low points. “One Night Stand” was right in the middle of his junkie days, and he stole the movie right out from under everyone else despite being high as a kite. Shia just doesn’t have that talent or charisma.
NiceNCool1
@james_in_cambridge:
Hey, he’s the one who wore a paper bag on his head that read, “I’m not famous anymore.” Just sayin’…
vive
…supporting the contention that every straight man is just a few drinks away from being gay.
JimboinLA
Ok. We’ll claim him. I’ll vouch for him. Shia….we have your back. XOXOXO
JimboinLA
You are now a member of another tribe.
JimboinLA
I want to see him make out with NPH at The Oscar’s