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  • Jim Carrey’s Ex, Jenny McCarthy, Addresses Shia LaBeouf Insults

    The Internet death rumors that were made about Jim Carrey on Tuesday were suspected to stem from Shia LaBeouf’s comment on Twitter Monday.

    The feud between the two all started at the Golden Globe Awards.

    Carrey made a playful reference to LaBeouf’s plagiarism scandal of the 2012 film “HowardCantour.com,” which was clearly based off of the comic Justin M. Damiano by Daniel Clowes.

    “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard … I believe it was Shia LaBeouf who said that,” Carrey said jokingly.

    After Carrey had made his remark, the ex-Disney star had a rebuttal of his own in which he posted to Twitter:   

    What made matters worst is that LeBeouf insulted Carrey’s parenting skills by throwing his daughter Jane into the equation.

    “At least I don’t get arrested for indecency on major LA highways! Or abandon love child’s,” the 27-year-old said in a tweet.

    LaBeouf, however, later tweeted again apologizing to Jane’s parents for his insensitive remarks. Both tweets have since then been removed.

    Now that that the insults are out in the open, another celebrity has something to say about the beef. In Tuesday’s segment of The View, Carrey’s former girlfriend Jenny McCarthy was furious about the comment made by LaBeouf: (image)

    “You can attack myself, but don’t bring my children into it. And I’m sure it’s the same for Jim…We dated for five years and I got to know his daughter, Jane, who is a lovely, lovely girl. It’s completely uncalled for and wrong. Jim is a great father. He loves Jane more than anything in the world. Shia did apologize and Jim did take it, but the whole thing is, do not bring our children into it.” 

    Oddly enough, just two weeks ago LaBeouf made a public apology to Clowes prior to announcing his retirement from the public-eye on Friday 10.

    On Monday he even tweeted what seem to be a bitter statement about his celebrity status.

    Carrey has yet to respond.

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  • Lena Dunham Bashes Shia LaBeouf on Twitter

    Shia is getting slammed by yet another celebrity after his sky-writing apology for plagiarizing artist Daniel Clowes in parts of his short film HowardCantour.com about a troubled online film critic, starring Jim Gaffigan.

    Actress Lena Dunham expressed her disdain for LaBeouf’s apology in a series of tweets this week.

    After allegations of plagiarism, LaBeouf tweeted a slew of apologies when it came to light that the actor took parts of Clowes’ 2007 graphic novella, Justin M. Damiano, and used them in his film.

    Following the tweets, the actor then hired skywriters to create a five-mile wide apology across the Los Angeles sky which said, “I am sorry Daniel Clowes.”

    On Jan. 4 Dunham tweeted:

    Some previous tweets with less than kind words for LaBeouf from Dunham:

    Looks like LaBeouf has had enough. Today he tweeted, “Gonna hop off Twitter for awhile. Enjoy the sunshine, breathe the air. Hope no one was offended.”

    Guess he changed his mind because the tweet was removed several hours later.

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  • Shia LaBeouf Apologizes For Plagiarism With Message In The Sky

    Shia LaBeouf got into some trouble recently after he used someone else’s idea for a short film that he had made. The film debuted at film festivals over a year ago, but was just published to the public online as of recently, and gained the attention of the man who wrote the original immediately.

    He released a short film called Howardcantor.com online on December 17, 2013, and it was revealed shortly after that he could be facing legal action for plagiarism. His film tells the story of an anguished online film critic, and he is played by comedian Jim Gaffigan.

    The story was borrowed from a graphic novella called Justin M. Damiano by Daniel Clowes. Days after, Daniel Clowes was already exploring his legal options after it seemed that Shia LaBeouf had copied his story almost exactly.

    As a result, Shia LaBeouf has apologized, and did it in the most epic way possible. He hired an airplane to write in the sky “I’m sorry Daniel Clowes.”

    However, it may not be the most genuine of apologizes because it was reported that it could simply be raising suspicion that the actor has moved on from saying he’s sorry, and is now simply taunting Clowes fans and LaBeouf critics.

    LaBeouf has been in all sorts of trouble since putting the film online, and although he even took to Twitter to address the claims of plagiarism, it was even revealed that he had plagiarized much of his apologetic tweets.

    He had a string of tweets, and while some of them sounded very genuine, others can be traced almost exactly to the apologizes made by people such as Mark Zuckerberg and Lars Von Trier. His initial tweets were also reminiscent of something that Picasso said in order to defend his work.

    He also had to post a photo on Twitter because it was unlikely the author, who lives in San Francisco, would have been able to see his message during the short time that it was visible before the words disappeared in the wind.

    Shia Labeouf had neglected to formally apologize to Daniel Clowes for the way that he had illegally used his work until now. How genuine is an apology that comes in the form of sky writing?

    Image via Twitter

  • Shia LaBeouf Apologizes For Plagiarism With More Plagiarism

    Shia LaBeouf was accused of plagiarizing most of his new short film Howard Cantour, after the film was released on its promo website. LaBeouf apologized for the similarities between Howard Cantour and a comic called Justin M. Damiano, created by Daniel Clowes on Twitter and claimed that he did not mean to copy the comic, but was inspired by it.

    Daniel Clowes was shocked when he found out about the plagiarism. During an interview with Buzzfeed he said,

    “The first I ever heard of the film was this morning when someone sent me a link. I’ve never spoken to or met Mr. LaBeouf. I’ve never even seen one of his films that I can recall — and I was shocked, to say the least, when I saw that he took the script and even many of the visuals from a very personal story I did six or seven years ago and passed it off as his own work. I actually can’t imagine what was going through his mind.”

    The accusations led to the film being password protected by producers. Many people wonder if Clowes plans to file a lawsuit against LaBeouf for the plagiarism.

    If plagiarizing the film wasn’t bad enough, some people are claiming that LaBeouf also plagiarized his apology. Various parts of what LaBeouf tweeted as an apology are also part of a post made on Yahoo Answers several years ago.

    Was LaBeouf just searching the web for more “inspiration” or is he just unable to come up with material of his own, even when it’s an apology?

    Image via Wikimedia Commons.