And now the whole world knows it. Yeah, like he would have owned up it nobody called him on it. riiiight...
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Transformers star
Shia LaBeouf 's efforts to, er, transform himself into something other than an actor seem to have landed him in a bit of hot water.
The short film
HowardCantour.com, which LaBeouf directed and debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, became available online on Monday, Dec. 16.
Soon after,
Buzzfeed pointed out the striking similarities between the short film and a 2007 comic titled
Justin M. Damiano written by
Daniel Clowes, both in terms of story and dialogue."
Linky
here
And, here's a snippet from that linked
Buzzfeed article that shows this is not the first time he's been caught plagerizing. "LaBeouf has been
accused of plagiarism before, taking blocks of quotes from an
Esquire article and pasting them into an email he sent Alec Baldwin that he leaked online"