Apology Accepted

Why I waited in a very long line to see a celebrity say he's sorry

I do not care at all about Shia LaBeouf. This is surprising, since I stood on a hot L.A. sidewalk waiting in line to sit in a room alone with him while he stared silently at me with a paper bag over his head. He was doing this as a piece of performance art called #IAmSorry, in which the Transformers star again apologizes for plagiarizing a graphic novel (for which he had already apologized using plagiarized quotes) by plagiarizing two of Marina Abramovic's pieces, one in which she stared silently at people and another in which she let patrons choose various...

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