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Despite the paper bag covering his head declaring “I am not famous anymore,” Shia LaBeouf can still draw a crowd. A line of more than 200 curious individuals seeking a few minutes of face time with the masked 27-year-old actor snaked along the sidewalk of a busy Los Angeles street, around the block and down an alleyway Wednesday afternoon. A silent LaBeouf is on display this week for a performance-art piece titled “#IAMSORRY.” Seated at a small table, wearing a disheveled tuxedo and the rumpled paper bag on his head, LaBeouf began his planned seven-day stint inside the gallery Tuesday. “Shia LaBeouf is sorry,” read a news release circulated about the event. Why LaBeouf is apologetic is never explained, and the actor isn’t talking. The performance-art oddity comes days after LaBeouf posed on the red carpet at the Berlin Film Festival in the same get-up and walked out of a news conference held to promote filmmaker Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac Volume I. The Transformers star came under fire last year for borrowing the storyline and dialogue for his short film Howard Cantour.com, which closely resembled the 2007 graphic novel The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes. LaBeouf has since apologized in a series of Twitter posts.

Rapper Drake said he won’t do interviews with magazines anymore after a recent story in Rolling Stone magazine. The rapper was supposed to be on the cover of the magazine’s latest issue, but was replaced with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Feb. 2. Drake posted on Twitter on Thursday that he’s “done doing interviews with magazines.” “I just want to give my music to the people,” he wrote. “That’s the only way my message gets across accurately.” Other Thursday tweets from the 27-year-old were deleted, including one about his discomfort with Hoffman gracing the cover of Rolling Stone. “I’m disgusted with that. RIP to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. All respect due. But the press is evil,” he wrote. Drake also tweeted Thursday that he never spoke of Kanye West’s Yeezus album during the interview.

Rolling Stone quotes Drake calling some of West’s lyrics “questionable,” along with him saying he “loves” the outspoken rapper. Rolling Stone said in a statement Thursday that “we stand by our reporting.”

Front Section, Pages 2 on 02/14/2014

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