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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s Sheer Gown: Love it Or Hate It?

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley‘s Gucci gown has us split down the middle. She wore the mustard and black gown at the premiere of Transformers: Dark of the Moon during the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival at the Pushkinskiy Theatre in Moscow yesterday. Here’s why we’re undecided, though. She’s a supermodel, which means she has legs for days and can make anything look good, right? That’s her job. And to her credit, nobody can work mustard like Rosie can. What we’re taking umbrage at is the sheer paneling on the skirt of the gown. What’s up with that? It’s like she’s wore a pair of hot-pants and decided to throw netting over it. Michael Bay‘s standing next to her and thinking, Score, LEGS! Never a good thing. But, as always, we’re leaving the decision making to you. Help us out, folks. Do we like it or not?

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Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf Continue To Trash Talk Megan Fox

We guess if we ripped on our boss in public, we couldn’t really expect him not to bad-mouth us right back. We just might not expect our entire office to pile on. As Transformers star Shia LaBeouf tells GQ about Megan Fox’s Hitler comments, “Criticism is one thing. Then there’s public name-calling, which turns into high school bashing. Which you can’t do. She started s—-talking our captain.” Of course, Cap’n Michael Bay fired Megan Fox after she used the particularly insulting dictator analogy, which you think would be enough pay back. Apparently not. “I wasn’t hurt, because I know that’s just Megan. Megan loves to get a response,” Bay says. “And she does it in kind of the wrong way. I’m sorry, Megan. I’m sorry I made you work twelve hours. I’m sorry that I’m making you show up on time. Movies are not always warm and fuzzy.” Ah yes, but what does the entire lighting crew think about Megan’s crappy attitude? Craft services? The wig master? WHAT OF THE WIG MASTER?

Even screenwriter Ehren Kruger got in on the action, alleging “She was there for rehearsals. But she seemed like an actress who didn’t want to be a part of it. She was saying she wanted to, but she wasn’t acting like it.” While Bay readily admits he loves Fox’s replacement Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and has deleted Megan’s number from his phone, he concedes, “When you’re days and months on a set, it’s like a family. You say rude things and you make up.” Just as soon as the guy who hoses down the robots gets to take his jab at you.

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Steven Spielberg Asked Megan Fox Be Fired Over Hitler Comments, Says Bay

Clearly even if you think your boss acts like a tyrant, you shouldn’t go around saying it out loud, to the press, by comparing him to one of biggest monsters in modern history. Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon director Michael Bay recently told The Daily that Megan Fox’s firing came at the behest of executive producer Steven Spielberg following some unflattering comparisons to the dictator. “‘You know the Hitler thing,’ Steven (Spielberg) said,” Bay explained, describing their conversation. “‘Fire her right now.’” To be clear, this is what any boss would do if he or she heard you calling him or her Hitler in public, which is why you save it for those panicky phone calls to your best friend you make from the unisex bathroom. Common sense, people!

Apparently Megan Fox’s Hitler comments came when the actress was already cast in the third film across from Shia LeBeouf, as part of a very ill-advised interview with British magazine Wonderland. In the article Fox described Bay as being “like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation … he wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is.” Rosie Huntington-Whitley subsequently replaced Fox, who hopefully just writes down all her hateful thoughts about Michael Bay in her journal before immediately feeding them into the shredder and sprinkling them with old coffee grounds.

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Shia LaBeouf On Megan Fox Leaving Transformers: “Vibe Very Different”

Oh, Shia LaBeouf. We don’t think the actor meant to suggest that the “vibe” was better on Transformers: Dark Of The Moon because new co-star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley doesn’t mind being treated like a piece of meat, but that’s sure how he came off talking to the LA Times about Megan Fox. “Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [thing] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with [director] Michael [Bay], who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women,” he explained. “Mike films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Michael’s style. And I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it…When Mike would ask her to do specific things, there was no time for fluffy talk. We’re on the run. And the one thing Mike lacks is tact. There’s no time [to gently say] ‘I would like you to just arch your back 70 degrees.’”

Thankfully for the busy men of the cast and crew, Rosie didn’t mind Michael Bay’s more “Hitler”-y way of getting that back arched. “Rosie comes with this Victoria’s Secret background, and she’s comfortable with it,” says Shia. “So she can get down with Mike’s way of working and it makes the whole set vibe very different.” Since Megan’s “Spice Girl strength” (oh, Shia) hasn’t kept her from posing in her underwear for Armani, it’s hard to believe she was that uncomfortable with being a sex object—unless Bay was putting the accent on object too much even for her. But thanks for at least trying to see this from Megan’s side, Shia. Now shut up and arch that back for the camera! The ladies want to see your LaBeouf!

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Michael Bay Bets You Can’t Find Racist Robots In Transfomers 3

364 days of the year, any bet involving racial-offensive robotic cars would have us throwing down money immediately. Unfortunately, the money in this case would be the $12.50 we’d need to take Michael Bay’s Transformers 3 bet that the characters Skids and Mudflap do not appear in the film. After the release of Transformers 2, many fans took Bay to task for including the two bumbling Transformers characters, who were basically just off-putting African-American stereotypes made of alien metal. “I am offering a $25,000 REWARD to anyone who can find them performing in Transformers 3, on July 1, when the movie opens,” said Bay. “The Twins are not in the movie. You will not find them anywhere. Trailer houses sometimes use shots that are not in the movie! End [of] story I’m done wasting my time [on] this!”

The reason some might want to take Bay up on the bet is that, in addition to appearing the Transfomers 3: Dark Of The Moon trailer as well as in on-set videos, one journalist who reviewed an advanced screening copy claims the dim-witted duo are still very much in the movie. However, Bay says the critic must have been confused by the multitude of anthropomorphic vehicles, taking to the official Michael Bay forum site Shoot For The Edit to clarify “After the internet posting of a nice review by someone who saw Transformers Dark of the Moon, the writer had not been clear on one thing. He misstated that the Twins are in the film. They are not.” Sounds like Bay did include the Twins in his new film, only to edit them out when he remembered how they made 95% of his viewing audience want their money back. So now no one has to see it to make sure! Glad we all dodged that bullet.

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Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon Trailer Tries To Trick Us Into Seeing It

Oh, we’re on to you, Michael Bay. Don’t think we’ve forgotten the legacy of pyramid destruction and robo-leg humping established by Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen quite yet. Most of that movie made absolutely no sense, like those vaguely racist robots Skids and Mudflaps. If their brains are computers, then how can can one of them just not be able to read?

Which is why, as much as we love slow-motion explosions and the actor John Turturro, we know that the Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon trailer is as exciting as the movie could possibly get, probably more so. While we are somewhat intrigued by the idea that evil Decepticons have been living under the surface of the moon since the American moon landing until said time that they would emerge and wreck havoc on the District of Columbia, we know those exciting moments are probably separated by forty minutes of nonsensical dialogue and painful plot exposition. We are so sorry, Shia. We’ve grown too wise for your games.

Casting Couch: Top Ten Actresses That Could Replace Megan Fox In Transformers 3

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Hey there, Michael Bay! Not sure that we’ve been properly introduced. Here at The FABLife, we’re big fans of the way you are able to subtly wrench powerful emotional performances out of your actors, and we’re surely not the first to tell you that your mise-en-scène would make Truffaut weep with jealousy. Just kidding, we mostly love you because there’s no one better in the business at blowing sh*t up.

And hey, we heard the news that you fired Megan Fox from Transformers 3. We applaud the decision; after all, you can’t let some scrawny, hammer-thumbed bimbette tarnish the directorial legacy that you’ve been building ever since you first stepped behind the lens as the director of Playboy Video Centerfold: Kerri Kendall! Gotta keep your eye on the prize, can’t let one bad apple ruin the bunch, we get it.

But since we’ve heard that you’ve already started filming the third installment of Transformers in Los Angeles, we figured you might need some help finding a new love interest for Shia LaBeouf. To that end, we have gone to the trouble of compiling a list of ten actresses who could replace that ungrateful harlot, Megan Fox, as well as the reasons you’ll want to talk to them. Hopefully this will save you some time and allow you to complete the film in time for its planned release date of July 4, 2012!

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Transformers 3 To Get Its Oscar On

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Twilight isn’t the only franchise looking for some Oscar luster. While Transformers 3 won’t be replacing trash-tastic director Michael Bay with Ang Lee or Kathryn Bigelow, the on-screen talent is going to get a lot classier. “We just locked in Frances McDormand and John Malkovich,” reported Bay on his website. “Both amazing actors I’ve always wanted to work with.” Yes, after watching an Autobat urinate gasoline on John Turturro in the first movie, we’ve always wondered what movie magic Bay could wrangle out of an Oscar winner like McDormand. And who can wait to see a tete-a-tete between Malkovich and Megan Fox? With those acting fireworks, giant killer robots will only get in the way!

Despite the critical drubbing last year’s Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen received, it sounds like no expense will be spared on the 2011 follow-up. Crows Bay, “We are going to shoot in LA, Chicago, Washington DC, Florida, Texas, Africa, Moscow, and China.” And by shoot, we assume they mean “blow the crap out of stuff.” [via Vulture]

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Megan Fox Is “Dumb As A Rock,” Say Film Crew

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Some of Megan Fox‘s ruder pronouncements have come back to bite her on the ass. The outspoken star has been dissed by anonymous crew from the set of her recent Transformers movie for publicly slating the film’s director Michael Bay – and in a message posted on the director’s blog, they didn’t mince their words. Reportedly referring the “tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox,” the “unbearable time of watching her try to act” she was also called out for the “awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm.” (Well, it is fairly disgusting, we’ll agree).

The open letter’s been taken down now and replaced with a message from Bay himself, defending the actress’s “crazy charm” and how he looks forward to working with her on Transformers 3. Yep, bet the crew does too, from the sounds of it. [Photo: GettyImages]

Michael Bay Agrees: Megan Fox Talks Too Much

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Though she’s only been in a couple of films, Megan Fox is already notoriously famous for saying some pretty ridiculous things. And now she’s finally being called out for her kooky comments (she recently talked trash about her role in Transformers), by the very man who made her famous. The movie’s director, Michael Bay, has blasted the sultry vixen for saying, “some very ridiculous things,” because, he claims, “she’s 23 years old, and she still has a lot of growing up to do.” He adds, “You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, ‘Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want.’”

As if that wasn’t harsh enough, Bay goes on to take credit for making Fox’s career. “Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers,” insists Bay. We hope this means he’ll be willing to take the blame for her overexposure once we all get sick of her, too. [Photo: WireImage]