Yes, Megan Fox may be 23, but what's Michael Bay's excuse?

As Michael Kinsley famously said in 1992, "A gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth". Apparently, Michael Bay is a little displeased about Megan Fox's recent 'gaffes' in the Entertainment Weekly cover interview a few weeks back. Sample this ridiculous rebuttal where Bay attempts to admonish his leading lady while A) ignoring the core of what she said (that she's grateful for the opportunities, but she would also like to do work that requires her to act) and B) criticizing her by stating the exact same things she stated in the interview in question (that she knows damn well that Transformers single-handedly plucked her from obscurity). I'm not one to get into celebrity mudslinging, but is clearly a case of someone saying something truthful and honest and being slammed for being critical, even though the original thoughts were not explicitly critical in nature. It's just the kind of thing that will prevent the kind of honest, actually readable celebrity interviews that are otherwise in such short supply these days.

Scott Mendelson