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...song.' That was the worst time in my life as far as our family goes." LaBeouf drew on the memory again for scenes in Disturbia, in which he plays an aggrieved high schooler who attacks a teacher and ends up under house arrest. For all his Hanksian Everyguy appeal, LaBeouf's performances in these two films reveal flickers of Sean Penn--style pent-up fury. "A lot of actors in their 20s don't have that much range," says LaBeouf's Transformers co-star John Turturro. "The world is different now, less rugged in some ways. Everything is facile...
...cell phone at campaign rallies and asks people to punch in a short code, along with the word today. "Gotcha," he declares, as the campaign harvests more cell-phone numbers to add to its text-messaging network. A few weeks ago, his campaign sent out a fund-raising appeal via text message to the 13,000 phone numbers he had captured that way, and raised thousands, says Edwards strategist Joe Trippi...
...there's YouTube. Last month Trippi made an embarrassingly awkward video with fellow Edwards adviser Jonathan Prince, in which the two attempted to make the candidate's favorite pecan pie. They offered to share the recipe (courtesy of Edwards' mother) in return for a minimum donation of $6.10; the appeal brought in nearly $300,000 in a week, Trippi says. All it cost was the $20 or so it took to buy the pie ingredients, which made it a highly efficient way to raise money. By comparison, Trippi says, a direct-mail solicitation can easily run into hundreds of thousands...
Lewis "Scooter" Libby isn't going to jail, but he still has to cough up a $250,000 fine, serve two years of supervised release and live with his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice - unless they're overturned on appeal...
...President announced his decision just hours after the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington turned down Libby's request to remain free on bail while he appealed his March conviction. Libby will now go free, but the court will still play a role in the case, since Libby is expected to pursue his appeal. If he loses, Bush could pardon him, though that possibility has not been mentioned publicly by anyone at the White House or in Libby's camp...