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...overalls, with a bowl haircut, and "the first words out of my mouth would be 'Listen, assholes,'" he says. "Sometimes I would bomb. I'd talk about personal stuff and instead of laughing, people would look at me like, 'Oh, man, I'm so sorry.'" The potty-mouthed-preteen act only took him so far, so at age 11 LaBeouf found an agent. In the phone book. "I called up and did my 5-min. routine," he says. "Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. They liked the fact that I tried...
...means was I an obsessed, crimson-adorned preteen. My parents did not pressure me into making such a forecast. I was not already cramming for the SATs. All I knew, like so many others, was the school’s name and reputation...
True, but with preteen girls gabbing about the show in Web chat rooms and snapping up Glinda earrings and DEFY GRAVITY shirts at the Ozdust boutique, they're the crowd the show has really grabbed. "I liked Elphaba because she was different," says Jami, a 10-year-old in Buffalo Grove, Ill., who has virtually memorized the script from reading the $40 coffee-table companion book and recently acted out the entire show with two friends in her bedroom. "It made me feel that it's good to be different...
Last week, students walking around Currier and Pforzheimer Houses found themselves surrounded by a new crowd—the preteen set—and were perhaps left thinking they had accidentally entered a time warp back to middle school. Last Wednesday morning, an electrical fire at the Graham and Parks Alternative Public School, located across Walker Street from the Quad, rendered its students unable to enter the building for the day. So Currier and Pforzheimer opened their doors to the 400 stranded students, who ranged from kindergarten to eighth grade. The students were bused later that afternoon to another local...
Kajeet isn't first to market. Firefly Mobile has signed up about 200,000 preteen customers over the past two years, touting its parental controls and simple design: the five-button Firefly handset lacks even a number pad. Disney launched its mobile service last year, featuring a child-tracking function that works only on the Disney-branded handsets. Kajeet, on the other hand, thinks kids can handle a grownup phone...