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Shia LaBeouf can still drive himself to a screening of Eagle Eye this weekend if he wants.

A hearing to determine whether his license should be suspended in connection with his July 27 car crash, originally scheduled for today, was postponed, according to the actor's attorney.

Authorities contend that LaBeouf—who was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by ambulance immediately after the accident—refused to take a blood-alcohol test afterward, an infraction that merits a minimum one-year suspension, per the Department of Motor Vehicles.

The 22-year-old actor was cited for misdemeanor DUI at the hospital based on observations made by officers at the scene. He was never taken into custody or made to pay bail and the L.A. District Attorney's Office opted yesterday not to press felony charges against him.

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Patricia Arquette's hubby didn't need a medium to predict the outcome of this one.

Thomas Jane was sentenced to a year's probation Wednesday after pleading no contest in Shafter, Calif., to a solo count of driving under the influence stemming from his March 11 arrest during a traffic stop.

The Punisher star must also pay about $1,700 in fines and attend two alcohol-education classes.

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Whatever Jin's fate may be, Daniel Dae Kim wants the remainder of his stay in Hawaii to be relatively smooth.

The Lost star pleaded no contest to DUI charges Friday in Honolulu stemming from his Oct. 25, 2007, arrest after a cop spotted him driving erratically and pulled him over.

For his misdemeanor offenses, Kim's license has been suspended for six months and he was ordered to perform 72 hours of community service and pay a $500 fine and $212 in court fees.

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Apparently learning from her mistakes, Nicole Richie has been opting for the high road.

A judge determined Wednesday that the former Simple Life star has been taking care of herself and is otherwise "in compliance" with the terms of her probation stemming from her 2006 DUI bust, a Los Angeles Superior Court clerk told E! News.

Richie—who since being caught driving the wrong way on an L.A. freeway after taking Vicodin and smoking pot has become a mom, started a charitable foundation and more or less stopped making a mockery of herself—was placed on three years' probation in July 2007.

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The star of Greek may be in for a bit of a hazing by the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.

Scott Michael Foster, who plays Cappie on the ABC Family show, has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence stemming from his bust earlier this summer.

The 23-year-old small-screen frat boy was arrested in the early hours of July 21 after failing a field sobriety test issued during a routine traffic stop. He was charged with driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or above.

He was released after several hours on $5,000 bail and headed straight to the Greek set, where he was quick to issue mea culpas to his fellow cast and crew.

He's clearly got some school spirit. Time will tell if he's also got a good defense.

A pretrial hearing has been set for Sept. 22.

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Angie Everhart's beau has been accused of some mighty bad behavior

The actress' boyfriend, whose identity was not released by police, was arrested Thursday in West Hollywyood for allegedly roughing her up during an "incident" that left Everhart with minor injuries.

"There was an incident involving Angie Everhart and her boyfriend," said Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Scott Wolf. "He was gone from the location of the incident before deputies arrived. There were minor injuries, but they did not require medical attention. He was subsequently booked for misdemeanor spousal battery."

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There are new details about the extent of Shia LaBeouf's hand injury—and they're not pretty.

LaBeouf's left hand was "crushed" in last weekend's rollover car crash, and the young star will require "regular medical supervision until his doctors clear him to return to work," LaBeouf attorney Michael Norris said in a statement Friday.

There was no new timetable for LaBeouf's return to work on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the big-budget sequel the actor had been shooting. Earlier, pre-"crushed" reports said LaBeouf would be out a month.

A rep for Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the Transformers franchise, told E! News today that "no final decisions have been made" as to whether LaBeouf's injury will be written into the new movie. The studio is prepared to modify its schedule for LaBeouf as needed, the rep said.

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The hazing continues for Scott Michael Foster.

The 23-year-old Greek star was charged Tuesday with two misdemeanor DUI counts stemming from his arrest last week in Hollywood following a routine traffic stop.

Foster is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 11 on charges of driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or above.

Patrolmen pulled the actor over shortly past midnight on July 21 near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Wilcox Avenue. After he failed field sobriety tests, Foster was booked into custody and held until about 5 a.m., when he was released after posting $5,000 bail.

Foster wasn't too rattled by the bust to return to frat-boy mode. He managed to make it to the Greek set that morning, where, a source told E! News, "he was very apologetic and grateful that nothing worse happened as a result of his bad decision."

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Turns out, Shia LaBeouf was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. With the wrong blood-alcohol level.

As the 22-year-old Transformers star spends the next month recovering from extensive hand surgery and planning a defense for his charge of misdemeanor DUI, he can take some solace in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's latest revelation: Despite previous reports and assumptions, the actor was not to blame in causing Sunday morning's rollover car crash.

"He was not at fault," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

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Isabel Lucas may have earned herself a slave for life on the Transformers 2 set.

Sources tell E! News that it was Shia LaBeouf's Australian costar who was riding in the actor's truck when he had his early morning DUI crash on Sunday.

Authorities said yesterday that neither LaBeouf's then-unidentified female passenger nor the driver of the car he hit was seriously hurt. All three involved were taken to the hospital, where the women were treated for minor injuries and later released.

Lucas, 23, who lately has been spotted on the arm of Entourage star Adrian Grenier, was already back on the set of the Michael Bay-directed Transformers 2 today, a rep for Paramount Pictures told E! News.

A rep for Lucas couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

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Shia LaBeouf's mother wants the world to know: The kid is all right.

In recovery, but all right.

Shayna LaBeouf told E! News that her 22-year-old action-star son remains at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after undergoing "extensive hand surgery" in the wake of his truck-flipping, DUI-inurring car crash.

"I'm at the hospital right now, he's doing fine," said Shayna, who has been keeping watch over her son since his wreck in the wee hours of Sunday.

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Getting arrested for being a little rowdy in Walgreens is funny, but getting busted for a DUI after crashing into another car and rolling an F-150 is really, seriously not cool.

And that's how Shia LaBeouf went from being labeled the next Tom Hanks to possibly the next Lindsay Lohan. However, unlike Linds, he has two big movies coming up over the next year—this September's Eagle Eye and next summer's Transformers sequel—so he could bounce back with a sincere apology and some of that charm he already exhibited on The Late Show With David Letterman.

But until then, how's this sitting with you? Are you feeling like a betrayed fan, or are you over the Shia hype and never want to see another movie of his no matter how much Steven Spielberg supports it?