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    DiCaprio, Maguire, others urge voter expression

    FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2009, file photo, actors Tobey Maguire, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio watch an NBA basketball game between Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Los Angeles. DiCaprio and Maguire lead a cast of stars in a new public service announcement urging young voters to use social media to express the issues most important to them in the upcoming election.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire lead a cast of stars in a new public service announcement urging young voters to use social media to express the issues most important to them in the upcoming election.

    Zac Efron, Selena Gomez, Ellen DeGeneres, Jonah Hill and Joseph Gordon Levitt also appear in the Vote 4 Stuff video unveiled Monday, joining other stars in a call to voters to post tweets, photos and short videos about concerns they feel deserve presidential attention.

    "This is one of the most important elections of our lifetime," said DiCaprio, whose production company, Appian Way, is a producer of Vote 4 Stuff. "We are using the power of social media throughout the Vote 4 Stuff campaign to incite bipartisan conversation around real issues, encourage registration and voting in November."

    Edward Norton, Sarah Silverman, Benicio Del Toro and Amanda Seyfried are also featured in the 2 ½-minute video, which promises that content created in response to it will be incorporated into Vote 4 Stuff's future online efforts.

    Among the concerns these stars reveal in the video: Jobs, marriage equality, climate change, foreign policy, reproductive rights, immigration, worker's rights, teacher salaries and education.

    FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2009 file photo, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt of "500 Days of Summer" poses for a portrait at the Gibson Guitar Lounge during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Gordon-Levitt co-stars in the time-travel drama “Looper,” which opens Sept. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Mainz, File)FILE In this July 30, 2012 file photo, actor Edward Norton attends the world premiere of "The Bourne Legacy" at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. Norton, Jonah Hill, Snoop Dogg and several other stars are slated to play in a celebrity tournament of the popular online game "Words With Friends" for charity beginning Sept. 27, 2012. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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