Following his Tuesday performance of "Music of the Night," the signature song from Andrew Lloyd Webber 's "The Phantom of the Opera," Tulsa 's David Cook could breathe easy — " American Idol " was not sending him home.

Cook and 17-year-old David Archuleta were judged as "safe" during the first half of Wednesday night's elimination episode.

The same was not true of Carly Smi...