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Well, a couple of days after seeing Grease, I happened to be sitting around a breakfast-room table with a half-dozen 13-year-old girls. They had just finished watching the sequel to High School Musical on the Disney Channel, and they weren't very thrilled with it. But they were eager to hear about Grease. All of them had watched the reality show, and though a few thought that Derek should have beaten out Max for the role of Danny Zuko, they were dying to see the Broadway revival. Which is sort of what we're going...
...normal, he wants you to know, he is obviously not as ridiculously vanilla as the characters he's played. Like, he's totally not anti-kissing, even though he and Hudgens didn't do it in the first Disney movie. "I'm the last person to think a kiss is going to corrupt any child. Kissing is a great thing," he says. Also, he plays video games. Violent ones. "It's bull____ that guns in video games cause murders. The last thing I would ever do is hurt another person, and online I probably kill 200 guys a day." Moreover...
...radio stations to give tweens their own swath of broadband, the kids have chosen to be on the far right of all right. For their generation's defining piece of art they overwhelmingly chose last year's High School Musical, a song-and-dance movie made for the Disney Channel that is so wholesome the Amish community playhouse could...
...shows, but his parents gave him 12 months to make a living as an actor or else he'd have to go to USC, where he had deferred his freshman year. Time was about up when an actor friend told him he'd tried out for a Disney musical, and Efron's agent got him in for the last day of auditions. "The only thing that separates me from 200 brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A. is one single audition. I'll never forget that," he says. "I can't imagine how I got picked. I don't think...
...competitiveness does not come across as aggressive. "He radiates this sense of attainability--as if anyone who meets him can be his friend," says Gary March, the entertainment president of the Disney Channel. "That's not something you learn in acting class. That's something you're born with." High School Musical co-star Monique Coleman says, "He also has a way of wooing the women by including them. By making every single girl feel like they could be his girlfriend...