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...High School Musical 2, it's vacation, and the kids of Albuquerque's East High are looking for summer jobs. Jock-turned-stage-star Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) scores a sweet gig as an assistant golf pro at the Lava Springs country club and gets jobs for his pals and girlfriend Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens). The catch: his job has been arranged by spoiled rich girl and theater brat Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), who considers Troy her rightful boyfriend. She connives for him to duet with her in a talent show--and for Gabriella to be left out. For middle...
...culture? By now, to be a teen heartthrob, you should have done time in rehab, videotaped yourself having sex or been shot in the face at least once. But instead we've gone backward, from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley to Leonardo DiCaprio to Justin Timberlake to Zac Efron. By 2020, 12-year-old girls will be decorating their lockers with photos of the surgeon general...
...have put on productions of the show; a series of books about the characters sold 4.5 million copies; the concert tour sold out all 42 of its arenas; the live show is touring 70 cities; and, of course, bucks are being made on High School Musical: The Ice Tour. Efron, the star of the movie and of the slightly bigger-budget sequel that debuts on Aug. 17, High School Musical 2--in which he plays a jock with a bowl haircut who just wants to save money for college and sing about it to his mathlete girlfriend--is among...
...sprinklers, temporarily rendering them defective and creating a potential liability. “The air was full of what we thought was smoke at the time, but it didn’t smell like smoke, and it wasn’t hot,” said Nicole K. Efron ’08. “But it hurt to inhale it.” Dominique Gracia ’09 said that when the alarm went off, “the entire area was completely white,” and “we couldn’t really...
...High School Musical: the very title, proudly generic, cues you to the movie's embrace of antique cliches. So does the plot. Troy (Zac Efron, a cutie who manages to channel both Michael J, Fox and David Cassidy in their early adorable years) is the resident Anglo basketball star - we said it was a fantasy - and Gabrielle (Vanessa Anne Hutchinson, from the Soledad O'Brien breed of smiling semi-hispanics) is the new brainiac, at a school that might as well be called Rainbow Coalition High. The hero and heroine's best friends are African-American; there's a Hollywood...