Word: hairspray
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...some kids haven't hit puberty yet." In fact, though he's 19 years old, Efron's voice still has a squeak to it, which fits in with his appeal as the anti-rehab kid. Though paparazzi follow him, especially after his supporting role in last month's Hairspray, the only change he's made is putting a shirt on when driving. The worst thing they've caught him doing is kissing his High School Musical co-star, Vanessa Hudgens, on a beach in Hawaii; Efron won't even say she's his girlfriend, even though...
People are nevertheless very, very interested. Those over 20 without children at home may not be aware of Efron, but everyone else is. Girls slept outside on the street of his hotel every night when he was filming Hairspray. He's so gooed over by girls that I Hate Zac Efron clubs have been popping up at high schools (including the school his cousin attends). He has been a teen-mag fixture for the past year and a half, appearing somewhere on the cover of every Tiger Beat and Bop, according to their editor's estimation, during that time. Efron...
...shot by paparazzi. "I can get an equally good sandwich at Quiznos: the honey mustard chicken sandwich with bacon on whole wheat. It's pretty cheap. If I buy a foot-long sandwich, it's like two meals." No, two made-for-TV movies and a role in Hairspray won't make you rich, but still, dude can buy a panini...
...Travolta's Edna Turnblad is the heart of Hairspray, Elijah Kelley's Seaweed J. Stubbs is the hips--the kind of boy who makes teenage girls nearly choke on their lollipops or want to join him in detention. That's where Seaweed teaches kids, white and black, including Tracy (Nikki Blonsky), all the fun dances. With his strenuous, just-naughty-enough performance of the number Run and Tell That!, Kelley, 20, emerges as a Hollywood throwback--a charismatic young actor who sings and dances. Kelley is in talks to star in a biopic of the young Sammy Davis...
...LaGrange, Ga., and taking one dance class, at 10, to meet a girl. "Performing is a rush," says Kelley. "You can express yourself without regret or explanation." Although he tangoed in 2006's Take the Lead, when he first saw the moves he was expected to do in Hairspray, Kelley was baffled. "I was like, I hope you have a stunt man," he says. Two months of rehearsals later, the cameras rolled. And Kelley danced away with a promising career...