Word: heartthrobs
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Thank you for your article on teen heartthrob Zac Efron. I recently became a big fan of his after seeing his performance in Hairspray. He is extremely talented and very sexy yet wholesome. I haven't been this excited about a celebrity in a long time. And he isn't just for the tweens and teens. I happen to be a 41-year-old mother of two boys...
...thousands fought to the death before cheering crowds. They hacked one another with swords; they were torn to pieces by wild animals. Most of them perished in near anonymity, but some became idols and sex symbols--men such as Celadus the Thracian, immortalized as "the young girls' heartthrob," and Crescens, "the netter of young girls by night...
...Danny and Sandy, the teen summer-lovebirds each vying for acceptance by the cool crowd at Rydell High, they lack a certain amount of big-stage charisma. Crumm has the winsome, quizzical look of a class clown who gets the girl only by accident, not the heartthrob played by John Travolta in the 1978 film. And Osnes's lovely, sculptured singing voice does struggle at times to get heard over the small but well-miked house band. But they perform all the dance moves required, don't have any trouble with the lines, and (unlike some others in the cast...
What happened to the coarsening of our 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...
...already familiar with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. The trio have brought their demented brand of smart-but-silly comedy to the otherwise vanilla airwaves of “Saturday Night Live,” where the latter two write sketches and Samberg, a heartthrob who happens to be hilarious, has made a splash as the show’s newest star...