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...Cynics can scoff at the product's bubblegum blandness, but that's precisely what's helped make HSM a global hit. The archetypes of Gabriella the brainy new girl in town, Troy the jock and Sharpay the diva travel well, as do the poppy songs and the themes of first love, cliques and friendship. Ross toured 25 regional Disney Channels around the globe two years ago, trying to convince them of HSM's potential. He met resistance "everywhere." But when Chinese or Russian marketers would fret that local viewers wouldn't get cheerleaders or basketball, he would drill down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How High School Musical Conquered the World | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...Written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega - the team behind the first two films - HSM3 takes us back to Albuquerque's East High School, where jock-muffin Troy (Efron) met and fell in love with brainy exchange student Gabriella (Hudgens) in the original HSM; they and their pals all took summer jobs at a local resort in HSM2. Now it's senior year, a time for looking back and ahead, for wondering whether the friendships soldered at East High will be sundered as the kids move on to college. Can they remain Best Friends Forever? Gab has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Musical 3: The Critic vs. The Kids | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega - the team behind the first two films - HSM3 takes us back to Albuquerque's East High School, where jock-muffin Troy (Efron) met and fell in love with brainy exchange student Gabriella (Hudgens) in the original HSM; they and their pals all took summer jobs at a local resort in HSM2. Now it's senior year, a time for looking back and ahead, for wondering whether the friendships soldered at East High will be sundered as the kids move on to college. Can they remain Best Friends Forever? Gab has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Musical 3: The Critic's Review | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Swooned in October, some investors scored big on the jock market. OneSeason.com a website that lets users trade virtual shares of sports stars, made its debut on Oct. 1, and though the stock is fake--Kobe Bryant won't give you a dividend--the profits and losses are very real. TIME's Sean Gregory asked an active trader how to play the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stocks Sinking? Be like Me: Buy Eli Manning | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...signal sober-up time. Instead, the good citizens of Minnesota learned that they--or 37% of the 61% of those who went to the polls--had voted into the Governor's office a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. shaved-head former professional wrestler and Twin City radio shock jock named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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