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Teen actors, like baby Tiger Woodses and Michelle Kwans, have been doing what they're good at since early kidhood. Muniz was a trouper at 8, as Tiny Tim in a Christmas Carol in Raleigh, N.C. Bynes was discovered at 10 at a kids' stand-up workshop in Los Angeles. Duff loved playacting in her Houston home: "When I was a kid, I would turn the TV off and act out the scenes myself." At 7, she turned...
...these actors, being a kid is a full-time job, with scripts to memorize, tutoring to endure--and all that fan mail. Can they also be ordinary youngsters? Or do they just play them on TV? Duff and Bynes seem to pull it off: nice girls with a grownup sense of proportion. "I pride myself on not being Hollywood," Bynes says. "I could go to the parties and stuff, but for me it's so fake. I know my whole career is based on being perky, but I'm more laid back than people would assume." Duff, when asked about...
...course, all this could be ... acting. For sure, the top kid stars aren't ready to hang it up. Indeed, they are mapping out futures beyond their comfortable TV hits. Duff says, when she first played Lizzie, "I was going through the same period of my life that Lizzie was, so it was kind of cool. But I'm older now," she says, sounding like Travolta when he vaulted from Welcome Back, Kotter to Saturday Night Fever. (The Lizzie TV series has probably shot its last episode, allowing Duff to pursue her film career.) Bynes is even more determined...
...These kid stars sound mature already. Even before they were 16, they didn't need a license to drive themselves to the top. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...going to matchup Trey with Schutt,” Walsh said. “I thought the best kid we were going to face [in the weekend’s four games] was Schutt, and we wanted Hendricks against...