Word: tweens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Disney Channel. They record CDs for Disney Music. Their music is played on Radio Disney network. They make movies for Disney (a Hannah Montana flick is in the works). They appear on shows like Disney-owned abc's Dancing with the Stars. Cyrus is "really talented," says tween guru and S-Curve Records CEO Steve Greenberg, but also "she really has every arm of a gigantic corporation working at full tilt in an incredibly sophisticated and coordinated fashion toward her success...
...late listening to Giants games re-created on the radio by Les Keiter, who would simulate hits by making a thwok sound with, I think, his mouth? I persisted, and more: I went to Yankee Stadium and rooted against the home team. Indeed, the fanly highlight of my tween years was attending a doubleheader in which the mythically awful Washington Senators flushed the Yanks day and night...
...Emma Roberts Age: 16 Spiritual Mother: Julia Roberts Screen Cred: The niece of Julia and daughter of Eric is the star of Nickelodeon's tween comedy hit, Unfabulous; her first gig was a bit darker, as coke dealer Johnny Depp's daughter in Blow. New project: Young Roberts is more Burberry than bare midriff as the smart would-be Sherlock in the Nancy Drew movie opening Friday, June 15. Good girl factoid: This summer, Roberts promoted reading with Laura Bush at an all-girls' middle school...
...point of view, was dismissed by most critics when it opened in the fall of 2003. But 3 1/2 years later, Wicked is regularly the highest-grossing show on Broadway, with three more companies setting box-office records around the country. And the show's most avid fans are tween girls, who have connected with its themes of friendship, prejudice and self-realization--identifying with Elphaba, the "wicked" witch who's actually just misunderstood...
...with the eggheads. Perky, pretty in pink and packaged with the requisite mix of campy condescension and you-go-girl inspiration, the show looks poised to become Broadway's next hit. If so, it will largely be thanks to the theater's hot audience of the moment: tween and teen girls...