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...date movie had, in industry parlance, long legs. Namely, Beyoncé's. Her loving-wife-confronts-crazy-stalker-lady thriller Obsessed, last week's No. 1, finished a strong third with $12.2 million. The movie has now earned in 10 days what another musical star's solo effort, the Zac Efron 17 Again, grossed in 17; it took fourth place...
...speaks in silkily modulated tones, carries himself with a lithe sexual assurance and, at the end of movies where he's played the restless tiger, gives big emotional speeches about the need for two people to be one. "Lock him up!" guys say. (See pictures of teen hunk Zac Efron...
...people who made 17 Again don't want to waste time reminding the movie's core fans why they're there. So right away, we see a shirtless Zac Efron on the basketball court, practicing his moves, radiating an innocent musk, his smoothly muscled torso seemingly gleaming with - not sweat - dew. The camera not only loves the 21-year-old actor but laps him; it wants to wring the moisture from his socks and drink it. Few female stars of Hollywood's golden age received the luminous, slow-motion, soft-focus devotion Efron gets here. The idea is to stir...
...make the transition? Does he carry the tweens into their teens? Try appealing to an older crowd, as he did with his adroit hosting of Saturday Night Live this month? Decisions, decisions ... that only a dreamboat du jour has to worry about. (Read "How Zac Efron Became the Cutest Guy Ever...
...movie houses, where their money is good too. The streak looks to hold with the cannily bigenerational 17 Again. Things will change, because he'll grow older and his current fans will grow up. But no one seems more prepared for that evolution, for his grownup closeup, than Zac Efron...