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Zac Efron has really made the so-called awkwardness of adolescence work in his favor.
“The new American heartthrob,” as Rolling Stone dubbed its Aug. 9 cover boy, has signed on to star in the comedy Seventeen, a Big-in-reverse tale of a 36-year-old man who wakes up one morning to find himself a high school senior again. Efron, 19, who’s currently in theaters playing Link Larkin, the big—yet sensitive—man on campus in Hairspray, made a name for himself last year as the basketball jock who falls for the brainy girl in the Disney Channel phenomenon High School Musical, one of the cable network’s most successful original movies ever. So most probably by the looks of it Zac is the next super star in the making and if things remain upbeat as they are now then there’s no stopping this young fella from reaching the dizzy height of stardom. Zac Efron Seventeen and Counting, best of luck.

If only the other girls in Hollywood would be like her. Britney, Paris, Lindsay and everyone else that could otherwise fall into the same category, you all should be more like Mandy Moore. Here’s what she says when it comes to partying and drugs.

“I’ve probably been drunk, maybe, four times in my entire life. Honestly. I guess I’m a bit of a lightweight. I have a better time enjoying one glass of wine and just being relaxed. It’s a bit of a control thing – I don’t like not being in control of my words. I like to go to bed at 10pm, or 10.30pm, because I like to wake up at 7am. Maybe for some people drink and drugs work for them, but I’m not a tortured artist. I wouldn’t turn to some sort of substance to make me feel better, I’d turn to writing.”