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Zac Efron is ready for his close-up

 

Can we pause for just a second to admire this ridiculously aggressive paparazzi photo of Zac Efron from last night's premiere of 17 Again? If that kid can claim ownership to a single pore, I'll eat my hat. Well, I'll eat a hat made out of Kraft Singles, anyway...

The premiere looked to be an exciting affair, with a crackle of youthful electricity and the faint smell of Oxy 10 in the air. More pics of some of the more interesting guests (including a certain Idol-rocking Gay of the Week and a newly-Mohawked Seth Green) below! 

Seth Green
 

Idol's Top Seven

Adam Lambert

Gay director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) is one of the film's producers (with Jennifer Gibgot)
 

Aaaand Matthew Perry, aghast at the sight of the critical mass of his own irrelevance
 

Insideguy's picture

Adam Lambert Out and About

Why is it that the very talented Adam Lambert looks so hot on HIS show but in close up stills he looks moon-faced?

That's all I am saying... 

INSIDEGUY

dback's picture

OMG, Adam looks like Stockard Channing gone punk!

Adam, sweetie.  Love you madly, you're adorable and talented as hell, but can we have another day or two of the clean-cut look from "Tracks of my Tears" night?

What happened to the scumdiddly-lickable Seth Green?  All of my attraction for him was just nuked.  For Matthew Perry, I assume his expression is what's making his face distort in that weird way--he's normally very attractive.  (And love all that wavy hair.)

Not quite getting the Efron thing, though he seems like a nice boy.

Gabrielle's picture

Adam doesn't look very good

Adam doesn't look very good in these pics. I think I like him better with that clean cut look he did so well on AI. He pulled it off really well and he looked kinda hot.

Kris on the other hand is always so cute and Matt isn't bad either. <3

 

Nukely's picture

Too Much

Make-up, They rushed the contestants from the show to the premier, they didn't even change clothes, which suggests that they didn't have time to; and they may not even had time to wash their faces. They are wearing TV make up in day light for these photos, and Adam seems to show it more than the others (creases in his neck). His hair looks like an Andy Warhol wig and his eyebrows are too waxed, too plucked and way too dark.

While I like the overall look, for the street he needs to shower it off, finger tease and go super light on the foundation.

 

Joshua Norton's picture

Some stylist really has to take Zac

under his tutalige and explain that there's nothing even remotely sexy about a hairdo that looks like a bad comb-over. Unless it IS a bad comb-over, then I'm really sorry for bringing it up.

Joshua Norton
San Francisco

seanb's picture

That IS a stylist...

...generating that look (with Zac's input, of course).  Hair is like movies or art - there is no absolute standard of good vs. bad.  Further, different looks are considered bad or good by different subsets of people, and those perceptions can change wildly over time.  Personally, I prefer Zac with shorter hair, but his current look is very popular with a certain segment of the "cutting edge".

I find that dynamic even more true about clothing.  There are things that, when I was a kid, only grandpas would wear.  And then eventually they became hot with young people! 

The key point about style of any kind:  it's ALL perception and popularity; there are simply no absolutes.

Nukely's picture

Idilic hair

I forget where I read this but one of the criteria for a teen idol is hair. What ever you want to call it, questionable, weird, hip, unique, but all of the teen idols had "the hair" thing going on.

And as I think about this, I want to mention another thing teen idols have going on, it's their uncertain, therefor questionable, sexuality.

While that might seem safe to pre teen girls, it's also imperative that it suggests a kind of rebellion to their parents who don't want to see their little girls fall for a fag. It works as a way for these girls to safely rebel from their parents. That's why we "pretend" that these boys are straight, even if they are straight we still sort of act like we're pretending, not because these boys want to boink their fans but because a boy of questionable sexuality is the last person that these parents would want their little girls to boink.

There is also the implied assurance, assumed by the girls, that these soft boys won't hurt them. Therefore the girls can fantasize; they can pretend at lust, love, imagined companionship and pretend to share their new found euphoria (masterbation), without compromising their social status.

That's what Disney and teen mags have been selling for decades.

 

atweaver's picture

Okay

so I'm a straight old grandma (my granddaughter is older than Adam), but I like Adam better this way than looking like an Elvis wannabe.
 
Of course, I think his voice tops Elvis.
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RC94's picture

Zac Efron

I think i can speak for all 14 year old gay boys when i say Zac Efron is HOT!!!!!

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