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Adam Young: See Dawson, Kim and Cabooter, James. “I’m on Fire!”, Daily Star, February 9, 2010.
Emily Robison and Martie Maguire: See Dennis, Alicia. “Dixie Duo,” People, May 24, 2010.
Vanessa Hudgens: See Nylon, April 2010.
Chad Michael Murray: See Crook, John. “One Tree Hill’s Cast Starts Branching Out,” Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2003.
Sarah Michelle Gellar: See, for example, Post staff. “ ‘Other Kids Picked On Me’: Buffy,” New York Post, August 3, 2001.
Busy Philipps: See Freed, David A. “New kids in the box,” Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2005.
Andy Warhol: See, for example, Curtis, Dawn Marie. “Pop Artist Was Born in Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 16, 2002.
James Franco: Interview with Lindzi Scharf. Lindzi.com.
Barbra Streisand: See, for example, Churchill, Bonnie. “Streisand Relishes ‘Complete Control,’ ” Christian Science Monitor, December 13, 1996.
Mena Suvari: See Lee, Luaine. “An All-American Actress: From ‘American Beauty’ to ‘American Pie,’ Mena Suvari Grows as a Woman and a Star,” Scripps Howard News Service, September 16, 2001.
“I just didn’t relate”: Ibid.
John Stossel: See Stossel, John. “The ‘In’ Crowd and Social Cruelty: Exploration of what causes popularity and unpopularity in children and adults,” ABC News, June 3, 2002.
Barbara Walters: See People, 1978.
Al Roker: See Getlen, Larry. “Today Is Always a Busy Day When Your Name Is Al Roker,” CityScoops, 2008. See also, King, Larry. “Al Roker Discusses His ‘Adventures in Fatherhood,” Larry King Live, June 16, 2000.
Amy Van Dyken: See, for example, Ford, Bob. “Van Dyken Wins Butterfly for U.S.,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 24, 1996.
was tormented by her high school: I interviewed Van Dyken on this topic several years ago.
first American woman: See, for example, Allen, Karen. “U.S. swimmers haul in records,” USA Today, July 27, 1996.
“this is a victory for all the nerds”: See, for example, Brant, Martha. “Pool Sharks,” Newsweek, August 5, 1996.
U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame: See, for example, Meyer, John. “Golden girl Van Dyken joins U.S. Olympic Hall,” The Denver Post, April 16, 2008.
Nicole Kidman: See, for example, King, Larry. Larry King Live, September 26, 1997.
Heather Locklear: See Kovanis, Georgea. “The Official Encyclopedia of Heather Locklear,” Detroit Free Press, September 25, 1995.
Anthony Hopkins: See, for example, Williams, Tryst. “New Role for Hopkins’s Old School,” Western Mail, September 18, 2004. Students called him “Mad Hopkins.” See, for example, McCarthy, Phillip. “Full marks for Anthony,” The Age (Melbourne), February 12, 1994.
Ryan Seacrest: See, for example, “Would They Have Dated in School?”, US Weekly, August 16, 2010.
Zooey Deschanel: See, for example, O’Hearn, Amanda. “The Nature of Zooey Deschanel,” Mean, 2000.
Taylor Lautner: See, for example, Strauss, Neil. “Teen Wolf,” Rolling Stone, November 2009.
Christina Aguilera: Aguilera told the Observer Magazine that she was bullied and ostracized because classmates didn’t understand her: “I would get a lot of cold shoulders because there was just no way they could relate to what I loved to do. You know, it’s not really normal for a child to just want to be in front of the camera and on stage. It’s not something that all kids want to do—they want to play in the playground. . . . That was my form of release without my even knowing it at that young age. You know, it was hard for me to relate to other kids because I didn’t have the same interests. I was even more the oddball, I felt, because of that.” See Day, Elizabeth. “I’m not there to parent anybody’s children,” Observer Magazine, November 23, 2008.
Dustin Hoffman: See People, 1978.
“horrible”: See, for example, O’Hearn.
made her more ambitious: Ibid.
CHAPTER 6
“One thing that really emphasized”: Interview.
73 percent of online teens: See