Article: Dirty Zac: Zac Efron, High School Musical's well-scrubbed big man on campus, is the teen nation's most toned, tanned, Twittered-about obsession. But, lately, he's been thinking about the future and--OMG!--is he ready to graduate.(Cover story)

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UNLESS YOU'VE GOT children of a certain age, you probably haven't seen much of Zac Efron's work. This is it, so far, in a nutshell: Efron is the star of Disney's High School Musical franchise, which ostensibly revolves around the blooming relationship between Troy (Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), a jock and a brain respectively, who couldn't be more different from each other but who discover a common ground in their mutual love for music. Their (chaste) courtship involves various plot twists and adolescent entanglements enacted through a series of song-and-dance ...

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