Mills was the teen-age star of the Broadway stage production of The Wiz.

The Hurt character flies to Long Island to meet the teen-age star.

When the show's teen-age star was not nominated, Ms. Bridgewater said, "there were all these rumors that I slept around to get the nomination."

One is simply that many teen-age stars are recruited from neighborhoods where violence is not a sometime thing.

But the film relies on the sweet, deft performances the director elicited from his teen-age stars, who spoke Shakespeare's poetry most naturally.

Chris Klein, one of the teen-age stars, was similarly attired.

He argued that because the teen-age star looked older than her years, he had not known she was a minor.

The two women went very much their separate ways, with Ms. Kidman becoming a teen-age star in Australia.

Music and movies are where new stars can zoom fastest into youth consciousness, but the new cable channels are creating teen-age stars, too.