All grown up

When did this happen?

So, we're big Zac Efron fans hear at W&W (but if you've ever clicked on the "About Us" tab, you already knew that).  We love the High School Musical movies, we were totally enchanted with his teenage dream romance with co-star Vanessa Hudgens, and even loved his freaky Friday-style comedy 17 Again.  (And maybe I've watched Charlie St. Cloud once or four times on HBO.)  But we had our limits, Zac Attac was a cute kid with a fantastic voice, but he wasn't a sex symbol.  However, I got over that in a hurry last week.  My sister and I went to see New Year's Eve, which was exactly as bad as all the critics said, with Zac Efron as the sole bright spot in an extremely accomplished cast. (And, while we're hovering around the subject, how the fuck did Hillary Swank win two Oscars?)  But my attitude about Mr. Efron changed before the movie even started, when I saw the preview for the new Nicholas Sparks drama, The Lucky One.  When did this Disney star get so hot?  I feel like I should be arrested for even writing that, but seriously, watch the preview.


I guess Troy Bolton is all grown up.  Eat your heart out, Vanessa Hudgens.

xo kate

United State of Awesome.

Dfest and I love a good pop song. And we lovelovelove a good mashup. Needless to say we eagerly await DJ Earworm's United State of Pop mix each year and the 2011 version does not disappoint. Of all the reasons I hope the world doesn't actually end on 12/20/12, missing the United State of Pop 2012 is in my top five. Zac Efron is also in there. Maybe number 3. More on that later.



xo kate

This is the kind of thing that ends relationships.

Today I found out something awesome.  My friend, who shall remain nameless but if you ask I'll totally tell you, is an awesome dancer.  So awesome in fact, that she's in movies.  Tonight she told us that she was in the opening scene of High School Musical 2.  Clearly, she is the ultimate wildcat.  Obviously, Ezra and I to immediately rushed home to watch her (luckily I just happen to own HSM2, and 1 and 3).

Unfortunately, this has caused our biggest fight to date.  Ezra claims that Ashley Tisdale is more famous than Vanessa Hudgens (despite the fact that he can't name a single thing she's ever been in besides the HSM movies).  Clearly, Vanessa Hudgens is far more famous, even if it's only because she dated Zac Efron forevs.  But, Ezra is a man (sort of), so he won't back down.  Therefore, I am looking to you all for back up.  Please settle this dispute for us once and for all by voting in the sidebar on our new poll, who is more famous: Ashley Tisdale or Vanessa Hudgens.

Help us out, wildcats, the fate of our apartment bragging rights depends on it.

xo kate

"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man" ~William Shakespear​e

Looky, looky what we have here...one of our pack members (and the original Wildcat) has grown some facial hair.

I cannot tell a lie--I love beards.
And I love young Zac Effron.
So it only stands to reason that I would love Zac, with a beard.

Sure, its a little creepy how the mustache and the beard don't connect.  But overall, I'm on board.

What are your thoughts?

Smokin

Our wolfpack is hot. Savvy?

(images via whereisthecool?)

What's this?

Let's be honest, Zac wouldn't
 make it in prison.

I've been rooting for Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens since the very beginning.  They aren't the type of couple that I would usually get behind for a couple reasons.  First, I tend to be revolted by sugary-sweet couples of all varieties (see: Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Cameron Diaz and anyone at all).  Also, I think Vanessa seems a little dumb -- she's without a doubt a beautiful girl, but she has a little bit of that dead-behind-the-eyes thing like Jessica Simpson and Audrina Patridge -- and I generally don't like stupid people.  Finally, I have a visceral reaction when couples who are younger than me are all happy and rich together.  I realize that now that I'm in my mid-twenties, I'm probably going to have to get over this particular affliction, since pretty much every new celebrity is going to be younger than me...  (Hold on a second while I slit my wrists)

Anyways, despite all the reasons not to, I love Zac and Vanessa.  Maybe it's our mutual affection for hair product, or because their love played out in a series of choreographed dances in HSM.  Maybe it's because they made it acceptable (acceptable may be too strong a word...) to use "wildcat" as a term of endearment, or it's simply because I wish the rest of my life could feel as good as my high school musical.  Whatever the reason, I'm in their corner.  I'm even willing to overlook her stupid sneaker song and the horrible Oscars dance of 2009.  When I'd heard they had broken up a few months ago, I was pretty broken up myself.  Then US Weekly let me know that they had been canoodling around LA, and so when I saw they were both in NYC for Fashion Week, I assumed it was a done deal that they were back on.  Until I came across this during my nightly perusal of photos from fashion week:

Maybe she's just telling him to start breaking into song to liven up his dull-as-cement
plot-line on Gossip Girl.  Actually, we should probably look into this idea...

Maybe I'm overreacting, but I don't like this one bit.  Hopefully, they were just trading tips on how to stay on top in young Hollywood when you have no ability to actually act.

xo kate

Never Say... Anything?

As pop culture aficionados (aficionadi?), D and I would really like to have something clever to contribute to the on-going debate about Justin Bieber's 3-D biopic, Never Say Never, which opens today.  Unfortunately, we inexplicably and uncharacteristically find ourselves at a loss for words.  Apparently so did Leona Lewis.  Her lips were sealed at Justin's premiere.

Just like momma taught you, when you don't have
anything nice to say, let your bra do the talking.

Where would Willie Mays have
been without Jackie Robinson?

I have mixed feelings about the Biebs.  He's Canadian and wears a Yankees hat, so you'd think that I'd hate him.  But, he also is reported to be unusually hardworking, centered and talented.  Plus, he's kinda likable and Usher is his mentor, both of which are checks in the "not-going-to-turn-out-to-be-a-male-LiLo" column.  And, I do own and listen to his duet with Sean Kingston, Eenie Meenie.

But my biggest problem with the teen sensation is the incessant assertion that it was he who made the side-swept bang look popular.  Although Justin's hair does seem to defy laws of physics and gravity with it's constant windblown flow, he was certainly not the Neil Armstrong of the look.  The original wildcat, Zac Efron, was rocking man-bangs way back in 2006, when Biebs was still in diapers.  Know your role, Mr. Bieber.  I may talk on the telephone, but I'm not Alexander Graham Bell.

xo kate