Young Cosette: Mackenzie Foy
Sure, she may be a vampire, but wouldn’t Twilight’s Renesmee make just the sweetest and most heart-breaking young Cosette? Imagine her singing “Castle on a Cloud.” Are you melting yet?

Old Cosette: Lea Michele
Because of course she’d have to be in it somewhere. It may as well be as romantic lead Cosette.

Marius: Nick Jonas
He’s already played the part in London—twice—so why not give it a shot onscreen? I’ll confess that I wasn’t really that taken with his performance in London (or at least, what little of it I’ve seen on YouTube); but that may just be because I think the character has an enormous stick up his arse. I can’t really blame Nick for that.

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It’s not an exact science, however; there’s no way to search which autographs made it onto Wikipedia, and it’s not as if there’s a clear pattern (though I have my theories). It’s more of a pleasant surprise to stumble upon when you happen to be looking up certain stars.

So why now? My best guess is that, as with most other modes of pop culture, teenagers and their tastes are taking over. Think about it: You’ve got the most tech-savvy generation starting to move into communities like Wikipedia, and of course they’d direct more attention toward the celebrities they follow. Then they draw from their autograph collections — or what’s available online, which is more often likely to be the signatures of teen stars — to post those online. Case in point: The Twilight trio are all featured.

This is by no means a complete list — just what I could find from poking around various celebrities’ pages and following the above instincts.

• Miley Cyrus
• Kristen Stewart
• Robert Pattinson
• Taylor Lautner
• John McCain
• Barack Obama
• Ashley Tisdale
• Alex Trebek
• Jay Leno
• Beyonce
• Oprah

Although the inclusion of autographs at first seems creepy, noteaking leaning toward the obsessive, now I would say that it’s a good thing. It personalizes the profile more. After all, you come to Wikipedia to learn things you don’t know. Wouldn’t it also stand that fans would like to live through their peers who were able to snag an autograph?

(It’s worth mentioning that there’s an unofficial wikia devoted just to autographs. Though they have only three entries, two are ones that Wikipedia doesn’t have: Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.)

A note on timing: According to the edits, some signatures like Kristen’s have been on the site since 2010 — but this trend as a whole still seems fairly new.

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Why? Are we missing something? Last time we checked, dirt and formal affairs do not mix so well (unless you’re Ke$ha). Note: Ke$ha was not in attendance.

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Joel’s been getting tons of responses from teens over the nation thanking him for his bravery, but in the wake of these recent tragedies like Tyler Clementi, Zach Harrington and Justin Aaberg, it is the children who go to school every day and are called names like “queer” and “faggot”, and don’t give in to ignorant bigotry, that are the real brave ones.

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We know the recent edition of Seventeen (with Ashley Tisdale and Ally Michalka on the cover! Hey, we were there!) had only the best intentions with this article, but this is one case where an extra glance at the copy before the issue went to print could have saved a lot of teen panic attacks. Are your breasts normal?!?

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Then I realized the party was at 1pm, in the Seventeen offices, and there would be children there. A booze-less photo op. This was to be more weird than fun, but interesting nonetheless.

With scenes from How To Lose Friends and Alienate People flashing through my head, I trekked to the massive Hearst building near Columbus circle. Upon entering, I gawked like a yokel at its shimmering, aspirational architecture. Waterfalls. Angles. Just like I’d read about in blogs!

As I ascended one of many escalators to the elevators (escalators to the elevators!), I thought back on the time I’d emerged from my room in PJs to find my roommate’s friend art-directing a photoshoot of young Lydia, clad in nothing but fancy lingerie. The image of her tiny frame ordering massages and petting our cat juxtaposed absurdly with the powerful Death Star into whose maw I was fast disappearing. I felt woozy. The crazy space elevator I was riding in at warp speed didn’t help.

Up on the 44th floor, a publicist showed me into the giant multipurpose room in which the event would take place. A racially diverse squad of cheerleaders from New Rochelle High School (second in the nation!) were practicing their moves, while a small group of Seventeen employees sat picking at fruit plates.

“It’s a surprise for the girls,” the publicist explained. “Why do they think they’re here?” I asked. “Excuse me?” “The cheerleaders, um, if it’s a surprise for them?” She laughed. “No, it’s a surprise for Aly and Ashley.”

Before long, “the girls,” Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka, made their entrance, and EIC Ann Shoket introduced them. “You guys know who these ladies are,” she said to the cheerleaders, then beckoned the actresses to sit in chairs and watch them. “Oh my God!” said Aly, black-rimmed eyes widening.

Safety concerns prohibited the team from acrobatics (“We were scared somebody would flip out a window,” one staffer explained), but the routines were nonetheless impressive, making everyone smile. “You guys, like, killed it,” said Aly afterward. “How old are you guys?” asked Ashley, and they all replied at once. “I wish our squad could be that good,” she said.

Next, the actresses posed with Shoket in front of their October issue cover. Ashley looked like the fresh-faced American teen she’s known for playing, while Aly’s poofy white dress and heavy makeup were more, um, adult. “I hurt my foot over the weekend so I can’t wear heels,” the 5’10″ Shoket lamented, as she stood on her tiptoes.

After this, I got to ask the budding TV stars some questions. (I was the only press person there, as far as I could tell.) I found out they’d only done a few of their own stunts so far, but the ones they had done had been “exhilarating.” “I had only my cast members beneath me,” Ashley explained of her basket toss. “I had to trust them.”

“How sexy will the show be?” I inquired of them both. “It’s sexy but it’s tastefully done,” replied Ashley; “it takes the bubblegum out of cheerleading.” “Cheerleading is such a confident thing,” continued Aly. “It’s fierce. It’s going to show the gritty side of cheerleading…like, it’ll show us sweating and working out.” There was more that I didn’t write down, but she definitely said the word “fierce” at least once more.

“Do you think this will grow you up in the eyes of your fans?” I asked Ashley, who is currently best known for her role in the ‘tween favorite High School Musical. “I don’t want to run away from my fans,” she answered, premeditatedly, “but they’re all four years older than when High School Musical started…in my career, I want to take baby steps. The CW is a good place for that. I’m growing up, and I want to take them along with me.” Fair enough. At any rate, the 25-year-old Tisdale’s role as a college girl should be much less ridiculous than the 20-something actors’ portrayals of high schoolers on the same station’s Dawson’s Creek, a show she says she adored as a kid. Whether due to her image or the fact that she looks young, it’s hard for my brain to accept her as her real age.

The actresses then signed magazines and posed for photos with a bunch of young fans, which included some non-cheerleading girls as well. “Who are they?” I asked, gesturing to them. “Friends of Seventeen,” replied the publicist. “Did they write into the magazine? Or win a contest?” “No,” she said, evasively, “we just have a lot of friends of Seventeen…teen readers.” Mysterious.

Before being shepherded out, I scored a signed magazine for my twelve-year-old cousin, who will totally freak when she sees it. “Thanks for coming,” Ashley told her fans. “You look so cute.” And then they were gone.

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“It’s sexy but it’s tastefully done,” replied Ashley, “It takes the bubblegum out of cheerleading.“

But will her HSM fans be receptive to the new, grown-up Ashley?

I don’t want to run away from my fans,” she answered, premeditatedly, “but they’re all four years older than when High School Musical started…in my career, I want to take baby steps…the CW is a good place for that. I’m growing up, and I want to take them along with me.”

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Sure, Ashley Tisdale‘s newest character, Savannah, the cheerleading captain on the upcoming CW series Hellcats, demands her time in the spotlight, loves cute clothes and can be chirpy and majorly annoying at the same time. But that doesn’t automatically make her a clone of High School Musical‘s Sharpay Evans.

“My hair color has definitely changed,” a brunette Ashley joked at the Television Critics Association panel of her new series.

“For me, Savannah is completely different from Sharpay. She’s been in her own little bubble. She’s a cheerleader. She’s very religious. She’s Christian. She’s very naive.”

Oh, and this little note. Savannah has a heart.

“She’s a little bit soft,” Ashley pointed out, noting how Savannah isn’t above putting the best gal on the cheerleading squad, even if she does loathe law-student-in-desperate-need-off-scholarship Marti (portrayed by newcomer Alyson Michalka)

“She sees Marti, and she sees how good she is, and so she’s like, ‘I’m team captain, let’s do this.’”

Sharpay will finally get a little humanity when she tries to make it big in the Big Apple in Disney Channel’s upcoming feature, Sharpay’s Fabulous  Adventure.

“Sharpay is used to getting everything that she wants. She’s Barbie: she’s got the perfect hair, perfect car and perfect clothes. She goes to New York to fulfill her dreams and be on Broadway and  she messes up a little bit. She’s out on her own and she realizes life isn’t like that,” Ashley shared. “I think she’s finally learned down the road, and kind of has to fend for herself.”

Maybe these two do have something in common after all.

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