As star of Broadway and Showtime's Weeds, Hunter Parrish seems like a swell fellow. Both as a member of our New Regime and genteel interview subject, he seems an unlikely actor for his next role -- tormenting Zac Efron as a bully in 17 Again. Nevertheless, when he needs comfort cuisine, Parrish turns to New York's Brooklyn Diner, which is neither in Brooklyn nor blue-collar enough to be a diner. See our review.

Each interview with actor Hunter Parrish invariably begins with a mention of his two shoes and how gosh darn goody they are. And so it’s a testament to his abundant talent that the 21-year-old star of Broadway’s Spring Awakening and the hit series Weeds has been able to play sexed-up pot peddlers with such conviction. Up next, Parrish will torment Zac Efron in 17 Again, which opens this spring. But will Hollywood’s freshest young star, an honest kid from Virginia, succumb to Hollywood’s debauched world of bottle service and bottle blondes? Parrish the thought.

The New Seven-Card Studs: Year after year, Hollywood ushers in a fresh crop of young heartthrobs, with the promise of turning extras into “It Boys” (many of whom turn to Promises treatment center just short of their 15 minutes). Here, actors Hunter Parrish, Sebastian Stan and Jonathan Groff raise the stakes, bet the house and play for keeps. By Nick Haramis

Jonathan Groff, who one day earlier wrapped his first film, Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, is the veteran of the bunch. After his Tony Award-nominated performance as the libidinous Melchior in Duncan Sheik’s Broadway masterpiece Spring Awakening, he went on to star in Hair and later, this month’s off-Broadway adaptation of Craig Lucas’ Prayer for My Enemy. In Woodstock, the baby-faced charmer channels Michael Lang, the charismatic creator of the world’s most notorious music festival. “On the very first day of shooting,” he says, from the basement of Manhattan’s Belmont Lounge, seated next to Sebastian Stan, who can be seen on NBC’s newest dystopic drama, Kings, “Ang held this big good luck ceremony where he blessed the cameras and the crew, and we all lit incense. There I was, sitting next to Eugene Levy with a stick of incense against my forehead. It was kind of surreal.”