
By Romeo San Vicente
Blonsky and Sheedy Love Harold
How much do we love
Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky, the effervescent, voluptuous young
newcomer who shimmied her way into our hearts as Tracy Turnblad?
Despite
the prevailing wisdom that Hollywood doesn't know what to do with a
talented big girl, Blonsky's continuing to get work.
Blonsky has been cast as the lead character's best friend in Harold,
a comedy about a teenage boy (Spencer Breslin) who starts prematurely
balding.
In a casting move guaranteed to make Gen X-ers feel old, Ally Sheedy
will play Harold's mother. Yes, that's right - the star of High Art
and teen classic The Breakfast Club is now playing a teenager's
mom.
Let's toast her with some Metamucil and look forward to Harold's
release in 2008.
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