11.   Adolescent girls will romanticize about a teen idol, pinning up his p osters, buying all his records and seeing his shows.

12.   Both got their start in commercials, but insist that they want to be taken seriously as actors, not teen idols.

13.   But Smith gradually became a teen idol for the high-school-poet set, who identified with his yelping voice and long-suffering songs.

14.   By IAN SPELLING With his days as a teen idol long behind him, Shaun Cassidy is returning to television.

15.   From the music store, he landed a job with Chancellor Records, home to teen idols like Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

16.   Hollywood wanted to make him into a teen idol.

17.   I was looking forward to my newfound musical role as a teen idol.

18.   If three middle-aged men get together, call themselves teen idols and throw a concert tour, will anyone show up and swoon?

19.   In a tabloid report, he was linked to the pop singer Britney Spears and was asked about another teen idol, Christina Aguilera.

20.   In one corner is a sleek, undefeated teen idol who has just joined a country club and who has never tasted his own blood.