• October 19, 2009
• Vol. 72
• No. 16

Crushes

Donny! David! Johnny! New Kids on the Block! from Their Days as Teen Idols, These Dreamboats Talk About the Work, the Pressure and the Fans

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From PEOPLE Magazine

1975

DONNY OSMOND

"At age 13 I was pushed out front as a solo artist," he recalled.

1976

DAVID CASSIDY

"You can't capture the public's imagination. It captures you," said the Partridge Family star.

1977

ANDY GIBB

"I went through a big ego thing for quite a while," said the Bee Gees' little brother, who died of an inflamed heart in 1988.

1983

TOM CRUISE

"I just took my pants off and went!" he told ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY of his Risky Business dance moves.

1988

JOHNNY DEPP

"Some people, when they get attention in the public eye, stand a bit taller," he explained. "But I went the complete opposite—lower."

1989

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK

"We're not like the Osmonds," insisted Donnie Wahlberg (left). "We grew up around drugs and violence. We had to make a decision not to go in that direction."

1984

MICHAEL JACKSON

"I love to create magic, to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off," he said.

1996

JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS

"The best part" of his role on Home Improvement, he said, "was being there, laughing with Tim Allen."

2008

ROBERT PATTINSON

"It's a really emotional experience when people are screaming at you all the time," he told EW.com.

• Contributors:
• CONTRIBUTORS Elaine Aradillas,
• Lorenzo Benet,
• Brian Braiker,
• Paul Chi,
• Champ Clark,
• Antoinette Y. Coulton,
• Mark Dagostino,
• Shruti Dhalwala,
• Mary Green,
• Wendy Grossman,
• Liza Hamm,
• Jessica Herndon,
• Julie Jordan,
• Amy Elisa Keith,
• Kristen Mascia,
• Farah Menass.