On Zac Efron

Meeting him, watching him onscreen

Efron as a Tragic Oaf in “The Iron Claw”

Of the various famous people I profiled or interviewed in my twenties—from Kim Kardashian to David Cronenberg, to give you an idea of the gleeful range—nobody interested me more than Zac Efron. 

The era of the great celebrity profile is gone, as many have lamented. Gorgeous examples still emerge but they are aberra…