Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.