If Hollywood were high school, John Landgraf could easily be its valedictorian.

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Fleming and co-writer Tiffany Paulsen has set the story firmly in 2007, but their Nancy Drew is an anachronism who dresses in tweedy skirts, preppy knits and penny-loafers, and whose prim sense of right and wrong (she drinks milk and knows CPR) quickly marks her as a social outcast when she moves from provincial Riverside Heights to a new school, Hollywood High.

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As a public high school student at North Hollywood High, she attended a magnet program for highly gifted students.

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Back in the 80s when Hollywood cast cuddly nerds as the movie hero and high school jocks as the jerks, it was much easier to know who to root for.

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He and the band's drummer, Robb Reiner (no relation to Hollywood director Rob Reiner), met as junior-high-school students in Toronto, felt an immediate musical kinship and, in the face of raised hopes, dashed hopes, big-deal record-label indifference and ever lowered expectations, have been rocking out together ever since.

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