Alicia Silverstone hit it big updating Jane Austen's Emma to high school in Clueless. Easy A, a teen comedy loaded with killer laughs, does the same trick with Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Director Will Gluck plugs in live wire Emma Stone (Zombieland) as Olive, a good girl faking it as an easy lay to . . . ah, just see the movie. The jokes are hit-and-miss. But Stone is one sassy babe and a breakout star who nails every zinger and brings genuine warmth to her scenes with her parents, played by the priceless Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. You mean girls can eat it.

“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”