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The names Rodney Scott, Mark Famiglietti and Kate Bosworth aren't rolling off any teenage tongues yet.  But give these actors a few weeks to twinkle on WB's new summer series, Young Americans (Wednesdays, 9 PM ET).  If the show sticks, their names will be as familiar as James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes - actors now splashing around Dawson's Creek between movie shoots.  Fans should know, however, that Young Americans won't try to replicate the story lines of that teen drama.  It will outdo them.  Witness the show's premiere episode:  Townie Will Krudski (played by Scott, whom we met as Pacey's childhood pal on Dawson's Creek last season) earns a scholarship to the nearby prestigious all-boys Rawley Academy.  Once he gets there, his old friends, like pretty gas station attendant Bella Banks (Bosworth), meet his new ones, like well-heeled Connecticut son Scout Calhoun (Famiglietti).  Cultures clash and star-crossed love ensues.  And that's the tame stuff.  These New England dorms also house a cross-dressing school hopper (Kate Moennig) and a rules-be-damned dean's son (Ian Somerhalder).  None, however, measure up to the shocking premier-capping twist.  "This isn't just high school," warns Scott.  "This is high school without parents."

THE LONER

Ian Somerhalder, 21 Plays Hamilton Fleming, the mischievous dean's son.  "Hamilton doesn't feel like he has to fit in.  He's a loner, with a lot of questions [about the world]," says Somerhalder.
Last seen Modeling for Guess?, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana
School days Mandeville High School in Mandeville, Louisiana.  "I pretty much kept to myself, but in my sophomore year, I moved to Europe for modeling and studied through correspondence.  I finished my last trig exam on a beach in Greece."
Landing the job "I had to shoot a Guess? campaign for five days when my agency called and said that Young Americans was interested in seeing me.  I couldn't get away, so I went to Paul Marciano [cochairman of Guess?] and said 'Look, there's this great script.  I think I can do it.'  He was like 'Go.'  I read for it and booked the pilot a week later."
Model behavior "Everyone on the set jokes around and calls me a model.  If you were a garbageman, then went to law school, but people still called you a garbageman, wouldn't you want to kick their teeth in?"
New job perk "Reebok, Nike, Adidas all send you boxes of free stuff.  It's like 'Send them to me!  Send them to me!  And by the way, my brother's a size 10 1/2."

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