Kevin Spacey is heaven as Lester Burnham, a hero who makes his midlife crisis count, complete with red convertible, new job in fast-food service and new workout routine inspried by a blond cheerleader his daughter's age.

He didn't have the balls to invite her to the movies or sit with her in the cafeteria or anything like that, but after he'd take home whichever perky blond cheerleader he was going steady with, he'd go looking for Gwynnie.

The film is set in motion when Lester, also none too originally, goes ape for a nubile blond cheerleader (Mena Suvari, lately seen in "American Pie").

"The blond cheerleader who's also valedictorian - that's The New Yorker," he said.

A New Jersey high school senior, Chris is besotted with his best friend, Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart), a blond cheerleader to whom he has devoted a whole wall of tribute in his suburban bedroom.

If that sounds like standard fare, the context is not: Mr. Lin's film takes place among prosperous suburban Asian-Americans, the sort of young characters usually seen in comedies as nerds with thick glasses staring lecherously at blond cheerleaders.

Where "American Beauty" hinges on the subversive allure of a rose-covered blond cheerleader, Mr. Fincher has something a good deal tougher in mind.

A blond former cheerleader, Miss Scarabelli was less than two months from graduation from John Glenn High School in Elwood, where she took accelerated classes so that she could graduate a year early.

The 20-year-old starlet most famous for her role as a blond cheerleader on "Heroes" debuted her new .

What about the time I worked for months selling violets on street corners so I could take that gorgeous little blond cheerleader to the high school prom?