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Featuring four cool cops undercover as high school students, 21 Jump Street was the first series to deal with serious teen issues, says star Holly Robinson Peete. "Recently I heard someone say Beverly Hills 90210 was, and I said, 'Oh no, girlfriend! Jason Priestley guest-starred on our show.'"

 

JOHNNY DEPP

As rebel-with-a-cause Tom Hanson, Depp "made a big effort not to be a teen idol," says costar Nguyen. He's still fighting that image. Now 38 and living in France with actress Vanessa Paradis, 28, and their daughter Lily-Rose, 2, Depp usually opts for films (Chocolat, Blow) as un-Hollywood as his life. "The great thing that France has given me is the opportunity to have a normal, simple life," he said recently.

 

HOLLY ROBINSON

Since playing Judy Hoffs, Robinson, 37, has gotten used to being in the public eye, starring in the sitcom Hangin' With Mr. Cooper and marrying NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, 35, in 1995. But the actress, now Robinson-Peete (with twins Ryan and Rodney, 4), still marvels at Jump Street's rabid fan base.  "This was Fox in the first year," she says. "Not everybody got it. It was Channel 99 with a coat hanger."

 

DUSTIN NGUYEN

Playing Harry Truman Ioki made Nguyen one of TV's first Asian-American heartthrobs. No wonder that L.A. based Nguyen, 39, who is engaged to Angela Rockwood, 25, is still known for that role despite a decade of other TV and film work. When he  joined USA's V.I.P. in 1998, even star Pamela Anderson was impressed. "She kept telling me how nervous she was to be around me," he says. "I thought that was hilarious."

 

PETER DELUISE

Here's a Hollywood paradox: "During Jump Street I'm signing all these autographs at Kmart," says DeLuise, 34, who played wisecracking Doug Penhall. "Then I'm losing jobs because I'm not a big enough name anymore." So DeLuise (home in Vancouver with his fiancée, actress Anne Marie Loder, 32, and  dog Maggie) moved behind the camera as a TV director, working on Showtime's Stargate SG-1. The son of actor Dom DeLuise still enjoys poking fun at his Jump Street years, as when he directed an episode of Nguyen's series V.I.P. in 1999 and gave himself a cameo. Brushing up against his ex-costar, he feigned a double take.


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