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Summer movies are as inevitable as the season itself, and Cyndi Lauper with her starring role this summer in VIBES, could be the new queen of the genre -- a latter-day Annette Funicello with tie-dyed hair.

The tousled ragamuffin of rock will play a psychic beauty school student named Sylvia who sports micro-miniskirts and spiky blond hair-- "a toned downed version of myself," she says. "I've dyed my hair one too many times."

To prepare for the role, Lauper took a few classes in finger waving and hair setting at the Robert Fiance School of Beauty in New York and studied with a few Manhattan psychics ("We all have the power of pyschics," she learned; "we're just bombarded all the time by TV and stuff"). She also wrote the film's theme song: "I Got a Hole in My Heart That Goes All the Way to China."

In VIBES, Lauper plays opposite Jeff Goldblum, who portrays a fellow psychic who journeys with her to the Ecuadorean Andes to find the missing son of Harry, an eccentric businessman played by Peter Falk. "It's a fun summer movie," she gushes. "It ain't Gone With the Wind."