Seeing a theater full of green-ear fitted children is not a common site unless you're at Universal Studios. However, this is precisely what I saw among the young audience at opening night of “Shrek the Musical.” The recommended viewing age for this play is six years old. I give them 30 minutes, forty, tops, I [...]
Snooki gets paid more than a Nobel Prize Winner at Rutgers
April 4, 2011 By 5 Comments
“I'm embarrassed to be a Rutgers alumni,” wrote one angry person about Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi being invited to speak to students at his Alma Mater, Rutgers University last week. Another irritated alum wrote in the comments section of the New York Post, that Rutgers would not be getting a dime ever again after the college paid the [...]
More Lindsay-aine Lohan Drama
September 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I gather you've had enough of this, too. I can tell because it's been rather quiet lately. Hardly any Twitter or Facebook updates from my usual celeb reporting outlets. No one, it seems, has dared to prominently mention her name. Why? Probably because our mouths are still agape after finding out what many thought was [...]
Teens and the Hollywood Money-Making Machine
June 28, 2010 By 5 Comments
Most of you know my shtick buy now. My opinions are conservative regarding certain television shows, teen celebrities, and what I consider to be infractions to our values and social decorum by some Hollywood artists and their parents. For a little over two years, I've been writing here and at www.TheWrap.com about young Hollywood's outrageous [...]
How Do Hollywood's Naughty Girls Influence Teens?
April 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
In spite of how diligently we try to guard our kids' impressionable minds, somehow the entertainment industry’s pressures gets by our best protective filters: Movies, TV, ads or simply standing next to glossy magazine covers at the grocery checkout line exposes our youth to celebrity lifestyles and choices. Teenage girls searching for inspiration, self identification [...]
