Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
I think by now you’re probably tired of hearing/reading my tweets and facebook status updates about my teenager passing her behind-the-wheel test (with only two bad ticks, mind you) last week. AP Photo Carrie Cochran Yes, we are so proud of her for completing this grueling process, and yet our gut wrenches each time she asks for [...]
If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed [...]
Today, the Supreme Court ruled against a 2005 California law passed by Governor Schwarzenegger which banned the sale of Mature rated video games to minors. While some consider this a victory for the Entertainment Merchants and retailers of the violent and graphic games, others are disheartened that this layer of protection for kids was removed in [...]
This is a post I wrote for last year's Cinco de Mayo. It's an oldie but goodie. How do …
It’s apparent the folks over at MTV are going to keep testing the boundaries of their contentious programming. They’ve enjoyed virtually no consequences by walking the fence of inappropriate teenage content, and have been successful at luring desperate advertises wanting to target this particular demographic . Or so it seemed until producers decided to copy a racy British show called Skins and broadcast the MTV version (rated TV-MA) in the USA.
