Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
Apparently teenagers have tossed wearing the traditional high school ring as a sign of love and commitment in exchange for getting the keys to their private, online lives: Passwords. (Photo credit aimgram.com) The New York Times reported that teens are now swapping passwords to Facebook and other social networking sites as a sign of [...]
Television has reached new heights in recent years in a number of different ways. To begin with, there are seemingly more new shows than ever before with more and more channels becoming available to the average TV user. This means people can entertain their personal preferences more easily simply by gaining access to additional channels [...]
In honor of the upcoming film, “Breaking Dawn – Twilight Saga Part 1,” I thought I’d share my parenting fail in helping to create the frenzy around this franchise. Well, it’s not exactly me but my teenager. You may recall reading how she persisted until she got Robert Pattinson to mail a personalized autographed photo of [...]
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 [...]
First, Snooki was tapped by Rutgers University to inspire those college students. OK, so we chilled out because we thought it was likely a one-time thing. But now Vinny Guadagnino, also of Jersey Shore infamy, lectured at the prestigious and (supposedly) highly selective Columbia University. I think I’m going to be sick. It was suitably [...]
