Family Entertainment and Lifestyle Blog
With as much humility as possible, please allow me to share this news with you, my readers. My daughter, Bianca Valle, is the lucky recipient of the Nordstrom’s Ten4U $10,000 college scholarship! The road to this momentous day began in February of 2012, when she applied for this scholarship after was making lists of scholarships to […]
Film Festivals should foster the creativity of future filmmakers. Yes, students. After all, the very existence of the industry depends on nurturing the creativity of the PG-13 and over set. The San Diego Film Festival offers a unique program called Connect, and it’s specifically for high school students who want to pursue a career in film-making. […]
SPECIAL ADVANCE MOVIE SCREENING FOR MAMARAZZI KNOWS BEST READERS! 20th Century Fox and Allied-THA have graciously invited all of my loyal readers (non-loyalists, too) to attend the advanced screening of the upcoming film, Won’t Back Down starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Oscar Isaac, Emily Alyn Lind, Dante Brown, Rosie Perez, Ving Rhames, and Lance […]
The college application process is out of control, especially in the area of community service and volunteerism. Teenagers in their junior year of high school, usually between 16 and 17 years old, are going to what I would consider extreme adventures and ventures, usually funded completely by parents, in order to gain the attention of […]
I give the college-application process in the United States a big, fat F! In recent years, the pressure to get into not-just-any college, but one of the top 100 universities as ranked by any of the major publications touting expertise in this field, has reached a failing point. The prevailing winds of change are plaguing […]
Kristen Bell and Ted Danson Comic-Con The Good Place. Photo S. Valle
