Tom Cruise Teaches Suri About Bears

Whit Honea — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:51:00 GMT

Tom Cruise has two passions, Suri and bears. When those two combine? Pure happiness.

Not pictured, the helpful Build-a-Bear assitant, who has either fainted or is hiding behind the fluff machine texting everyone they know.

Katie Not Cheating on Tom

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Suri Too Cute

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Sunday Cute Shot: Patrick Ewing and Daughter

Whit Honea — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:04:00 GMT

Meet 11-month-old Alexis. Alexis is the very cute daughter of NBA legend Patrick Ewing. Patrick Ewing was a monster in the paint while playing basketball. I can't help but think he might be a bit softer now.

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Sunday Cute Shot: Scott Baio and Daughter

Whit Honea — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:38:00 GMT

Bailey loves ~~Chachi~~ Daddy. This is Scott Baio and his daughter Bailey, and I'm guessing she's in charge (of his days and his nights).

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Sunday Cute Shot: Christian Bale and Daughter

Whit Honea — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:46:00 GMT

Batdad Christian Bale and his cute little girl Emmaline were spotted while out for a stroll.

I'm loving the sock monkey bathrobe, that, my friends, is a life of leisure. Well played, Emmaline.

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Tom and Suri: A Picture Perfect Cruise

Whit Honea — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:17:00 GMT

How cute is Suri? She sure is looking more and more like Katie. I wonder if she looks like her dad.

I kid. I kid. It's too hot to be pissing people off right now.

BTW, is it just me or does Tom look 20 years younger in this picture? It must be the aviator glasses. They have Maverick written all over them.

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The View on/of Miley Cyrus- UPDATED, Now With More Ellen!

Whit Honea — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:26:00 GMT

Really? We're still talking about Miley Cyrus posing seemingly topless for Annie Leibovitz on the cover of Vanity Fair? Seems like Jamie Lee Curtis said it best when she alluded to the fact that there are actual problems in the world that should have our attention. Even Rosie O'Donnell is making sense, which may be one of the problems Jamie Lee was alluding to. Frightening.

Not to be outdone by every other person with eyes and an internet connection the ladies of The View offered up their two cents and some change on the matter. The video is below. Brace yourself.

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Miley Cyrus' Parents are to Blame: The World According to Jamie Lee Curtis

Whit Honea — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:49:00 GMT

Jamie Lee Curtis knows a thing or two about posing topless. Of course the uproar over her doing so was that it was for the cover of the AARP magazine, and apparently she's too old for such frivolity. Miley Cyrus, at 15, posed pseudo-topless for Vanity Fair. She's too young.

Americans like our topless models in the 18 - 40 range.

Jamie Lee Curtis is laying the blame on Miley's parents. That isn't to say that Annie Leibovitz didn't go a bit far in her attempt at art, and yes, Miley should have realized that her posing for the pictures in question would cause her career some unwanted criticism. They deserve their share of the responsibility.

People are also bitching about Disney to the point that they felt the need to comment. Disney has nothing to do with it. That's like Nerve Media being blamed for me posing for those awkward photos last weekend. Hey, I needed the money. I didn't call Nerve to okay it, and Disney didn't have any say in Miley's spread.

But I digress. Here's what Jamie Lee Curtis wrote in The Huffington Post:

I woke up this morning concerned about the world food shortage and Korean defectors attempting self immolation in protest of Beijing and was astonished at the amount of attention a young woman named Miley Cyrus was getting for a topless, or shall I say backless, photograph in Vanity Fair.

Just to connect the dots, I too have weathered a recent bout of hysteria over a supposed topless, or shall I say strapless, photograph in a magazine. In my case it was an understanding that the photo in question be shoulders up regardless if I was wearing a suit of armor, chastity belt, wet suit, strapless bra or nothing. It is, was and will always be irrelevant and only became an issue when it was publicized as "topless". All the nipple loving/leering people wanted to know...was it true? Kids I know asked their parents and me if I had posed topless. Saturday Night Live in a funny parody alluded to it as well as the efficacy of Activia yogurt and we all had a good laugh and it sold magazines and it is/was over. Now this. (Video Below)

Apparently young Ms. Cyrus has apologized for something she was told would be artistic and now feels embarrassed about. I feel for her. Of course she is embarrassed. She is a young girl. She shouldn't have to deal with any of this. I don't feel that she was duped. I know the integrity of Ms. Liebovitz and the magazine and I know there were people present at the shoot that should have been looking out to make sure that this didn't happen. In the offending photo she looks tousled and soft and vulnerable and yes...even sexy. She is fifteen after all, and the word sex is starting to come up. I seem to remember a fourteen/fifteen year old Brooke Shields commenting that nothing came between her and her Calvins. There would be no problem if Ms. Cyrus doesn't represent something that is counterintuitive to that image.

In the article in the New York Times Business Section, a Disney executive is quoted, saying "For Miley Cyrus to be a 'good girl' is now a business decision for her. Parents have invested in her godliness. If she violates that trust, she won't get it back." In the world of constant scrutiny how can a young person not violate this and develop a mind, body and spirit of their own? Look at the '50s and the idols of that time. Many gay men with beards...sham marriages. Young stars trying out their sexuality secretly. My own mother (pre-show business) was married at 14 to be able to explore her own passions.

Today's generation of performers have had to navigate the treacherous shoals of adolescence in full frontal viewberty [sic] of the peering voyeurism of the media and it's voyeuristic participants. We have watched them as they stumble out of the safety of childhood, not that being a professional actor as a child is safe, but that is another blog, into the glare of celebrity, rehab, prison, teen pregnancy and now this, a backless shot of a young girl. It was called "artistic'. If we keep a young person's natural sexuality in check during their performing years what happens to it? It has to come out. Daniel Radcliffe is starring in Equus which includes nudity and parodied his natural urges (hilariously) on Ricky Gervais' EXTRAS. He has had to carry the weight and morals of Harry Potter and Warner Brothers and can now, as Harry has grown up and the series is nearing its end, tread lightly into adult fare and explore his art.

When these young people get all dressed up for award show red-carpet events don't we all comment how beautiful, stunning and grown-up they look in their strapless/backless dresses and heels and tousled hair? None of this is new. None of this should be news. But it is news because it is a business. It is all Business. It is called Show Business. Show Abyss-ness! I call it Show-OFF Business. You throw a child into the jaws of a business and they will get eaten.

I know how Miley feels. I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless "scandal" and the subsequent parodies, but I am an adult woman. I protected myself during the shoot and I can take the heat. I only wish that her guardians had protected her.

Adam and Sadie Sandler Eat, Too

Whit Honea — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:28:00 GMT

Not one to be outdone by the likes of Jennifer and Violet, Adam Sandler and his daughter Sadie grabbed a bite to eat that appeared a tad healthier than anything I've ever found in a Happy Meal.

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FameCrawler : father and daughter

Tom Cruise Teaches Suri About Bears

Sunday Cute Shot: Patrick Ewing and Daughter

Sunday Cute Shot: Scott Baio and Daughter

Sunday Cute Shot: Christian Bale and Daughter

Tom and Suri: A Picture Perfect Cruise

The View on/of Miley Cyrus- UPDATED, Now With More Ellen!

Miley Cyrus' Parents are to Blame: The World According to Jamie Lee Curtis

Adam and Sadie Sandler Eat, Too