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Suri Cruise: Most Powerful Child On The Planet

Brett Singer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:10:00 GMT

This is such an odd piece of news.

Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom "Who Needs Doctors When You Can Take Vitamins" Cruise and Katie "Is She Being Held Prisoner" Holmes has been declared "most influential celebrity kid". Now what is the source of this important ranking? Us Magazine perhaps? The National Enquirer?

No. Forbes magazine. Malcolm must be spinning in his grave.

What method did they use? According to MyHollywood.com, "financial investigators studied Internet presence and press clippings for more than 50 A-list offspring aged five years younger over the course of the last year…used a market research company to gauge the awareness of the kids and consumer-appeal of their celebrity parents." Suri won, with appearances in "more than 2,000 articles over the course of the year."

Here's the top ten if you're curious:

1. Suri Cruise
2. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
3. Zahara Jolie-Pitt
4. Pax Jolie-Pitt
5. Sam Alexis Woods
6. Cruz Beckham
7. Matilda Rose Ledger
8. David Banda
9. Sean Preston Federline
10. Sam Sheen

By the way, I had to look up Sam Sheen (that's the offspring of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen). So I feel slightly better about myself.

I have a thought. Why would a celebrity parent want their child to get this much exposure? Is it at all possible to keep kids out of the papers when you're this famous? In the case of a Suri Cruise or any of the Jolie-Pitts, wouldn't it be safer to lay low a little bit? Or does it matter in the age of social networking, photo sharing, and MyFaceSpaceBook?

Plus, this idea of "influential" seems questionable. Would you buy something because Suri Cruise endorsed it?

She is a cute little girl though. Maybe she could do Gap ads or something.

Last thought: How would you handle this sort of thing if you were mega-famous? I'm not sure what I would do, although it's not likely to be a problem in my life. My movie career began and ended when I auditioned for "Adventures in Babysitting" in the 80's.

Source/Images: MyHollywood, Famecrawler

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Angelina Buys Her Kid a Knife. What's Next, Maddox Jolie, Tomb Raider?

JeanneSager — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:27:00 GMT

I had to read it twice myself. Angelina, the super celebrity mommy who even gets away with feeding the kids Cheetos because, well, she's the uber mommy, not only breastfeeds on the cover of the upcoming W Magazine but chats about knife shopping with her 7-year-old.

Yes, 7-year-old Maddox has been such a good big brother, he earned himself his own dagger. WTF??

Angelina says she thinks it's "important he learns about the dangers and benefits of daggers." Sure. And I think my daughter should learn about the dangers and benefits of guns. It doesn't mean I'm going to buy her one!!

Angelina told W she got her first knife at 11. Maybe it was the one she used to use to cut herself with during sex? This was back when she was the OTHER Angelina, she of the vial of Billy Bob blood and making out with her brother. How soon we forget. I've been rooting for the growing ~~Brady~~ Jolie-Pitt bunch since Angelina and Brad started to put a little bit of down-home parenting into celebrity, but I confess I never drank the Kool-Aid. I was waiting for something like this to crop up.

Last time I checked, the 7-year-old eldest brother to a whole brood of kids is not the prime candidate for a knife. A. He's 7. B. He's 7 and C. He's . . . wait for it . . . 7.

I don't care how much time you've spent discussing "safe play" and how much you've dulled that thing down (which, I will say, she was very clear about doing), knives aren't toys. And as I don't see the Jolie-Pitts out hunting for dinner and skinning their kill, I have yet to see how this gift could be construed as anything but by a 7-year-old boy (or girl for that matter). What was the purpose of this? Is she planning on sending him off into the wild on their next trip to Africa? Are they worried about the way the Germans are taking to the new kids on the block?

I don't care how far she's climbed up the parenting ladder, Angelina just proved she's as screwed up as the rest of us. (By the way - to everyone who reports on the Jolie-Pitt clan, can we stop referring to those of her children who are not biological as her "adopted" son Maddox, etc? Once adopted, they're her kids - enough already.)

Image: Celeste

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Were the Twins (Yes, Those Twins) Photoshopped?

Madeline Holler — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:28:00 GMT

Every cover girl experiences what it feels like to not be good enough in the eyes of an art director with a knack for Photoshop. Shave off a flabby arm here, take in a thick waist there, airbrush, gloss-over, stick her head on an underfed model's body.

So why should Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt know otherwise? Yes, she's born of a perfect DNA match. Indeed, she is but weeks old. But still, after People paid all that money for the pics, shouldn't THEY get to perfect half of the world's most awaited babies (sorry, if you thought yours were).

NY Mag is calling Photoshop on the People magazine cover and arguing that the little girl's ... smile was cut and pasted on her face. Here's what they say:

In that cover photo, it looks like Vivienne Marcheline — clearly the Ashley half of this Olsen-like combo — is sporting a giant grin. She may even be laughing. Hold on. These babies are purported to be a mere 3 weeks old! Parenting magazine says that babies don't smile from exterior stimulation until two to four months — even if said exterior stimulation is the most beautiful pair of humans in the entire world.

What to you think? Photoshopped? Or is Vivi working out a bit of flatulence. Come on, we parents know even newborns make all kinds of faces, even if Parenting magazine hasn't explicitly told us so.