This will be my first Mother's Day without a mom. My mom Tanya was such a fighter that even though she battled an incurable form of cancer for nine years I never really believed that this day would ever come. She was so determined to live to see her children...

Does anyone else find it ironic that men in a polygamy cult in Texas are being locked up for sexually exploiting teenage girls while here in medialand, a half-nude photo of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus in Vanity Fair is being touted as art?

Is it OK to sexualize a fifteen-year-old if...

Why was Jessica Gibson, Rob Lowe's former nanny, smiling like a cat that just ate a canary during her interview with Meredith Vieira on the "Today" Show yesterday? Her apparently happy demeanor struck me as odd. As a purported victim of sexual harassment, shouldn't she at least look and...

Who knew that Hillary Clinton and Madonna were practically the same person? Here they are — both middle aged blondes in the battles of their lives. Hillary, to wrest back the Democratic nomination for president from Barack Obama and Madonna, to prove that with her 26th album, Hard Candy, she...

Advice to Jamie and Lynne Spears — stop treating your celebrity daughters like cash registers! Do you think it's a coincidence that one of your girls has had to be committed to the mental ward of a hospital and that the other is 16 and six months pregnant?

Could that...

Who knew that politicians were even bigger, lustier love objects than even Hollywood's most infamous ladies man — George Clooney? I mean really could even America's Sexiest Man Alive have managed to have multiple affairs while also holding down a steady or somewhat steady relationship like New York's new luv...

Silda Spitzer looked about as devastated as any human being could be as she stood at her husband Eliot's side while he announced that yes, he had patronized a prostitution ring.

But as awful as this must be for her, there are three other innocent victims of Eliot Spitzer's...

Now that Hillary has taken Ohio and Texas, could a subtle fashion makeover make her even more electable? I say yes and I say this seriously, Hillary and her handlers may have given hours and hours of thought to her positions and platforms but they haven't focused enough on perfecting...

You, like me, have probably been convinced for at least the past three years that Brangelina is The Most in love couple in all of Hollywood. The evidence was all there — the commitment to adopting little ones from third world countries, the his and hers causes, the matching motorcycles,...

I can tell you absolutely and definitively that star kids are not just like our kids.

This is what our kids do: They holler bloody murder in small, confined spaces like airplanes. I know because I've been there. Just this week I took a five-hour flight with a couple of...

Of all the muck being thrown at Hillary Clinton, our country's first female presidential candidate, by far the worst had to be last week's accusation that she was "pimping out" her daughter Chelsea Clinton. Every working mother, let alone one who is the most controversial woman in the country,...

Is Britney headed for a tragedy because she's a celebrity? Would any ordinary person with major mental issues have been released from a respected psychiatric facility just six days after they were committed by a court order?

Britney's exasperated parents are terrified. "We believe her [Brit's] life is presently at...

Lynne and Jamie Spears, Brit's parents, and her new psychiatrist have now successfully staged an intervention to get the distressed pop star into UCLA Medical Center under a three-day psychiatric hold so she can be evaluated. If she were my daughter I'd be right there too, begging Brit to accept...

It was just this past weekend that I rented the film, A Knight's Tale, starring Heath Ledger, to watch with my youngest son who is six. I wanted to enjoy it with him because I figured that he was at an age where he would love its action and its...

"Knocked Up" isn't just a hit movie, it's the state of the hottest fashion magazine cover girls now and, I predict, for the foreseeable future. It struck me this week when I checked out the newsstand and there was gorgeous pregnant Halle Berry smiling and glowing, draped in a body-clinging...

Has there ever been a celebrity more desperately and publicly crying out for help than Britney Spears? From shaving off all her hair in front of the paparazzi and then attacking a car with an umbrella last spring, to holding her kids hostage last week, Brit has been having...

After her 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn Spears announced that she was pregnant and commandeered world headlines, the covers of Star and numerous other celebrity news weeklies, Britney knew she would have to do something BIG!

Partying pantyless, a third pregnancy of her own, a new paparazzi boyfriend -- none of...

When Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch and told the world he was in love with Katie Holmes, he set a new standard for celebrity behavior. While much of the free world debated whether he was nuts or not, a whole lot of Hollywood took note—he got A LOT of...

If Jamie Lynn Spears somehow thought that having a baby would be a good career move for her — boy has that backfired!

While Nickelodeon hasn't committed to any course of action on the Jamie Lynn front, aside from wishing her the best, her audience is speaking loud and clear.

Lynne Spears, what were you thinking? Or not thinking and not doing? Did you never sit down with either of your daughters—Britney, now just turned 26, and the divorced mother of two toddlers or Jamie Lynn, 16 and now three months pregnant—and give them The Talk?

You know the one,...