Celebrity Baby Names: The Best of 2009
This year was notable by a swell of great celebrity baby names, far outweighing the quirky, strange, and downright bad.
This year was notable by a swell of great celebrity baby names, far outweighing the quirky, strange, and downright bad.
Seriously, people, everyone needs to calm down about Suri's propensity to play dress-up. She just wants to be like her mama. What's so horrible about that?
The man from an adjacent table, who knows one of my friends and has his other hand on her shoulder, leans between us and confidentially whispers: "That's Jon Gosselin over there getting coffee."
Celebrity is undermining our culture; the obsession is pulling us away from our own lives as we focus more on our movie stars and television stars than our own marriages and children.
Yes, Anne Heche, you can say "lazy ass" on television. The question is, should you? And the answer is, it's never appropriate when you are talking about the father of your child.
It's wonderful that pregnancy is seen as such a beautiful thing, but it's a shame that motherhood is framed against a backdrop of such beauty [that] no one can live up to.
From her stories about starring in The Goodbye Girl to her string of endearing domestic mishaps, this book is what my book would like to be when it grows up and writes itself.
Certainly no one asked these eight small children whether they wanted what would otherwise have been a private, and hopefully somewhat innocent childhood, kept that way.
The truth is, having kids can be quite advantageous right about now. There are the obvious tax and welfare benefits, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
During the vegan dinner Lucky and I schmoozed with Byron Howard, one of the directors of the animated Disney hit film Bolt. Lucky spent the whole time flirting with him!
Most seemed to think the celebrity parents were just preserving a moment of privacy, but 17 percent took the cynical view that delaying the name announcement was a ploy to maximize publicity.
Guess the media reporting the truth that Levi was a dropout did in fact "harm" his chance for "good work opportunities," in Palin's spin-filled world.
Courtney Love's new album was supposed to hit stores yesterday, but Nobody's Daughter has been postponed. Along with recording issues, Courtney has been consumed tracking down a vast embezzling scheme.
Looking at newborn Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston's astrological chart, all I can say is whoa -- this kid is gonna be heavy and a handful!
When 5,000 kids turned out for the Environmental Youth Conference in LA, they got a surprise as celebrities like Will.i.am, Vanessa Hudgens and Tyrese took the stage to share a few words.
I hadn't thought about it much before, but it makes a huge amount of sense: Don't give lottery tickets to children. That's what the National Council on Problem Gambling is telling parents and doting relatives.
I was staring at the "biography" shelf in my home library when I realized: two people from these books went out on a date.
The Obama daughters have already generated an outstanding amount of media interest through their desire for a puppy and their Huxtable-like cuteness.
"Generation Rescue is a parent-run organization that helps many parents recover their children from autism and teaches them about diet, about detox and that's how [their kids] get better."
It dawned on me: this is why celebrities have trouble giving up "celebrity." They're so accustomed to someone hanging on their every word; ready to fulfill every wish and desire.
Elizabeth Blackney of "Media Lizzy" joins co-hosts Maegan Carberry and Teresa Valdez Klein to weigh in on today's presidential election and the natio...