Suzette Valle

  • My Son, the Not-Jonas-Brother

    Textbooks have been returned, report cards are in the mail and the long speeches at awards ceremonies and graduations are finally over. School’s out for summer! Except if you have a high-school junior that is not gifted or talented like his or her Hollywood counterpart who, by some lucky strike, has an angelic singing voice,…

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  • Role Model? Shanna Moakler is In Serious Denial

    Oh, no she didn’t! I tuned in to my regular radio talk show where the discussion was the recent abdication of the director’s throne over at the Miss California pageant offices. I was sure I had missed hearing Reese Witherspoon’s name instead of Shanna Moakler’s in the part of the good-bye speech mentioning a role model.…

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  • Burger King and that SpongeBob Commercial

    I’m somewhat glad my kids are well in their teens now (could do with less back-talk, but you can read about this issue on my blog www.mamarazziknowbest.com), and that we survived the turbulent downward spiral of television programming for families. We can now cautiously sit together through a few shows and commercials, and seldom have…

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  • Driving Under the Influence of Celebrity

    Just as I was starting to feel comfortable trusting Miley Cyrus to act her age, and not suspecting that any of the Jonas Brothers would take a public misstep, I was thrown for a furious loop when I saw a photo (courtesy of TMZ) and a video (PerezHilton.com) of 16-year-old Nick Jonas driving 16-year-old Miley…

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  • Keeping Young Hollywood Real

    With two working parents in American families almost a must in this terrible economy, travel and family outings are the first things cut out of the household entertainment budget. What do we have left to fill our leisure time with? Television and movies – we all still depend on Hollywood to keep us entertained and…

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