Suzette Valle

  • So Long, Jay, It’s Been Good to Know Ya

    For a worn-out parent like me, prime time was great — my eyelids stayed open long enough to watch your mindless antics

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  • My Most Provocative Hollyblogs

    Based on readers’ comments — from Michael Jackson to Burger King

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  • What Does My Family Do Now, Tiger Woods?

    It’s tough to face the very people who put you on a pedestal, but do it

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  • Even the Kids Are Turning Against Miley

    From “Teen Queen” to “Worst Celeb Influence,” what a difference a year makes.

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  • There’s Reality, and Then There’s Junk Reality

    It’s time to ramp up the standards and stop promoting coarse social conduct.

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  • Pick Me for Kate Gosselin’s Talk Show!

    Reality TV could take this show a step further and seek out real moms — moms, who really do cook and clean, nurture.

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  • Kate Gosselin: Talkshow Host? Ugh.

    ABC has hired the celebrity mommy to guest-host “The View.”

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  • If George Romero Were a 16-Year-Old Girl …

    Beyond the big-time L.A. cinema leaders and the plastic, fabric and tape costumes that characterize Comic-Con aficionados, it was refreshing to find Emily Hagins, a 16-year-old director in-the-making. “Pathogen” is a story about a strange zombie-transforming illness found in the drinking water, complete with bloody gore and decapitations. Emily wrote the script when she was…

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  • A Goodbye Filled With Mixed Emotions

    The day Michael Jackson died, I immediately made a mental note of gratitude for the singer’s contribution to my youth. While my teenaged children and I watched the memorial, I wrote my second attempt at saying goodbye to the person whose famous life spanned mine thus far. But, instead of recounting Jackson’s life, I’m starting…

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  • 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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  • Attack of the ‘Monster’ Marketing Ploys

    There couldn’t be a more apt description for the resurrected 3D movie fad, and accompanying marketing campaign than: “In your face.” DreamWorks is making sure everywhere you turn there’s an advertisement for their latest multi-million budget movie, “Monsters vs. Aliens,” so you won’t forget to make the family trip to the Cineplex to help pay…

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    Suzette Valle

  • Yes, 3D’s Cool, but Who Can Afford It?

    The 3D movie trend is about to go into hyper-mode — and the price for the family moviegoing 3D experience is also reaching stratospheric levels. Let’s take the recent Jonas Brothers in-your-face extravaganza. In our neck of the woods, it cost a family of four a whopping $60 to sit in a comfy chair, wearing…

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    Suzette Valle