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Think Your Kids Haven’t Heard About Fifty Shades? Think Again
If you think your kids haven't heard about the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, think again. Chatter about the BDSM romance has been rife on the radio, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TV. Over 50 million people watched the trailer. Advance ticket sales have broken records. Which also means it's all over the playground and carline…
If You Want to Be Happy, No One Can Stop You
(This essay is adapted from the June 16, 2004 Briar Woods High School Commencement speech delivered at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia.) Thank you for sharing this awesome, auspicious day with me. A few years ago, a close friend from high school, who had known me since I was 12 years old, offered an observation about my life that got my attention. My friend told me: “You’ve had so many bad things happen …
School Shootings and Why Boys Need Boys
Amidst the shock, horror, grief, and fury over school shootings, we all look for the cause of the violence, and the solution to stopping the next attack. Some reason we need more guns — armed schoolteachers and guards. Others argue for fewer guns, regulated by stricter legislation. Mental health professionals maintain that we need better treatment and medication of troubled kids. Others blame allegedly reckless antidepressant overmedication by mental health professionals. The ferocious debate overlooks one …
Amanda Bynes’s Mother: “She Will Get Through This”
Speaking out for the first time, Amanda Bynes’s mother offered her reassurance that the troubled actress “will get through this situation.” “I would really like everyone out there to know that almost 99 percent of the things written about my daughter in various media outlets are false or misleading,” Lynn Bynes told PEOPLE.
Police Called in Fight Between Lindsay Lohan and Dina Lohan
Troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan got into what Nassau County police characterized as “a verbal dispute” with her mother Dina early Wednesday morning outside the family’s home in Long Island. Police arrived around 8 a.m. to the house where the 26-year-old actress grew up, but an investigation revealed “no criminality.”