Claire Danes might have missed out on winning Outstanding Lead Actress at the Emmy Awards last weekend, but the former young actress's career is still going strong. On September 24, just a few days after the Emmys, Claire, now 33, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and her TV show Homeland will premiere its highly-anticipated ( Read more... )

It's a rare thing to find a showbiz parent who's willing to talk about what it's really like to raise a child star. Shows like Toddlers & Tiaras have given the words "stage mom" such a negative image that most Hollywood mothers avoid the limelight, lest they be accused of hijacking their child's fame (or worse). So it was very interesting to come ( Read more... )

Edith Fellows, former spunky child star of the 1930s and '40s, died of natural causes on June 26, 2011, at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills, CA. She was 88.

What's sadder - the fact that the death of this one-time golden girl was barely a blip on the radar, or how many hardships Edith faced as a result of her ( Read more... )

Actress and writer June Havoc, whose childhood in vaudeville as Baby June was immortalized in Gypsy, died of natural causes on March 28, 2010, at her home in Stamford, Conn. She was 97.

If you know anything about American musicals, you probably know June Havoc. She is a vivid character in one of the most famous musicals of all time: Gypsy, the 1962 ( Read more... )

Diane Lane is living her father's dream, says the London Daily Telegraph. The 45-year-old actress is the daughter of acting coach Burt Lane, who pushed her onto the stage at age 7. By age 12, she was starring on stage and in film alongside the likes of Meryl Streep, and she graced the cover of Time magazine under the title "Hollywood Whiz Kids" ( Read more... )

I was absolutely shocked when I read this article. I don't think any young actress has ever had a more selfish, self-righteous, pushy nightmare of a stage mother than Jena Malone. True, she didn't force Jena into acting (Jena wanted to do it), and she never physically abused her. But did she steal all of Jena's money away? And how! Here, broken ( Read more... )

A recent article on Brooke Shields and her manager mother, from one of my favorite magazines, The Week:

Brooke Shields can’t escape her mother, says Jancee Dunn in More. She was raised in Manhattan by Teri Shields, a driven, hard-drinking stage mom who pushed her pretty little girl into child modeling and acting. Brooke now believes her mother ( Read more... )