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Glee's creator, Ryan Murphy, specializes in lampooning American appetites. In his dark comedy Popular, he took on the desire for social status; in the plastic-surgery drama Nip/Tuck, the hunger for physical perfection. Glee is all about the timely teen dream embodied and fed by Idol, High School Musical and YouTube: fame, glorious fame...
...Julia Roberts and Adam Sandler (10 each); only Tom Cruise can match that haul. But Hanks' films usually don't open with a big bang; audiences discover them over time, and by the end, he has a Forrest Gump. At 52, Hanks is not the ideal age for a teen kid's movie icon; his one starring role since Da Vinci, in Charlie Wilson's War, brought in only $65 million. So Hanks should probably be happy with the huge salary he earned for making Angels, for the fact that it did manage to edge out the competition...
...clearly honored to be invited to the wedding of a couple she has been close to since grade school. A veteran of several opposite-sex weddings, she took this one in stride: "It wasn't really different. Everyone was happy." Four other guests attended - Woodward-Young's two teen-age daughters from her first marriage, her former husband and his wife, who took photos. "We are kind of a funky weird extended family," Woodward-Young explains with a laugh...
...It’s actually really funny. In high school, my parents were constantly approached by agencies to get me into teen modeling or child modeling,” she said. “My parents said that modeling was something I could explore once I got into college...
...acceptable, using religious curricula in public schools violates the separation of church and state and alienates students who hold a different, or no, faith. There is a better way. Studies have shown that comprehensive sex education, including discussion of condoms and other contraceptives, is an effective way of preventing teen pregnancy. In countries with more liberal attitudes about teen sexuality and sex education—including most of Western Europe and especially Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands—rates of teen pregnancy, STD transmissions, and abortion are consistently low. While Obama’s budget shuffle will not suddenly...