Kaia Gerber has just made Cindy Crawford a Momager by landing Young Versace's launch ad campaign. Who knew rocking socks with sandals could be chic?

“Like her mother, Kaia has a very special gift,” Donatella Versace said in a release to the press. “The camera really, really loves her. Having Cindy on-set for the shoot took me back to all the amazing Avedon shoots we worked on together. It was such a special treat watching Kaia walk in her mother’s footsteps!”

Cindy Crawford had this to say about her progeny:

“I’m so thrilled that Kaia was chosen to be part of the first Young Versace Campaign. I have so many fond memories of the times I spent with Gianni and Donatella. There is something so very special about the House of Versace. Being on-set with my daughter watching her in front of the camera was a fantastic experience. I am so proud of her.”

Famed Photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot shot the campaign for the line which will debut during Pitti Immagine Bimbo in Florence. The line fits kids ages 0-12 and stays true to many  of Versace’s signature themes like the iconic Greek key motif and Medusa head logo.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attend the Palm Springs Film Festival

“Hey, I’ve heard you’re amazing,” Angelina told 14-year-old Thomas, “[It's} very, very nice to meet you. It's an honor." She bent down to his eye level and asked him if he has done events like the red carpet before, and he admitted it was his first time.

"Are you excited or is it weird?" Angelina asked. "It's weird, but exciting, I guess," Thomas replied as his EL&IC co-star Tom Hanks looked on like a proud father.

Jolie then told Horn that her kids (Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne) are fans of his work.

"You should be really, really proud. You've done great things," Angie told him. "My kids already think you're cool, so I'll tell them I met you and they'll think I'm cool."

Tom Hanks and Thomas Horn at the Palm Springs International Film Festival

But while the Jolie-Pitt kids may think Thomas Horn is cool, it will be awhile before they can follow in his film-making footsteps if dad Brad Pitt has his way. According to Hollyscoop.com, Pitt’s open to the kids becoming actors — only not until they’re adults.

“Whatever they want to do,” Pitt he told the gossip Web site at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. “Whatever makes them happy. [But] not until they’re eighteen.”

Pitt and Jolie walked the red carpet at the film festival to accept the Desert Palm Achievement Award for his performance in Moneyball.

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According to The Sun, Feldman decided to publicly discuss the abuse he suffered at age 14 after his best friend, former child star Corey Haim, died of heart failure and pneumonia. Feldman allegedly waited until after Haim’s death to reveal the abuse they both endured as he didn’t want to subject Haim to the nastiness all over again.  Coincidentally, one of their former talent agents was charged with child abuse at approximately that same time.

“When I was 14 and 15, things were happening to me,” he said. “These older men were leching around like vultures. It was basically me laying there pretending I was asleep and them going about their business. Corey [Haim] and I were pegged as the scapegoats,” said Feldman.

“People need to know the reason Corey and I were swept under the carpet like the beaten dogs that were sent to the pound so no one had to deal with us anymore,” says Feldman, ”I stood up and said there is a bigger problem, that I’d lost Corey and that I didn’t want to see any more kids lost to these sick perverts.”

Former “Little House on the Prairie” Child Star Alison Arngrim (also a victim of child sexual abuse) confirmed Feldman’s statements to Fox News on Decemeber 5, 2011 stating:

“This has been going on for a very long time. It was the gossip back in the ‘80s. People said, ‘Oh yeah, the Coreys [Feldman, Haim], everyone’s had them.’ People talked about it like it was not a big deal…”

“I literally heard that they were ‘passed around,’” Arngrim said. “The word was that they were given drugs and being used for sex. It was awful–these were kids, they weren’t 18 yet. There were all sorts of stories about everyone from their, quote, ‘set guardians’ on down that these two had been sexually abused and were totally being corrupted in every possible way.”

Fortunately, thanks to these brave stars the public’s eyes are beginning to open to this secret epidemic as three high profile pedophile cases have rocked Hollywood in the few short months following Feldman’s revelations:

• Martin Weiss, a 47-year-old Hollywood manager who represented child actors, was charged in Los Angeles on Dec. 1, 2011 with sexually abusing a former client. His accuser, who was under 12 years old during the time of the alleged abuse, reported to authorities that Weiss told him “what they were doing was common practice in the entertainment industry.” Weiss has pleaded not guilty.
• On Nov. 21, 2011 Fernando Rivas, 59, an award-winning composer for “Sesame Street,” was arraigned on charges of coercing a child “to engage in sexually explicit conduct” in South Carolina. The Juilliard-trained composer was also charged with production and distribution of child pornography.
• Registered sex offender Jason James Murphy, 35, worked as a casting agent in Hollywood for years before his past kidnapping and sexual abuse of a boy was revealed by the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 17. Murphy’s credits include placing young actors in kid-friendly fare like “Bad News Bears,” “The School of Rock,” “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” and the forthcoming “Three Stooges.”

Sources: ABC News Nightline, The Sun via Radar online, Fox News

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The Winter Family Festival is fun for the entire family – play in TONS of snow and enjoy music, crafts, free photos with Santa, classic cars, face painting, food trucks, and the Radio Disney Road Crew, who will keep the party rockin’ with some awesome beats and treats!

It all takes place on Sunday, December 4th from 1:30pm to 5:30pm at Beeman Park in Studio City! Park free and take the shuttle from CBS Studio Center, 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, CA 91604. Shuttles run from 1:00pm to 6:00pm. Please visit RadioDisney.com/LosAngeles for details.

Charities benefitting from this event include: Pet Orphans, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Bookends, LAPD North Hollywood Division, North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry, St. Charles Borromeo Church Food Pantry and Operation Uplift. Each charity will be on-site to take donations.

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Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz star in HUGO

According to Deadline Hollywood, child actor Asa Butterfield, 14, who stars in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo with Chloe Moretz, has been offered the lead role in the highly sought after book turned film property, Ender’s Game. After screen-testing several young actors, director Gavin Hood (Wolverine) chose Butterfield to star as boy genius Andrew “Ender” Wiggin in the adaptation of the seminal Orson Scott Card sci-fi book series.  It won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and rose to the top of national bestseller lists.

The publishers website describes “Ender’s Game” this way:  ”Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when this begins. He will grow up fast.

“But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military’s purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine’s abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.”

Other book characters include Ender’s older siblings, Valentine and Peter. Casting Director is John Papsidera and has a tentative March 15, 2013 release date.

Butterfield has worked on several major feature films: Son of Rambow, Nanny McPhee Returns, The Wolfman and The Boy in Striped Pajamas. Martin Scorsese’s 3-D family film Hugo will debut  in theaters over the Thanksgiving weekend.

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Hours to be arranged 7 days a week. Call 323-385-5237.

Elizabeth supplies material or bring your own audition material. Details can be found at ElizabethBaumanActingCoach.com or ScottSeditaActing.com.  Tell her Hollywood Mom Blog sent you!

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I now can truly relate to these words, and I have seen some major changes throughout my life. I don’t know what it is about this move from Texas to South Carolina that has me feeling so upside down? If anything, I have a lot more time to myself because all three of my children are in school. I mean they all are picked up and dropped off by a school bus about five houses down from ours so from the hours of 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. I am pretty much on my own, to do as I please.

Heaven – yes, but something is missing. I have wrestled with the question of “what” that is for a while now and I am sure that I’ve finally come up with the answer.

You see, while we were in Texas my eldest daughter was actively pursuing and continually working on her acting. She went to acting classes weekly, she went out on auditions and she actually shot a few things. All the while I was being her momager and relentlessly searching for more castings and auditions, more workshops, more, more and then some more. I found that I loved being a momager and the excitement of finding an audition or getting her into some awesome workshop was so invigorating for me – it kind of became my drug of choice. I know some of you are rolling your eyes and saying, “Oh, she is one of those crazy stage-mom” sorts of things but I never pushed her into auditions or classes or anything she didn’t want to do. Sometimes I would find a casting, ask her if she wanted me to submit her, she would tell me “no thank you” and I would move onto the next thing. It is more of the “thrill of the hunt” than anything else.

Now let’s move ahead six months, we are nicely settled into our new home and new routines but something is missing – my momager job!

My daughter has now entered high school and has decided to concentrate on playing basketball as well as her tough honors course load. Don’t get me wrong, I played college basketball and coached high school basketball and volleyball so I love the idea that she is working hard on the court but my role has changed significantly. I have become her cheerleader (which I always was and always will be) and am relegated to the stands during game time. She asks me the odd basketball related question but her coach is The BBall Guru, as it should be, and I the untitled mother.

So what shall I do with my new found free time? Well I do volunteer weekly at my younger children’s school, I have joined all sorts of committees and I am upping my exercise regime but there is still something missing – any suggestions?? Anyone have a way to fill this momager-at-heart’s free time? How about a suggestion for how I can find the “high” that came with landing my daughter the perfect audition? I am all ears. Maybe I’ll post an ad on Craigslist reading, “Momager for Hire” or something like that? Who knows what my future will hold.

Update: I hadn’t even submitted my post for editing when my youngest daughter came up to me last night and said, “Mom, I really want to try modeling. Do you think I could?”

Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, god of “momagers with no child to manage” – wink, wink!!

Cari Surch is the momager of young actress Kennedy Surch. You can follow her adventures on twitter http://www.twitter.com/cariscalling

The lovely Surch sisters!

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Bateman with his daughter Francesca.

Although Jason is grateful for the opportunities he was given in his youth, he shares that there are negative efects resulting from being employed at such a young age.

He recently told Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung:: “It’s not a good idea. For one an acting career is quite unstable and also because things in this business are very unfair. Most of all I think it’s highly questionable to put a child in front of a camera and ask that child to pretend to be someone else. Children need to find out who they really are first. When you’re growing up child acting isn’t very clever. I personally didn’t survive it completely undamaged.”

HMB previously reported on Jason, who is currently filming the movie version of the cult favorite television show “Arrested Development,” last year.

After overcoming an addiction to drugs in the 1990′s, In the 90s, Jason married to Amanda Anka, with whom he has a four-year-old daughter Francesca and is currently expecting another.

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If you’re not familiar with Irene (The Dray) Dreayer and the Dray Way, please read the interview we did with her earlier this year.

Here are just a few of the Dray’s credits:

• Has produced 600 half hours of Primetime TV.
• Is currently producing the new original movie “Hunky Santa” for ABC Family.
• Formed her own personal management company in Los Angeles, representing writers and actors.
• Discovered twins Tia and Tamara Mowry and transformed them into the breakout stars of the series “Sister, Sister,” which she Executive Produced for the WB Network.
• Discovered Tia and Tamara’s younger brother Tahj, who went on to star in “Smart Guy,” a series for the WB Network.
• Served as Executive Producer on “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” on the Disney Channel for 3 seasons, and then “The Suite Life on Deck.”
• Discovered and Manages Milly and Becky Rosso, ( “The Suite Life,” “Legally Blondes”)

Sign up at http://thedrayway.com/auditionseminar/ to attend this amazing seminar and if you can’t make it or live out of state, please take advantage of our group skype sessions at the highly discounted rate of only $25. Hope to see you soon!

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Hollywood Mom Blog readers had such a good time at the recent pre-screening of SPY KIDS we decided to continue the fun with even MORE awesome giveaways to Spy Kids All the Time in The World!

The first is a giveaway of “Admit 2 Run of Engagement” passes that are valid at any Los Angeles AMC Theater beginning Monday, August 22, 2011. Four lucky families will benefit from 2 free tickets each, good at any Los Angeles area AMC theater, on or after August 22, 2011. Simply post your name in the comment/reply section below to qualify for entry. Winners/recipients of this giveaway will be notified on August 18, 2011.

The second prize to win: A 4-Pack Giveaway will grant One lucky family 4 FREE PASSES to Spy Kids 4D – just follow the directions on the graphic below in order to submit your entry. Enter for one or enter for both! Winner/recipient of this giveaway will be contacted on August 15, 2011.

Good luck to all our Hollywood Moms and let the spy-tastic summer fun continue!

View the trailer at: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/spykidsallthetimeintheworld/

ABOUT SPY KIDS 4D:
On the surface, Marissa Cortez Wilson (Jessica Alba) has it all…married to a famous spy hunting television reporter, a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. But in reality, trying to mother Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook), who clearly don’t want her around, is her toughest challenge yet. Also, her husband, Wilbur (Joel McHale), wouldn’t know a spy if he lived with one which is exactly the case – Marissa’s a retired secret agent.

Marissa’s world is turned upside down when the maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) threatens to take over the planet and she’s called back into action by the head of OSS, home of the greatest spies and where the now-defunct Spy Kids division was created. With Armageddon quickly approaching, Rebecca and Cecil are thrust into action when they learn their boring step-mom was once a top agent and now the world’s most competitive ten year olds are forced to put their bickering aside and rely on their wits. With a little help from a couple of very familiar former Spy Kids, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara), and some mind-blowing gadgets, they just may be able to save the world and possibly bring their family together while they’re at it.

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The following roles still need to be filled for auditions for this Monday!

• “Sweet 16″ Asian Kids (girls about to turn 16)
• Ice Hockey Kids (any ethnicity) ages 7-12
• Ice Hockey Dad
• High school cheerleaders

Email our gorgeous friend Teresa at Teresamlowther@gmail.com ASAP with head shot and resume. Actors MUST LIVE IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA.

This is a GREAT opportunity! Good Luck and tell her Hollywood Mom Blog sent you!

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Jeremy Piven greets the Burks Girls at Spy Kids!

By all accounts, last weeks special pre-screening of  SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D at the Arclight Hollywood was a huge success!  SPY KID Child Stars Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook were on hand to mingle with Hollywood Mom’s readership after the screening and thankfully, Hollywood Mom Elise Burks became an impromptu photographer catching her daughters Ariana and Anaiya with the film’s stars (like Jeremy Piven left) and other HMB families.  Everyone raved about the film and some called it the best film yet of the beloved SPY KIDS franchise.

Some other lucky HMB readers who attended the screening were HM Olivia Lopez and dd Natalie Lopez; HM Kathy Drelling Card and daughters Sophia and Simone; HM Dani with daughter Damoni Burkhardt;  HM Karean Chapman and her girls, Shayna and Mikayla; and HM Lilli Baur attended with son’s Niko and Caden Baur.

HMB Readers Rock!: Child actors Ariana Burks and Anaiya Burks meet fellow child actors and SPY KIDS stars, Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook, at the Hollywood Mom Blog pre-screening at the Arclight Hollywood last Thursday.

SPY KIDS Star Rowan Blanchard poses with HMB kids Fellow child actors, Sophia and Simone Card.

The Chapman girls and Damoni Burkhardt anticipate the pre-screening!

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Vicki Conway, Director of Oaks Christian Online School

Looking for an alternative to traditional school for your child actor? Or do you find that your child doesn’t have enough hours in the day to attend school for 8 hours, complete homework and participate in outside classes, programs and activities? Or perhaps your child is all ready in homeschool but you’re looking for a new program? Search no more. Acclaimed Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, CA is launching an online program that offers summer classes and college prep courses for students seeking expanded coursework and activities. On July 17, Vicki Conway, Director of Oaks Christian Online School, a nationally recognized teacher and administrator who has experience developing, implementing and leading online educational programs, will host an Open House at the Oaks Christian Main Campus on La Tienda Drive in Westlake Village. If you are unable to attend the open house in person, the school also offers weekly virtual open houses for prospective students every Tuesday at 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Since first opening in 2000, Oaks Christian School has quickly gained respect for student achievement in academics, arts and sports. The online school is an extension of the main campus which serves about 1,300 middle and high school students. “Online schools benefit child actors because the work can be completed anywhere and at any time of day,” says Conway. ” Oaks Christian Online School (OCO), though, will impact child actors specifically because we have a unique blend of accredited, rigorous, college-preparatory classes delivered from a Christian worldview.  We believe in 100% college placement, and our counselors have a tradition of excellence in assisting students towards their college goals.  We also believe in engaging the whole student and will have social opportunities for local students at retreats, community service field trips and online chapel discussion boards.” Oaks Christian Headmaster Jeff Woodcock said the new program will give motivated, college-bound students around the globe the opportunity to participate in a rigorous academic curriculum, college preparatory support and spiritual life counseling that embody Christian values.  “Online education, because of the advances of technology, is the way of the future. We want to be a part of the wave, not behind the wave,” Woodcock recently told the Acorn newspaper. “With online school, students can learn anytime, anywhere and at any pace.”

"Online schools benefit child actors because the work can be completed anywhere and at any time of day," says Conway.

ABOUT Vicki Conway Before joining Oaks Christian, Conway served as senior vice president of accounting for a Fortune 500 company. She became an educator 14 years ago and directed a widely recognized online teacher training program for Insight School of California, a public charter high school serving 1,500 California students online. While with Insight School, Conway worked as a teacher, department chair, supervising teacher and national teacher trainer. Conway will also be exhibiting at the 28th annual CHEA home school conference on July 14 through 16, 2011 at the Pasadena Convention Center. CHEA (Christian Home Educators Association of California, Inc.) is a non-profit ministry established in 1982 to provide information, support, and training to the home education community throughout the state.

Oaks Christian online school will host an open house on July 17, 2011 in Westlake Village

ABOUT OAKS CHRISTIAN ONLINE SCHOOL According to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, more than 1.5 million U.S. students are taking online courses. That number is growing internationally.  The Oaks Christian online program is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The full-time program costs $6,995 per year. A single part-time class costs $600 for a semester or $1,150 for the year. Conway has received approximately 7,500 inquiries from prospective students and families throughout America and the world. The school expects to enroll about 100 full-time students for its fall semester. For more information about Oaks Christian Online School, visit http://online.oakschristian.org or call (855) 462-6257

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MISTER AND PETE shoots in Fall 2011 in New York .

Synopsis: Raised by an absentee single mother whose sole concern is scoring her next fix, (Jennifer Hudson) Mister, a street-savvy self-starter, hides behind the petulant disposition of a boy who is too prideful to let the pain of being poor and alone in the world show. Mister has found his calling in acting. He’s a performer and the hope of making it to Hollywood is what fuels him during times where weaker men would surrender to hopelessness. After his mother is arrested, Mister, with no money or food, reluctantly finds himself caring for an innocent 9 year old boy named Pete. With Pete in his shadow, Mister struggles to survive a hot summer, dodging cops and bullies, while doing whatever he can to make it to the date of his big audition… [PETE] ASIAN – 6 – 10 YEARS OLD.  Precocious without being precious, 9-yr old Pete is the innocent victim of an addict mother. His sweet demeanor an unyielding curiosity is mistaken for naivety as he often asks questions that irk, but Pete is only trying to understand the world around him. Seeking the love and protection any kid deserves, Pete has managed to maintain his trust for his baby sitter, Mister. When Mister discovers that Pete has run away from hardships greater than his own, the boys spend the tough summer together, barely surviving before they will be able to escape to the greener pastures of Hollywood.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND A PICTURE AND RESUME TO KATE AT: filmsearch2011@gmail.com

[Mister] African American – 12-14 years old. Raised by an absentee, single mother, Mister, a street-savvy self-starter and a boy who is too prideful to let the pain of being poor and alone in the world show. Mister has found his calling in acting. He’s a performer, and the hope of making it to Hollywood. After his mother is arrested, Mister, with no money or food, reluctantly finds himself caring for an innocent 9 year old boy named Pete. Mister struggles to survive to make it to the date of his big audition…

[Pete] Asian 6– 10 years old. Pete is the innocent victim of an addict mother. Pete is trying to understand the world around him. Seeking the love and protection any kid deserves, Pete has managed to maintain his trust for his baby sitter, Mister. When Mister discovers that Pete has run away from hardships greater than his own, the boys spend the tough summer together, barely surviving before they will be able to escape to Hollywood.

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The tour kicks off in San Diego Saturday, July 9 and then travels to more than 20 cities nationwide, featuring the top tier talent from the School of Rock national program.  Five of the AllStars, Chris Arteaga, Waylon Rector, Jacob Butler, Daisy Hamel-Buffa and Soraya Sebghati are from Los Angeles and will be doing their home town proud on the national tour!  Special guests at the performance will include: Page Hamilton, Helmet, Keith Morris, Black Flag, Josh Klingoffer and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

What makes all of this even better?  School of Rock is offering a free lesson with each ticket purchase!

* Ticket Redemption Offer: Rock THE House ticket buyers can
redeem their ticket stub for one free lesson at participating School Of
Rock location. Mention code: RMHC to schedule. If you enroll by 9/30,
SOR will donate an additional $25 to RMHC.

What’s the best part of all? These talented individuals are rockin’ out for a good cause! All of the proceeds from ticket sales are going directly to the Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Don’t miss out:

Sunday, July 10th – 5:00pm – 9:00pm

The Echo- 1822 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90026 (213) 413-8200

TICKETS ON SALE HERE

Get your tickets now to support the School of Rock stars and help Ronald McDonald House Charities in the process! For more information and tickets visit: http://www.schoolofrock.com/all-stars-tour.

ROCK ON!

About School of Rock’s AllStar Program:

The AllStar Program is the highest level of achievement for a School of Rock student and is comprised of the top 2.5% of our students nationwide. The AllStars tour each summer with the best kids from each local school from all around the USA. Past students have toured worldwide and have shared stages with such notable acts as Jon Anderson (YES), Perry Farrell (Janes Addiction), Slash (Guns and Roses) and countless others. The AllStars are simply the best of the best kids from over 7000 School of Rock students nationwide. This year , students from across the country will be celebrating 50 years of Rock and Roll with the “Rock the House Tour”
All proceeds from this tour go to Local Ronald McDonald houses and Local Ronald McDonald House Charities.

With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the national leader in music education for kids from age 7 to 18. Students learn from professional musicians in an interactive environment combining weekly private lessons and structured group rehearsals with the ultimate goal of performing live in front of real crowds.

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The actress, who has worked with talented child actors Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Matthew Evans, Kaitlyn Dever, Noah Munck and many others, shared with WENN that she’s tired of young talent who mistakenly think doors should be open to them and believes kids today expect fame to come too easily.   She told the media outlet, “From 33 years old and [younger], kids have no concept of what it is to work hard and, in the business we’re in, making movies, you get nowhere if you’re not willing to work your a** off because we work major hours. You need to work really hard to make a movie.”

On work ethic in the entertainment industry, Diaz stated, “It drives me so crazy when people don’t have a good work ethic. If you’re gonna be here, work your a** off.  There’s a handful [of young actors] that do have a work ethic and they stand out and they’re the ones that are gonna go far because the majority of kids just think that everything should just be handed to them; that they’re entitled to it.”  She did not mention any of the child actors whom she was referencing, by name.

The single, childless Diaz suggests parents not make life too easy for their offspring: “It’s the generation of the credit card. My parents didn’t have credit cards. You didn’t get to have something you couldn’t pay for when I was a kid. When I wanted something I had to have the money to buy it. I think the mentality that we don’t have to have the money to have things, means you don’t have to work to have them. I see that a lot with the youth.”

Do you think she has a point? Does today’s generation of child actors expect too much? Are we raising a culture of entitled youth?

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Seeking:

Jason Wilmut, 9 years old, happy, mischievous, energetic, sad, depressed, always curious, LEAD

Ella: 7 years old, curious, happy, playful, Supporting.

Michael: 11, mean, bully, Supporting.

John: 10, friendly, happy, curious, Supporting.

Auditions will be held by appt. only June 20 through 25 at 3801 Barham Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

To schedule an audition email pix & résumés to akhiles.182@gmail.com.

There is no pay, but copy, credit, and meals provided. SAG Low Budget Film Agreement.

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The former Footloose teen star Bacon is thrilled that his offspring have no desire to follow in his footsteps. Bacon recently told CNN television host Piers Morgan, “We were really so negative about (acting) when they were younger that neither one of them are interested and they’re pretty much on their way to doing what it is that they want to do at this point.

“It’s kind of weird that we were (discouraging), in retrospect,” said Bacon, “I mean, I think for both of us we were afraid of subjecting our children to a lifetime of scrutiny and rejection. We were talking before about how to be an actor, you’ve got to really have a really tough skin. If you paint a painting and you put it up there, people will judge your painting and they’ll say, ‘I don’t like that.’ “But when you’re an actor, it’s you (that’s being judged). It’s your face. It’s everything… It’s so personal that I don’t think we really wanted to put our kids through that.”

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Dakota Fanning graduates High School Monday

It seems like only yesterday the movie-going public discovered this petite, blonde moppet in “I Am Sam,” but on Monday afternoon, Child Star Dakota Fanning, 17, graduated from Campbell Hall Episcopal High School.

Despite her busy filming schedule (The Twilight Series, Hounddog, Runaways, The Secret Life of Bees) Fanning was a real high school student who participated as a cheerleader and was crowned homecoming queen two years running.

Fanning’s younger sister and rising star Elle (Super 8, We Bought a Zoo) and parents Joy and Steve all attended the graduation ceremony, held at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Congratulations Dakota!

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Child Performers from television, film and music will join hundreds of kids from Los Angeles on Saturday, June 18, to build homes for low-income working families as part of Habitat for Humanity San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys’ Youth Build.

Doug & Chris Brochu

The event will be helmed by talented brothers Doug Brochu (“So Random,” “iCarly,” “Zoey 101″) and Chris Brochu, (“Soul Surfer,” “Lemonade Mouth,” “Joey & Melissa”) Other young celebrities planning to pitch in are Nolan Gould and Ariel Winter of  the hit sit-com “Modern Family,” Ty Panitz (“Bones”) and his younger brother Parris Mosteller who plays Stink in “Judy Moody & the Not Bummer Summer,” Leon Thomas III (Victorious) Landry Bender (The Sitter) Aiden Mincks (ANT Farm, Hangover 2) to name just a few.

In addition to helping build ten homes (WOW!) volunteers will create a new neighborhood playground and participate in a home dedication ceremony where 14 fortunate families will receive the keys to their new homes. Participation in Youth Build is limited to 300 teen volunteers. YOUTH Build is open to kids ages 9 and older. Registration is suggested at $25 (feel free to donate more!) and participants are asking their friends and family to sponsor them. You can also choose to sponsor Team Doug, Team Chris or any of the other star supporters by going to the website and clicking on your favorite celebrity’s name. You can even form your own team!  All the money raised will be used to build a Youth United home at the Pacoima site.

“We believe it is important to connect with young people in a way that instills and nurtures the broad concept of community service.  We also are committed to spreading the word that advocacy is a lifetime habit that can be both fulfilling and fun,” said Habitat for Humanity San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys CEO Donna Deutchman.

Nolan Gould & Ariel Winter Pitching in for Habitat for Humanity

The San Fernando Habitat for Humanity affiliate has been piloting a new “Enriched Neighborhood Model” at its Pacoima site bringing social and educational services in addition to homeowner programs such as repair and money management. A recent survey conducted with families from the first phases of the project shows this model is quite successful. While only 18 percent Pacoima area high school students graduate, in Habitat’s planned community the children have a 100 percent high school graduation rate with 92 percent attending or having graduated from college or a trade school, and with over 50 percent graduating from a four year university. Many adults have also gone on to college and within 3 1/2 years of moving in Habitat Pacoima families have reported an average 14 percent increase in income.

Your child actor can join in the fun with only a mere $25 registration donation – but hurry spaces are extremely limited!  Imagine. To register today call (818) 884-8808 or visit www.HumanityCA.com

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Miranda Cosgrove visits with a young St. Jude patient.

The casts of the hit NICK shows “iCarly” (Miranda Cosgrove, Nathan Kress) and “Victorious” (Victoria Justice, Ariana Grande) traveled to Memphis, Tenn., this past weekend to tour and raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. During their stay, the casts hosted a charity event titled “Stars For The Kids” and raised more than $100,000 for the kids of St. Jude. They then visited the hospital to meet with patients; participate in a variety of fun activities like cupcake decorating and arts and crafts; and hold a special screening of both show’s exclusively for St. Jude patients and their family members. During the event, “iCarly” star Miranda Cosgrove got a special 18th birthday surprise from all her new friends at St. Jude. Click Here to Watch Miranda’s Birthday Surprise!

“The best part of my visit today at St. Jude has been seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces as they talk about the shows and their favorite episodes,” said Cosgrove. “They are so adorable and it makes me happy to be here.”

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world, helping kids who never even visit the hospital. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance, and no child is ever denied treatment because of the family’s inability to pay. To learn more visit www.stjude.org.

About the kids:

MIRANDA COSGROVE is an American film and television actress and pop recording artist. Cosgrove is Carly in “iCarly.” Her career started at the age of three with television commercials. Cosgrove’s film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in “School of Rock.” After years of small television appearances, Cosgrove was cast on Drake & Josh and later in iCarly. Cosgrove earns $180,000 per episode of iCarly, making her the second highest paid child star on television.

VICTORIA JUSTICE’s show, about a girl with average talents who tries to fit in with a group of prodigies at a high school for the performing arts, is seen by 6.7 million kids a week. She just made her first music video this year, a “you-cheated-on-me-and-I’m-not-taking-you back” song called “Beggin’ on Your Knees” and she recently graced the cover of Seventeen Magazine. Next up, Victoria stars in the movie “The Kings of Appletown,” with Disney kids, Dylan and Cole Sprouse.

NATHAN KRESS has a passion for acting and stepping into the shoes of different characters. His earliest role was a voice for Babe: Pig in the City. Then, at age 11, he started appearing in films like The Village, Cat in the Hat, and Enemy of the State. He did parts in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, as well as plenty of voiceover for animation and video games, before landing the regular role of Freddie on iCarly. In real life, he likes technology, but maybe not quite as much as Freddie does. He also likes to experience the outdoors, camping and fishing.

ARIANA GRANDE made her Broadway debut in the original role of Charlotte in “13,” the musical, earning her a National Youth Theatre Association Award. Most recently, she played the role of Miriam in the first reading of the new musical, “Cuba Libre,” written and produced by Desmond Child, a producer for Katy Perry. Ariana has also worked on recordings with Grammy Award-winning composers such as Diane Warren. In the summer of 2009, as a member of “Broadway in South Africa”, Ariana performed and taught both music and dance to children in Gugulethu, South Africa.

Nick Stars Victoria & Nathan pose with patient Seth

Victoria poses with a couple of kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5.15.

Miranda and Ariana hang at St. Jude's

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