I took three-year-old T to another Toys-R-Us booking last Friday. We have our routine now: I bring an abundant bag of snacks, she picks the movie. T opted for “Wizard of Oz” (“Muzard of Oz” —I love the mispronunciation phase). As Judy Garland’s unforgettable...

After T’s last Toys-R-Us booking, I had a feeling that I rarely had when I was a model: They’ll book her again. This was not necessarily good considering the net profit situation (see Toys-R-Us Booking Equals Mega Bucks?). But you don’t say no to your agency—or your...

As soon as I fell for the book Falling for Eli  (during chap 1, paragraph 1), I knew I would blog about it. But the “Book of the Month” idea just came to me. I’m a huge lover of books and I sincerely hope that the next generation does not emerge from an iPhone-iPad-Wii...

For a little background on child modeling and the casting process, first READ THIS and then THIS. Now, we can get into tabulating the net profits from the Toys-R-Us booking that came along a couple of castings later. (We will set aside the gas, tolls, train tix, ferris wheel diversion, work...

A petite brunette with luminescent skin, Jennifer Lau strikes me as someone who hasn’t changed much since college, except that between Catholic University of America graduation and now, she’s fit in adventures in Russia and Africa, a career on Wall Street, enough kids for a...

This summer Jamie and his buddies in our ‘hood proved they have big hearts and made CT news. The kids decided to set up a lemonade stand. Ordinary enough. Then they decided that rather than take the profits to Toys-R-Us for a shopping spree, they would give the money—all of the...