I kinda feel sorry for Chicky.

I actually read a pretty interesting little article today ****.com/blog/7-reasons-child-stars-go-crazy-an-insiders-perspective/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">written by Mara Wilson, of all people about what makes former child stars go crazy.  Definitely worth a read, I can't really imagine dealing with those sorts of things when I was a kid.  I'm sure I couldn't handle it.

I JUST rewatched that SNL skit where Miley Cyrus played Lindsey Lohan.  I miss the old one too ("Firebush," as I recall her being called.  I'm in on the nicknames).  Though all I can really remember is Mean Girls, I remember seeing clips of Herbie (it must have been when I worked in the theater), and I couldn't bring myself to ever check out "Get A Clue," it felt too creepy, but I recall seeing some promo for it ages ago and noticing her for some reason.

Wow.  I really should watch those two back-to-back.

Lohan and Chicky suffer from a similar issue: they were the stars of movies that don't exist anymore, there's no "Lindsey Lohan" movie and there's no "Amanda Bynes" movie anymore, you know?  The kids who came AFTER them don't really seem to have those movies either, there's no big-screen Selena Gomez movie or ...I don't know any other Disney girls... they need to be actors that can adapt and fit into different projects, not just be headliners.

I don't know if any of you know who Miranda Cosgrove is, she was iCarly (and also in School of Rock) and she's quite smartly in college now, I can see her being a Meg Ryan/Jen Garner/Rachel McAdams type and probably fit into an ensemble if she decides to go back into acting, but she also seems like she'll be fine if she pursues a different career.  Her co-star, meanwhile, has a spin-off I saw a commercial for, and that's fine, I guess, but what happens after?  She's playing the same character for a couple more years, not really stretching, you know?

I don't know who knows who Miranda Cosgrove is!  I felt like I shouldn't know.  Although I will say I like her as an actress but not as a singer.

Oh god, I just realized that in ten years or so the movie stars that we're going to be seeing commercials for in the big movies are going to be these kids running around now.  I'm sort of dreading that, I don't want to see, say, Nolan Gould n a part that would have gone to Seth Rogen.

Well, Bynes has been around since she was tiny, she was on All That (with Kenan "What Up With That?" Thompson) back when I was young, had her own show, had a sitcom that I never saw, had a couple movies (the last one I remember was "Easy A").  I even remember her being on The Drew Carey Show.  The others I just mentioned are just famous for their one project.