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Interview: Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields's career began when she was featured in a soap ad at the tender age of eleven months, and it hasn't let up. Over the years Brooke has grown up in the public eye, starring on Broadway, in film, as well as in Suddenly Susan, her own TV series. Along the way she also found time to graduate with honors from Princeton. But the cornerstone...
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Cynthia Nixon
It's tempting to think of Cynthia Nixon, forty-two, as the real-life Miranda Hobbes — a high-strung stress bomb prepared to dropkick anybody in her path. But that's just because she's such an awesomely convincing actress. Offscreen, Nixon is way more thoughtful than her Sex & the City character. Also more gracious. If the two have anythin...
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Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore has played a porn-star mum, an incestuous mum and seriously miserable mums in films like Boogie Nights, Savage Grace, Far From Heaven and The Hours. In real life, she says, "I'm not really any different than any other working parent," trying to balance career and family and to raise her kids — Caleb, eleven, and Liv, six — with a...
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Suzanna Paxton
With 1 in 20 Australian children now diagnosed with a food allergy, it is more important than ever that parents know how to prepare safe, simple food not just for their own kids but for sleepovers and parties as well. Last week, Babble caught up with Suzanna Paxton, a busy mum and author of new book Allergy-Safe Family Food to find out more about a...
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Samantha Bee
In an age of ongoing wars, environmental woes, and an economy that's up shit creek, one great American institution remains strong — deadpan sarcasm. That's exactly where Samantha Bee — The Daily Show's silver-tongued femme fatale — thrives. TDS's most veteran mock reporter balances working for one of the most popular and comedically poignant...
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Sweet Dreams
The latest in the excellent series of Babies Proms at the Sydney Opera House is the beautiful Sweet Dreams - a soothing musical journey around the world. The performance is centred around a simple premise - a cradle on the stage holds a baby, who the orchestra is trying to get to sleep using lullabies from such far-lung palces as Egypt, China, I...
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10 Most Annoying Kid’s TV Characters
When I embarked on the journey of parenthood, I didn't sign up for the crap TV. Here's the top ten list of the weirdest, most annoying or just plain creepy characters gracing our children's television screens. 1. Dora the Explorer Look - we can see where Dora can be a positive role model for kids. She's a girl. She's hispanic. She doesn't dr...
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
In recent years, Maggie Gyllenhaal's heartbreakingly intuitive film performances and gawky beauty have catapulted her onto Hollywood's A-list. She also has the honour of being one of Babble's most-searched celebs, thanks largely to the many photographs of her breastfeeding her daughter — Ramona, now two years old — in public. Although we imagi...
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