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Show LIFE&STYLE PAGE 10 Be| DailySHerald MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2006 UFE & STYLE EDITOR| Elyssa Andrus - 344-2553 - eandrus@heraldextra.com REED SAXON Asso Comedian George Lopez. left, and s Mavor Antonio psu, Share a moment in eles. Lopezagreesthat the re is a celebrity vacuum on ation Hollywood starsfail to align on immigration Lynn Elber LOS ANGELES — Tim Robbins. Susan ndon and Sean Penh protest the war. Leonardo DiCaprio has taken on global warming and Mike Farrell stands vigil against deathpenalty But when it comes to immigra- tion reform — a controversy in Hollywood's cwn backyard tars have largely been unseen and unheard Fear of career damage. confumplex issue abruptly by wavesof nation- s. and historic detachment from Hispanic realities are amongthe explanations offered by observers. Not that th. movement has need- ed famous standard bearers — it has been notable for its bottom-up sis that hasleft it without rec‘able leaders. ‘there are no good excuses the celebrity vacuum, Hispanic rights groups contend ber the (black) civil 2 when we had peoplelike Harry Belafonte comand being at the head and g the sub:ect matter really < Nogales, president ral Hispanic Media Co- re missing that here.” Do famous Hispanics have a moral obligation to get involved? Of course,” Nogalessaid. “This is part and parcelof being a Latino and having the responsibility to safeguard our community. The morevisible ones haveto take a stand, Theycan’t always be safe.” There havebeenonly scattered celebritysightings at marches, with Academy Award-nominated actor Edward James Olmos (the new HBO movie “Walkout.” “Stand and Deliver”) the best-known. A few other prominent Hispan- ics. including actor-comedian George Lopez and filmmaker Gregory Nava, candidly address thepublic debate andtherole they will — or won't — play 1 agree with them(Hispanic advocates) in saying we should get involved,” Lopez told The Associ- ated Press. “I think the thing that frightens Hollywood right now is it’s such a powder kegthey're ‘STEPHEN OSMAN/LosAngelesTimes Catherine Saillant, right, explores MySpace with daughterTaylor, 13. Sharing MySpacedid not magically transform their relationship, Saillant says. Popular Website comeswith rules of caution from concerned mother CatherineSaillant ‘ve covered murders, grisly In nearly two decadesof accidents, air- planesfalling out of the sky and, occasionally, dirty politics. Butin nearly twodecadesofjournalism, nothing has mademyinsides churnlike seeing what my 13-year-old daughter and her friendsare up to on MySpace.com. journalism, nothing has made my insides churn like seeing what my Here’sa bulletin | recently found posted to hersite: “OMG!Addthis hott guy! He will whore the first 20 people added to his friends list ... Add him! Youcan do it in his van!” Looselytranslated, the teenagegirl was “pimping”a teenage boy, shown smooching his guitar, as a potential new friend — or more 13-year-old daughter and herfriends are up to on MySpace.com. — for mydaughter.If Taylor added him to her MySpace“friends”list, the tousled-hair teen would be able to look at her Website and send site like graffiti on bathroom walls. It was this coarseness and an abject lack of manners(not to mention extremely poor grammar)that bothered methe most as I entered the In the MySpace world,.this is called a “whore second month of a deal that I had worked out code.” It's a mild — very mild — exampleof the with my often headstrong daughter. coarse language andoften profane messages Although MySpacetells users they mustbe at that areplastered all over the social networking “least 14 to join,alll it takes is a casual search to messagesto her. The soliciting girl madethepitchtoall 245 of her own “friends” with a simple keystroke. see that the requirementis not strictly enforced. All the kids at her junior high had a MySpace account, Taylor pleaded. Whycouldn't she? After consulting with a circle of friends andrelatives, I relented.I'd let Taylor have a MySpacesite, I told her, but only if she agreed to follow some rules. The first was that her site would have to be set to “private.” That meantonly those she preapproved as “friends” could see her page. Next, she could not add as a friend anyone she did not personally know. Wealso agreed that nofoul languageor inappropriate materials could be used. Most important, she had to give me complete access to hersite, including a passwordthatlet me view hidden e-mails. Taylor was so excited that she immediately agreed to everything and signed the contract wehad drawnup. In the high of the moment,I felt good, too. I had found a wayto allow my daughteran activity that she seemed to love while protecting her from online predators — my biggest worry. But in the days.and weeks to come, our honeymoon glow would turn to alarm on my part See MYSPACE, B8 . afraid of getting burned, as public See IMMIGRATION, B8 Gettingfit: Jennifer Tejada, left, uses a benchpress at Fitwize 4 Kids in Los Angeles. Co-owner Mike Edwards, right, helps Mirackle Smith use a ballforsit- ups. Schools, health clubs, YMCAsand kids-only gyms across the United States are adding more child-size machines in an attemptto get kids moving. GARY FRIEDMAN Los Angeles Times The gym? Forkids,it’s different Jeannine Stein (OS ANGELES TIMES See Jane. See Jane pedal an elliptical trainer. Go, Jane, go! Jane may be only 8 yearsold, but she can now workoff those juice-box calories on kid-size elliptical trainers, treadmills, stationary bikes and weight machines. Schools, health clubs, YMCAs and'kids-only gyms across the United States are adding more child-size machines in an attempt to get kids moving.After all, these are the contraptions that grown-ups typically glom onto wheat: they’re Dattling| the bulge « getting in shape — until, that , they become completely bored an rtiaed, then stop. Encouraging kids to1 active and to enjoy exercise is a noble pursuit. But simply plopping a SSAMWWW-HERALDEXTRA.COM —CALL 3755103 SUBSCRIBE©~ 6-year-old onan elliptical trainer, as occurs in some gyms,borders on the absurd. And,ultimately, it may do more harm than good. If manyadults can’t ae the thought of pedaling ad infinitum, why Soulchin Perhaps adults are simply interpreting what:kids want through a grown-up perspective, thereby exercise drudgery instead of fun. But that sense of fun is a critical element to any youth exercise program — and should be an important elementof adult workouts. “Children are not miniature adults,” says Avery Faigenbaum, professor of health and exercise Science at the College of New Jersey. “Simply because you have a computerized gizmo or a fancy See GYM, A& “Simply because you have a computerized gizmoor a fancy treadmill in no way suggests thatthe child wilt enjoy exercise.” Avery sre Faigenbaum |