A version of this story appeared in CNN's Pop Life Chronicles newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here . Tell us what you'd like to see more of in the newsletter at [email protected] . (CNN) How in the heck do you live up to being Beyoncé and Jay-Z's firstborn? You snag your first Grammy at the age of 9 , of course. Blue Ivy Carter is shining bright among a generation of kids of celebrities who are on track to become stars themselves. Some are further ahead in their careers, but the tween is no slouch. In addition to a Grammy (which she and her mom won in the best music video category for "Brown Skin Girl"), Carter has also won a BET Award , narrated the audio version of the children's book "Hair Love," appeared in a few of her parent's music videos, modeled for her mother's "Icy Park" capsule collection and became a high-profile advocate for handwashing . More from Pop Life Chronicles … [Read more...] about #HollywoodNextGen: How the children of celebrities are working on their own stardom
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Opinion: Matt Gaetz’s sex scandal would be more interesting if he were reasonably important
Hey, we’ve got our first political sex scandal of the spring. Not as charming as an Easter basket, but maybe livelier. What would you guess the most common response was? A) “Oh my God, not Rep. Matt Gaetz!” B) “Matt who?” C) “Is that the guy who they say keeps passing around pictures of naked women?” I would go with C, but it’s perfectly possible a lot of people are still perplexed when the name comes up. Which is sort of a shame. If Americans love a sex scandal, they prefer it to involve somebody who’s reasonably important. “Nancy Pelosi once defended President Bill Clinton after he got an intern to fellate him in the Oval Office,” Gaetz argued in an opinion piece in The Washington Examiner. This is true, and we would hope the congressman gets the same kind of loyal support the very second he presides over one of the longest economic expansions in American history. As it stands, Gaetz is a spectacularly unproductive Florida Republican who never managed, during his … [Read more...] about Opinion: Matt Gaetz’s sex scandal would be more interesting if he were reasonably important
