Which Actor Can Get Their Kid The Biggest Part?

Do you remember when parents would just compete to see who could give their child the best birthday party? You know it would come down to whether little Jimmy down the street had a clown or Amanda had a magician. Simple contests between parents. Now though those contests have got much more serious. Right now it looks like there are three sets of parents trying to make sure their child has the best Hollywood career. You have Bruce & Demi who are trying their hardest to make sure Rumer gets as many roles without having to do any work as possible. Then there are Will & Jada, who when not having sex seem to be trying to cast Jaden in as many roles as possible. They kind of have the advantage because they have been the producers or stars of the movies in which he is cast. The latest entry into the let me put my kid into a starring role in a feature film without any experience is Tom Cruise. Last year he got Will Smith to put Connor in Seven Pounds. This year Tom wants Connor to hit the big time so he got him into the remake of Red Dawn where he will play one of the lead roles. Yep. Not only are they going to destroy Red Dawn by remaking a classic they are casting it with people whose only acting experience is pretending they actually like seeing their mother when she shows up once a year or trying to fool an auditor.

I think Tom Cruise needs to go back in time to before he became whatever it is he became. He needs to go back to Taps and to Losin' It and All The Right Moves and he needs to think about what would have happened if some guy had wanted his kid for any of those roles even though he had no skills or qualifications or experiences. That someone took Tom's role away from him because the producer wanted to do a favor for a big shot. That is what Tom is doing. He is saying f**k all the other actors out there who were just like me. I am giving my kid the role. I am going to call in favors and throw a tantrum in my lifts if Connor doesn't get to be a star. So, at what point does Connor get to learn the life lessons that Tom learned? When does he get to know what it is like to eat ramen or get excited because he got one line on a crappy television show? All this is doing is passing along an entitlement from one generation to the next and making it harder for people who want to work and have actual proven talent.