Teach kids to laugh at celebrities.

• Position: Katharine DeBrecht's book 'Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper!' - Brief article

With Academy Awards being handed out to movies about racist cops, gay cowboys, and communist sympathizers, Hollywood has declared an outright war on traditional values. However, instead of getting angry at the movie business, parents should teach their kids to laugh at it, according to children's author Katharine DeBrecht, whose illustrated book, Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper!, mocks Tinseltown.

DeBrecht--whose book turned heads after being given out in Oscar party gift bags--satirizes Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Jack Nicholson, and Sean Penn with cartoon lookalikes who appear in the hamper of two young sisters to tell them how to behave and sell them useless trinkets. The girls meet a number of...