Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone's new video has much of America saying Ewwwwwww! The "Clueless" actress who is known for her healthy, vegan cooking and animal rights activism, posted a video on her website Tuesday that shows her feeding her child. The clip has gone viral. Why? It's all in her method as she seemingly takes her maternal nesting instinct to a new level. The video shows her feeding her child Bear Blu like he's...a baby bird. She chews of his food and then -- how else to say this?

Having made two of the most insightful, affectionate films about teenagers with "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Clueless," Amy Heckerling jumps on the most recent youth bandwagon with "Vamps. " Written and directed by Heckerling, "Vamps" isn't quite the low-hanging logline of "Clueless" meets "Twilight" though in some respects it is about the twilight of cluelessness - or how age and maturity do not necessarily equal the onset of fogey-dom, but rather offer a sense of greater understanding and seeing beyond oneself.

Strong female leads -- Alicia Silverstone in NBC's "Miss Match" and Amber Tamblyn and Mary Steenburgen in CBS's "Joan of Arcadia" -- turn two already solidly constructed new series into special ones. As television has demonstrated again and again, the best actors in the world cannot redeem a badly written script or a weak idea. But they are the very thing -- especially given the economies of the small screen -- that makes a good idea great.

"Mad Men" actress January Jones ate her placenta (to be fair, dried and made into a pill). Alicia Silverstone chews up veggies and deposits them mama-bird-style into her baby son's mouth. And model Gisele Bundchen says her diaper-free son was toilet trained at 6 months. So what do these parents know that your average sleep-deprived parent - who barely has time to shop for food, let alone chew it for their kids - doesn't? Here, experts weigh in on the evidence. Pre-masticating In a breakfast-time video, Silverstone chews up the vegetables in her miso soup.

Alicia SILVERSTONE'S urge to fix up singles isn't restricted to her role as a contemporary matchmaker on her new NBC drama, "Miss Match." Lately, Silverstone has been busily bringing together a friend of hers named Sarah with Matt, a "Miss Match" production assistant. Until now, she was stuck in the early stages of brokering the deal, having ascertained from both parties that they found each other cute. This morning during a Matt sighting, though, Silverstone moved in for the kill.

Having made two of the most insightful, affectionate films about teenagers with "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Clueless," Amy Heckerling jumps on the most recent youth bandwagon with "Vamps. " Written and directed by Heckerling, "Vamps" isn't quite the low-hanging logline of "Clueless" meets "Twilight" though in some respects it is about the twilight of cluelessness - or how age and maturity do not necessarily equal the onset of fogey-dom, but rather offer a sense of greater understanding and seeing beyond oneself.

In the summer of 1995, when Alicia Silverstone emerged as a hot new face spewing hip teen lingo in the Paramount hit "Clueless," rival Columbia Pictures quickly signed her to a two-picture, $8-million production deal. Hollywood was stunned by such a lucrative pact for someone only 18. The deal was agreed to by then-studio chief Mark Canton, and may yet prove to be a wise one.

Alicia Silverstone is recovering from the flu. She asks to meet at the Four Seasons Hotel at Beverly Hills so she can have her favorite chicken soup. Obviously subscribing to the "feed-a-cold" axiom, she also orders, and inhales, a bowl of tomato soup, warm scallop salad, bread lathered in butter, sorbet and, to top it off, the interviewer's uneaten avocado. If you are what you eat, Silverstone is no Hollywood starlet grazer. She is a growing girl with a healthy appetite.

"Mad Men" actress January Jones ate her placenta (to be fair, dried and made into a pill). Alicia Silverstone chews up veggies and deposits them mama-bird-style into her baby son's mouth. And model Gisele Bundchen says her diaper-free son was toilet trained at 6 months. So what do these parents know that your average sleep-deprived parent - who barely has time to shop for food, let alone chew it for their kids - doesn't? Here, experts weigh in on the evidence. Pre-masticating In a breakfast-time video, Silverstone chews up the vegetables in her miso soup.

Silverstone wed: Alicia Silverstone, 28, married longtime boyfriend Christopher Jarecki at Lake Tahoe on Saturday, her publicist said. * Katie converting: Embracing the religion of new boyfriend Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes says she's converting to the Church of Scientology.

Alicia Silverstone's new video has much of America saying Ewwwwwww! The "Clueless" actress who is known for her healthy, vegan cooking and animal rights activism, posted a video on her website Tuesday that shows her feeding her child. The clip has gone viral. Why? It's all in her method as she seemingly takes her maternal nesting instinct to a new level. The video shows her feeding her child Bear Blu like he's...a baby bird. She chews of his food and then -- how else to say this?

Alicia Silverstone received the ultimate early Mother's Day gift: a baby boy! Like Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon before them, she and hubby Christopher Jarecki went the nontraditional route, naming their little guy Bear Blu. (Sounds like the perfect playmate for Roc and Roe, right?) The "Clueless" actress, 34, welcomed the 7 pound, 15 ounce bundle of joy Thursday at a Los Angeles-area birthing center. "We are all three in love," Silverstone wrote on her blog. "I'm so grateful to this community for all the love, support, good wishes and happy vibes you've sent me during my pregnancy ... it has been wonderful.

There will be award-winning novelists and bestselling mystery writers, leading historians and experts on nearly everything under the sun. But it wouldn't be a book festival in Los Angeles without, of course, entertainers. Stars of stage and screen have been a part of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books since its inception, doing readings, interviews and book signings, often playing to packed crowds. This year is no exception, with appearances scheduled by such celebrities as Alicia Silverstone, Marlan Wayans, Bernadette Peters, Carl Reiner and Henry Winkler.

Alicia Silverstone will reprise her role as "Mandy" from the acclaimed Geffen Playhouse world premiere production of Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still" when the play premieres on Broadway in January. Silverstone, who last appeared on Broadway in "The Graduate," will join the previously announced Laura Linney in the production at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, which will be directed by Daniel Sullivan. -- Greg Braxton

ANYONE who has seen David Mamet's tough-talking, all-male plays -- including "American Buffalo," "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Romance" -- might assume that his writing and directing "Boston Marriage," a corseted, turn-of-the-century drawing room comedy with an all-female cast, would be like loosing an American buffalo in a china shop.

Silverstone wed: Alicia Silverstone, 28, married longtime boyfriend Christopher Jarecki at Lake Tahoe on Saturday, her publicist said. * Katie converting: Embracing the religion of new boyfriend Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes says she's converting to the Church of Scientology.

Alicia Silverstone will reprise her role as "Mandy" from the acclaimed Geffen Playhouse world premiere production of Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still" when the play premieres on Broadway in January. Silverstone, who last appeared on Broadway in "The Graduate," will join the previously announced Laura Linney in the production at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, which will be directed by Daniel Sullivan. -- Greg Braxton

Despite co-producer Kevin J. Messick's best efforts he was unable, due to contractual problems, to get this fine little film starring Alicia Silverstone (pictured) into theaters around the of "Clueless." Silverstone reveals herself just as capable in drama as in comedy in the film's title role.

So Lindsay Lohan complains about the media and she doesn't get much respect, unlike her contemporaries like Keira Knightley or Scarlett Johansson ("All-Day Lindsay," May 15). Hmm, here's a thought, Lindsay, maybe they're a little more talented than you are. Why are studios paying her $7.5 million a picture? The problem is clearly stated in the article, she's "not just a movie star, she's a pop culture brand." I wonder if the industry remembers Alicia Silverstone, and how her fame faded.

Strong female leads -- Alicia Silverstone in NBC's "Miss Match" and Amber Tamblyn and Mary Steenburgen in CBS's "Joan of Arcadia" -- turn two already solidly constructed new series into special ones. As television has demonstrated again and again, the best actors in the world cannot redeem a badly written script or a weak idea. But they are the very thing -- especially given the economies of the small screen -- that makes a good idea great.