High-end school yearbooks, and more
Los Angeles private schools are hiring celebrity photographers to take student yearbook photos.
High-end school yearbooks
Los Angeles private schools are hiring celebrity photographers to take student yearbook photos. Photographer Vince Bucci, who has taken portraits of Kim Kardashian and Avril Lavigne, makes elementary-school kids look like stars, so other schools are jumping on the trend. “Last year we had a parent apply to the school based on the amazing photos in the yearbook,” says a teacher at Hollywood Schoolhouse.
A court-ordered name change
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A Tennessee judge ordered that a baby’s name be changed from “Messiah” to “Martin” because Messiah is “a title that has only been earned by one person, Jesus Christ.” During a custody-support fight, Judge Lu Ann Ballew mandated the name change, saying that the name Messiah would “put him at odds with a lot of people.”
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