Debbie Gibson

For child stars, the road to adult fame is littered with the bodies of fallen compatriots who couldn’t make the transition. From Haley Joel Osment to Candace Cameron, Debbie Gibson to Jonathan Taylor Thomas, these days you’re most likely to find a former tween dream on some VH1 show about rehab or has-beens and the carnage stretches back to Hollywood’s silent era.

Only time will tell if the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and their cohorts go the way of Jodie Foster or David Cassidy, but presently all eyes are on the stars of High School Musical.

The Artist Formerly Known as Debbie Gibson got her hands imprinted in cement yesterday at the Planet Hollywood in Times Square.

Ummm, okay.

While we loved “Electric Youth” back in the day (we even had the perfume, direct from Longs Drugs), what has Deborah Gibson done in the past two decades to get her hands in cement?

Was Tiffany unavailable? Is Menudo next week? Where’s Martika to perform her hit single “Toy Soldiers?”

Deb was looking fly though. Nice down the shirt shot, Deborah. Real demure.

Look, li’l ol’ Ben McKenzie finally got a job after The OC. Good for him! The only major role he’s had since that show went off the air was 88 Minutes with Al Pacino and that thing was a stinkeroo.

Ben plays a police officer in a pilot called LAPD. He better hope it gets picked up but even if it does, do you remember Dragnet with Ethan Embry?

That’s our point exactly. Ben McKenzie needs to prove that he’s not the acting equivalent of Debbie Gibson; a one-hit wonder whose fame fades with the hormones of puberty.