Haley Joel Osment

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.

Cedric the Entertainer is not amused.

His play, David Mamet's American Buffalo co-starring John Leguizamo and Haley Joel Osment, opened on November 17th and closed just eight performances later, earning it the dubious honor of being one of the shortest running plays ever on Broadway.

But Cedric insists it wasn’t the acting, direction or actual play that’s to blame…it was one critic’s review.

This isn’t going to do much to help him clamor out of the past-his-prime-child-actor box.

Haley Joel Osment’s run on Broadway in David Mamet’s American Buffalo alongside John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer is heading for the record books… as one of the shortest plays ever to run on the Great White Way.

After less than a week, the show is set to close on Sunday unless ticket sales dramatically improve. Ouch.

Mr. “I See Dead People” attended last night’s opening night after party for the Broadway revival of Equus starring Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, at NYC’s Pier 60, and we can’t say he’s a sight for sore eyes.

We want to be supportive (Really, we do!) but post-pubescent Haley is making that task difficult.

Fourteen is usually such an unkind age, but Dakota Fanning wears it beautifully at the premiere of her new film Hounddog at Village East Cinemas in New York on Tuesday.

The film, made in 2007 when Dakota was only twelve, hasn’t been able to secure distribution until now because of its controversial content. Many people simply refer to it as “The Dakota Fanning Rape Movie.” We saw an early screening and will have a See it or Skip it Review waiting for you tomorrow.

Child stars have a new way of announcing to the world that they are now men: they star on Broadway.

Haley Joel Osment, now 20, the star of The Sixth Sense who has largely disappeared from the public eye ever since his voice changed halfway through filming Secondhand Lions, is making his Broadway debut in David Mamet’s American Buffalo.

Unlike Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe, Osment is expected to remain fully clothed.