Child acting's new golden age

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"Never work with children or animals" is an old W.C. Fields chestnut that, for a while in the '90s and '00s, everyone outside of children's entertainment seemed to be holding sacred. Child actors were off on their own in a parallel entertainment universe created by Disney and Nickelodeon, while adults held down the fort in dramas and reality shows. There were some notable exceptions, like Haley Joel Osment and Christina Ricci, but by and large, children were almost entirely absent from grown-up entertainment. Things are very different today.

source: Article 'Child acting's new golden age' by Michael Barthel; www.salon.com/2012/05/11/child_actings_new_golden_age/; Salon.com; 11 May 2012