Who says there's nothing good on tv?

I don't know what's more painful - watching some dumbass "Sports Kids and their Parents" show on Life Network, or watching Tom Hanks attempting to do a Russian accent in The Terminal. On one hand you have a freakishly posessive mother boasting about the $15,000 she spends a year for her 7 year old "professional cheerleader" daughter, who started dancing at the age of two when mommy noticed she "had such a good arch to her foot and she didn't want to let it go to waste", and on the other hand you have Tom Hanks, the most overrated actor in the history of American cinema, trying to be Russian. Actually Tommy boy does deserve a little credit - I saw a bit of Big on tv yesterday, and along with Joe Versus the Volcano and Splash he has proven himself to be quite a talented comic actor. Too bad most of his movies aren't funny. But back to the freaky parents .... never mind the fact that by telling your kids they are winners (and must strive only to win, never to come in second place) at a young age will no likely end in utter failure by the time they are 13, if they make it to 13 without attempting suicide, but is it just me who thinks it's a little wrong to decide the fate of your children like that? You might as well just put them in the Gap baby jumper the minute they are born and call it a day, because as far as I'm concerned you've pretty much fucked up their lives permanently from that point onwards.