Author Archives: ANNIE LEVENE

Disney has a history of churning out ready-made “role models” in the form of actors and singers — the “next big thing” with perfect morals and a big old smile. Miley Cyrus is Disney’s go-to girl, and her TV show “Hannah Montana” is crazy-popular with the tweens. In the past few years, Cyrus has gone from daughter of a one-hit wonder Billy Ray Cyrus to singer, actress and, apparently, writer — because there’s nothing the world needs more than the autobiography of a 16-year-old. Cyrus’s success in, well, everything made a big-screen adaptation of her TV show not a question of “if” but “how soon?”