The public can’t visit Marcella Vivrette Smith Park yet but People can.

Yep, the entertainment magazine made a special trip to Brentwood’s newest park recently to shoot photos of country music star Faith Hill there for an upcoming story. This time of year I’m not sure if the beautiful blonde or the beautiful fall landscape will get the most attention.

The crew was ultra-professional, the city’s community relations director Linda Lynch told me last week. The photographer came from Los Angeles and “it was amazing to watch it all happen,” Linda added.

“Of course, my concern was getting them over the railroad track,” Linda went on. The at-grade CSX track is the main reason the park won’t be open to the rest of us until 2013. A new entry road and bridge must be designed, engineered and built before mere mortals like you and I can shoot pictures of one another on the historic property.

As for Faith, she drove herself to the park after a recording session in Berry Hill.

No word yet on when the pics will be in the magazine, or if they are for one of the popular periodical’s special country music editions.

The shoot was the best-kept secret in Brentwood; I'm embarrassed to say even BHP didn’t catch wind of it. Turns out only Linda, City Manager Mike Walker, Assistant City Manager Kirk Bednar and Parks Director Dave Bunt knew what was happening. “Not even Dave’s folks knew about it,” Linda said of the park's department staff.

It’s a secret Linda hope’s doesn’t stay under wraps long. “I wish more magazines would come in. It was a nice experience,” she told me. Of course the magazine’s $1500 donation to help renovate the historic Ravenswood home might have a little to do with it too!

Since we’re on celebrity news, did you hear that Kim and Kris are getting a divorce? The infamous Kardashian wedding that cost an estimated $10 million and came complete with a 20-carat, $2 million engagement ring is reportedly over a mere 72 days after it started.

I spent last weekend in Virginia, where I attended my niece Lindsay’s wedding. I promise the 200 or so people who attended had way more fun than any of the guests at the lavish made-for-TV affair that united the self-made celebrity and her NBA player husband. I bet even with the fun photo booth, great party band and open bar, the total price of Lindsey and Trey’s wedding didn’t touch what was spent on Kim’s Vegas bachelorette party.

That little road trip cost an estimated $50,000.

I can’t help but think what a waste it all was, not to mention the message it sends about marriage to our impressionable young people

Just think of all the wonderful things, helpful things, life-changing things that could have been done with the millions of dollars spent to feed our insatiable appetite for celebrity instead of feeding the hungry. I would venture to guess that our local Second Harvest food bank’s annual budget is less than what was spent on Kim and Kris’ reception buffet.

I checked with my friend Marcus Stamps, executive director of the non-profit Williamson County Child Advocacy Center to see what his agency spends each year to provide its services. The center’s annual budget is $353,322  – a woefully lacking figure – to provide services to children from our county – from Brentwood – who are victims of terrible crimes.

Perspective and priorities. Sometimes the “news of the day” makes you wonder about them both, doesn’t it?

Susan Leathers is editor of Brentwood Home Page. Click here to read previous columns. Email her at susan@brentwoodhomepage.com