What I Want To Know About Brian J. Smith's Mother Is This

[ivorygates]

A little background: Brian J. [according to IMdB], was born in 1981, graduated Julliard, and his first professional credit according to IMdB is a 2005 movie called "Hate Crime". So he's 29, he's been working for five years, and he had the chops to get into Julliard. None of this jibes with Mommy being shocked at the Mean People dissing Her Precious Boy. OTOH, it maps really well onto a Stage Door Mother doing everything in her power to make the professional path smooth for her talented tot, causing one to wonder if there's something in the water in Texas, a state where apparently it's just fine to turn your own life into a Lifetime Movie Of The Week at a moment's notice.

What is almost as puzzling as that it occurs at all is that I'm the only one to comment on it.

Comments

[killing_rose]

If I was listening to Mommy's Whining correctly (and with that terrible background, one can never be certain), she lives in either Kentucky or Tennessee now.

Wherever it is, it's a dry county.

[ivorygates]

Hey, there's always Percodan.

It's just so *weird*, though. Yes, actors are speshul snowflakes, every single one. OTOH, they spend their whole working lives dealing with rejection and being judged by the most shallow and inconsidered standards. So why is Mommy behaving as if people have never ranked on Precious Baby Boy before? Because it beggars belief that they haven't.

[stagnation13]

Mommy Dearest makes me think of those mom's who enlist their daughters in beauty pageants, trying to reclaim their own hopes and dreams through their children.

[ivorygates]

Yes. This. Exactly.

I wonder if she was ever a Beauty Queen....

[stagnation13]

Makes sense that she would be, the way she's carrying on, like she's eaten too much leaded lipstick in her lifetime.