Sentences with phrase «stage mother»
A "stage mother" is a term used to describe a parent, usually a mother, who pushes their child into performing arts like acting or dancing with excessive ambition, often interfering and controlling their child's career. Full definition
I feel like some sort of exploiting stage mother now.
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The script, by Hope Floats screenwriter Steven Rogers, identifies a pattern of abuse in the athlete's life, passed like a baton between two domineering figures: insult - slinging stage mother from hell LaVona (Allison Janney, relishing every line of bilious dialogue) and Harding's impotently frustrated, small - town - loser of a beau, Jeff (Sebastian Stan, who apparently can act, when not playing the brainwashed sidekick of a super soldier).
Melissa Leo, in a glue - spray bouffant, is vital as the kind of boxing - world stage mother who could kill a kid with love, and Amy Adams, as the bartender who becomes Micky's girlfriend, has a spot - on tough - chick allure.
One article describes the psychology of maternal parenting styles of many stage mothers as narcissistic.
She was raised by her ambitious, charming and alcoholic stage mother, Teri, who doubled as her manager.
Women who themselves have longed for fame, but were frustrated in their own attempts to achieve it, are more at risk for becoming stage mothers.
Theater of War not only takes us back - stage with one of the greatest actresses of our time, it also takes us back in time, uncovering the story of Brecht's flight from the Nazis, his years in exile, and his eventual return to Germany where he first staged Mother Courage.
Both physically and emotionally abusive, LaVona takes the prize as Vilest Stage Mother of All Time.
Aadland and her scheming stage mother.
The Contenders: Though most celebrated for her TV work — she is a seven - time Emmy winner, after all — Allison Janney (I, Tonya) absolutely devours the scenery as Tonya Harding's abusive stage mother, LaVona Golden, a role guaranteed to catch the Academy's eye.
In her interview scenes, LaVona is brash and unapologetic, while in the flashbacks, we are treated to one of the worst stage mothers who's ever appeared on screen.
Louise Hovick (Natalie Wood) is raised in show business by her overbearing stage mother Rose (Rosalind Russell).
Only Minnie Driver, playing Mbatha - Raw's ferocious stage mother, hits a homer.
It's parenting as a form of barely repressed competition and vengeance, yet LaVona, a mentally warped stage mother, shapes Tonya in one defining way.
Fanning is equally winning, and matched by Susan Sarandon as Beverly's fierce, repressed, one - legged stage mother.
2:00 am (28th)-- TCM — Gypsy One of the best shows ever written about stage mothers turns into a pretty decent film — it purports to be the story of vaudeville / burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, but ends up being much more about her mother Mama Rose.
Where other skaters had sponsors, Harding had her (apparently abusive) stage mother who waitressed full - time, pushed Harding from preschool age and sewed her costumes.
In American culture, two maternal parenting styles similar to that of the Kyoiku mama are the soccer mom and the stage mother.
However, examples of a similar maternal parenting style, that of the stage mother, can be found in all classes of people.
Not only does the stage mother gain social recognition through her children, but often makes her own living from their success.
Stage mothers, like Kyoiku mamas and soccer moms, get their sense of social value through their children.
Masha Godkin, an adult child of a stage mother and former child actress, contends that «the desire to act must come from the child.
You give your full heart and attention in a relationship, often «stage mothering» or playing the heroic savior for the object of your affections.
Her stage mother, LaVona Golden (Allison Janney), roughly tugs her along, presenting the prodigy to a skeptical figure skating coach, Diane Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson).
Somehow, though, these stage mothers living through their children is more poignant and sympathetic than the dads doing the same in Friday Night Lights — Tina and Joan (a teacher who nevertheless rues the educational opportunities that passed her by) are washed - up with a menopausal finality foreign to men, and their actions seem less about redeeming the family name than about slowing their decline by proxy.
But the film nearly is stolen by Allison Janney's wickedly funny romp as Golden, the stage mother from hell.
Not nearly as hopeful, it turns out, as her stage mother, Florence.
As foul - mouthed, «stage mother» LaVana, she brings one of the real villains in the story to life.