Arts & Entertainment
2018: The Year Of Smothering Mothers
As Mother Nature Wields Deadly Hurricanes, This Has Been A Celebrity Packed Year For I Remember Mama, Then Throwing Her From The Train
Even when this photograph was taken of Yoko Ono with a crew from Entertainment Tonight in the mid-1980's, she already was a pariah- as a home-wrecker and Fab Four Breaker but not as the mother of, not Jude, but John Lennon's younger son, Sean, nor as co-writer of "Imagine." It wasn't until decades later that a tape surfaced in which John Lennon gave Yoko Ono co-writing credit for "Imagine," then, more than a decade after that, for her to get paid via the publisher as was her due...and even now, her post-Kavanaugh message about the renewable energy of love got not much ado...hardly at all, in fact.
It seems to have been a year in which two icons of motherhood have fallen by the waysides, Roseanne, who fell on her own sword of contempt, and Phylicia Rashad, whose cries of legacy destruction went unheard over the din of Bill Cosby's damnation for his serial diminishment of women by sexual assault. Even though Rashad is the matriarch of the Huxtable family...she didn't get even one percent of the press as routinely does the Clinton matriarch, despite more likes and higher ratings.
TV dinner food for thought...tweeting while eating.