If you've spent any time on datalounge, you know that dataloungers are obsessed with the portrayal in popular culture of icy and withholding wife/mothers. But which one do we cosnider the most fascinating of all? I've listed some of our favorites, but feel free to add your own in the comments. They do have to be portrayed in a work of popular culture though: a book, TV show, or movie. (Nancy Reagan as a real person does not count on her own, though you could nominate Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan in "The Reagans," for example.)
Which is the most fascinating icy and withholding wife/mother in popular culture?
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 5, 2021 11:52 PM |
You are soooooooo lucky you're not mine, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 4, 2021 11:35 PM |
Thelma Harper is not icy. She has a volatile, hot temper but is not icy.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 4, 2021 11:39 PM |
Joan Crawford!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 4, 2021 11:48 PM |
Um, why am I not on the list?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 4, 2021 11:54 PM |
Lucille Bluth doesn't understand the question and won't respond to it.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 4, 2021 11:57 PM |
MTM nailed it as Beth Jarrett. The eerie part is that she looks so much like my mother with the same hairstyle.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 5, 2021 12:00 AM |
Seems you've got a rather limited base,
Poor you!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 5, 2021 12:02 AM |
Sian Phillips portrayal of Livia, the wife of Emperor Augustus(the oh so hunky/hairy Brian Blessed), in the TV miniseries "I, Claudius" OWNS iciness. Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate" is a close second.
Is it true that Nancy Marchand's character in "The Sopranos" was named for/inspired by the historical Livia?
Bette Davis ain't too shabby in "The Little Foxes."
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 5, 2021 5:50 AM |
Just another thread so you weird queens can masturbate over Beth Jarrett.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 5, 2021 6:05 AM |
They’re all named some variation of Catherine, Elizabeth, or Eleanor.
That should tell you something.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 5, 2021 6:08 AM |
R2 she was icier in the original Family sketches and the Eunice special.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 5, 2021 6:21 AM |
This thread is as good as a poll for asking posters' ages. I'm surprised we haven't seen Lily Langtry or Laura Keene nominated.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 5, 2021 12:44 PM |
Elena Hood (Joan Allen) in The Ice Storm, OP you idiot.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 5, 2021 1:00 PM |
What about Kate Roberts of DOOL? Can't believe she hasn't been mentioned yet.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 5, 2021 1:22 PM |
R15, I was thinking of the Sigourney Weaver character, Janey. She was ice cold to everyone. I remember being struck by how much more demonstrative Jamey Sheridan’s character was when the son was killed. And Elena expresses a kind of sympathy when she sees her daughter riding around on her bike, remembering what it was like to be a girl.
But yeah, she wasn’t warm and cuddly, either. God I love that movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 5, 2021 1:38 PM |
Buck wouldn’t have even had to ask this question!
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 5, 2021 2:11 PM |
[quote] What about Kate Roberts of DOOL?
DOOL?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 5, 2021 2:24 PM |
^ With an arm like that I'm surprise Constance Ford wasn't drafted to pitch for the Yankees
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 5, 2021 3:20 PM |
Elizabeth Bligh in A PLACE TO CALL HOME.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 5, 2021 3:36 PM |
Actually Angela Lansbury's character in the original film version of The Manchurian Candidate (and in the book) is known simply as Mrs. Iselin. Her first name is never mentioned.
It was only in the awful remake with Meryl Streep in the role that the character was given the name Eleanor.....as close the "Hillary" as the screenwriters could come.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 5, 2021 4:02 PM |
"the" = "to"
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 5, 2021 4:03 PM |
By looking at those names on the poll, I guess OP was born in the 1930s.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 5, 2021 6:18 PM |
yeah, R19. DOOL. You know DOOL, don't you?
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 5, 2021 11:17 PM |
[quote] You know DOOL, don't you?
You put your lips together and BLOO?
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 5, 2021 11:52 PM |