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Article: Mommy, Andy and Me.(Media&Society)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2001
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Byline: Simon Doonan
You are the fruit of her loins, and yet your relationship with this woman is degenerating into a rage-filled psychodrama. Mother's Day is looming, and all you can think about is what kind of sentence you'd be handed down if you strangled that hypercritical bitch during your mother-and-daughter day of beauty at Janet Sartin. You are in real danger of using the C-word on Sunday the 13th when you take her to the $72 prix fixe brunch at Union Pacific. De-escalate the psychodrama now, before something really nasty happens.
Start by remembering that it takes two to tango, and that you are doubtless playing Veda to your mom's Mildred (see: ...