As Beautiful as those TV Mamas!

I encountered a post on the PopCrunch blog this past week, The 15 Hottest TV Moms of All Time, which if you don’t remember what life on planet earth was like before there was television, might be forgiven its “all time” hyperbole.

We do know that casting roles of 30 to 40-something actresses for television fills in the entertainment media ‘wasteland’ in between honest-to-starlet status as a Sweet Young Thing and the usual grandmother roles older actresses can get if anyone in Hollywood remembers their names when they get that old. These glamorous middle-age women all radiated a certain ageless beauty from the small screen that made them memorable, and for some, allowed them to move gracefully into the older-lady roles.

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Grandmother Roles: “First Grandma”

We are quite used to the “People’s House” at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue being temporary home to not just Presidents and First Ladies, but also to their children. From the toddler-hood of John Kennedy Jr. to the late teens and young adulthood of the Nixon and G.W. Bush daughters, the house has served as a true family home for many of the First Families privileged to live there. With the election of Barack Obama, we the people get something extra to include in our thinking about what it means to be a First Family. We’re getting a “First Grandma”.

Her name is Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama and grandmother to First Daughters Sasha and Malia. The 71-year old family anchor will be moving into the White House to extend the role she’s been playing for the past two years in the Obama campaign – holding down the family fort as only a grandma can. As Obama said in an article during the late stages of his election campaign,

“One of the best decisions we made when I was elected to the Senate was that we wouldn’t move from Chicago. A big reason for that was that Marian lived 10 minutes away. She loved nothing more than to spend time with her grandkids.”

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