It occurs to me that Tess is doing that Baby Boomer thing where she's spending all her money on herself. Do you think she has anything at all set aside for the kids?
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She is drunk/high as
fuck in that vid.
"Money can't buy you class..." Well Tess, honey, you don't have either one, LOL.
(And yeah, I guess she has moved, because that's not the apartment she was living in before.)
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But when she's broke, living in a trailer in Mississippi, and bedbound, she's going to expect...no, DEMAND her sons take care of her. After all, she gave birth to them, that's their duty to dear momma.
I don't think she'll ever go back to Mississippi. I don't think her Narc ego will allow it, even once it becomes obvious that that's what she should do, if only for Bowie's sake.
Lots of people crave fame, go out to LA, experience a brief brush with it, and get hooked. For fifteen minutes they're fawned over, put on magazine covers, and make a lot of money. And when their 15 minutes are up? They don't cope well.
Most of them can't even recognize that their 15 minutes are up until the bottom has already dropped out of their careers. They didn't see it coming, and, more often than not, didn't
want to see it coming. And since fame is addictive, and they need their fix, they will spend years, if not decades, trying to claw their way back into the spotlight in LA—when a smarter move would be to move back to their hometown (or at least home state), and ride the pride people back home always have for someone who "made it."
Nah—instead, they stay in LA, because if you want to get the kinds of jobs that will rocket you back into fame again, you have to be able to show up, in person, on short notice. So it's better to stay in LA, living in ever-shittier apartments in worse neighborhoods, than it is to go home.
Trouble is, LA is expensive. It didn't used to be, but the last 20 years have been really hard on has-beens still chasing that star. So eventually, they drift eastward, to much cheaper places like Riverside, San Bernardino, Hemet, or the shittier little desert towns around Palm Springs. When things get
really bad, there's Lancaster, Palmdale, or Victorville. They're still within driving distance of LA, and can be there when they need to, but they're all shitty places, and nobody admits they actually live there.
Tess will end up out in a section 8 shoebox apartment in Victorville or Mojave before she goes back to Mississippi, because to go back to Laurel would be an admission that her career was completely dead, done, over, and never, ever coming back. And no way is she ever going to admit
that.