Desperate Housewives

Eva Longoria has finally picked a designer for her wedding gown. Remember when I reported that she was having a tough time chosing between a French designer and a Latino one? Looks like she’s finally settled on the French designer, Monique Lhuillier, according to a recent Us Weekly article. Monique is a huge designer, having designed ready to wear creations for some of Hollywood’s finest including Sarah Jessica Parker, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Connelly. She and Longoria are already acquainted. A rep for Eva says that nothing has been confirmed yet, but chosing a Lhuillier gown to go with her French castle wedding would just make sense, don’t you think? Can’t wait to see what the gown looks like! Knowing Eva, I’m sure it will be stunning.

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While I still haven’t found a good quality video clip of the cute segment that Felicity Huffman did on Oprah a couple weeks back (I’m still looking! If any of you out there spot it, let me know!), I did find this clip of Nicollette Sheridan’s recent visit to The Ellen Degeneres Show. I don’t quite remember what date it aired, but it was no more than a couple weeks ago. I caught this segment when it originally aired and thought it was hysterical. So I was very happy when I saw that the clip was posted on Ellen’s website. Go take a look, have a chuckle and let me know what you think. Did Ellen throw the arm wrestling contest? I think the two gals were pretty evenly matched, don’t you?

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Our girls didn’t bring home any awards last night, but it didn’t prevent them from looking (mostly) fabulous in the process. Take Teri Hatcher for example. She looked absolutely stunning in her dress. Following the “white trend” from the Golden Globes, she went big-time glam and Old Hollywood and looked fantastic doing it.
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Felicity Huffman, on the other hand, didn’t look as fabulous as I know she can. She almost looked, dare I say it, a little frumpy in her knee-length black dress. I just don’t think it was that great a style on her.
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Eva Longoria, also, didn’t look that great in her dark grey gown. A very pretty dress, it might have looked better on someone a little taller as the folds of fabric just seemed to envelope poor Eva and make her look even shorter.
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Brenda Strong was there and she looked really great in the same color. I did find there was something distracting about the neckline on her dress. It didn’t seem to match too well with the rest of the dress. But she’s a tall lady and was able to pull off the “pillar” look very well, overall.
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Nicollette Sheridan was also there and looked about as you’d expect her to: Amazing. Michael Bolton must be a proud man. She also chose a lighter color, like Teri, but hers was more neutral in color. The neckline almost reminded me of something you’d find in the lingerie department. Combined with her sultry hairstyle, she looked very sexy.
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Lastly, we have Andrea Bowen, who plays Teri Hatcher’s daughter Julie on the show. Wow, she’s growing up, isn’t she? She chose a coppery gown that complimented her skin and hair so nicely. She looked pretty fantastic as well, I thought. I almost didn’t recognize her when I first saw her.
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Fashion “don’t’s” aside, all the ladies looked far better than I ever do even on my best of days. I’m sorry they didn’t win (and Felicity was ROBBED! Sorry, America Ferrera.), but I enjoyed watching the glamor. I just love awards season.
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Eva has put the kibosh on rumors that she’s leaving “Desperate Housewives” after this, the third season. In an interview with Britain’s Arena magazine, she says, “No way, we’re contracted for the next seven years. A lot can happen in a 10-year contract.” She also mentioned she’s become more like Bree in her real life now, she loves to cook and bake for her fiance, Tony Parker. Sounds like he’s a pretty lucky guy!

In other Eva and Tony news, the date for the wedding has been set and announced. It is 07-07-07. Tony, who is reportedly pretty superstitious, believes it to be a very lucky day indeed. It can’t be all bad, that’s the same day as my baby’s first birthday! The pair plans to tie the knot at Chateau de Chantilly, a castle located north of Paris.

Eva Longoria, Tony Parker, Desperate Housewives

“Desperate Housewives” producer and show creator Marc Cherry recently sat down and did an interview with Scott Pierce of The Deseret News and I have all the juicy bits here to share with you! They talked a lot about Cherry possibly stepping back from the show to work on other projects. Good news for us, he has no plans to do anything of the sort! Cherry stepped back last year during the ill-famed season 2 and the show definitely suffered as a result. Since that debacle, he has no intention of stepping aside again. Which isn’t to say that he’ll work on the show forever, either. “I want it to run seven years. And the moment seven years is past, I will personally take down the sets,” said Cherry. That sounds to me to be definite word that “Desperate Housewives” will run seven seasons and seven seasons only. Cherry also doesn’t plan to launch right into another mega-hit after the show’s run either. “I’m only going to have one major hit. I’m only going to catch lightning in a bottle once. I wish I had the energy to develop and write at the same time, but I don’t.” His focused attentions have really paid off, since season 3 is already much, much better than season 2.

Marcia Cross’ status on the show was also discussed. Obviously, the sudden bed-rest was a bit of an issue to work around but work around they did. In the meantime, not only will James Denton be getting extra screen-time in Marcia’s absence, but so will Nicollette Sheridan. Plans are to expand her role of Edie Britt and even explore her relationship with her son, a story that was merely hinted at in the show’s pilot episode.

More than anything, Cherry sounds very humble about the show’s (and as a consequence, his) success. “I’m really proud of this season. I’m hoping next season’s even better. There’s a couple things I haven’t accomplished yet that I think we can really do. I think we can even dig deeper, so I still have goals ahead. But basically, it’s just kind of, have a humble attitude towards the success. Once you start to believe that you deserve it, I think then you’re really screwed.”

Desperate Housewives, Marc Cherry, Marcia Cross, Nicollette Sheridan, James Denton

Judging from her “Desperate Housewives” character, one would think that Eva Longoria wouldn’t be embarrassed by much, especially anything of a sexual nature. But that’s not so, according to an interview with British radio station, Heart. “It’s really amazing what they got away with. When I watched it I was like, ‘What the? Whoa!’ I watched them filming that scene, but when I watched it back I was shocked. We got to get really graphic with that episode.” I know what she means. When I watched, I was surprised at just what they DID show. I kept expecting the scene to get cut short, but it kept going. What did you think?

In other “Eva News”, she appears in an upcoming issue of men’s magazine, Arena wearing little more than the skin on her back. In the risque pictures, she’s photographed wrapped in chains. Provocative!

While I’m sure everyone on the set of “Desperate Housewives” would rather have Marcia Cross there with them and not relegated to bed-rest, there’s at least one cast-member who perhaps a little glad for her confinement. That would be James Denton. We all know how Marcia’s doctors ordered her to bed-rest for the rest of her pregnancy and about how the show’s production scrambled to turn Marcia’s home into a replica of Bree’s Wisteria Lane home so they could film a few more scenes. But Marcia’s hasty departure from the set means there’s room for other stories to take her place. That’s where James comes in. Marc Cherry decided to make some storyline changes and speed some things up. Says Denton, “Because we’re losing Marcia mid-season, that mystery has to wrap up pretty quickly because we need her. So, it’s kind of fun, because it got me out of jail quicker!” Good for you, James. Way to find the silver lining there.

How great was last night’s episode?? Let’s start with Susan because she’s just messed up beyond belief. So remember she convinced Ian to hire a laywer for Mike? Well, he hired the newbie-est newbie lawyer he could find, looks like. I’m sure that wasn’t at ALL on purpose. And this lawyer suggests that Mike pleads guilty because, hey, only ten years in jail instead of a lifetime. That’s gotta be better, right? Yeah, Susan isn’t convinced either and Ian is obviously jealous which just rankles her even more.

So she hears that newly billionaire-d Zack is pursuing Gabby and asks Gabby to go on a date with him and get him to hire a lawyer for Mike. Which I thought was a pretty turdy thing to do. Gabby did too, but she went along with it. Oh, and in related news: Mike didn’t know that Zack was his son until Paul told him so in jail. And this was after Mike confronted Paul about hiring those thugs to jump him last week. Paul admits that he was hoping to do something for Mike for which Mike might feel obligated to return the favor. Sounds as if Paul is hoping to get on better footing with Zack via Mike. Which, is strange. But, okay. So Gabby spends the day with Zack, on mostly his terms including a good-night kiss (wherein it’s revealed that Zack has indulged in some paid hookups previously and those hookups lied through their silicone implants about his kissing prowess). Zack, in return, pays Mike’s $1 million bail and gets him a good lawyer. He visits his father and they have a somewhat awkward but mostly realistic conversation and Mike asks Zack to visit Paul in prison. He grudgingly does (which says something for his respect for Mike, which makes me wonder if Susan would have had to ask Gabby to pimp herself in the first place), and he fully expects Paul to ask him to pay to get him out of there too. Which, let’s be honest, he sorta does. In a roundabout sort of fashion. Paul wants Zack to pursue Felicia who is still out there somewhere sans some fingers and prove that Paul didn’t kill her so he can get out. Zack pretty much just says, Nah. After all, he’s got this hot new girlfriend who has expensive taste. I bet Gabby would take exception to that. The girlfriend part, not the expensive taste part.

Oh, but I need to get back to Susan because I forgot some very essential stuff. My bad. Ian’s going out of town on a business trip, but the hospital informs him that Jane isn’t doing so hot. So instead of canceling his trip, he asks Susan to go visit her. Am I the only one who thinks that’s just completely wrong? Yes? Just me? Anyhow, while there, Susan runs into Jane’s best friend. And guess what? This guy was trying to visit Jane and it turns out he was Jane’s boyfriend. As in, Jane was having an affair with him. Susan starts to understand Ian’s jealousy thing. Susan then tells Mike, “Hey, glad you’re out of jail but I can’t ever talk to you again.” Then she literally walks across the street and shares a steamy kiss with Ian RIGHT IN FRONT OF MIKE. Pretty tasteless in my opinion, but then, this is Susan we’re talking about. Oh, and Jane dies. Hmm.

Whew. In other news, Lynette is going back to work, finally, after taking 8 weeks of sick leave for her gunshot wound. But Tom’s right-hand-man at the pizza place just quit and there’s this big street fair that day and Lynette just HAS to help him out, just this once. So she fakes how badly she’s still feeling to her boss (who stopped by to pick her up… how many bosses do that?) and promises she’ll be back at work on Monday. Things are going really well at the street fair and the pizzeria is doing fantastic. That is, until Lynette’s boss stops by at home and little brat Kayla spills the beans that Lynette’s at the fair. The boss comes by and busts Lynette and fires her, provoking her to grovel for her job right there. He basically gets her to promises to completely turn her back on her family in the future and be his work-slave. Which she does! Instead of throwing pizza in his face, which is what I would have done. But, it’s all well and good, because later on she talks with Tom and realizes she’d be happier working with him at the pizzeria anyhow.

And Bree, ooooohhhhh Bree. I just love Bree. She shows Orson the teeth and tells her she thinks Alma knocked off Monique. So Orson calls out Alma and Gloria and says, “Nice try.” Thinking this means that Alma no longer has anything to hold over his head, he tells her that its done and over and she can just go on her merry way now. And then Gloria calls Orson and tells him that Alma killed herself. He races to her house and it does indeed appear as if Alma slit her wrists. Gloria gives Orson a drink and it’s revealed that no, Alma isn’t dead. It was just a ploy to get him over there. His drink was drugged with some Viagra and some other fun stuff which basically knocks him out. Alma admits that she’s been injecting herself with fertility hormones (ah HA!) and she wants to have a baby with Orson. Because, if he has a baby with her he’ll obviously love her once again, right? Bree learns that Orson is over at Alma’s and goes racing over, only to find the two of them in bed. She is outraged, until she realizes that Orson is out cold and that Alma drugged him. She accuses Alma of raping her husband (which honestly shouldn’t be funny except that it is) and decks her but good. Then she calls her son to bring a wheelbarrow so she can get her husband back home. Best moment of the whole night, hands down. It was campy and trashy and everything that makes “Desperate Housewives” fun to watch.

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It seems like it was only days ago that I reported Teri Hatcher as saying she never wanted to get married again. And also that “it would take a lot before [she] would want to bring a man into [her] daughter’s life.” Wait, it was just days ago! At any rate, Teri Hatcher is now shouting to the rooftops that she is in love with film director Stephen Kay. At the Golden Globes on Monday, she told “Extra”, “I’m not single anymore. I’m totally in love and it’s fabulous.” Interestingly enough? Kay formerly dated Teri’s co-star, Eva Longoria before she ultimately hooked up with Tony Parker. It’s a small world, isn’t it?

While I’m happy she’s found some happiness for herself, I have to wonder what happened to her assertion that she would like to remain single. I’m not saying she’s going to marry Stephen Kay, but it definitely sounds like a big-time relationship and that doesn’t necessarily mean keeping men out of her daughter’s life, no?

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If you watch Oprah, and you were watching yesterday’s show, then you caught a great piece with Felicity Huffman. She was promoting her new book; A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend, which she co-wrote with her friend Patricia Wolff. First, we saw a very amusing segment where she interviewed her male co-stars on “Desperate Housewives” about women and what women want. Some of the highlights:

Felicity: So are all women crazy?
James Denton: Oh, sure. Absolutely.

Felicity: So you grew up in a house full of women, right?
Ricardo Chavira: Yeah, a family full of women.
Felicity: So do you feel like you know women?
Ricardo: I know enough about women to know that I don’t want to know any more.

Felicity: What does it take to make a man happy?
Doug Savant: Sex, pretty much.
Felicity: And what does it take to make women happy?
Doug: God only knows.

Her interview with Doug was the cutest, I think, since they play a married couple and he seemed pretty clueless but in an adorable way. If a video for this ever pops up on YouTube, I’ll post it here so you can see it.

In another segment, Felicity and Eva Longoria went to Universal Studios in Hollywood to ask men what they think women want and women what they wish men knew. It was very cute. Basically? Men don’t know a lot and women want men to better grasp the romantic side of things. Something I think we all knew already, right?

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Have you ever been watching “Desperate Housewives”, seen Susan or Bree or Gabby wearing something absolutely stunning that you just cannot take your eyes off of and you wonder, “Where can I get one JUST LIKE IT??” If you have, then you’re in luck, because there’s this site called Seenon.com that showcases where you can find some of the hottest goodies that show up on your favorite shows and movies, including “Desperate Housewives”. So if you want to know what brand of clothes that Eva Longoria likes the most or what kind of car Edie drives, you just have to check this site out. The site even breaks it down to which character used or wore it during a particular episode. Want to know what the hoodie that Danielle Van de Tramp wore in the “Nice She Ain’t” episode that aired back in October, you just select Danielle from the character list and “Nice She Ain’t” from the episode list. Voila! It’s this hoodie right here!

Just be careful because one could EASILY spend an entire morning looking through this site and doing some serious virtual window shopping. Not that I… er… have done that or anything.

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Our show didn’t win at last night’s Golden Globe awards. And I was truly dissappointed, especially with the winner for Best Actress in a Television Comedy. Maybe I just don’t get the whole “Ugly Betty” thing, but I didn’t feel America Ferrera should have beat out Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman for the win. I wasn’t sure “Desperate Housewives” would win for Best Television Comedy either, but if it didn’t I expected “The Office” to take the award. But no. It wasn’t to be. And, while it was nice to see the “Ugly Betty” people so excited and happy, I was still disappointed.

The good news is our girls looked FANTASTIC last night. Felicity gets my personal “Best Dressed” award as she looked absolutely stunning from her gorgeous hairstyle and makeup down to the train on her jewel-toned gown. Nicolette Sheridan and Eva Longoria were also in attendance, wearing subtle white and black respectively. Marcia was unable to make it, of course, due to the bed rest her doctor has put her on for the duration of her pregnancy. That’s a pity, because I would have loved to see what Mr. Blackwell’s “Fabulous Fashion Independent” would have worn to the show.

What did you think of The Globes last night? Disappointed? Satisfied? Who had the best dress? Who had the worst?

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This was a pretty fun episode, I thought. There were plenty of juicy nuggets to enjoy. As we learned last week, Julie and Austin have done the deed together and Julie (wisely) thinks she should be on the pill since the condom is only 85% effective (a statistic which surprises Edie, who thought she knew everything there is to know about condoms, apparently). However, if you’re under 18, you need a parents permission to get the pill. And obviously, Susan won’t be very open to the whole “having sex” thing. I have to wonder why she didn’t think about asking her dad since he seems a little more “cool” about that sort of thing. But for whatever reason, she and Austin approach Edie instead who easily agrees to pose as Julie’s mom. But of course, Susan finds out about the pills after all and gives Edie an earful after figuring out it was her who made the contraception possible. But then, Susan spots Austin getting hot and heavy with Danielle Van de Kamp. She lets Julie know that she knows about the pills. But that she’s not really going to get mad at her about that and gently lets her know what she saw. Julie takes her mom at her word and has a good cry on her shoulder. Poor Julie. I fear for Austin’s well-being.

On the prison front, Mike is jumped by a bunch of thugs in the weight-lifting yard. They start to whale on him pretty good, that is, until Paul shows up and schools them. Who knew Paul was such a kick-ass fighter? I sure didn’t. And that was awful nice for him to protect Mike (who, interestingly enough, has biceps that are twice the size of Paul’s, but whatever). Or maybe, it wasn’t nice at all because Mike learned from a talkative guard that Paul paid those thugs to attack him. Whoops!

Gabby is still getting gifts from her secret admirer. But the gifts are getting a little creepier. Especially when she finds a $6,000 dress INSIDE her house. Freaked out, Gabby asks Carlos to come sleep on the couch in case the nutjob breaks in while she’s sleeping. In the middle of the night, she catches a guy creeping across her yard. After Carlos dutifully tackles him, he admits that he’s not the admirer, but rather works for him. Gabby gets him on the phone and is invited to lunch the next day. Rather than shout a profanity or two and report him to the police as she should have, she accepts. And guess who it is? You’ll never guess. It’s Zack! Dana! The creepy kid! And he’s got HAIR now. Like, lots of hair. And lots of money, in case we had forgotten. His grandfather had left him that vast fortune which he has been putting to good use by sending Gabby enormously expensive trinkets. He points out to Gabby that he’s a few months older than John the Gardener. Which…ew! Gabby gives him a significant brush off right in the restaurant and I have a sinking feeling we haven’t heard the end of this. Zack is just creepy enough (he gets it from his non-biological dad) to get completely psycho about this. I wouldn’t send Carlos back to Mike’s house just yet, Gabby.

Over at the Scavo house, Tom doesn’t want to show Lynette the new pizzeria until it’s completely done. Because he knows she’ll find something to nitpick or criticize or somehow ruin for him. So what does Lynette do? She sneaks over there anyhow. And she learns that the pizzeria is lacking a liquor license. Apparently, the Scavo’s need a signed petition from the neighborhood first and there’s a lone holdout who doesn’t want drunk people wandering through his yard at night. Lynette’s on the case though. After he doesn’t budge when hearing about how Tom is out of work and this restaurant NEEDS to be successful for the good of the family, she flashes him her rack. And it works! Tom’s a little annoyed that Lynette butted in and solved the problem for him, but hey, now he’s got a liquor license! Whatever works, I suppose.

And, lastly, Bree learns about Alma buying the Applewhite’s old home. She tries to urge Alma to reconsider living in the neighborhood. When that doesn’t work, she has Orson go over and try to get her to pack up and leave. Alma wasn’t born yesterday, however. She wants Orson back and she told him that she’ll tell Bree what he did to Monique (?) and about how he ran over Mike (Gloria told her, though I wonder how Gloria knew?) if he doesn’t let her stay. So that’s that! Of course, Alma makes it seem to Bree then that Orson never asked her to leave. And when Bree is over visiting, Alma’s parrot dutifully chirps, “Don’t tell Bree” which makes Bree uber-suspicious. She then discovers a lose floorboard in the pantry underneath which is a photo of Orson and Monique together along with a pouch full of TEETH. Like, EW. So now she’s all worried about that. Which, frankly, I would be too. Because… EWW!

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Felicity Huffman attended the People’s Choice Awards on Tuesday with her pal and co-star Eva Longoria (who went on to win Best Female Star on Television that night) and the two cut it up on the red-carpet together. Felicity had a great time teasing Eva about her low, low cut back on her glitzy dress. But Us Weekly’s Katrina Szis (contributing editor) sized up the fashion hits and misses on the red carpet and labeled Felicity as a “miss”.

NOT SO HOT: FELICITY HUFFMAN

She wears really plunging necklines that, Szish feels, aren’t flattering on her chest. The skirt should have been just to the knee, or full-length. It made her look matronly and unfashionable. She can be so sleek and sophisticated, but this dress was too girly for her.

However, about Eva she said:

BEST DRESSED: EVA LONGORIA

In the past, she has had too many extensions or too much going on with the dress for Szish’s taste. This dress was simple in front and simple in back; her hair looked shiny. She was simple elegance, and finally got it right. She is always sexy but tends to overuse her accessories. She looked like a star, as opposed to a rising star.

Felicity has also been in the news, lamenting her character on “Desperate Housewives”. She says she misses the days when Lynette was a frumpy housewife and frazzled mom. She has been quoted as saying, “I wanted an example of motherhood that addressed the madness, depression, rage, loss, wonder and love. I do regret we’ve moved on from that because it’s so true - and there aren’t many examples of it on TV.” I definitely agree here. I always connected with the show and with Lynette because of her struggles and now it seems I have very little indeed in common with the women on Wisteria Lane.

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The People’s Choice Awards were Tuesday night and Eva took the opportunity clear up a misnomer in the press. She has nothing wrong with finace Tony Parker having a bachelor party before their wedding. According to a report in the LA Daily News:

“It’s completely untrue. They haven’t even discussed it, and he probably will end up having a bachelor party,” says her rep. She adds that Eva and Tony “haven’t even set the wedding date for this summer.”

What is true is that Eva is currently scouting areas in Cote d’Azur in the South of France and will be visiting the area next month, looking for a garden on a hilltop overlooking the sea. That is where she’d like her wedding ceremony to take place. Sounds like the girl knows what she wants!

It’s been a good week for Eva. She took home an award on Tuesday night for Best Female Star on television and got a chance to show off the enormous engagement ring that Tony Parker gave to her.

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