Desperate Housewives

Eva Longoria is going to be hosting next weeks 2007 Alma Awards (June 5th, to be exact!) and in preparation for the big event, she’s taking some dance lessons with Mario Lopez (who, you may remember, was on “Dancing with the Stars” and knows how to cut quite a rug).  Mario is also her co-host for the awards and the two are practicing for a dance number that will feature both them and the professional dancers we’ve grown to know and love from “Dancing with the Stars”.  Says Eva: “We actually don’t have a lot of time to rehearse. Thank God, Mario is pretty much a natural dancer.” I imagine Eva has quite a bit of natural talent herself.  I’m sure the two of them will set the dance floor blazing!

I remember when it used to take at least a year for a television season to make it to DVD.  And here we are, not even a month past the season finale and we’re already talking about the season 3 DVD of “Desperate Housewives”!  Isn’t technology great?  The DVD won’t be released until September 4, however, so we still have a few months to wait.  But if you missed any of this last season (and it truly was a great season, I thought), and need to catch up before the premiere this fall, you’ll have some (if only a little) time to grab it and watch to your heart’s content.  Dirty laundry, indeed!

Eva’s wedding is rapidly approaching now and more and more details are getting out about her lavish nuptials.  This will be the sports wedding of the summer, if not the wedding of the summer, period.  The ceremony, as we know, will be taking place at a gorgeous old cathedral just a stones throw from the Louvre museum and the reception will be at the 16th-century Chateau de Chantilly.  Estimations on the cost of the whole she-bang?  $5.36 million.  Yes, MILLION.  Tony has 15 Tiffany Classic beer mugs for his San Antonio Spurs teammates.  The wedding cake, via Beverly Hills chef Sam Godfrey, is rumored to have cost $32,150 and will have it’s own first class seat on the plane to Paris.  

Holy moly!  What do I have to do get an invite to this deal?  Sounds like there’ll be a great time had by all!

I hope everyone is enjoying their relaxing holiday weekend. I won’t be posting any “Desperate Housewives” goodness today, in observance of the holiday. I’m instead going to be spending the day with my family and basking in the warm weather we’re having. And trying to explain to my son why people consider that summer has begun with Memorial Day and not on the proper first day of summer that doesn’t come around until near the end of June. Seven year olds can be so literal sometimes.

So go enjoy a barbecue with your friends and family appreciate the fact that you didn’t have to go in to work today. Also, take a moment to think of all those magnificent soldiers who gave their lives for this country throughout history. That’s who this day is really for, after all.

Is it too late for these star-crossed lovers? If I were Nadine, I would say YES. Because Jesse has definitely used up the “three strikes, you’re out” policy. You’ll recall that Nadine dropped Jesse back in April after he was photographed being awfully chummy with another woman. And this was after Nadine stuck by his side during the whole rehab debacle. Nadine was no fool, so she dropped him like a sack of potatoes. Now? Jesse wants her back in a bad way.

“Jesse is calling Nadine almost non-stop to tell her he still loves her and desperately misses her. But Nadine is unsure about rekindling their relationship she doesn’t want to get hurt again.”

Apparently, she’s planning on flying back to the United States in order to meet with Jesse and talk about things but I think he might find her a rather tough nut to crack. After she broke things off with him, she had some strong words about not putting up with such nonsense and how she was determined to concentrate on her career for the time being. Stay strong, Nadine!

The wedding is a little over a month away and already we’re talking kids! Eva Longoria has recently said that she and Tony are looking into adopting a child shortly after their wedding coming up in July. Eva has mentioned before her desire to have children. But then, considering the fiasco that Marcia Cross’ twin pregnancy caused for “Desperate Housewives”, Eva had jokingly assured Marc Cherry that she would not get pregnant anytime soon. But, lest you think that not being pregnant is the only reason she and Tony would adopt, Eva recently told Latina magazine:

“We both have big hearts and the finances to do it, and we want to be able to provide an environment of love and stability to a child who otherwise wouldn’t have that.”

Good for them, I hope they’re able to carry through with it.

This here is a dedicated working girl. We all know by now that Eva Longoria’s fairy tale wedding to basketball star Tony Parker will take place in Paris, France on July 7, less than two months away. But what we don’t know that is that the newly married pair won’t be jetting off to a grand honeymoon vacation after the ceremony and reception. Instead, Eva will be returning to the USA and Los Angeles in order to back at work on Monday morning. Yep, “Desperate Housewives” starts filming for the fall season again on July 9. And Eva will be there. Now that’s commitment.

Teri Hatcher thought she had simply misplaced her ATM card. So when she called up the bank to cancel the card and see about getting issued another, she was told that someone had been using the heck out of it. Talk about a shock!

“I called to cancel it and was actually stolen… I don’t use it much, so they had rung up $12,000. They did 90 different transactions and I know that because for every single fraud thing you have to sign out a whole slip that says, ‘No, I wasn’t at Joe’s Diner, spending $20 on chilli.’ There were a lot of trips to Albertsons in the Valley, Vons, Longs Drugs, lots of little purchases. I think that’s probably how they get away with it. It dawned on me as I was doing this that in 90 times of them giving the card, nobody ever went, ‘Teri Hatcher…’ I was really kinda freaked out that that could happen.”

I can see how that would happen with an ATM card, since no one really looks at those for signatures or even if you’re the name on the card. A debit card would have been another story (and probably why I vastly prefer my check card to my ATM card). Still, this is a huge bummer for Teri and I imagine has been quite a headache to deal with.

Yep, I’m gonna be here (Pacific time zone of course), sharing with you all my moment-by-moment impressions of the “Desperate Housewives” season finale tonight! If even half the rumors are true, it should be an amazing evening. So stay right here and stay tuned. And I’m going to try not to think of what I’m going to do (not mention what I’m going to write about!) all summer long without my “‘Wives”!

Without further ado:
9:00 - OOH, the promo for the ep looks GOOD. And hallelujah, the return of BREE!

9:01 - The wedding setup looks awesome. I mean, talk about dream wedding. And, of course, Gabby is your typical bridezilla. Bah. I almost hope Carlos and Victor both throw her off a bridge. Wee! Here comes Bree!

9:02 - HA! I knew it!! Pregnant!

9:06 - Ah, the old “Three Days Earlier” thing. Good times. Edie - manipulative but with pangs of guilt. Gabby - still amazingly selfish. Susan - fun to see her planning a wedding with Mike for a change.

9:08 - Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. *gulp* Lynette seems to be handling it pretty well, but we all know that what lies below is often more complicated. They’re strapped for cash? What about the booming biz the pizzeria was doing (until Chef Guy was fired?)?

9:10 - Wait, WOAH. This isn’t Orson’s child? You know, makes me wonder if it’s not her daughters baby. You know, like on “All My Children” when that creepy fertility doctor took Erika’s aborted baby and implanted it in his wife? *shrug* I just don’t see a) Bree cheating on Orson or b) him being that okay about it.

9:11 - OR (here’s a brain wave) maybe she’s pretending to be pregnant so people will think she’s going to have a baby and Danielle is hidden away somewhere and Bree and Orson plan to raise the child as their own. Maybe!

9:13 - Victor’s dad looks about five years older than him. Which is more a dig at Victor than it sounds.

9:16 - Kay, I am loving Mike and Susan together and happy. I mean, yeah they’ve got issues. But they’re adorable. Being with Mike actually makes me like Susan more. WOW.

9:18 - Wow, Lynette’s mom is a piece of work. I mean, WOW. Not remembering how many children her own daughter has? How old they are? Okay, I can see now why Lynette didn’t want to tell her mom. I would probably change my name and move under the cover of darkness to hide from that woman!

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For those of you wondering if wedding bells are in Mike and Susan’s future, wonder no longer! It’s a go! But don’t expect a big, fancy church wedding with an extravagant dress. Susan and Mike chose to go the understated route with a small, simple outdoors wedding. Though Teri was a touch disappointed when she found out she wouldn’t be wearing a fantastic dress. She wanted an elaborate wedding for Susan, but knew that it wouldn’t have made much sense. Still, I think the dress she chose was fabulous in and of itself. And a sweet, outdoor ceremony fits Mike and Susan like a glove. But has all this wedding fever on “Desperate Housewives” made Teri Hatcher want a wedding of her own with boyfriend Stephen Kay? Teri plays coy with the interviewer before changing the subject. Having said before that she would not like to get married again, I am doubtful she would change her mind. But stranger things have happened.

What’s ahead for these star-crossed lovers? Mike Delfino will be getting a troubled younger brother at the start of the next season and there are rumors of a pregnancy for Susan. Teri, however, would like to concentrate a little on Susan and Mike’s sex life. She points out that Eva and Nicolette and Marcia have all had fabulous sex scenes and that’s something Susan and Mike haven’t had yet. (On screen, at least) We’ll see, but this seems a fitting end to the third season of “Desperate Housewives”. With three weddings, it’s been a wedding-centric season to be sure!

ABC and the Spanish speaking television network Univision have banded together to create a Spanish version of “Desperate Housewives”. The new show (which I’m assuming will also take place on the fictional “Wisteria Lane”) will be called “Amas de Casa Desesperadas”. And while Latin beauty Eva Longoria might seem a natural to help launch this new version, word is she will not be in it. There is no word as of yet on who will be cast in the Spanish version. This is just yet another sign that “Desperate Housewives” is poised to take over the world. It also highlights the universal popularity of the show and the show’s concept. Go “Housewives”!

I am FINALLY back in business (spent most of yesterday getting everything (and I mean everything) reinstalled) and so happy to have my laptop back it’s not even funny. Sunday’s episode title “What would we do without you” takes on special meaning for me this week. What would we do? Go more than a little crazy, it would appear. So let me say thank you for hanging out and being patient and let’s get on with the long-awaited recap.

I’m not going to recap like I normally do since I already have pointed you in the way of some very fine recaps earlier this week. Instead, I’m going to give you a list of some of my impressions. And I had a few (go figure!).

• Gabby just BUGS me, you know? It is stinky of her to just poach Susan’s wedding, even if Susan was cancelling it. It’s one thing if someone you don’t know does it, but she was her friend. So I could not blame Susan at all for being PO’d.
• Also, it’s too bad the idea of the double wedding got nixed. That could have been fun, I think.
• Yeah, Gabby is SO marrying a closet abuser. She better think twice before saying “I do” is all I can say
• I had a hard time feeling sympathy for Lynette for most of this episode. The other guy wasn’t even that cute, Tom is a little demanding and they’re at a rough patch but she doesn’t have to act like he killed her best friend either. I mean, for pity’s sake, they’re married.
• That said, BUMMER on the possible lymphoma. And I’m pretty sure it’s gonna pan out to be lymphoma (you heard it here first!) (heh) and that pretty much sucks for everyone involved. Still, will be interesting to see how the story evolves.
• Enjoying seeing more of Edie, even if she’s horribly manipulative. I think it’s awful what she’s doing to Carlos though. Poor guy just wants a kid to raise. I hope he finds out and busts her ass.
• Susan was tolerable during this episode. No one is more surprised than I am.
• Next week? SEASON FINALE! And BREE is BACK! Two very good reasons to liveblog, so meet me back here Sunday night (Pacific time, of course) and we’ll dish the goodies.

Thanks for sticking in here and being so patient with my technical difficulties. You’re all the best!

You probably have noticed that I did not post on Friday. That is because on Thursday, my laptop went kaput. My husband took it into work on Friday to work on it and decided the hard drive was fried. So while Dell ships that out to us, I am without a laptop. It’s the equivalent of cutting off my right arm, or at least, that’s how it feels.

So, in the meantime, I’m unable to update you all on all the “Deperate Housewives” goodness (particularly that concerning last night’s episode) (of which I missed the last five minutes because I FELL ASLEEP) (oh yeah, I’ve spent pretty much most of the weekend being sick as a dog). But what I can do is steer you toward Television Without Pity’s awesome recaplet of the episode and TVSquad’s fantastic recap. I hope to be back in business as early as tomorrow but I can’t make an guarantees, unfortunately (ack, have to reinstall EVERYTHING). Thanks for your patience!

Rumors have been flying around about whether or not Felicity was drunk on the set of her new movie with Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan, “Georgia Rule”. Did she drink? Yep, she sure did. Was she drunk all the time? No way. She insists that the claims have been greatly exaggerated, due to some comments she made to a magazine that were taken out of context. She has said that she was pretty much joking around it (not that drinking or being drunk is a laughing matter) and that was lost in the context of what she said. Is this a big deal? I surely don’t think so. I’m sure many celebrities drink and are drunk during moive shoots. It’s just another occurrance of misunderstanding and blowing things out of proportion. Hey, I believe in you, Felicity!

Did you know Felicity Huffman was on “Regis and Kelly” yesterday? She was promoting her new movie, “Georgia Rule” which comes out this Friday. In it, she co-stars with Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan. But she didn’t just talk about the new movie, she also spoke quite a bit about “Desperate Housewives” and Lynette’s whole “affair” with the the Chef Dude. In fact, that was probably what they talked about the most. That and Eva Longoria’s wedding and bridal shower, that is. Felicity looked stunning, as usual, and got in some good jibes at Regis while she was at it, which is always a crowd pleaser. Give it a look-see, you’ll see what I mean.