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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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Marcia is just all over the news today, isn’t she? Apparently, according to a TV Guide news article, Marcia Cross has been placed on bedrest for the duration of her pregnancy. Her twins aren’t due until April, however, being put on bedrest isn’t unusual in a multiples pregnancy particularly if the mother is a little older as Marcia is. However, even though Marcia was only going to be filming two more episodes of “Desperate Housewives” before going on maternity leave, this definitely puts a crinkle in the plans for the show. Producers are actually moving the show to Marcia’s West Los Angeles home for a couple of days at the end of this week to shoot a few important scenes.

While Cross is resting upstairs in bed, the Housewives team will be downstairs transforming the home she moved into just months ago into a likeness of Bree’s orderly abode. “They are painting the walls, moving in props and furniture from the set…,” says a source from the set. “They’re basically making Marcia’s house into Bree’s.”

Wow, if the Mohammed can’t come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammed! Best of luck to Marcia for the rest of her pregnancy, I hope she’s getting spoiled rotten. I wonder if this will impact her appearance at the Golden Globes this coming Sunday (she’s nominated). This might solve her evening wear dilemma after all!

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The famous Mr. Richard Blackwell has published his 47th annual Worst Dressed list and guess who got mentioned as one of only 10 “Fashion Fabulous Independents”? Our own, lovely Marcia Cross, that’s who! The forty-something actress was mentioned, along with such greats as Heidi Klum and Angelina Jolie, apart from his usual Worst Dressed list, as those who he instead identifies as singularly well dressed. This comes as little surprise as Marcia always looks stunning in whatever she wears, whether she’s walking the read carpet in a couture gown or walking a dog in a pair of sweats.

Celebrities who got named as “Worst Dressed” include such notables as Paris Hilton, Britney Spears (I thought you had to be actually DRESSED to be considered?) and Lindsay Lohan. I think Marcia could teach those girls a thing or two. Or three!

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Wedding bells are ringing for the “Desperate Housewives” women! Not on the show, as far as I am aware, but in real life. First up, we have the delicious Nicolette Sheridan who has been engaged to singer Michael Bolton since March of last year. When should we expect to catch to bouquet? According to Nicolette, don’t hold your breath. “I don’t have time for wedding plans anymore, but we are extremely happy.” Too bad!

Eva is our other blushing bride and her dilemma is finding the perfect wedding dress! She’s torn between picking a designer that will honor her Mexican heritage or picking a French designer to go with her French fiance and the venue for their nuptials.

She’s split between Angle Sanchez, who made her 2005 Emmy awards gown, and top designer Monique Lhuillier.

Her stylist said: “Eva has been supportive of Latin designers but Monique is French like Tony and she and Eva know each other.”

Best of luck, Eva. I’m sure whichever you pick will be absolutely stunning.

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We’ve FINALLY got a new episode to talk about! And the title is really misleading because there are plenty of all three. Such as the fit Ian threw when he found out that Susan went to go see Mike in jail again, after he asked her not to. Whoops! Or how about the fight between Lynette and the suddenly amazingly bratty Kayla who seems to have a little more Nora in her than we previously expected. Then there’s the feud which has come to a head between Bree and Susan. Susan unapologetically insisted that Orson killed Alma because that might mean he was more likely to kill Monique since OF COURSE Mike would never do such a thing. So when Alma shows up on Bree’s doorstep very much NOT dead, Bree relishes the opportunity to rub her not-deadness in Susan’s face. Right about then is when the cops show up at the Hodge’s to question Orson about Monique. To her credit, Susan tipped them off before she knew about Alma. Unfortunately for Susan, Bree isn’t interested in semantics and the fur flies, ending with Bree vowing that Susan is so not her friend anymore. I can’t feel very bad for Susan because the girl oughta know better. She seems to find herself in these situations ALL THE TIME. Lucky for her, Ian forgives her for going to see Mike, after she blurts out that she loves him. I’m guessing that while that might be true, she loves Mike more. Sorry, Ian!

In other news, Danielle, who has nicknamed herself “Danielle Van de Tramp”, lives up to her nickname but good. After telling Julie that Austin might not stick around if she doesn’t put out, and then Julie DOES put out (my eyes!), guess who else puts out too? That can’t be good. Gabby goes nuts when an annonymous admirer has a big basket of roses delivered. She’s sure that Carlos sent them but he’s not fessing up. She even goes so far as to lock the florist up and go through her receipts to find out who it is. She doesn’t get an answer there and the episode finishes with Carlos telling her he did NOT send them and proceeds to describe what he would have sent if they had been from him. It’s a very sweet conversation and I really hope those two can get back together again. Lynette has the best moment of the night when she gets around snotty Kayla’s screeching in a public restaurant (and all the accusing stares of the nearby people because obviously it’s child-abuse…whatever) by having her sons strong-arm the girl out and into the car. And Alma’s excuse for where she’s been all this time? Winnepeg. Living with an old, nearly deaf aunt and no credit cards. She wanted people to think Orson killed her, to punish him for having an affair with Monique. Apparently, she feels bad about that now and that’s why she came back. Of course, I’m not buying that. After all, she injected herself with a mystery SOMETHING and when she purchased a home on Wisteria Lane from Edie, she had a creepy, all-knowing smile on her face. And we all know that means she’s hiding something.

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There’s been a lot going on for the ‘Wives this week. So much, that I couldn’t pick which story to bring to you so I’m going to bring you a little bit of everything instead.

• Teri Hatcher has revealed to The Post Chronicle that, “I don’t think I’ll ever get married again. I totally believe in monogamy. I am not a dater.” Why the bold proclamation? “I need to be safe and trusting and do not believe in rotating men through the house. It would take a lot before I would want to bring a man into my daughter’s life.” Hatcher is concerned with providing a stable home for her nine year old daughter, Emmerson. She doesn’t believe that jumping from relationship to relationship would be good for her daughter. She would rather focus on her daughter than search for another husband. Wow! That’s a dedicated mom!
• In other Hatcher news: She and her daughter turned the tables on the paparazzi. While out and about with Emmerson yesterday in Los Angeles, she helped her daughter snap a picture of one of the photographers. I think that’s pretty adorable.
• Marcia Cross is starting to wonder what the heck she’s going to wear to the Golden Globes awards show on January 15. As you may well know, she’s pregnant with twins and due this spring. There aren’t a lot of fashion options open to her at this time. She says, “I’m going to the show if I can waddle out of the house. I don’t know what kind of tent they are going to put me in. I’m thinking black or navy. It’s not going to be a high-fashion year for me. And I’m thinking barefoot. I deserve it!” I think she’s totally right. I’m sure she’ll be gorgeous no matter what she puts on.
• Eva Longoria has been announced as the new face of Bebe Sports. This is the first major advertising campaign for Bebe Sport, a division of the Bebe ladies wear brand. Bebe CEO Greg Scott has said, “She is dedicated to fitness, has a great sense of style and we are looking forward to her valuable input into our Bebe Sport product.” Sounds like more exposure for Eva!

Have a good weekend all. Remember: “Desperate Housewives” is back to NEW episodes starting this Sunday! Don’t forget!

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This must be Felicity’s year! Not only has she been nominated for a Golden Globe but she’s now also nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the 13th Annual Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, which will be airing January 28th. Notable is the lack of a nomination for Marcia Cross (who was also nominated for a Golden Globe this year), as well as the other ladies. The rest of the ‘wives need not fret, however, because the cast has been nominated for Best Comedy Series Cast as well, an honor the show won at last years awards show. They’re up against some stiff competition from “Ugly Betty” and “The Office”, among others. Check out the full listing of nominees over at Yahoo! News. This year seems like a great year, competition wise. There are so many wonderful shows and movies out right now that make for some truly deserving winners. I couldn’t begin to pick the best!