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Hmmm. I'm mildly surprised that Alias survived.

Me too, can't help but think that the Abrams/Lost connection had something to do with it. IMO, Alias is a shell of it's former self.

"Alias" is 33rd in the season-to-date ratings, and although it is losing a chunk of its "Lost" lead-in ABC has more important problems.
But I suspect one more year will be enough for "Alias".
To me, this year's "Mission Impossible"-esque script writing (find a problem, rush around the world and solve it in 44 minutes) is becoming really tedious.

I hear ya, but that is what the powers that be thought needed to happen in order to make the show appeal to a wider audience. I wonder what the ratings are from year to year. Is Alias up from this time last year or down. That'll show how much the change in format helped the ratings.

The LOST lead-in gets most of the credit...

Let's keep to DH discussion in this thread.

I heard an interview with Teri Hatcher while I was doing something in another room and she was answering questions about the supposed cat fight over this cover. Personally, I think they make all that stuff up just to create additional "buzz" about shows. Makes for good copy I guess. There's no way the stars would allow them to write that kind of story (and headline) without their blessing if it were true, (it's a contracted shoot, not the Enquirer you know). They did the same thing with Sex and the City as I recall. All kinds of "stories" about how they didn't get along, but now that the show is over all you ever hear from interviews is how they all stay in touch and call/email each other all the time.

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CP I meant to stay on topic, sorry! I think that part of the Vanity Fair story could be true, especially as it pertains to Eva Longoria. She has become a diva of sorts ever since she started to become recognized which took her many years to do. It appears to me that she is the one most likely getting caught up in the hype of the show, seeing as how certain things transpired between she and her ex-husband. She goes from being a barely recognized Soap star on a barely recognized Soap to a recognized Soap star on the most popular Soap.

That leads her to some brief nationwide status by appearing on one now defunct show on ABC. Now she is staring in one of the most popular shows in years, getting all of this pub b/c of her beauty and her role on the show, getting star treatment like she never got before and now she is taking on diva form. It was all bound to happen to someone like her is experiencing their first dose of full-blown stardom. The other actresses in one way or another have already experience what Eva is now experiencing so they are less likely to show their diva side on something as silly as a photo-shot.

I just hope that old Dr. Kimberly Shaw, err..... Marcia Cross didn't go wild.

Eva Longoria is also at least a decade younger than the other women. I like Felicity Huffman myself. Eva is too young.

I like Teri Hatcher myself b/c she is the sexist of the older women. There's something about her that makes her appealing in a down to earth sort of way.

Well, I think DH proves that you can have a show with tons of open plot lines and still have a big audience, so IMHO they didn't need to dumb down Alias.

[See I brought it back around to DH ]

Here's a good article about what transpired on the set according to the Vanity Fair writer that was their for the photo shoot.

Vanity Fair covers 'Housewives' feud

Here's an excerpt: "She screamed [the publicist's] name and said, in essence, 'I want you to get over here and do your bleeping job ...' Then she launched into this profanity-laced tirade. Teri was most visibly upset and got very emotional and was tearing up and was on her cell phone seeking comfort from someone," Zeman reported.

I think that if this petty "I want to be a diva too" stuff continues ABC will have a hard time trying to keep the cast together.

Desperate Housewives Get Hot! Isn't there some kind of "B*" word we can use to describe the adolescent behavior of these spoiled actresses? Naturally this word(?), by all feminist accounts, is preferable to another that comes to mind... the first letter of which is next in the alphabet and taboo for any man to utter.

You takin' about the A B C word?

Who me???

I would NEVER use such a word nor allude to it...

I've been reminded occasionally, men are not to use that C word ever!!!

ab(my word)c(your word)def(another bad word)ghijklmn(can't use the n word either)opqurstuv.... I'm too exhausted to finish

You forgot jklmnop(a word we all know and love)......oops, we shouldn't use that word a lot either.

This is the main reason I stopped returning Eva's phonecalls BTW...are you nuts? Eva is smokin' hot but I agree with Antonio...Teri Hatcher has that approachable and likable personality to go along with her stunning good looks. A killer combo for a schmuck like me.

Remember way, way back in the "good old" Disco days???

Eva was the one you could never approach while you might have taken a shot at Teri after the mandatory 2-drinks of courage were consumed.

Sounds like the same rules apply today! Nicollete is the one that you hook-up with at the club after buying her one drink. Teri would be considered more or less what we call a "slump-buster" (used when having trouble hooking-up with the other skanks who think that their *ish* doesn't stink). Eva is the one that we know will have to see what kind of car we're driving and the type of house that we have before she even lets us take her out on a date. And even then she won't give up the punani (P*).

She's only too young in the sense that she's not mature enough to appreciate a really hairy back, or a beer gut, or ear hair, or... any of the afflictions that come with old age.

Trying to forget the disco days So you approach a girl like Teri and discover she has 2 kids from 2 different fathers, 2 or 3 TRO's, a drinking problem...do you walk away? Not if it is midnight

It usually was about 2 AM before I reached that point...
Dude, what a "depressing" dose of reality... especially while I'm still fantasizing about this:

Well she's on her knees a lot....

I mean in every episode she's sneeking around....

What were you thinkin'....

The bars close at 1am here I'm diggin' the wardrobe malfunction on Eva

1AM? Man, try 3,4, 5 or even 6AM in the major cities in Florida and 2AM or 3AM where I now live. BTW, what wardrobe malfunction? I wanna see!

Well they did close at 1am back in the day..I think it is 2:30am now. Check the picture of Eva that optivity posted above...her string bikini is unstrung.

Ohh, very nice indeed!

Well, at least they are advancing the plot a little. Here's what we now know.

Mary Alice worked as a nurse under a different name before moving to Wisteria Lane.

The neighbor and most likely her sister ( Martha Huber) both knew her in that previous life.

She left with a baby named Dana who is now named Zach. (Probably wasn't her baby).

A PI came looking for the baby. That PI was most likely the woman the plumber is looking for.

Mary Alice and/or husband killed the PI, chopped her up and put her in the toy chest. They buried the chest under the pool.

So, the big question is, how long before Mrs. Huber's sister gets it for knowing too much. Or Edie because he thinks she saw the tape?

Dana could be a girl's name. Could Zach have undergone gender reassignment surgery?

How will Carlos react when he find's out the baby inside of Gabrielle is not his!

We don't know that yet, remember, Carlos has been messing with her BC pills...

Carlos is an insecure jerk, granted Gabby's past indiscretions would give him reason to be but he never knew about them. Her recent fidelity seems to be real and although her reason for not telling him about the settlement could be questioned he did react just as she thought he would when he did find out about it, he was going to blow it all so he wouldn't have to spend 8 mos in a Fed prison. His secrecy about the offshore account has backfired on him, now because of all that transpired, she is hell-bent on hurting him...

The perfect marriage eh?