'DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' OPENS THE DOOR FOR OTHER TV SERIALS
After ABC's "Desperate Housewives" swiftly clawed its way to the top of the Nielsen ratings heap last year, TV prognosticators expected a slew of "Housewives" clones to appear on network schedules this fall. When the networks announced their prime-time lineups in May, observers instead saw a raft of "Lost" imitators in the form of three different series about alien invasions on ABC, CBS and NBC....
Housewives: PROUD TO BE HOUSEWIFE
Are the paths we take in life pre-determined by some higher, celestial being? If so, was I always destined to be a housewife?Perhaps. And yes, that's housewife. Not stay-at-home mom or work-at-home mom. No, housewife is not a dirty word; my house may be dirty, but that's an entirely different matter. According to Webster's New World Dictionary (third college edition), housewife, in the true sense of the word, means: 1. a woman, especially a married...
THESE "ANGRY HOUSEWIVES' MORE FUN THAN THEY DESERVE
Angry Housewives, Birmingham Festival Theatre's production of the slight musical about a quartet of bored women who find fulfillment when they start a punk rock band, is a lot more fun than it has a right to be.The story is preposterous. The score is largely forgettable. The set looks like it was slapped together and painted yesterday. And the cast (with the exception of Jan Hunter, Andrea Brown and Kyle Bass) is largely tuneless. Still, director A. Vastine Stabler must have...
