Desperate Housewives- Remember the infamous Vanity Fair drama?

The infamous article

Out of the five, who would have thought Longoria would have the most success post DH both personally and professionally?

R2 I would. She’s a hot Latina and that’s popular these days.

Marcia's head looks too big. How much airbrushing when into those arms and legs on all of them. Slim pins. I love Terri's stilettos.

At the time of the show, though, r2? Wasn't she the least known of the actresses? Being the youngest and most attractive of the bunch helped. I don't know about Marcia Cross, but the other three have had scandals and/or relationship nerouses/problems in their personal lives. She hasn't had any. And the hot Latino daddy husband!

Cosmopolitan, shot by Francesco Scavullo, 1984

R6 that has zero relevance to this

20 years ago now

God, only gpes to show tv is much better now. This was glorfied, badly written, soa

Thanks for posting OP, I can remember reading about this but I never read the actual article.

I always thought that Teri Hatcher was the diva and bitchy one behind the scenes, she comes across as the nicest one. Whilst Marcia Cross who was my favourite and who seemed really nice comes across as a complete cunt. It surprising just how quickly it all went to their heads given that for most of them this wasn’t their first time at the rodeo and they weren’t exactly spring chickens.

Teri Snatcher

I guess women really do hate other women.

OR this is an example of what happens when you don't pay all your co-leads equally.

That is the real problem r13 and was why Friends got along as well as they did. When you have 4-6 people doing basically the same work and you have one person making a lot more money than the others, it creates a huge feud for everyone.

Oh please. They didn’t all deserve the same pay. Especially for that first season. No one knew who Felicity or Eva were before this show. This is what made their careers what it became for a while.

Nicolette was a supporting role, as Edie was the neighborhood slut they all hated. She wasn’t part of the group until late season 1 when she forces Susan to start inviting her to their weekly poker games and even then she was still only with them here and there.

Marcia had a few soaps under her belt but Teri WAS the biggest star of the group in 2004 and was able to pull the biggest paycheck. Susan was the focus character during season 1 btw. It wasn’t until season 2 where they each got more equal screentime. Season 1 was heavily Susan.

They accepted the paycheck and signed on, don’t be upset after.

I read that once it became so popular and they were due to renegotiate their contracts, four of the actresses wanted to negotiate as a group to get mor money, like the Friends actors did, and Teri refused.

[quote] God, only gpes to show tv is much better now. This was glorfied, badly written, soa

It wasn't as badly written as your post.

The show was a fun dramedy primetime soap opera. I enjoyed it.

The men were hot. I crushed hard on Ricardo Antonio Chiavara.

How is felon Felicity Huffman doing these days?

Broadcast network piffle

That brought in much bigger ratings than your show SJP

Desperate Housewives season 1 averaged 23.7 million viewers a week and finished the season as the fourth most watched show of 2004-2005 season.

Season 2 averaged 21.7 million viewers a week

Season 3 averaged 17.5 million viewers a week

Season 4 averaged 17.9 million viewers a week

Season 5 averaged 14.8 million viewers a week

Season 6 averaged 12.8 million viewers a week

Season 7 averaged 11.8 million viewers a week

Season 8 averaged 9 million viewers a week.

The women were contracted for a season 9 but it got canceled.

[quote]I guess women really do hate other women.

There does seem to be a pattern in shows about groups of women. Either they all hate each other, or there is one that the rest of them hate and bully. When #1 on the call sheet is the most hated, you either have to suck it up or go rogue, but risk being ostracized by everyone else on set.

Sets with groups of guys don't seem to have these types of issues.

Because despite popular belief, men and women are very different. Men typically aren’t like that. Male culture is very different from female culture. But we like to pretend that it’s the same exact shit.

Gay male culture can be similar to female culture. But male culture as a whole isn’t like that. Most men, even if they don’t like each other, can work with each other and things are fine. Women can’t do the same.

I like that they're all wearing one piece swimsuits on the cover. Too much is exposed these days.

When Marcia Cross was on One Life To Live in 86-87, she caused a fuss over the undisputed star of the show (Erika) having it in her contract that she shoots all of her scenes first..

She always sounded like a total bitch to me.

Remember when we outed Marcia as a big ol’dyke and she had to refute it on The View?

Such a shame what happened to Felicity Hoffman when she got her Oscar nomination for playing a pre op tranny and used a prosthetic cock.

Imagine Laverne Cox's horror at seeing that scene! Laverne would have gagged.

But surely Felicity Hoffman shouldn't have been cancelled for that?

Why didn’t Jamie Denton get more work after this? He was easygoing, easy on the eyes, seemed to be an affable pro.

R29 you need help.

You know why she was canceled and it wasn’t for her Oscar nominated performance

Enough with the trolling

I suspect the marked lack of charisma had something to do with it.

[quote] Remember when we outed Marcia as a big ol’dyke and she had to refute it on The View?

added fun was Star Jones nodding knowingly about "that website"

R32 it’s because of her scamming the college to get her daughter in, same as Aunt Becky. They both went to prison for it.

This show shot its wad in the first season. Only other memorable episodes were the tornado and Laurie Metcalf terrorizing a supermarket.

Season 2 was awful. It got good again in the truncated, writer’s strike season, when we met Dana Delaney. Then it went to shit again. Killing Edie off was stupid-Marc Cherry had to know Nicollette Sheridan wasn’t easy to work with, and yet, he hired her.

Marc Cherry was quite full of himself. Is he still around?

I enjoyed Desperate Housewives and especially loved the series where a new family moved in to Wisteria Lane with a dark and mysterious secret.

R38 that was almost every season… lol.

Season 2 Alfre Woodard and her two sons move in and have a dark secret. She’s only around for that one season. A lot of people take issue with their storyline.

Season 4 was Dana Delaney and her daughter and husband and they have a dark secret.

Why should Marc Cherry have known Nicolette was difficult to work with? It’s not like she was working nonstop after Knots and a lot of time had passed. It had been a decade between shows. She was allegedly impossible to deal with (and she had that reputation while on Knots too) so he sent her a message by killing her off the show. He said the show won’t be able to continue with the main 4, but she was expendable and replaceable. Then she sued and lost.

[quote] Marc Cherry was quite full of himself.

I was full of him too.

Cherry isn’t gay if you believe what Sheridan claims, claiming he sexually harassed her. She lost that case though.

He’s gayer than a spring Ungaro frock! And a log cabin repug to boot.

That Vanity Fair article is fascinatingly gossipy. It makes Marcia Cross sound like a real pill.

Teri Hatcher's cunt antics were legendary. They wrote a whole season where she moved off Wisteria Lane so she wouldn't have to interact with the other women. Then there was the crew gifts from all the original ladies (plus Vanessa Williams, always a class act) minus Teri. I distinctly remember a later scene where the women talked to Teri and it was painfully obvious it was an over-the-shoulder shot of a standin, with cutaways to Teri without the women. She must have been a true cunt.

She wasnt a cunt. They were just jealous.

This article gives a clear indication on who the issue was and it wasn’t Teri. It was the others about Teri.

Teri really had only one cast member who was a friend, Twin Peaks "log lady" Kathryn Joosten.

[quote]Teri really had only one cast member who was a friend, Twin Peaks "log lady" Kathryn Joosten.

Really? In her last-days interview with the Television Academy, Kathryn was blunt and said she didn't care for any of the women.

Teri Hatcher was a Bond girl you know, alongside two Oscar winners. If Teri wins an Oscar then Tomorrow Never Dies will be the first Bond film to star 3 Oscar winners, provided no other living Bond actors win one before her.

I would have let so many of the men of Wisteria Lane cum in my mouth

Kathryn Joosten was the fan favorite actress and her character is the most beloved with DH fans. We aren’t gonna try talking shit about her. She was amazing as Karen.

And she made it clear she didn’t like any of the women

The late Kathryn Joosten, who played the curmudgeonly Mrs McCluskey on the series, also expressed some views on the dynamic between the main cast and others on set.

“In terms of their friendliness, [the cast were] friendly when you're right in their face,” she noted, before offering some praise to Hatcher for her conduct.

“Out of all of them, Teri was probably the friendliest to me. When I threw that Christmas-birthday party for the crew, Teri's the only one that contributed, and I thought that was very nice of her. She made a very nice contribution.”