World's Housewives Unite And Find a Bond of Love,
First-ever conference finds sisterhood over common concerns
'GIRLS, girls! Please take your seats. We've got business to conduct!" shouted Lita de Lazzari, president of the Argentine League of Housewives. With no native costumes, conflicts, or soapboxes, last week's First World Congress of Housewives bore little resemblance to September's United Nations conference on women in Beijing.But for the 600 attendees, there was enough exchange of ideas, advice, and, dare it be said, sisterhood, to...
Housewives With Needs And Looks That Kill
The rule guaranteeing that any successful television series will spawn a bunch of clones has not been suspended after all. We finally have a pair of "Desperate Housewives" knockoffs -- "Suburban Shootout," a British import, which starts tomorrow night at 9 on Oxygen, and "The Real Housewives of Orange County," a reality show that begins tonight at 10 and will continue for six more weeks on Bravo. What took them so...
'ANGRY HOUSEWIVES' IS MORE CENTS& THAN (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) HIT
I'M not going to pretend I liked much of "Angry Housewives" on Thursday night.But the show does not need my approval. I was attending the show's two-year anniversary, which is clearly a new record for this area. The Old Town Theater in Los Gatos was packed. The audience was enthusiastic. The laughs were loud and shrill. Out in the parking lot, I ran into all sorts of delighted folk who clearly enjoyed what they had seen.So forget my...
