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What will “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry wear on Emmy night? Probably pajamas.
Cherry won’t be attending the show.
“I didn't get invited,” Cherry said at the ABC All Star Party for the Television Critics Association held at Kidspace in Pasadena Wednesday night.
So will anyone from the show go? “I would assume that Felicity will go to present an award because it’s a tradition for the previous winner to present that award. But I don’t know for sure. I haven’t asked the girls if they’re going."
Word is they're not. But obviously, Alfre Woodard - nominated for Supporting Actress - will go.
“Alfre called to thank me for the flowers I sent and I asked her, 'So how many nominations is this for you? Four, five?' And she said, 'Seventeen.' So apparently every time she reads the phone book on TV, she gets nominated," Cherry said. "She is, and deservedly so, beloved by the Academy and a very talented actress. She’s also one of the loveliest human beings you will ever meet.”
Frankly, Cherry is relieved to stay home on August 27.
“I was very honored to be nominated last year but to sit there and lose twice with my mom sitting next to me was excruciating. Then you go to the parties and everyone comes up to you and says, 'You were robbed!' so I was like, 'This is the most annoying evening of my life.' I will be so happy to sit at home and watch other writers go through that.”
But isn’t he bothered about not being nominated?
“Am I a little bummed out? Sure. But my reaction to this is that I have to work harder this year and that’s what we’ve been doing. Listen, I went through a period of being unemployed, broke and having to borrow money from my mother. In terms of awful things happening to me, not getting nominated is pretty easy to handle.”
He was more surprised by other snubs. “To me, the shocker was "Lost." I thought that was odd to the point of 'what the heck is going on with the Academy?' For us, we’ll just work harder. It’s more important for me to feel like I’m doing the best job I can and I don’t think I did that last year. I’ve had my trial by fire. Actually, I feel like I’ve had two. The first year was the extreme phenomena of it all and last year was 'let me try some new things.' Some of those things aren’t working. So this new season, I feel for the first time, now I know what it is I need to do in order to do the show the way I want to do it.”
So what’s going to happen on Wisteria Lane in the new season? Cherry let some secrets slip...
Photo Credits: DH creator Marc Cherry was happy to get dressed up for the GLAAD awards on April 8, 2006. But he's gonna stick to PJs on Emmy night.
WireImage/Steve Granitz
Bree will marry Orson, Kyle MacLachlan’s character, in the second episode and funny things will happen at the wedding. Orson, you may recall, ran down the poor plumber Mike Delfino in last season’s closer.
Who IS this guy? Glad you asked. That will be this season’s major mystery.
Mike is in a coma and he' been in it for at least six months on the first show. Cherry won’t let on if or when he will wake up. “I told Jamie (Denton) that the good news is you won’t have to memorize so many lines.”
Carlos and Gaby’s divorce and property division gets ugly - really ugly - and Gaby finds herself in the annoying position of having to wait hand-and-foot on her duplicitious maid, who is having the baby Gaby desperately wants. "There is such bad blood between them," Cherry whispered.
Watch for a new hunk. Edie’s troublesome nephew (Cherry says, “We’re dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s right now for the actor.”) comes to town and, in an homage to Edie’s bikini-clad car wash scene, he will be seen washing his motorcycle sans his shirt. And yes, there will be wet, firm muscles and slow-mo camera work.
Teri Hatcher’s Susan keeps watch over Mike’s hospital bed but strikes up an interesting, intimate friendship with a very classy British man across the hall whose wife is also in a coma.
That will be Dougray Scott, whom you may recall from “Mission: Impossible II.”
“So Susan’s waiting for Jimmy Stewart to wake up, but she’s got Cary Grant across the hall," Cherry said, with obvious glee.
Tom and Lynette will try to cope with the grasping, manipulative mother of Tom’s love child being in the hood. And his daughter will be around too. “Just what Tom needs, another kid,” says Doug Savant.
And Laurie Metcalf ("Roseanne") will also be a guest star. “But we’re not going to be guest star heavy this year,” Cherry insists.
Good idea. Especially not when guest stars get Emmy noms, instead of your leading ladies.
Photo Credit: Still "Desperate Housewives" Brenda Strong (in Tahari), Felicity Huffman (in Moschino) and Eva Longoria lined up at the ABC All Star party in Pasadena. But only Felicity will have to get dressed up to present an award at the Emmys.
WireImage/Gregg DeGuire
At the very least, Cherry writes articulate and coherent sentences, characteristics sadly lacking in these screeds. Those who live in the glass house of bad grammar really should refrain from casting stones. I suppose you're entitled to your opinion, but learn how to spell it.
Posted by: Eric Ford | July 24, 2006 at 02:56 PM
For those who call someone homophobic because they mention one word "homosexual", you really need to see a therapist. Desperately. It probably makes you want to go sleep around with anyone anywhere just by hearing the word alone. It's not my problem. I have my id under control. You obviously salivate at a word. You read into it some kind of hostility unless the word is surrounded by many floral word propping it up on a thrown to be idolized and prayed to. That's not me. I used the word in a fitting context to describe how Cheery only has one usefulness in life. I said nothing about the cause he cheers. Nothing. Just that he promotes it.
So your argument has zero substance. You don't know me and you have nothing to back up your anger that was directed at me. This makes you a total and complete fool. I'm laughing because it seems it's always the fools who lash out with a crazed and rabid argument first off. They are rarely rational and civilized.
For the moron who called me jealous, jealousy is not the word. You don't have the intelligence to know what I feel or think. For one, you can't read what I think, you read into it, but that's not really reading is it. Just because you can make out the words doesn't mean your brain is absorbing and intellectualize what is really being said. You are a fool and a childish boy. Luckily I've been surrounded by much better people than you who don't argue for the sake of it and have much to contribute to the world. You are probably homosexual and that is the only reason you responded. You didn't respond to the article or have any comments to make about the show, you attacked me personally because and only because you gathered that I'm not one you could have debased sex with. All I'm saying is that you are debased and your actions are debased and your sex life can only also be debased. That is despite whether or not you are even homosexual. Homosexuality is not the issue of my previous posts. It was criminality that was the issue. But some are so fixed by sexuality that their entire lives are defined by it. These are the types to react to the mere mention of the word - those who define themselves wholly by their sexuality. Please spare me and don't bore me with your sexual obsession. I have better things on my mind and more imporant things to do in this world. Don't put your hangups on me. If you've been raped don't take it out on me, go attack your abuser.
Cheery is not creative so he couldn't have created the show. Whatever cause he cheers is besides the point. He's not doing it to give support. He's doing it to get attention. He looks like complete goober up there in front of the glaad poster giving the thumbs up. His thumbs up is further proof that he has no style, no cool nature, no originality and no creativity. He's just a big nerd and rolly polly fat boy who never grew up. There's no way he could ever write a show about sexy people, let alone sexy heterosexuals. And it's not becuase he's homosexual. So all the braindead sex obsessed types just hold in your rabid reactions. For the intellectually challenged, reread what I just wrote so that you can see that it's because he's a fat geek who isn't funny or cool that I've said he couldn't have and still can't write the show as it was written. He's a total fraud. He's being puppeteered. That's the way it looks.
If anyone even thinks to write back about homosexuality you are in the wrong thread. Go somewhere else. Go to a site for homosexual discussion. This isn't the topic of my post. Don't post your ignorant crap here as your tool to say stupid things about the subject. You will obviously use any excuse you can find. There's no excuse for your idiocy except that you choose to express yourself as one.
Posted by: Caffie Lake | July 23, 2006 at 04:23 PM
Interesting that no one had anything to say until I made the first post. They are reactionaries not real thinkers. They are fighters, not civilized contributing members of society. Since they don't know who I am and don't have the brain capacity to fathom who I am I will ignore their meaningless guesses and posts and not address them. I've gotten many reactions and am glad to see that some are interested in the topic. I only address those who have integrity and are fairminded and are able to contribute something of substance.
I came here to say that Dufus couldn't have created Desperate Housewives. He looks like Baby Huey in a suit. He's totally goofy. He woudn't know sexy if his life depended upon it. He was living with mommy and not working. A lazy loser. He could have gotten a job if he wanted one, but losers don't work. They steal. Lazy people steal, they look for the easy way out. He was a 40-year old taking money from his mommy and not working. That is until an agent called.
I'd like to see a photo of his agent so that I can put one and one together. To see that they are two peas in a pod. I wonder why his agent didn't just steal a trophy for Cheery to keep him from being annoyed. To spare him the most "annoying" night of his life. The two of them should confess who was really robbed of the emmys; it wasn't Cheery. Oh it's so annoying when you are robbed of millions, credit and thanks. It's just annoying. You know? Like having a fly buzzing around your head kind of annoying. No big thing. Like having your shoe laces come untied kind of annoying. Is that what he's talking about?
I'm sure that Cheery's agent can find a way to steal him an Emmy. Can't you baby? Yes you can. You know you can. Good agents can steal anything they want to steal and get away with it. Can't you babe? Yes you can.
It's obvious from Cheery's quotes above, specifically the unfunny comment he made to Denton that Denton won't have to remember many lines because he'll be in a coma for 6 months, that Cheery is not funny. His comments won't translate to good humor on screen either. He doesn't have the brain capacity to be funny. He stole what is funny from the original script. Anything he's added to it falls flat and isn't funny, it's odd or boring or weird or inappropriate. His lack of humor, his tasteless jokes are a reflection of his brain - an inferior brain. He doesn't complete sentences which is why he can't follow through on subplots and storylines and often omits necessary information in the series which vexes the audience. That's not to say it's HIS audience.
He claims to have created it, but mounting evidence proves other wise. He insists it was inspired by something trite his mother said. This is wholly unbelievable. He is also quoted in Vanity Fair to have attributed the inspiration yet another source. It spells out that he's lying. He and his agent made up a story to feed the press, to feed ABC who may be in collusion. The lack of an emmy nomination means that the academy smells something fishy and are well aware that last season veered way south and took a huge dive into the crapper. The reason it took a dive is because Cheery does not have the brain to write the show. It spells out that he wasn't the real creator and can't hold his head above water. He's sinking. He never learned how to swim. He had almost no credits before this show, was one of many writers for one series a long, long, long time ago and hadn't worked since except to write a FAILED pilot. This is because he lacks writing skills and creative talent. His agent needed a front man is my guess. His agent wanted to get a bigger chunk of the profits by taking a packaging profit and producer profit and he found a script that he needed to cut the real writer out in order to get himself and his agency the biggest cut possible when he sold it to ABC. All he needed was a front man, someone dumb, a puppet, someone desperate to act like it was his own. Thus Cheery got his first acting job as a creator. Does this remind anyone of someone in another top position in the country?
A lot of evidence is there to support this argument. Cheery wasn't a successful writer prior, he only capitalized on a script already written which is why it can't sustain the humor or follow a storyline, he was desperate, he's a total dork, he isn't sexy, he isn't funny, he wasn't sociable, wasn't working, lived at home with his mother, took money from his mother, has way too many holes in the storyline, freely gives away the next seasons major events, makes odd remarks, acts like a total dufus, jokes in a mean-spirited fashion, tries to speak like he's cool but comes off as a geek. He could not have written a post-post-post contempory script because he's such a dweeb. There's no way. No can convince me otherwise. You're a fool if you think he wrote the original script - a blind fool. Blind. Blind. Blind. Thankfully the academy isn't so blind because at least other artists who have honor and integrity have a chance to win and get what they deserve. Plagiarists don't deserve emmy's or financial reward. Theives deserve prison not trophies.
Posted by: Caffie Lake | July 23, 2006 at 03:55 PM
If anyone perceieves any homophobia in my comment, then it's the fault of your own small-mindedness. Reread what I wrote and see if you can be big enough to find the real meaning in it. I doubt you can be that broadminded since what you want is combat. Despite your ignorance and stupidity I've had homosexual friends and have known some who admitted accidentally that they either had homosexual experiences or are bi and some who don't admit it but I know that they are. I won't go into any detail on that so don't ask or assume anything. But you will assume because that's how small your mind is. It's pitiful. And furthermore, I did not end any of my friendships with such people nor did I cut them to pieces and slay their self-esteem.
So take your pathetic fears and shove it. People like you are a total waste of time and I wouldn't address this except that morons of this type who jump on any mention of the word GAY without thinking or asking questions. You assume too much, way too much. So, take a big chill pill and calm the f down before you hurt yourselves. I think all of these comments must come from gays or even more likely from those who know the catchphrases and the supposed politically correct views and feel that they want to be warriors for any and all causes. Your types think you defend the defenseless, you think you know what you're doing, you think you are helping someone, but you're not. You're just a-holes, killing time by being useless and making arguments that aren't yours to be made and that you're not qualified to argue. So do everyone a favor and shut up and go have sex with a homosexual if you're feeling so charitable and have such big hearts. Put your loins where your mouths are. I have better things to do. Sex is the least of my problems or worries.
If all you are doing is defending Cherry BECAUSE he's gay then you're not fit for this society or any society. The justice system is bad enough without a moronic jury who is incabable of making sound decisions. Go back to your pathetic lives and continue doing nothing for no one.
Now I'm going to write what I came here to write in a new post. C-Ya. Woudn't wanna be ya. Stupid a**wipes.
Posted by: Caffie Lake | July 23, 2006 at 03:22 PM
I am a friend of James Denton and his family. He does go by Jamie and has always gone by Jamie in his personal life. I think he went by Jamie as his professional name too until a few years ago so I don't think Cherry was using any kind of private pet name. As for Cherry, I don't know the man but James/James speaks highly of him.
Posted by: Maureen | July 23, 2006 at 05:17 AM
That smile means my agent gave me a script and said to me, "Here's a script. You wrote it" to which Cheery replied, "Okay."
That's how it happens sometimes that the undeserving, untalented make it in Hollywood. But when they cut out the real talent, their free ride can only last so long because they have no foundation and so the castle falls down. It's already falling down. Nothing he says or does can save it. All he can do is smile, wave, promote homosexuality and lie until the ride ends. They all know it.
The writer pursued a lawsuit but the attorney tried to force her to have sex with her and quit when she wouldn't lose her integrity. Hollywood makes criminals out of many and makes the greedy come out from under their rocks. Here's a fine example of the criminally minded greedy types coming out.
How's that new Beverly Hills office working out for you Andrew? How's the new home Cheery. Are you boys enjoying your new castles? I'll bet you are.
Posted by: Caffie Lake | July 23, 2006 at 02:09 AM
homophobic & envious much, Caffie?
Posted by: BUZZZED | July 22, 2006 at 11:19 PM
I presume Caffie Lake in an unemployed and very bitter writer.
Posted by: ROBERT BLANCHARD | July 22, 2006 at 09:33 PM
WOW! This section is reserved for comments, not a novel. Who are you? Did Cherry turn you down for a job? Cut you off in traffic? What? You read to much into what the man was saying.
My nephew's name is James. I call him James but everyone else calls him Jamie. Jamie is another name for James just like some guys named Richard go by Dick or Elizabeth can be Lizzie.
You need to see a shrink because you have LOTS of issues!
Posted by: JP | July 22, 2006 at 04:07 PM
Your comments display a great deal of homophobia and ignorance. For your information, James Denton's nickname is Jamie and he uses it himself. He has even been credited on certain projects (by his own choice) as Jamie. (This can be easily confirmed by checking IMDb.com.) While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, you ought to at least make some effort not to fabricate and mislead in the process. I (and the millions of fans of Desperate Housewives) think that Marc Cherry is very talented and that we are all lucky to have the chance to enjoy his inventive and hilarious contributions to television.
Posted by: Phya | July 22, 2006 at 11:41 AM
Nothing this guy says is funny at all. More often than not, he makes no sense. If ever he makes sense, it's only something he can relate to, that's giving him a lot of credit though in saying that he relates to anything.
He found not winning with mommy beside him annoying? Annoying? His vocabulary is grossly lacking. Who is propping him up? He obviously can't stand on his own two feet when it comes to speaking or writing.
I like the way he switches pronouns especially as in, "I have to work harder and that's what we're doing." "We'll work harder, I know what I have to do now to do this the way I want to..." Even though others write it, he often takes co-credit, being one of only two writers. But more telling is his comment that borrowing money from his mommy and being unemployed are things that "happened to him." As though not having writing skills happens to you. And my mouth just asked for money, I had nothing to do with it at all. Darn that mouth of mine. How about waitering or selling shoes or used cars? Or writing magazine articles or being a movie critic for a newspaper? Those unemployment things happen to a lot of people but others would accept the fault themselves as their own lack of integrity or lack of self-application. There's some insanity going on here.
What's with the insensitive inappropriate regard for others, for important others like, calling James, Jamie. That's effeminate and weird. Sort of degrading. Never in my life have I heard anyone call a boy or man named James, Jamie. For an adult man to nickname his male cast an effeminate name is assuming much and strange. The most insensitive comment was that the bright side was James wouldn't need to remember lines. Is James getting paid during the down time? Six months down time? So, he's finally reduced Mike to having no lines for the first half of a season, which is exactly like the original script. Funny how he relies on that original script so heavily.
He read the original script, found the script heavily laden with male sexuality with men as sex objects of women and he couldn't resist it. Funny how it attracted a gay man in Hollywood rather than a female executive. Never imagined that. Straight men liked it a lot, but these guy drooled over it and took it for himself. He fell in love/lust with the men. Primarily lust for the men as described in the original script. That's the motive. Only now he's LOST. He can't speak straight sentences he's so lost.
It actually is very amusing in a very sick and twisted way.
Posted by: Caffie Lake | July 21, 2006 at 06:08 PM