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By Sharon Fink
Published April 13, 2005
It was the biggest story of the week.
Desperate Housewives catfight! Hordes of TV executives and handlers needed to keep peace at Vanity Fair photo shoot! Rules for clothing selection and who-stands-where collapse in chaos after marathon negotiations! Marcia hates Teri! Teri is a basket case! Marcia has a potty mouth! Eva is an unrepentant narcissist! Nicolette sat in the wrong chair! Felicity won't do anything worth sniping about!
It's also the biggest TV nonstory of the week.
Since television began infiltrating our lives, series with battling casts and crews have outnumbered those that don't. Backstage drama has become such a significant part of TV lore that NBC has planned a "Behind the Camera" series of movies about it; last week's Mork & Mindy, The Unauthorized Story was the latest (Robin Williams used drugs and drove everyone crazy with his ad-libs!).
ABC, Housewives' network, and some of the actors admit that the Vanity Fair shoot didn't go well but say events were blown out of proportion (apparently including Marcia Cross' reported profanity-filled tirade at an ABC representative about Teri Hatcher's swimsuit selection and Hatcher's original center position in the photo).
At least one "Lost' answer
Poor hunky Boone. Why did he have to die on the ABC hit? And is he really the main character whose death has been promised for months?
Because, frankly, hunkiness aside, he was whiny and kind of annoying, and he wasn't that main of a main character, and it's hard to imagine anyone being too upset that he's gone.
"It will be very apparent as to why he died, just in terms of figuring out which character's death would impact the most relationships on the island," executive producer Damon Lindelof tells USA Today.
Lindelof says he and executive producer-creator J.J. Abrams decided to kill off Boone now so the ramifications could play out leading up to the two-part season finale next month.
Lindelof also says that Boone's portrayer, Ian Somerhalder, took the news of his death gracefully.
And because nothing is straightforward on this show, he says Somerhalder may not be the only actor to get that kind of news this season.
Wiggle all the way to the bank
They're grown men in brightly colored shirts who sing and dance. Kids all over love them. And parents are so willing to show that love with money that they've become the richest entertainers in their home country.
The Wiggles are No. 1 on Australian business magazine BRW's list of Australia's 50 richest performers in 2004. They had an estimated gross income of $34.5-million, up from $10.7-million in the previous year. They knocked Nicole Kidman out of the top stop; she doubled her earnings to $30-million.
-- Sharon Fink fink@tampabay.com
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