Word: suburbanity
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...would hang out, like, in the cafeteria,” Frank says. “My favorite [story] was my friend and I brought him to this three-on-three little suburban tournament...
...first dead-on choice was hiring executive producer Greg Daniels, whose animated King of the Hill is TV's most acute satire of suburban mores. The second was casting Steve Carell to reinterpret the nightmare boss originated by Ricky Gervais. Carell's Michael Scott, like Gervais' David Brent, is a paper-company middle manager who believes he's a sage, a comedian and his employees' best friend...
...baked-bean sandwiches - of the girls' childhood in "the wilderness of Neasden." School friends quickly develop a written classification system to tell the sisters apart, but the twins remain oddities; classmates can't even spell Bessi's name right: "Georgia has big ears, Bessie don't." But the twins' suburban idyll is sometimes disturbed by the fear that their parents might divorce. Nigerian mother Ida finds her English husband Aubrey cold and distant. Their differing temperaments lead to occasional violent clashes, but they stay together, thanks to "the canyons of love a child can throw open." Outside the family...
This is a tale of two elections. In November, 11 states considered ballot measures banning gay marriage. All 11 passed. There was also an election, of sorts, in January: the Golden Globe Awards. The TV awards for Best Comedy and Best Drama went, respectively, to ABC's suburban mystery Desperate Housewives and FX's plastic-surgery saga Nip/Tuck. The former is the highest-rated new series of the TV season; the latter, one of the highest-rated dramas on basic cable. Both are water-cooler shows about love, sex, fidelity and lies, mainly among heterosexual men and women...
Housewives' suburban hotties, like Sex and the City's urban ones, are unabashed straight stereotypes: the frazzled mom, the girl next door, the spicy Latina, the uptight homemaker. But, notes Paul Colichman, co-founder and CEO of Here! TV, a gay and lesbian premium channel, "Gay men have always loved sexy, ultrafeminine, exaggerated women like Marilyn Monroe. The women in Desperate Housewives are caricatures and larger than life. That's why it works...