This and that

The Washington Post reports today that when the final Sunday stats arrive today, "Desperate Housewives" is expected to be the most watched program of last week, and it will have catapulted ABC into first place for the week among the 18-to-49-year-olds the network targets.

Clearly I've missed something, though I can't be sure what.

Speaking of the boob tube, TBS next week unveils "He's A Lady," a Fox-worthy show that hoodwinks 11 dudes who think they've signed up for a show called "All American Man." The winner gets a pile of money in exchange for his dignity.

I'll tune in. Who can resist watching a man wrestle with a pair of panty hose?

On to more important things.

Sarah Jessica Parker told fashionistas at the New Yorker Festival over the weekend that she'd never wear fur. Uh huh, that's nice.

Too bad she's made it known that she doesn't have a problem with $400 leather shoes. Where does she think alligator skin comes from, the leather tree? And certainly she's aware that tanning leather is a risky process that requires tanners (read: humans) to handle toxic, cyanide-based chemicals.

VH frowns on the uninformed (See Oct. 4 post, "Fur sure") . As we said yesterday, please spare us the naked model billboards a la 1995. That goes for you too, Ms. Sell-out-Gap-ad-Parker.

Barbie is a model of diplomacy these days. She settled a tiff with record label MCA over the very deep and moving song "Barbie Girl" by striking a deal to release her own MCA album titled "Barbie Girls." Afterall, there's more than one out there.

And finally, a bit of pure joy.

Now in your spare time you can browse through Boston.com's "featured weddings" , where you can see "I do" photos of people you've never met! It's ingenious, really, because I've been thinking that the five short paragraphs most brides use to describe their dress just isn't giving me the visual I need. (Having said that, some are lovely. Don't miss the album of Kristie and Doug, who were married during a blizzard in Boston.)