Hi Gasmii–
Before we plunge in, let me me offer besos mojados to all my loyal, grateful, clever readers, especially those who take the time to make comments. And especially ReeseWitherspoon & Renata, who are official Angels of Snark. I heart you both!!!!
I wanted to answer all the comments individually last week, but I just started the recaps for Melrose Place here at TVGasm, AND my Hamptons trip spun out of control when my brother-in-law’s gay cousin’s boyfriend showed up at brunch with four house seats to Mary Poppins, the Walt Disney Broadway musical in which he plays a dancing nude statue. I know, my interest level perked right up, too, so I grabbed my boyfriend, niece Emilia and nephew Rodrigo, jumped on the jitney and ended up in Manhattan. If you’re there or visiting, go eat a panini at this teeny little amazing cheap cafe in the Village called ‘Ino and hope that the beautiful, friendly Aaron is working! He knows his Italian taste sensations and has the face of a Titian angel.
And the other thing I learned is that showing kids episodes of A&E‘s Hoarders is the perfect way to scare them into cleaning their rooms. Oh, and the statues’ asses were all stellar. Now let’s see what our favorite rotten peaches (and Kandi) are up to!
Casting office. Lisa arrives to book models for the upcoming fashion show launch of her clothing line Closet Freak, a project she’s been working on with strapping sex-bomb husband Ed. Maybe all our Gasmii lust is having an effect on the RHOA editors since Ed appears scant seconds into this episode in his tight Affliction top. Lisa interviews that the show is in one week and she wants to feature models with “fresh-faces” who “haven’t been in every fashion show in Atlanta.” Since I am retired, I was unavailable.
“Am I back in L.A.?”
“Cuz I just felt an earthquake.”
The first model, whose huge breasts jiggle as she struts toward the casting table, almost trips and is immediately disqualified. Others have “ghetto walks” or unacceptable un-model appearances, or in one case, a rear end so large its owner could sit in both Carolina‘s at once. But unlike fellow Housewife and competing designer Sheree, Lisa seems to be having fun with the process and doesn’t come off as a mega-cunt. Lisa interviews that she ended up with 20 girls for the show.
NeNe‘s at home in her new river-rock tract mansion working on her book and discussing an important family matter with Gregg (Mr NeNe), who minces no words telling NeNe that their son Bricen is too old to be living at home “without contributing”. Mr NeNe doesn’t feel he should have to cook for Bricen, who, NeNe interviews, recently dropped out of college less than a year in and moved back in with them. Mr NeNe wonders if Bricen’s too old to be adopted by another family. He’s just kidding but NeNe isn’t when she reveals her biggest fear is that her eldest son will wind up “young and have no direction and be lazy and be a bum” (!). Mr NeNe assures her that will never happen.
NeNe gets down off her high horse stripper pole and interviews how important education is in this time of recession. She plans to lay down the law for Bricen: “…he’s gotta follow rules… go to school… get a job… get a haircut… come in the house at a decent time.” Wow. If they’re making him go back to school, Bricen really screwed up by dropping out over hiatus, since he left a cushy unsupervised dorm set-up and now will have to submit to Mistress NeNe’s Busty Academy For Wayward Boys. Which is also a cool title for NeNe’s first fetish DVD after she realizes how shitty books pay.
Gregg wonders where Bricen went wrong, and NeNe immediately snaps “He’s been given too much.” She adds that financial responsibility is important since “What woman want a man who don’t have any money?” Gregg gives her a vaguely disturbed look.
“Be honest. The earrings are a little much, right?”
Kim takes her 7-year-old Ariana to a boutique and warmly greets “Children’s Clothing Designer” Regina Bell, who’s in charge of the tyke’s wardrobe. Because obviously Ariana is not about to wear ordinary off-the-rack fashions and sadly there’s no Versace Husky Kids line. Ariana quickly zeroes in on a sparkly cape while Kim pronounces Regina’s kiddie-couture “off the chain!” Kim interviews that Ariana can choose her own colors and then they can indulge in an orgy of mommy-and-me spending. On clothes that Ariana will soon outgrow due to nature or nonstop Chick-Fil-A and McDonald’s feedings (see last episode).
Kim explains that “Ariana’s a lot like me” (and who in Kim’s world isn’t, really?) “the fact that she knows exactly what she likes in fashion and style… she either likes it or she doesn’t, no in between”. Ariana gets her brat on, marching out of the dressing room and saying “I don’t wanna look like the 1990′s!” and “Word!” She of course wants everything in sight and the bill comes to $3075. Shouldn’t some squirrels be appearing to drag her down Willy Wonka‘s garbage chute? With her obscene tits bulging from that whorey red dress of hers like halved irradiated cantaloupes, Kim blithely interviews “My kids are used to wearing designer labels, they’re used to having certain cars… I shop and act like the bill’s never gonna come.” Oh, it’ll come alright, Kimmy. In a hot-pink envelope marked “KARMA”.
“Dear Titty Fairy…”
Kim then gives us a little back-story: “When I met Big Poppa I was waitressing and working as a nurse (!!!), and he said, you know, you really don’t need to work, stay home with your girls and, you know, I’ll provide for you. Even though I’m no longer dating Poppa, I will work very hard to maintain all the items that I love so much. It’s a little scary when you depend on someone financially. I’ve realized, you know, that I really need to provide for myself and for my children, which is the real reason why I want to start my wig line as soon as possible.” And while that sure-fire bonanza’s in the works, by all means flush as much cash as possible here at The Hefty Hide-Away. Jesus Baldheaded Christ!
Lisa drops by her designer Evelyn Lambert‘s atelier-slash-one-bedroom-apartment to check on her progress. Lisa admits she doesn’t sketch or sew so she depends on Evelyn to interpret her fashion vision. But Lisa helps out by saying things like “I think it needs somethin else” and “Is this gonna be too busy for this jumpsuit?” Lisa interviews that she was expecting to see at least 10 pieces, and she only saw 6, so they “have a ways to go”. Lisa cracks the whip: “Keep sewing!” Lisa then reminds us that last year Sheree had zero clothes at her fashion show and “people were disappointed”.
We thought it was about that size.
Cut to Sheree interviewing that “Lisa seems to be just crossin her fingers hoping everything’s going to go well for her show. Something can always happen last minute. If something can go wrong, it will,” she concludes, itching to whip out a Lisa doll and start stabbing it with pins.
Evelyn tells Lisa she knows she must finish in time and looks terrified.
Handsome music producer Don Vito arrives at Kandi’s to work on “Don’t Be Tardy (For The Party)”, the song Kandi got ambushed into doing for Kim & NeNe. Don has brought a muscular drink of chocolate milk named Blade to help them. Don plays the voice-mail Kandi sent him of her singing the melody she came up with for the song, and it already sounds a thousand times hipper. The guys sped up the music and it sounds even better. Kandi digs it. Then Don asks who’s going to be doing the vocals.
Kandi Beauty Tip…
Surround oneself with cute, artistic….
….young dudes!
Kandi explains that her “homegirl Kim” really wants to be singing, and recorded something with Dallas Austin last year, but Kandi’s not sure how that went. We of course know EXACTLY how it went, and if you somehow purged it from your brain, we get a FLASHBACK of Kim croaking “Tightrope” as Dallas watches in mild shock. Kandi goes on to say that Kim wants her homegirl NeNe to do “Tardy” with her, which Kandi doesn’t quite get, since Kim & NeNe had a huge falling out recently but now apparently want to be the next Lionel Richie & Diana Ross.
Then Kandi mentions that neither Kim nor NeNe has ever really recorded before, but Kandi’s convinced she and Don can get them where they need to be. Even though Kandi’s never heard either of the crazy bitches sing before. Don laughingly accuses Kandi of “booby-trapping” him, which is super-accurate considering the size of the would-be vocalists’ cans. Kandi thinks it’s strange and a little alarming that Kim constantly refuses to sing for her, but Kandi tells Don to look at it as a challenge– “We can make anybody hot!” Kandi is convinced it’s gonna be a hit. And she could be right, Gasmii!
Lisa drops by to visit Sheree. After shmoozing S about her beautiful new tract mansion and chef’s kitchen, Lisa interviews that since Sheree is so secretive, L doesn’t really know what this visit is about. But she suspects S just wants to find out about L’s clothing line. Sheree interviews that it’s “interesting that Lisa has this very sudden interest in starting a clothin line”. Tension thickening, L & S start to chat about L’s upcoming show. Lisa says getting all the lights and staging equipment is very expensive, and Sheree nods like she actually put one on instead of the humiliating debacle she subjected everyone to last year.
Kim chimes in with her own interview: “I find it very odd that Lisa’s starting a fashion line… (CHORTLE)… Uh, how do I say… okay, lemme… I mean, cuz Lisa doesn’t have any taste.” Good move to have your cleavage covered during this bit, Kina.
TVGasm Contest #774: Guess What’s In Sheree’s Cargo Pants!
Lisa tells Sheree that she loves nice clothes but can’t draw. Sheree, who knows how to draw her signature on divorce papers and that’s about it, agrees that “there’s so many more facets to [designing], y’know what I’m sayin?” Lisa then strokes Sheree by acknowledging that Sheree is “the designer” of S’s line, but interviews that Sheree is basically confusing having a title with all the business acumen that actually goes into producing a successful fashion line, which is what Lisa brings to the table.
Sheree pumps Lisa for info: How’d Lisa find her designer Evelyn? Lisa says through her stylist Tracy. Originally Evelyn was just supposed to make Lisa a few pieces, but when Lisa saw the finished product she realized Evelyn was “hot”, and the idea for Lisa’s line took shape. Lisa points out to Sheree that the line is really Evelyn’s, too. Lisa doesn’t want to take that away from Evelyn [like Sheree would!]. Lisa tells S she can’t wait to see S’s line, then interviews that it took S two years to get hers together (and we still haven’t seen jack, Gasmii), while Lisa whipped up hers in 2 months. “If I had 2 years, do you know what mine would look like?” Lisa saucily asks us.
Lisa offers Sheree help in finding a space for her show, which must really piss Sheree off. But not as much as Lisa’s next observation: Sheree’s “fashion viewing” was “a wonderful social thing– it was great!” but Lisa tells her L “would have canceled it.” FLASHBACK to She by Sheree Night, with confused guests asking S if they were going to see any actual clothes and Lisa flashback-interviewing that there WERE no actual clothes. Sheree insists that she didn’t know she wasn’t going to get the clothes until the day of, so she couldn’t cancel it. And it was never supposed to be a fashion show, it was a fashion VIEWING, S totally lies. On this awkward note, Lisa brightly tells Sheree “you gotta come to my show!” To which Sheree nods with barely concealed hatred.
Sheree interviews that Lisa copies things S does. And while S is flattered that S can “inspire the less fashionable”, Lisa is just a “creepy little copycat”. Sheree shows Lisa to the door while imagining a Jimmy Choo lodged deep in Lisa’s skull.
Can you keep it down, Ma? The ho’s kept me up REAL late last night.
Speaking of humiliating, Bricen’s about to get his azz handed to him by NeNe and Mr NeNe on national TV. Let’s watch. NeNe & Gregg are on the couch. NeNe calls for Bricen, then gets pissed when he lackadaisically shuffles in, looking like he woke up at the crack of noon. She lists the “unacceptable” elements in his life: not attending college, not wanting to go to school (sort of the same thing, but OK)– Bricen says “I never said I didn’t want to go”– staying out all night (“I don’t think I need no curfew”, he grunts, helping NeNe’s case immeasurably). NeNe interviews that she’s afraid Bricen might “go down the wrong path” and fall in with the wrong crowd. Then she tells him that if he stays out till 4 AM, he should be coming home with money in his pocket! I’m a recap artist, not an employment counselor, but I think pretty much all the ways a teenager can make decent cash at night are highly illegal.
Bricen says he makes money promoting a club somewhere, he just has to split it with 1000 people. This sounds like a joke, but he seems dead serious. NeNe is not amused. Then she starts dissing his hair! She doesn’t use the word nappy, but she calls it “long” (it’s not) and “looking like some lost person” (LOL). She suggests/orders he goes to get it braided. I smell a Dwight segment coming up! NeNe keeps topping herself tonight. “All the yellin and the preachin, it’s all for a reason,” she interviews. “But it wears me thin. I’m already skinny sitting here.”
NeNe lays down the law for Bricen: he will have a curfew, a clean room, done hair, and an education. He mumbles assent, slinking off. “And pull up your pants!” NeNe yells.
Kandi meets with Tamera the wedding planner. Kandi says she doesn’t need “a huge extravaganza” but Tamera has other ideas. Namely, The Georgia Aquarium. Kandi admits that does sound “hot”. Tamera also wants to schedule an appointment at “a bridal salon”, which does not sound hot. Tamera says Kandi needs to pick out a gown and gives her a To Do list to work on. Kandi interviews that “the wedding definitely feels more real… a real pain in the ass.” I fucking love Kandi.
What happens when you’re molested during a Flashdance screening as a child.
Derek J, “Celebrity Hairstylist”, drops by for a visit with Kim. Did anyone else think Derek was NeNe in the shot of him walking up to Kim’s door? Kim interviews that he’s “fabulous… outlandish… fun… he wears high heels, he wears women’s clothes, he carries purses… Derek J is not transsexual or transgendered, he’s just trans-fantastic.” Kim pours the white wine and gets down to business. Derek is there to discuss Kim’s wig line. “I’m very driven,” she informs him, explaining that wigs can allow you to be glamorous on Friday night or every day of the week. “My girlfriends wanna be me,” she says. She must mean her girlfriends with penises. Like Derek. “They’re like, Kim, we want a wig. You get up in the morning, put your hair on, and you look beautiful in the car pool lane with no make-up on.” So add car pool lane fraud to the list of Kim’s crimes.
Kim interviews that she wants Derek to create the prototype wig. He asks if these will be wigs for whites, or if she wants to capture the black market, too. She doesn’t really answer the question, but tells him she wants human hair that’s as “thick and volumptuous” as synthetic. “I’m lookin for porno hair,” Kim concludes.
Derek has brought some samples, and pulls out a long dark one he made at his salon from human hair and then cut. It retails for $1500. He has another smaller piece with different colored springy curls. Kim ooohs and ahhhs and says “volumptuous” again. Derek says he can make Kim some spectacular pieces that she can wear in public and generate business with. Then they bash She by Sheree for a minute. Derek suggests he help Kim throw a “wig party” and invite over her girlfriends (with vaginas, I’m guessing) to see what people go for. Kim loves it!
“Cool. Someone finally scalped Sheree!”
Lisa & Ed (in a soft Cookie Monster-blue warm-up suit and snowy white tee) arrive at 595 North, the lounge where they’ll be having the Closet Freak fashion show, to meet event producer Satchell and Kathy the set designer. The venue will be dressed as a giant closet and the runway will include a large closet set-piece through which models will enter. No word if Sheree’s party-planner Anthony will be popping out, too. Lisa is freaked out that Kathy won’t have the closet ready until the day of the show, which is when Evelyn will be finishing the clothes. It’s all a little too last-minute and Sheree-esque– there’s so much at stake and Lisa hates to promise things and not follow through. Satchell assures her she has nothing to worry about. And she gets to climb Ed like a big naked tree whenever she wants, so how much sympathy can we muster?
It’s Wig-Party time chez Kim. Camera-hog Ariana is running around in a blonde number the length of her body and appears at first glance to be a transvestite midget. Gay of Honor Derek J arrives in heels and lady-things again. Kim interviews that she’s invited a mixture of “Caucasian and African-American” pals over to get a bead on their recreational hair-piece needs. Surprise, Kim’s breasts actually look they’re levitating in 3-D– normally you’d have to rent a video with the words “titty” and “fuck” in the title to see such a thing. Surprise encore: Kim gets bombed on wine right away and starts shaking her gazongas and criticizing Derek’s choices for her: “I look like a fuckin mermaid!” she squawks in a Daryl Hannah model. Kim likes a brunette wig better– “I have black hair naturally!” Everyone who’s seen you bottomless already knows that, silly!
NeNe arrives. Kim interviews that she invited her frenemy because “NeNe likes to talk about my hair… she’s got a hair-piece, too, so I don’t know what the big deal is.” Kim adds that she’d like to see NeNe try something different on her head. NeNe interview-scoffs about Kim starting a wig line: “Kim is not business. She’s not a woman you can see holding down a board meeting. Are you serious? She’s fakin it.” NeNe greets Ariana, now in pajamas and ready for bed, but then A models a black bob for her, perhaps the same one Kim wore in the alter-ego photo shoot. It looks better on Ariana, who now resembles a midget Armenian secretary in Flipit‘s neighborhhod getting ready for work.
“Go to bed, Sweetie, so Aunt NeNe can call your mama a hooker!”
Kim did provide a buffet, and NeNe helps herself to chips, guacamole (how progressive of Kim to get over her guaca-phobia and serve this) and cheese cubes. “How did I know NeNe would be eating?!” Kim brays. “How come NeNe’s the only one with a plate?” Uh-oh. “Now now now, Kim,” NeNe interviews. “I am a ten. I could probably go down to a size 8 but I don’t feel like it. Guess why? Cuz I’m fuckin HUNGRY!” Sorry, 4-out-of-5 Gasmii– I still love NeNe.
Derek says he’s got a Kim wig for NeNe. And as soon as NeNe puts it on, “it felt like Kim was coming out of my skin,” NeNe interviews. She launches into a devastating impression of Kim moaning “Tightrope”, with appropriate choreography and air-cigarette, then on the phone with Big Poppa asking to write a check for something. Kim, all prissy and hurt, interviews that it was funny at first, but NeNe crossed the line and ended up appalling the other guests. In Kim’s defense, it did quickly become obnoxious and unfunny. NeNe interviews that blonde wigs “squeeze your brain and drive you crazy”.
Paging Sally Kirkland!
NeNe’s house, another day. Bricen, hair unchanged, plays pool as NeNe eats and encourages him to get himself a plate “because I don’t serve children”. Dwight arrives in a floor-length fur coat, accompanied by a style team. NeNe has staged an ambush to tame Bricen’s hair. Bricen is reluctantly okay with this, but says he draws the line at a manicure. Dwight, flames spewing off him, interviews that manicures are not gay. As Brice’s mini-fro is fluffed and blown out, NeNe interviews that Brice went to college looking nice and groomed and came back “like a werewolf“.
Dwight chats with Brice, who claims to be majoring in business and on the honor roll. NeNe tells Dwight Brice is not even in school anymore. “Honor Roll for what?” NeNe interviews. “Layin around chillin all day? Sleepin and eatin? I mean WHAT?!” As Brice gets his hair braided, NeNe requests beads for him but they’re fresh out. NeNe goes to get rubber bands, interviewing: “Bricen has an ethnic side. I can appreciate that. I just think that you need to look neat with the whole ethnic thing.” Now that Brice has new hair, NeNe wants him to change his attitude. They share a warmish moment.
Is is too late to suggest the Tootie mushroom-cut from Facts of Life?
Jonathan, Sheree’s publicist, stops by to see her, looking like he has bad news. He does. Mercedes Benz has pulled out from sponsoring Sheree’s fashion show event, because “it’s gotten too big”. WTF?! FLASHBACK reveals Sheree making demands at the planning meeting a couple of weeks ago. She wanted jewels from Tiffany and a $400K chauffered Maybach, remember? Jonathan mumbles something about the event company trying to get sponsors at the very last minute but Sheree remains remarkably composed. He says it’s very sad because people around town are already “buzzing” about the debut of She by Sheree. I wonder what really happened! Perhaps Mercedes execs caught a few episodes from Season One? Just a thought.
FLASHBACK to Sheree bitching at model casting. She interviews that she’s had terrible luck with event planners and there doesn’t seem to be any in Atlanta capable of servicing a client as top-quality as She by Sheree. Jonathan says he wants to make the fashion launch happen before spring. Good luck, kid!
595 North. It’s the day of Lisa’s fashion show, which is actually happening. Lisa interviews that while her line isn’t ready for sale, this will give the public a taste of things to come. Lisa says she’s had store buyers contact her and has an agent in L.A. working to arrange mass production and sales. The closet is constructed for the stage as Lisa gets her hair and make-up done. She interviews that she was worried about everything coming together, but believes in delegating to responsible people, and that it seems to have worked today.
That night, guests arrive and pose on the red carpet, including Ed, resplendent in a white suit I will dream of slowly removing, Dwight and Derek J, who’s in full drag minus, ironically, a wig, and NeNe who somewhat passive-aggressively interviews that she has “no expectations” for the line and is just there to “support a friend” and “roll with it”.
“What would really class it up is some strippers dressed like jungle beasts.”
Since Sheree and Kim still haven’t shown up, there’s a dearth of drama, which Dwight quickly pounces on, bitching about the way the runway stage is set. Already apparently semi-soused on some fruity red cocktail, Dwight tells Lisa’s stylist Tracy “You know I’m gonna let her fuckin ass have it! The focus on the premiere of a fashion show is the collection. We don’t need all of that [i.e. the closet]. All we need to see is her collection.” Dwight interviews that “there has never been a collection in the mainstream of designing that you would have had all of that goin on on the stage.” He says to Lisa “The focus point is on your wardrobe. All of this shit up on the stage, why is that there? Who idea was that?” “Those are props,” Lisa replies, refusing to engage. She interviews that she doesn’t know who made Dwight Design Guru, but that she has final say here. Obviously! Bitch need to shut his hole.
Minutes before the show starts, everyone starts noticing Sheree is a no-show. Lisa interviews that Kandi had a prior recording commitment and L doesn’t give a shit if Kim comes. NeNe interviews that Sheree’s intense competition with Lisa might be keeping her away– “let me throw you a little shade,” is how NeNe puts it.
The show begins. NeNe and Dwight make catty comments to each other about hems being too short and things not being finished. Dwight grates on my nerves but I would’ve enjoyed watching Bravo’s The Fashion Show with him. Maybe. Actually, for Black History Month 2010 I want Paramount to let me moderate a DVD commentary track on my all-time favorite trashy movie Mandingo with NeNe, Dwight & Reco. Please, Paramount, return my calls! As for Lisa’s clothing line, I’ll leave it up to you, Gasmii, to weigh in and discuss your reactions. I know all too well how fleeting our perceptions of fashion can be. I have to tell you that some of the clothes I wore on the runways of Madrid, Milan and Barcelona were so insanely fug they almost made me ashamed to reveal that I was ever an ex-teen model.
“And no matter how many garments I sell, I STILL get to go home and hit THIS!”
Lisa takes the stage at the end and brings Ed up with her, thanking friends, staff and designer Evelyn (who should have gone up with Lisa– I do remember that much couture etiquette). Lisa interviews how blessed she is to have super-supportive, girthy Ed by her side. We get it, bitch. Stop rubbing it in. Everyone kisses and congratulates Lisa while I try to remember some of my nanny’s old Santeria spells so I can pray Ed goes back to the NFL so I can use my TVGasm press credentials to sneak into the locker room and blow him. Dwight hugs Lisa and then offers the supremely cunty “It was interesting.” “Don’t be tryin to hate!” she sasses back, but I can see his drunken gay bitterness hurts her. Dwight advises Lisa to get a staff that “knows what they’re doing”. Lisa interviews that Dwight is indeed a hata and that people told her this was the best fashion show ever seen in Atlanta.
NeNe interviews that it was a “good first effort” and then deftly manages to slam both Lisa & Sheree by saying that the fact that there were models walking down a runway with clothes on their backs was praiseworthy. Dwight finds NeNe outside and tells her how terribly disappointed he was. He reminds NeNe he’s been in “the industry” his whole life and he wants all the Wives to feel free to come to him for top-level advice on all things fashion. Such a giver, that Dwight.
NeNe asks Dwight what he thinks of Sheree not showing up. Dwight dead-seriously says it’s disgraceful and that if he made a point to come and “support” his girlfriend Lisa (when he could have been “at Detroit”– I don’t know if that’s a grammar flub or there’s a new musical called Detroit in town), then so could Sheree. Speak of the she-devil, here comes her Range Rover. Tracy intercepts her at the valet and asks where she’s been. “My son had a concert,” she says. “This late?” Tracy asks, prompting immediate attitude from S. Tracy comes right out and accuses her of skipping the show on purpose to which Sheree guiltily, over-defensively, nastily tells him to fuck off.
“I are not going to stand here and listen to this, Boo!”
Tracy is plenty steamed and interviews what a blatant slam against Lisa this was. Sheree keeps bickering with him all the way to the door. She finds Lisa relaxing in a corner with Ed and a small entourage. Sheree is all fake-sweetness as she says “I told you I was coming!” and “I wanna see the stuff! Where’s the stuff?” Lisa says the models took the clothes off and then proceeds to ignore her. Sheree shows HER by interviewing that S doesn’t like the looks of the “tacky” crowd in baseball caps and baggy pants.
Tracy tells Lisa that Sheree was supposedly at her son’s recital, which he finds odd since she doesn’t spend time with the kid doing anything else. SNAP! Sheree has the last word, interviewing in her classy-lady voice that “I arrived to Lisa’s show late because I had to attend my son’s concert– I would never miss that. Not even for Lisa’s fashion show. I didn’t see the show. But when I got there I did see the piece Lisa had on. And if it was any indication of what her show was like, I didn’t miss a thing.” This may need its own entire Reunion show.
NEXT WEEK ON RHOA:
Please let this be Ed trying out a new career.
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(I just posted this under last week’s comments by accident… it refers to some snarky comments about your modeling career and your audacious tiptoeing into controversial politics. Harumph.)
Oh Leia where’ve you been all my life? I was an intermittant viewer of Housewives until I stumbled upon this site. I’ve now read all your recaps and may even have to start watching the damn show just so I don’t miss a silly little millimeter of your nuanced wit.
I was gonna tell you about my real-life NFL boyfriend (wayyy back in the day), but I’m afraid it will make everyone too jealous. I know YOU can handle being jealous but I’m worried about some of your readers.
So tell me, are you still thin and gorgeous? If so, you can count me in with all the other haters…. but if not, then my nascent love for you can continue to blossom.
One more thing, please don’t ever hesitate to mention vile right-wing homophobic Christian nutcases. I need it, just to keep me on track. Otherwise I might find myself slipping into right-wing homophobic Christian nuttiness. (I hear it’s going around.) You’re performing a public service.
I like NeNe’s new hard-nosed line with her kid. However, I feel it’s too little, too late stating “He’s been given too much,” considering last year, she asked the dorm advisor if she could re-decorate the dorm for her son and told him to buy whatever he wanted.
I love when Kim arrived, the designer went into full on hoover mode i.e. complimenting K’s circa 1980s outfit. towards Clearly, this woman knows it’s the parent’s vanity and not the child’s likes that sells her clothes.
Why is kandi working on the song for Kim (as opposed to Kim herself), especially since she had not heard Kim’s voice? Who leaked the remake of Tardy for the summer?
Finally, I feel Kim is channeling NeNe’s unintentional irony from last week. In one scene, she claims her ” girlfriends wanna be” her, but in the next she admits NeNe mocked her. In fact, didn’t she admit in interviews that all of the housewives mocked her wigs? And, sure, last year, NeNe rocked the hairpiece, but this year, she’s toning down.
Although I don’t understand why people without talent, let alone fame, want to convince us to dress like them, based on the photo I saw at AccessAtlanta’s Fashion Project site with a page featuring screenshots from the show, I liked what Lisa’s designer did and the models looked fierce, so, what is up with Sheree. Note: She created a website for her designs. Unsurprisingly, the site is under construction.
Oh, Sheree. What a bitter, jealous woman. Coming to the fashion show after it was over was SOOOooo obviously done out of spite. And I remember being surprised at what she wore. What was it? Corduroy pants and a zip up sweater jacket? Sheree’s outfit was appropriate for running errands, not for a school concert OR a fashion show.
And NeNe’s behavior at Kim’s was embarrassing to watch. The looks on all the other women’s face were priceless. She tried to cover it up, but even NeNe knew she had gone too far!
Why do I find these women so much more interesting than the “Housewives” from other cities/states? For one thing, it seems to me that they do more interesting things.
Oh, and Ed, of course. Please, more than ONE picture next time!
Okay – I’ve only read the 1st paragraph of this, but I am cracking up – did you add extra bolded words because of the comment someone made on your Melrose recap? If so, I love you even more!
Good Job as always Leia, I swear I be waiting ainxiously for for your housewives recaps.
I never really watched any Housewives but this one really caught my attention and now I can’t stop watching it. Sheree knows she did that on purpose saying she had to go to her son’s recital. Besides the 1st episode Sheree hasn’t even mentioned her children at least the other housewives actually talk about them.
Yes I still love Nene – I think Nene cause she was the favorite last season she is getting a little big headed but she’s still my favorite next to Kandi. Nene’s husband Gregg and son Bricen are so cool and calm wonders how they handle crazy ass Nene on a daily basis.
LL, Your Kim-captions are The Best!!
It seems like Kim has gotten even more vulgar this season; how is that humanly possible? Her poor kids. Was she really a nurse, or did she just play one in some amateur porn vid?
NeNe seems to be taking herself (and faux-celebrity) too seriously, and/or taking direction from the producers too readily. I’ll love her as long as she keeps slamming Kim, though.
Sheree is entirely unlikable. Why do I watch this show??
Hey Leia, I’m with you on the “what’s up with the Dwight unsolicited fashion advice”. You know he’s bucking for a show, and Bravo being Bravo, will bite.
And wasn’t that Kim’s alleged bff, Cory(Kori?) in the Sally Kirkland photo? Did you see the dress she had on, with her surgery free tittay’s drooping all about? This must be where Kim gets the idea that her gf’s want to be her.
I’m digging Kandi too! If she can do something with Kim’s song, lawd chile, she should get a Grammy.
Can’t wait for your recap next week of those delicious looking fudge pops.
By the by, Sheree just came out with a new line which dlisted featured. I guess Lisa’s success gave her a kick in the pants -
Love you Leia!! Your picture captions kill me. What is up with Kim’s boobs? Have they gotten bigger since last season? I didn’t think that would be possible, but it sure looks like it to me. Her daughter is going to be a spoiled monster to rival Theresa’s kids (from RHONJ)
I’m glad to see Lisa & Sheree mix it up now. It was getting a little tedious just watching everyone hate Kim. Been there, done that, Real Housewives. And what is with Lisa saying “she” has a clothing line? It is really the designer’s, isn’t it? And by the way, why don’t these “designers” like Sheree and Lisa have all the clothes made FIRST, then plan the show??? Why all this rushing at the last minute?
Dwight is nauseating. STFU and watch the show. Good for Lisa for standing up to him. I do agree with Sheree’s mean friend though, Lisa needs a hairstyle bad. It looked terrible. WTF was going on the back of her head?
I just bought Tardy for the Party on iTunes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I thought Kim’s daughter was cute when shopping, yes spoiled ridiculous, but she’s charming!
She said she didn’t want to look like the 1900′s – and she wasn’t lyin’. Did you see the dress, very prarie(?)-like.
If Kim was ever a nurse, then I’m definitely a former NASA rocket scientist. This stupid bitch went to the ˜Beauty Academy’ to learn about wigs, and could not understand how the curling iron works, nor how to hold it. After the explanation from the instructor which an idiot would comprehend, she declared she was CONFUSED by the whole incredible engineering complexity of the time-space curving event known as hair curling.
Now she wants us to believe anyone would allow her near patients with sharp objects? I’d worry she’d puncture her balloons and flood the hospital each time she tried to handle a syringe, as she might start looking it over, up and down, trying to figure out what to do with it and where to stick it (I might have a comment on that too, but even my tongue has limits to the nastiness it will spew in public). I think I figured it out finally: she probably worked as a ˜waitress’ or maybe a cleaning lady (I do not believe she could ever swing being a nurse’s aid let alone an RN) at some HOSPICE, where she was hunting for some early elderly Big Poppa to take care of her and her kids. Actually I do not see how she could have ever even finished high school. Understand “ I have nothing against people not finishing HS. It’s everyone’s right to choose how to harden your life for yourself, but be fricking honest about it. Hey, Kim: SHUT THE F*&K UP YOU STUPID BITCH!!! Nurse my a*s!!!
Now on to Sheree and her suffocating jealousy of Lisa and her ˜fashion line’….Actually, I just need a minute,…. ROTFLMAO, LOLOLOLOLOLO. OK, sorry, had to get that out of my system.
When She by S said that Mercedes wanted ˜the hottest fashion designer in Atlanta “ ME!!!!!’ I honestly choked on just air. I might have died. That bitch would have finally killed someone for real! Thank God I remembered that if Kim can be a nurse, I can definitely give myself a Heimlich maneuver and dislodge the obstruction. I realized it was not ordinary air at all “ it was the hot air Sheree’s so full of. Why on earth she sees any difference between her way of ˜designing’ clothes and Lisa’s? I must be not fashionable enough to understand. I’m sure it’s some sophisticated shit only goddess Sheree can produce. Lord, she is one truly DELUSIONAL Bitch!!!
Nene “ you’re so proud of saying everything like it is. So, if you are size 10 then I must be negative 7 or maybe 293 degrees (sic) ïŠ. I had no idea she had so much hatred in her which she’s shown at Kim’s party. That was so, so out of line. I think Nene’s behavior that night trumps anything Kim might have said about her last season. Let’s see if she’s as forthcoming with an apology to Kim, as she was with the demand of it herself last year.
I love how Kim thinks that the money grows on trees and will just start dropping off and falling at her feet the moment she has a new wig line! Hahahahahahahahaa. She made me cry when she said “I’ll get a new wig on, walk (wha ???) around Atlanta, people will FRICK OUT, and I won’t even have to advertise’. Yeah, like every stupid ho out there just needs to find some more stupid hos who want to look like her, and her road to riches will be paved in gold…Oh, and did you catch the PRICE of the wig the ˜boy/girlfriend’ was showing Kim – $ 1500 !!!!! Who in their right mind would spend this amount on a hair piece?!?!?!? Is Atlanta in some parallel universe where $ 1500 is an acceptable sum to pay for such crap????? Oh, boy! This Dumbo should be the winner of the BIGGEST (snicker!) MORON on RealityTV Ever Award.
As to her child, Ariana, I hate to hate on kids, but for the love of God, cut out the crappy fast food. Same goes to the older one, Brielle. The kids are already spoiled rotten, so they can’t depend on their ˜personality’ to find their own Big Poppas any time soon, and now you’re robbing them of any external beauty they might be able to use to that effect. You’re HANDICAPPING them!!! Seriously, they don’t need to be overweight by the time they’re 10, and diabetic at 12! This bitch of a mother should be shot for damaging her kids so badly “ thru horrible food habits, no respect for hard, ZERO respect for money, and for teaching them by example how to earn your upkeep by sticking to the bottom of a shoe of some rich guy, no matter how temporarily.
She by Sheree gives me the creeps! This woman is so vile, so dirty, so hateful and condescending, when she opens her mouth nothing but filth comes out, every other word is ˜Motherfuc$@r’ this or that. I can’t imagine how her husband could stand being married to her for however long it was. It is painfully clear that she is a USER, she knows only how to TAKE, and her opinion of herself is SO DELUSIONAL she should really be in the loony asylum. Oh, well, one can always hope…
I almost got busted reading this at work becuz I could not hold in my guffaws at the following:
Your screencap with the Flashdance comment
The comment about Sheree’s party planner coming out of the big closet at the fashion show LMAO
I also noticed Kim smoking in that pic where she’s holding the wig – I sure hope the ones she wears aren’t synthetic becuz with the amt of smoking she does while drinking her wine & waving that thing all over the place her head is going to go up in flames!!!
On another note – if Lisa & Sheree would just treat each other like the true friends they are supposed to be maybe the would have come up with the idea to do a line together – with Lisa’s supposed business sense & Sheree’s supposed “designing talents” they may have come up with one “good” line.
So, wait Leia, you were a model, right??? You crack me up!! I always have so save the real housewives recaps for work so I can take a break from the reality of my job and laugh!!
No one has answered my question from last week yet…. who is the father of Kim’s daughters??? Were is he when it comes to her awesome eating habits??? We should be happy she just doesn’t feed the girls wine for dinner yet.
OMG and I have to mention Kims barely nipple covering shirt in her interviews this week. I was mesmorized by them and had to rewind that portion I don’t know how many times. How does she not tip over when walking? Nene is always wearing the shirts that show a bit much. Kim appearantly felt she needed to up the competition on that! Wow!
Hah! Renata pretty much summed it all up for me. Except, I also that Nene’s hatoraide towards Kim was horrible – oh, and she has the same attitude towards Candy – always talking shit about her.
I’m sorry to all you Nene lovers, but she is acting extremely jealous of the other wives this year too.
Honestly, Kim is the only one who isn’t just plain ugly when she’s talking about the other housewives. Of course, why should she hate anyone, when she has her hot ass husband to make her feel better. Out of all the wives, she has it the SWEETEST.
With friends like them, who the hell needs enemies.
Great recap Leia, you have such a great gift for captioning, I’m sure it comes to you much easier than it does to me. I dunno if anybody else already saw this or not, but apparently Kandi and the Baba-Mama-Drama-Magnet-AJ are already dunzo! She claims “hiatus” in an interview with Essence magazine! And she’s stuck taking care of two of HIS kids! Girl, that ain’t right, y’all.
love, J-Mo
These comments are killing me! lol Ohionancy, that would be a good idea if Lisa and Sheree came together to work on a fashion line but seriously these women are not good friends and this is Sheree were talking about it should be called “Me by Sheree!”
Renata pretty much said it all and I agree with you on Kim’s daughter Ariana. I’m not trying to talk about her but considering how Ariana looks she needs to lay off the fast food.
J-Mo, I did hear about Kandi calling it off with AJ and raising his kids. As awesome as Kandi is that’s not right and I don’t know if anyone else would’ve done that especially not the other housewives. Well at least Kandi for sure will be back with all this baby mama drama and Kandi ain’t even the baby mama and she taking care of his babies!
Oh my, Kandi. Her meanie of a mom was right afterall. Welcome to a lifetime of I told ya so’s. You will never hear the end of it from your momma.
I can not believe the woman who WROTE “No Scrubs” (a classic, by the way) – stuck herself with the King of Scrubs.
Kandi – I wanted better for you!
Leia, I hope you see this post. Dang it! I can’t post the link! But, if you go to the Bravo site, go to videos, there’s a webisode that centers around Ed – getting fitted for his white linen suit. You will LOVE it. And, wait for the end – you’ll never look at an elephant the same way.