Beim Foto-Shooting zur neuen Ausgabe der Vanity Fair soll wohl einiges losgewesen sein. Oder wird es nur von Vanity so dargestellt. Erstmal der Bericht zum wortwörtlich heissem Foto-Shooting:

"Desperate" Stars Overdo "Vanity"

Asking the women of Desperate Housewives to strike a pose at a recent photo shoot nearly led to them striking one another, according to Vanity Fair. Well, okay, maybe it wasn't that bad, but things reportedly got pretty heated on the shoot set.

Scantily-clad Housewives stars Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria and Nicollette Sheridan grace the cover of the May issue of the magazine, along with a caption reading, "You wouldn't believe what it took just to get this photo!" The accompanying article reveals that the photo shoot was manned by an unnamed ABC rep with specific demands--namely that Hatcher not have first choice of wardrobe and that she not be posed in the center of the photo. "Whatever you do," the rep told Vanity Fair staffers upon arriving on the set, "do not let Teri go to wardrobe first."

Hatcher, who won a Golden Globe for her work on the series, did go into wardrobe first, much to the reported consternation of the rep, who later discovered that the actress had already consulted with the shoot's stylist days ahead of time. "This is a problem," the rep complained to the magazine. "I'm getting text messages from Eva. Everything is not fine." Once the women had finally selected their assorted outfits, they assembled in front of a pool for the shoot. But, according to the magazine, when Cross found Hatcher next to her in the center of the photo, she stormed off the set and screamed at the ABC rep to "do your [expletive deleted] job!"

Hatcher reportedly retreated from the set, in the meantime, and cried into her cell phone during a heated conversation. The final cover shot shows Sheridan occupying the center position, with Hatcher on one side and Cross on the other. Longoria and Huffman are posed below them. However, Cross and Huffman can not be seen when the fold-out cover is closed. In the accompanying article, written by Vanity Fair contributing editor Ned Zeman, Cross addresses the intense media coverage of the show and the recent speculations over her sexuality. "Honestly, I don't read it," Cross said." And I don't even watch the show right now. It's too much. It's just too much..." In the wake of rampant reports of the photo shoot meltdown, ABC and Touchstone Television tried to smooth over the Vanity Fair crisis, calling it "one isolated incident."

"While negotiating certain elements of photo shoots is standard practice, and was part of our coordination with Vanity Fair, this shoot simply did not go as planned," the network stated. "Because of this, our talent were made to deal as best they could with a situation not of their making. This one isolated incident does not define these women or their relationship." Hatcher also denied that hard feelings existed between her and Cross. "All I know is, all the girls are supportive of each other, and we don't want to damage that," she told Access Hollywood.

Last Sunday's episode of Desperate Housewives underwent a minor makeover. After Pope John Paul II's condition worsened Friday, followed by his subsequent death on Saturday, producers elected to remove a Catholic reference from the episode, according to the New York Daily News. In a scene where the women attend a funeral for Gabrielle's (Longoria) mother-in-law, Bree (Cross) turned to Lynnette (Huffman) and said, "You have to hand it to the Catholics, they do grief better than anyone." Producers inserted a clip of Cross' voice saying "Gabby and Carlos" where she originally said "the Catholics," so as not to offend anyone. "These were extraordinary circumstances," executive producer Michael Edelstein told the Daily News. "This is about respect for an individual, in respect for a religion." The show finished in fourth place for the week ended Sunday, with 24.6 million viewers tuning in. To no-one's surprise, ABC has renewed Desperate Housewives for next fall.

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Kristin von E-Online fand für uns heraus wie es sich wohl wirklich abgespielt hat.

I just got my hands on the Vanity story, which hit store shelves this week, and when you finally read it your jaw will hit the floor (it's that stunning) and you will be begging to know: Is it really all true?

I've talked to people who were at the shoot, watched the video footage and can tell you this: Teri did get weepy, Marcia did drop a few F-bombs, and the shoot did get a little out of control. But it seems that any truly outrageous behavior may have come from the people working the shoot, not from the girls themselves, and that said, this whole thing may have been blown a teensy bit out of proportion. For starters, you should know that tension and tears are pretty much commonplace at photo shoots, because everyone is miserable. You can't sit down, or you'll wrinkle. You can't breathe, or you'll pop a button. You can't find anything to wear that doesn't make your ass look like it's the size of Wyoming. And no one eats. (Take it from someone who starved herself for a freakin' Kmart ad and can only imagine the masochistic rituals required to prepare for a Vanity Fair cover.)

Add to that the fact that the magazine's camp did exactly what they promised not to do (put the girls in bathing suits and Teri in the middle) and honestly, it's a wonder anyone made it out alive. That said, the hourlong video footage of the shoot is relatively...dull. The girls are chatting, giggling, posing, primping and (yawn) doing all the stuff that normally goes on at photo shoots. At one point, M.C. did utter the phrase "No f--king way," which I'm sure you've seen plastered all over the entertainment news programs (though, ahem, not E! News, thankfully), but she's clearly joking with a photographer when she says it, and follows it with a hearty laugh. (And not one that makes you think she's going to rip off her Kimberly wig and kill someone.)

That said, here's the drama you can believe: Marcia really didn't want Teri in the middle of that photo. According to an insider close to the show, Marcia Cross has a real thing for being front and center and finagled her way there for two recent cast photos at events at the Museum of Television & Radio and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. At the latter, she walked up to an actor with a slightly smaller role (not Teri), who had been placed in the middle of the cast photo, and said, "Do you mind, sweetie? I need to sit with my girls," while gently nudging her out of her seat. (So fantastically Edie-esque&#33

According to sources who worked on the Vanity Fair shoot, Marcia (and possibly one or two of the other girls, I'm told) agreed to do the shoot on the condition that Ms. Hatcher not be in the center of the photo, citing their desire to be seen as an ensemble. (Seems good, solid business sense--it worked for the Friends.) Teri, unaware of this stipulation, became emotional when she found out about it during the shoot, which could explain why she and Marcia exchanged not a single word or glance in the other's direction in the footage of the photo shoot. (Though of course, you never know, Vanity Fair could have edited out all the bear hugs and the exchange of BFF necklaces.) But come on, if we've learned anything from Sex and the City, Charmed and Beverly Hills, 90210, it's that the best shows give us lip-smacking entertainment offscreen as well. And with all the raging egos flaring around Hollywood these days (heck, I write a blind item about a new one nearly every week), you can't help but wonder why this little spat is getting such astounding play.

I'm guessing it's the same reason Housewives became such a phenomenon in the first place (and I can almost hear Mary Alice's voice narrating it now): Sometimes, there's nothing more delicious than finding out that people who seem so perfect on the outside have just as much drama as you.

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Egal wie auch immer es wirklich war, kleinere Streitereien gibts doch in jeder Familie. Solange alle zusammenhalten wird die Sache auch laufen.