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Palo Alto, California, U.S.Spouse(s) Marcus Leithold (1988 - 1989: divorced)
Jon Tenney (1994 - 2003: divorced), 1 childAwardsGolden Globe AwardsBest Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical
2005 Desperate HousewivesScreen Actors Guild AwardsBest Actress - Comedy Series
Best Ensemble - Comedy Series
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. Hatcher is also well-known for portraying Susan Mayer, in Desperate Housewives, an accident-prone divorcee. She is also a “Bond Girl”, having played Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997.
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Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (Beshur), a computer programmer, and Owen W. Hatcher, a nuclear physicist.[1] She grew up in Sunnyvale, California. An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino.
In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Hatcher’s aunt. Her parents, she said, were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors in indicting Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.[2] In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair, Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared Stone might escape conviction.
Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan Girls’ Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California. She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers. During this time she also appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.

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Gossip’s gaggles of fans are thinking the same thing. On Monday (8 p.m. ET/PT), Serena, Blake, Chuck and the rest of the preternaturally groomed gang of private high schoolers are back on the Upper East Side to continue the cavorting begun before the writers’ strike. Shenanigans then included breaking into the school pool for a martinis-and-bikinis party; sleeping with a boyfriend — and his best friend — as Blair did; and taking the inevitable pregnancy test. All of which, of course, “everyone does,” jokes Meester, especially within the same week. At the end of the last episode, Blair’s reputation is in ruins, and Nate, her ex, is adrift, having lost both his girlfriend and his best friend, Chuck.
Expect ratcheted-up raciness in the final five episodes of Season 1, cast members say. “These scripts have been really, really juicy and exciting,” Lively, 20, says. For one, Serena’s most formidable frenemy, Georgina Sparks (ex-Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Michelle Trachtenberg), returns to reveal why the blond heroine was mysteriously whisked away to boarding school, only to come back in time for the start of the series. Georgina’s claws-out presence promises to shake the stability of Serena’s uptown girl-Brooklyn boy romance with Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley). Another jolt: One character is coming out as gay, though no one will reveal whom.
And it will all be chronicled via the must-read blog of the anonymous Gossip Girl (voiced by Kristen Bell).
Every episode will elicit an “OMG!,” Lively says, “at least three times.” They’re brimming with “a lot of ‘Oh-my-goodness-gracious!’ moments. … That’s one part of the advertising that’s accurate.”
“Our show has come in with a bang, and now they wish it will come back with a bang,” says Lively, immediately aware of the unintended prurient pun.
In fact, Gossip isn’t quite the broadcast bang: The first 13 episodes averaged only 2.5 million viewers per episode. But sales on iTunes have been robust, regularly spiking to the top-selling slot. And among network shows, the show ranks No. 9 among that coveted demographic — female teens. Among total teens, it reaches No. 30, tied with Dancing With the Stars. Gossip’s impact on the broader culture, from music to fashion, is fierce, drawing comparisons to the marks that Sex and the City and The OC made. Because it’s set and filmed in New York, it’s introducing a new generation to the city Sex glamorized a decade ago. And it’s key to the struggling CW network’s future.

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You know Fox hates your new comedy series when …
A) Fox cuts the episode order.
B) Fox schedules your show for Friday night, a dead night for broadcast TV.
C) Fox promises to launch your show after “American Idol” before sending it to Friday night Siberia, then changes its mind on the post-”Idol” launch, sticking you with nothing but that Friday death slot.
D) All of the above.
Alas, for Amy Sherman-Palladino, the answer is D. “The Return of Jezebel James” (8 p.m. tomorrow, WPGH) was supposed to mark the triumphant return of Sherman-Palladino, creator of the beloved “Gilmore Girls,” who left that series a year before it reached its conclusion. Instead, the show will launch with a whimper. Sadly, it deserves no better.
Miscast and only intermittently funny, “Jezebel James” misfires on all cylinders.
Indie film actress Parker Posey plays Sarah, a childless, more selfish Lorelai Gilmore. Sarah is another Sherman-Palladino woman who speaks in rat-a-tat-tat zingers. She’s sophisticated but daffy and not always likable.
Sarah works as a children’s book editor, and one of her books shares its title with this comedy series. Viewers learn in the pilot that Jezebel James was the imaginary friend of Sarah’s estranged sister, Coco (Lauren Ambrose).
If there’s a good reason for naming the show after this throwaway bit of trivia, it’s not clear from two episodes sent for review. It’s certainly doesn’t play into the main plot of the show: Sarah can’t conceive a child and asks Coco to be her surrogate.
At first, Coco is appalled, fearing a scene out of “Alien.” (Because this is a Sherman-Palladino show, pop culture references abound.)
“Not exactly like ‘Alien,’ ” Sarah says. “It’ll have a different exit strategy.”
Posey is curiously flat. Scenes only come to life in the pilot once Ambrose enters with her patented, angry-young-woman routine. Honed over the years on “Six Feet Under,” Ambrose’s fiery reactions give the show some spark, even if I never quite believe any of the characters as real people.

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The CW just released an official announcement that Supernatural, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Gossip Girl and America's Next Top Model have been picked up for next season. Yes, we will see all these shows in the fall for the 2008-09 season!
Happy Snoopy dance with me, will ya?
The episode orders for each of these series remains "TBD," but I can assure you that the cast of OTH is celebrating the pickup of its sixth season—most likely at Hilarie Burton's house—right now in Wilmington, North Carolina. I just ran into Sophia Bush at dinner in West Hollywood a few days ago and had a nice chat about how the show is really, as she put it, "in its groove" this season, and how she and the cast feel they have a good thing going and hope it continues. Word. Ask and ye shall receive.
I also just checked in with Gossip boss Josh Schwartz, and he tells me, "Didn't know [the pickup] was happening today but I guess—when the show is Gossip Girl—reading it online is as good! Stephanie and I couldn't be happier or more grateful to the CW for all their support. We've had a blast working with this cast and crew, and shooting in NYC has been awesome. We're excited about what's to come in the next five episodes and season two." Josh's other new show, Chuck, is also expected back this fall, so he's just on a roll. Whee!
And while Gossip Girl and Top Model seemed no-brainers for fall, Supernatural and Smallville fans are most assuredly breathing a huge sigh of relief at these pickups, since the fates of both series have been in limbo as of late. Super boss Eric Kripke knows he owes a great deal to you fans and your very vocal support efforts, especially in this here wacky world o' web. "Our online community is a rowdy and boisterous one," he says. "And we love them for it."

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The Writers Guild of America strike was a tough 100 days, both for the writers and for viewers. But who’s to say we couldn’t live another minute without a new episode of the broadcast sitcom “Two and a Half Men”? On the other hand, viewers of the best shows on cable were sweating over whether those shows would be back. With the return of “The Riches” on Tuesday nights, cable television fans can breathe a little easier.
The show’s two British imports, Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver, return as Wayne and Dahlia Malloy, who have been impersonating Doug and Cherien Rich, a wealthy couple who died on the way to their new suburban tract mansion in a Southern master-planned community called Eden Falls. Wayne and Dahlia, along with their three children —- Cael, Di Di and Sam —- are “travellers,” a group of itinerant con artists who discover that life in Eden Falls living with the “buffers,” or non-travellers, has some perks: a nice house, nice cars and friends at school. If only the Riches’ friends weren’t trying to find out what happened to the couple, and the Malloys’ family members weren’t blackmailing them to get their share of the prize.

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If you’re somehow confused about what country we live in, look at tonight’s lineup, which features American Idol, America’s Next Top Model and American Experience. One of these series needs to figure out a way to feature America Ferrera.
Stuff to watch or record
American Idol: The top 12 young women perform in their first voting round. Kristy Lee Cook lists Oregon as home but used to sing at Cowboys Arlington; Kady Malloy is from Houston. Can Kelly Clarkson Texas-singer lightning strike twice? 7 p.m., KDFW/Channel 4
America’s Next Top Model:Entertainment Weekly cover girl Tyra Banks begins “cycle” 10 of her model-search show, with Paulina Porizkova taking over Twiggy’s seat at the judges’ table and no North Texas representative among the top 14. 7 p.m., KDAF/Channel 33
Some Like It Hot: You think, “Oh, the great comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as guys who hide out in drag in an all-girl band while running from gangsters, with one of Marilyn Monroe’s best performances.” I think, “Oh, great, now I have that Power Station song from the ’80s stuck in my head.” 7 p.m., TCM
Law & Order: Criminal Intent: “Detectives Robert Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe) … follow a trail of counterfeit and poisoned mouthwash from the streets of Harlem to the FDA and Wall Street.” Sometimes you have to let the synopsis speak for itself. 8 p.m., KXAS/Channel 5

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Every year, it seems, there’s one artist who captures the popular imagination and becomes the de facto singer of choice at the American Idol auditions. It’s usually someone popular and it’s usually someone that no Idol wannabe, not even the eventual winner, can match for high notes.
This year, that singer was Celine Dion. Every time a would-be Idol walked in the door and answered the question, “What are you going to sing?” with, “Power of Love/I’m Your Angel/fill-in-the-blank by Celine Dion,” you could practically see Simon Cowell’s eye-roll before it happened.
Of course, Dion is the flavour of the moment.
Tonight, in Dion’s first concert since wrapping her five-year run in Sin City, Dion serenades the crowd at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles with some of her greatest hits, including The Power of Love, River Deep Mountain High and, from her new album, Taking Chances.
Tonight’s concert special is called Celine Dion: That’s Just the Woman in Me, and as the title suggests, it’s a little more intimate than the usual chest-thumping arena show. Dion even takes time to answer questions from the audience, though it’s a safe bet the questions won’t get too pushy. There’s only so much ground that can be covered in an hour, after all. 9 p.m., CTV, CBS
Nip/Tuck, FX’s cutting-edge cable drama that is easy to admire but hard to like, settles into its regular Friday home after debuting on a Sunday.
Tonight’s episode, the third of Nip/Tuck’s fifth and most recent season — 14 episodes will air in all — first aired on FX in November, and is being shown here for the first time.
Dr. Sean (Dylan Walsh) fends off the increasingly heated advances of Eden Lord (AnnaLynne McCord), while juggling Julia’s (Joely Richardson) emotional needs. Nip/Tuck has always been something of a high-wire act. It’s clever and well-written, but it might just be one of the most emotionally violent dramas on TV. Few programs are more sexually explicit, or disturbing, which makes it all the more remarkable that it is airing on a mainstream, mass-audience broadcast network. 10 p.m., CTV
Three to see:
- Wedding bells, they are a-ringin’ on a two-hour outing of Las Vegas that might be the five-year-old series’ last. It isn’t all roses and tiaras, however. This is a wedding Vegas-style, which means Danny (Josh Duhamel) and Piper (Camille Guaty) are taken hostage in an art heist gone wrong — don’t they always? — and before it’s over, one of the cast regulars is being fitted for a funeral suit. Bummer. 9 p.m., Global, NBC
- Turner Classic Movies continues its month-long salute to Oscar with the offbeat 1970 western Little Big Man, in which Salish Chief Dan George landed a supporting-actor Oscar nomination. A classy performance in a classic film. 5 p.m., TCM
- A beauty queen, Cassandra Whitehead tests her wits against 100 trivia buffs in tonight’s pop culture-themed 1 vs. 100. The supposed pop culture experts include Ross the Intern from The Tonight Show, Richard Rubin from Beauty and the Geek and a trio of Playboy Playmates. 8 p.m., E!, NBC