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wrote on 9/4/05 6:01 AM:

> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:40:51 -0500, (Ubiquitous)
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>> Sandra then struggles to move the cake to a cake pedestal and then tells us
>> to
>> pull the spatula out of the back of the round cake. Thank goodness for
>> telling
>> me that! I'd have just left it there all day otherwise! Sandra then tops the
>> cake with the pilfered flowers, reminding us to remove them before serving
>> because they're inedible -- does she mean the flowers or the cake?
>>
> This is when I tuned in. What the hell was that thing she put the
> cake on? It looked like some old rusted out foot stool she found in
> her garage.

She kept the chandelier on it

>
>> Sandra declares that her picnic-scape is based on poetry and Shakespeare,
>> which
>> sounds interesting, until the camera pulls back to reveal it in all its
>> glory,
>> at which point I am stunned. WTF? WTF?!?!? She dragged out a dinning room
>> table
>> and used a tapestry for a table cloth and dragged out a pair of big fancy
>> apolstered recliners for sitting/reclining. On the table, she used faux metal
>> plates and gushed that you can eat "right on top of them". I was seriously
>> too
>> stunned to take the rest in, but she apparently ripped out pages from a
>> poetry
>> book as napkin decorations and hung a candelabra of Liberace proportions from
>> gawd knows where. She then tells us she has to run off to 'freshen up" and
>> exits stage left with a wave.
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> I wish we could have seen her drag her dining room table and living
> room chairs across the lawn. That would have been a show in itself.
> All to surprise her husband? Hmmmm, how many men did you have over to
> help move the furniture, Sandra? (I guess a couple of girlfriends
> could have done it, too, but my guess is Sandra would employ men to do
> that kind of job).
>
> I just don't understand those outfits with the giant sleeves. Or why
> she feels the need to cook in her "party clothes" at all. With all
> the coming and going she does before and after commercials, a change
> of clothes, before showing off the tablescape, would at least be a
> more realistic aspect of the show.

Yes! It would be like THE LORETTA YOUNG show, where she does the half hour
in civvies, and at the end comes down the stairs in a fabulous ball gown!

IIRC, when they tried to syndicate reruns of the series, Ms Young sued to
stop it on the grounds that the now out of fashion gowns made her look
silly.

Sigh.

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