From the Editor's Desk.(Editorial)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 29-NOV-04

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Byline: Mark Whitaker

When our west coast Editor David J. Jefferson started watching "Desperate Housewives," he knew immediately why all those houses on the fictional suburban block of Wisteria Lane looked so familiar. Mary Alice, the faceless narrator who commits suicide in the first episode, lives in the home from "Leave It to Beaver." Gabrielle, the two-timing Latin vixen, resides at Jimmy Stewart's address in "Harvey." And...

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