Picks and Pans Review: The Wisteria Lane Gazette

THE LATEST DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE … DANA DELANY

• The China Beach star, who turned down a chance to play Bree in season 1, now plays her rival in domestic perfection, Katherine Mayfair.

ON PASSING ON THE FIRST GO-ROUND I don’t really regret choices. [Creator] Marc Cherry had asked me to be on the show, but it was not what I wanted to do at the time. But I just finished doing a lot of serious stuff, so I wanted to do something lighter. So right now it’s a really good fit. It’s rare you get second chances in life, so I jumped in.

ON HER TV HUSBAND Nathan Fillion played my lover on [the 2001 series] Pasadena. He’s an excellent, excellent kisser!

ON LOOKING GREAT AT 51 It’s all yoga. And I do like to have a nice glass of wine. Nothing wrong with that!

FROM BAD PHARMACIST TO MAD SCIENTIST ROGER BART

Still known as Desperate Housewives’ George the killer drug-filler, Bart, 45, stars in The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein.

ON STAGE FRIGHT [I get it when] my parents come—they’ve seen all my shticks. Or I feel badly that they created me.

ON DESPERATE INFAMY Pharmacists are still mad. At a bar, a lady moved her drink away, [worried] I’d put something in it. In L.A. people have yelled, “My wife hates you!”

Updated by Paul Chi