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Rh Of New York Media; Recaps, Gossip, Blogs
Topic Started: Jan 17 2012, 08:51 PM (58,735 Views)
WillyWonka
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Oct 24 2012, 02:50 PM
If you google Toaster Oven Cookbook you'll get a ton of hits. They've been around!
I think my toaster oven came with a little recipe book. I don't get why it's such a novel idea to cook in a toaster oven anyway. You can make pretty much anything in there that you can make in a regular oven as long as it's small enough to fit. I've made plenty of side dishes in mine when the regular oven was being used for the main dish. Big whoop.
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And, after watching the video of Sonja's demo at Macy's, the toaster oven cooks really unevenly and you have to leave some food in for longer.
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This was an interesting post at Twop regarding Carole:
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Posted Oct 23, 2012 @ 9:24 AM #34264
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I'm reading the book "What Remains" and it really is well written and really interesting. I am wondering though if others who have read it come away with the feeling that I did -- it feels almost like Carole married Anthony because she couldn't not marry a man with cancer? Even as she describes their love story before the cancer revelation, it sounded like a really passionless relationship -- I didn't get the sense that either one of them were madly in love with each other but just seemed to enjoy each other's company. I wonder if Anthony's bout with cancer is what drove the proposal in the first place.

She seems much more in love with Carolyn Bissette than her husband.


sasha, you may be on to something.

Not so much that she married him because of the illness, though I seem to remember that Carole reports Anthony's mom as saying Anthony probably would've remained a bachelor if he'd been healthy. Not that Carole said yes because she felt sad for him, but because serious illness realigned his priorities ... and hers.

The book did impress me with the lack of emotion between the two of them. She enjoyed his old-world politeness and admired his work, enjoyed working with him, and later sleeping with him, but they didn't say "I love you" for quite some time into the relationship. I'm older, but that just seems really out of logical order to me.

As to being in love with Carolyn more than with Anthony, could be.

Part of that could be the whole trauma of the three deaths. Carole and Anthony had been in denial about his condition until months or weeks before the plane crash. She was still processing that reality when C&J died, totally unexpectedly.

Reading the book, I was struck by how Carole pretty much shut down emotionally and almost physically after C&J died, leaving Anthony to fend for himself. I'm not criticizing her for it by any means.

Surely she didn't ever think that her luck would be bad enough to actually lose not only her husband, but her closest friend and her husband's closest friend as well. That's a lot of take in, of course.

In the show, it's C&J's deaths she doesn't want to talk about (she's more sanguine about Anthony's), the small plane ride dismays her, when she finally does break down and it's over C&J, not Anthony. That stuck out.

All this really does relate to the show: We see Carole advocating for casual sex without emotional commitment. She uses her loosey-goosey relationship with the band dude to excuse herself from guys' attentions when she doesn't want them. She's unable - even when she's tipsy - to respond spontaneously to Heather's happy expression of love for her.

By identifying herself as the journalist/reporter/commentator of the case, she's able to keep emotional distance. And her friendship with Heather is more logical than the fact that Heather's the truly well-adjusted one out of the cast: Heather is a lot like Carolyn: tall, strong features, in the fashion industry, level-headed.

This reply is all over the place and I'm sorry. There's a sentence in "What Remains" that sticks with me and I think it haunts Carole: In her last phone call with Carolyn, Carolyn says, "Bye, I love you" and Carole wearily just says bye, not "I love you, too." Whereas she came out of her awful grief long enough to comfort and embrance Anthony in his very last days. Part of it probably is about closure, and the horrific suddenness of C&J's deaths as opposed to the sad, draining length of Anthony's.

All that babbled ... I was really glad to see the little fella in the post office on the Lost Bits episode, having read about him in the book. Carole's interaction with him made her appear a lot more human and less coy than she's appeared on screen.
This post has been edited by MoosieMac: Oct 23, 2012 @ 9:25 AM
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I don't agree with this poster. Regarding Carolyn - she is not like Heather nor was she level headed. She was a hot head and a big partier. Did a lot of blow- I know this from personal connections. I don't like to speak ill of the dead but this is the truth. She was not the perfect woman. Apparently JJ and C had many a fight and some public ones. It's difficult for anyone to marry into the Kennedy family so I'm sure that was part of her stress and Carole's in a different way. I'll try to post more later if I can remember things. Off to buy stuff for the storm which now that I am preparing for will not be as bad as expected - I hope. You know the old saying - if I bring an umbrella it won't rain.
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rye - Erin Andrews is on and she now has Holla glasses!!
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Holla's kids

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OK, two thoughts here, and the latter one is NOT meant to be snarky. Just my observation. lol

1) I didn't know she also had a daughter
2) The boy looks like Steven Tyler!
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http://www.wetpaint.com/real-housewives-of-new-york/articles/rhonys-aviva-drescher-talks-being-a-new-yorker-during-hurricane-sandy-exclusive

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RHONY’s Aviva Drescher Talks Being a New Yorker During Hurricane Sandy – Exclusive
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Given the massive destruction Hurricane Sandy left it in its wake, there weren’t too many grownups in the Tri-State area looking forward to Halloween yesterday. But plenty of children were, so the parents who could took their kids Trick or Treating.

In the same spirit, Real Housewives of New York star Aviva Drescher chose to keep her commitment to host the 9th Annual DivaLysscious Mom’s Halloween Spooktacular & Stellaween at Dylan’s Candy Bar on October 31. Aviva spoke to Wetpaint Entertainment about the decision and what she thinks being a New Yorker during a time of crisis is all about.

Wetpaint Entertainment: Lots of events had to be rescheduled because they were downtown, which is mostly without power. But this event was uptown, which had power and was still happening. What made you decide to take part in it?

Aviva Drescher: You know, it’s been such a dark, devastating couple of days. I didn’t feel like doing anything but going out in our family’s car and trying to give people rides or calling the Red Cross to donate. That said, we do have four young kids and we believe in keeping their routines constant and shield them from negativity whenever possible. I do believe it’s really important to keep kids in their routines even under difficult circumstances.

The other thing is that I’m a New Yorker and as a New Yorker, we have to keep it moving. We’re very resilient and we show up for each other, even through devastation. And at times like this, you really come to understand what’s important. So the point I wanted to make was to remember to hug and kiss your loved ones as much as possible. Life is fragile.

What did everyone dress up as?


To her credit, her tweets haven't been awful during this, mostly about concern for others.

My youngest, who is two, was Tinkerbell. Hudson was Captain America. And my 11 and 12-year-old sort of think they’re too cool for it all at this point so they just put on colored wigs and bowties and things.

And you?

I had an old costume in my closet, the Invisible Woman from Fantastic Four. I wish I had worn it during filming. There were plenty of times I would have liked to disappear!
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I don't blame her for continuing with the event, you have to think of the kids, IMO -- if you can. And sitting in your apartment does no one any good. I hope it's true that they were using their car to give rides. I thought there was a gas shortage? I guess it might not be true in the upper parts of Manhattan or ... somewhere they can drive to.

I'm still disgusted with Luann, tweeting that she had a great dinner. What a fucktard.
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Aviva is the be prepared type. I'm sure she filled all of her gas tanks early, and probably has stored a few gallons as well. A large part of the issue is electricity with the gas thing, we had the same thing. The pumps and cash registers need electricity to work, upper Manhattan probably doesn't have that issue, and it's also easier to get the tankers in where roads are open and there aren't flooding issues.
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Oh yeah, if anyone can get through a severe weather event [or even a terrorist attack!] intact it would be Aviva. I'd want to be at her house. You just know she is ready with all the right things.

I think it's good she had her party for the kids - her reasons make sense.
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I have a little bit of Aviva in me, I'm kind of embarrassed to say. One disaster made me prepare, simple and cheap things first, and adding a bit every year. I'm kind of screwed now though, because if the earthquake they are predicting actually hits off shore (way overdue) then I will have almost no chance, tsunami will swamp me in minutes, and the bridges that are my only way to high ground will be gone with the projected 7.7. If it's not THERE though, or no tsunami and I survive the first shock, I'm ready.

Luckily, no natural gas in our town, or at least none in my area, so candles and BBQ's can also work to boil water and heat food, and since it rains so much, I can't see water being an issue, and if it is, there is a river feet from my house--8 drops of clorox per gallon, let sit, swish around and strain, add crystal light to mask flavor, done. I do have water stored as well, but that is the least of my concerns, since I'll probably be swimming in the pacific until I drown.
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I hope it's true that they were using their car to give rides. I thought there was a gas shortage? I guess it might not be true in the upper parts of Manhattan or ... somewhere they can drive to.


Thing is, there are almost no gas stations in Manhattan and none close to Aviva. The ones I know of are downtown in an area without power.
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Don't believe her. She could have taken he kids toting in her bldg. lyss stern loves her parties and charges for them
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A possible new HW..and a dig about Alex's bra-lessness.

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First up, Page Six dishes that fashion-personality Jené Luciani could be headed to the cast next year! A source reveals that the underwear guru and author of "The Bra Book" completed a screen test for the series and has had cameras following her for two days. Too bad bra maven Jene wasn't around when Alex McCord was a member of the cast!


New HW?
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