Drea de Matteo set to join the cast of Desperate Housewives...

A new Housewife arrives with her family to replace the void left when Edie (Nicollette Sheridan) was killed.

If you have watched the Soprano's you will remember her for playing Adriana.  If not, here's a look at her.

Drea de Matteo will become a series regular.

Also back are Maiara Walsh who played Carlos' niece last season along with Susan's daughter Julie (Andrea Bowen)

Michael Jackson Memorial Draws 31.1 Million Viewers

Michael Jackson pays his respects to the late 

James Brown in Augusta, GA on December 30, 2006.
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Slightly more than 31 million people tuned in for Michael Jackson's Staples Center memorial service Tuesday.

The nearly three-hour service -- which included a touching speech from Jackson's daughter, Paris -- was aired on 18 channels. Combined viewership was slightly higher than American Idol.

According to Nielsen Media Research, 21 percent of all U.S. households with TV sets tuned in. Nielsen says that's about the same percentage of households that watched the not-guilty verdict in Jackson's 2005 sexual abuse trial.

In comparison, 33.2 million people watched Princess Diana's 1997 funeral, and nearly 38 million viewed President Obama's inauguration in January.

Nielsen SoundScan numbers also show that Jackson sold 800,000 albums last week -- nearly double the sales from the previous week.

Data from the week ending Sunday -- the first full week since Jackson died on June 25 -- show that Jackson claimed the entire Top 10 on the Top Catalog Album chart.

Oscar G. Mayer, who transformed his family business into one of the the world's largest meat processors, died Monday. He was 95. The fact that most of the public probably did not know that "Oscar Mayer" was a real person -- actually he was the third member of his family to have that name -- was fine with him, according to theWisconsin State Journal. He liked his anonymity, even as his company became one of the largest private employers in Madison, Wisconsin.

Mayer retired as chairman of Oscar Mayer in 1977 at the age of 62, the year that the company first posted $1 billion in revenue, though he continued to consult with management. Four years later, the company was sold to General Foods, a predecessor of Kraft Inc. (KFT). The business was founded by his grandfather, Oscar F. Mayer, a Bavarian immigrant who started his career in 1873 at the age of 14 as a "butcher's boy" in a Detroit meat market. Ten years later Oscar, along with his brothers Gottfried and Max, opened a meat market, according to the Kraft web site. It was one of the first companies to volunteer to join the then-new federal meat inspection program. Oscar F. Mayer died in 1955 and Mayer's father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr., died in 1965. Mayer's death underscores the human element of business that gets lost in today's world of mega-mergers. Consumers forget that there people named McDonald --actually they were brothers -- who operated a burger chain that Roy Kroc acquired and made famous. The Ford family still plays an active role in the Ford Motor Co. (F) and the Sulzbergers control the New York Times Co. (NYT). But these are the exceptions.

Media reports indicate that Mayer was proud of his family business. I also suspect that Mayer could have easily slipped into a deli to watch consumers buying his bologna, then slipped out the door without being recognized.  In these days of imperial CEOs, who are more worried about their pay than about their shareholders, that's kind of nice.

Little People Want 'Midget' Banned on TV (La la lala la la)

Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV.

The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs.

The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" that the group said was demeaning.

In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

Now don't get me wrong but if we start calling them "little people" then what do we call children who we now refer to as "little people"?  And if we call them little people will we then get angry letters from The SMURFS asking for us to not classify them as "little people" but something all together because Smurfs are really the "little people"?   Here's an idea.  How about we stop labeling people and just accept everyone for who they are!

Highlights from the Michael Jackson Memorial Service

Below are just some of the highlights from the memorial service as televised throughout the world.

Strange Jackson Coincidence

Michael Jackson signed his last will on 7-7-02, seven years to the day he will be memorialized and buried. Michael was the 7th in a family of 9 kids.

Michael Jackson's Memorial

Below are just some pictures from MJ's Memorial service