A little insight into the way we live now was offered the other day by Rick Kushman, TV columnist of the Sacramento Bee.

A little insight into the way we live now was offered the other day by Rick Kushman, TV columnist of the Sacramento Bee. Mr. Kushman had been hobnobbing with studio people, and retailed the following story. Marc Cherry, the creator of ABC's hit show Desperate Housewives, and, says Kushman, "a man who put in plenty of time in the mills of show business before hitting it big," told a gathering of TV critics about an episode of that show in which one of the housewives, played by actress Eva Longoria, was in bed after a tryst with her 17-year-old gardener. Cherry got a request from the network, he told the critics. "The censor looked, and said, 'Does she have to smoke?' And I went, 'So you're good with the statutory-rape thing?'"