Monday, December 5, 2011
Bobby's Reality Check "Real Housewives of Atlanta" Season 4, Ep. 5: That Girl!
Posted by Bobby Feingold @senorbobby on Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:19 PM
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- Phaedra and Sheree team up to bust a deadbeat dad
Who's that girl? It's Marlo! See Marlo sashay. See her prance in a park and wink at a department store mannequin. See Marlo work a "hood" bar. Oh, that's not 74-year-old, American Sweetheart Marlo Thomas? Nope, it's Marlo Hampton, socialite girlfriend of footballer Charles Grant and newest potential victim of Nene Leakes. With a pregnant Kim out of the picture and Sheree busy suing people, Nene needs a new gold-digging target to attack at social events, cocktail parties and religious ceremonies. Who better to claw the face off than the current girlfriend of a former beau?
Rumor has it that Nene and Charles dated while Nene was still with her husband Gregg. Charles claims they went on one date but he couldn't take her ego. What does Marlo say? Nothing yet, but producers are dangling her like a carrot in front of Nene's airbrushed face. Marlo has a dogged determination, a strategy veiled beneath a fake smile. Like her athlete boyfriend, she's on the proverbial bench now, but Marlo's ready to replace a Housewife if, say, one of them spins off a show about a shotgun marriage.
So at what cocktail party is this episode unfolding? Why it's the soft launch of Bar One, the latest Grant Park venture from Cynthia Bailey's husband Peter. Last season, Cynthia was a full partner at his failed Uptown Lounge and Restaurant, and their lack of finances nearly ruined their new marriage. You'd think Cynthia would learn from her mistakes, but no. When Peter revealed an investor gave him a bad $40K check, she offered to front the bill. Peter didn't accept the offer, though, and shoddily put together Bar One, complete with a giant photo of Cynthia as an African queen. (I wonder if it cost $40,000?)
We here at Creative Loafing rather like Grant Park. It's downtown, close to great attractions like the Oakland Cemetery, and just a skip away from East Atlanta. But these refined suburbanites don't like the neighborhood. As Sheree and Miss Lawrence, her hairdresser-cum-disco singing sensation, drove to the opening, they freaked out and called it the "hood." Puhlease. These women (and men) can play dress-up in their Duluth townhouses all they want, but we all know they are no strangers to the hood.
But at least these complainers got to the hood party on time. Nene, who told Peter she would cohost the event, was tardy for the party. Cynthia is beautiful but not good at public speaking, as witnessed by her emceeing the Atlanta Botanical Garden fashion show (models are to be seen and not to heard). Nene claims she was late because of a Janet "wordrobe malfunction" Jackson but ended up showing minutes until close. Is Nene late because she didn't want to run into Charles? It makes sense, as they are both giant blobs of creatures and hard to miss.
Meanwhile master ass-kisser Phaedra has opened each of the last two episodes by apologizing and looking tired. Last week, she opened up the show apologizing to Kim. This week she brings a delicious, fluffy looking cake to Kandi's TAGS Boutique to apologize for upsetting Kandi's mother with the renowned stripper Redikulous. I can't stop thinking about that cake. So Phaedra's good at buying cakes from Publix, but she's even better at sending men to jail. Sheree met her ex-husband Bob Whitfield in a park to discuss child support. She says he has not paid child support in four years. Bob countered that she doesn't need to spend lavishly if she is having financial issues supporting her children. Sheree doesn't want her children to see their father behind bars, but Phaedra is ready to punish the dead-beat dad. Bob didn't make any fans this episode as he came off like a villain, but I have a feeling he's going to be very popular in the Fulton County Prison showers.
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Yeah that whole Grant Park is the hood comment pissed me off. I live in Kirkwood and I was still mad. Please believe that houses in Grant Park cost 3 times what those faux fancy houses that they are living in cost. These houses and neighborhoods have been around for centuries and you are "rich" because you are living in a house that will fall down if you stare at it to hard?! Get out of here!
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Maybe if Peter had taken the money from Cynthia they wouldn't have all sweated there weaves out, it looked HOT up in there. I could have sworn I saw steam clouds forming
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