When Desperate Housewives goes into reruns, the Sunday night choices get more simple: it's Topic A or nothing for Henry the Intern. This week, Tina hosted the requisite Oscar nominee (Annette Bening), the requisite political author (Natan Sharansky), the requisite domestic servant ("Supernanny" Jo Frost), and the requisite porn mogul (Steven Hirsch). Amidst all this excitement, the News' Stanley Crouch even gets a chance to reveal his secret love of hairdressing. After the jump, Henry reports on just another night with T and the gang.

Last night's "Topic A" was a classic chock-full non-event. Tina congratulated Annette Bening on her nominations and wins for "Being Julia" and wished her luck for the Oscars. Bening declared, "It feels good to be where I am."

Next, Tina prodded President Bush's favorite author, Natan Sharansky, about The Case for Democracy and the inaugural address it inspired (but anyone who really cared switched to C-SPAN to see Brian Lamb query Bush directly about Sharansky). Sharansky explained the tenets of his book's argument: people want to live in freedom; freedom is good for stability; and freedom can be achieved worldwide without violence ("I think going to war should be only in the very extreme circumstances"). Sharansky recalled that when he met Bush after Yasser Arafat's death, Bush said, "Now let's discuss how to apply the theory in the Middle East."

Tina looked for observations from "Supernanny" Jo Frost, from the "hot, new" ABC reality program, about the differences between British and American children as well as between stay-at-home mothers and working moms. Frost didn't see any. She advocates structure, discipline, affection, attention, and consistency. Tina asked, "Has the father in the house ever come on to you?" Replied Frost, "No, not at all."

Dying to know who will be the next Jenna Jameson? Tina is. Steven Hirsh, CEO of Vivid Entertainment, singled out Tara Patrick. "The porn business continues to explode," Tina said. "What make a Vivid girl?" Hirsh: "There has to be something special that separates her from all the other girls" and "if she can perform well." Tina sees porn as a "common denominator" between red and blue states and asked about the job trajectory of Vivid girls and the style differences between male and female porn directors. (Porn, by the way, is forever topic a).

A mini editor's desk roundtable discussed the race for chairman of the Democratic Party. Slate's Jacob Weisberg said Democrats are obsessed because "it's one election they're sure to win." Ana Marie Cox thinks it is hard to believe John Kerry has a shot at overcoming the perception of being a loser.

Hot picks
Stanley Crouch: Essence.com's "Take Back the Music"
Cox: Nixon Agonistes by Garry Wills
Weisberg: Journalist Marjorie Williams (1958-2005)
Tina: Fox's "24." "I was late to this pleasure."

Closing quote by Johnny Carson: "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all impersonators would be dead."

Sidebars: Crouch told Cox her hair is not red enough: "We need to get her to dye her hair red."... Tina briefly danced in her chair to the smooth rhythms of the theme music... And next week's show is preempted due to the Super Bowl, which makes sense considering it is not preempted when opposite entertainment awards where there actually is a demographic overlap.