Sorry, but this won’t be as quick an entry as you might think.

First off, I have to announce the Lifetime news that made me legitimately happy: they’ve already committed to a third season of “Army Wives.” Yes, I really am a fan of the show, and I’m psyched to hear that Lifetime is going ahead with Season 3, though given the absolutely crazy ratings success of the early episodes of Season 2, it’s certainly one of the least surprising revelations of the tour. Still, it’s nice to have the confirmation. Stay tuned to Bullz-Eye for my Q&A with Sally Pressman, who plays Roxy LeBlanc on the show and was more than happy to answer my question, “Why should guys watch ‘Army Wives’?” (Unsurprisingly, though, the first words out of her mouth were to point out that there are four females leads and not a one of them is hard on the eyes.)

Okay, on to the three panels.

First panel: the second season of Carson Kressley’s series, “How to Look Good Naked.” Great concept, wonderful for helping women build their self-esteem, but ultimately not really something that I need to talk up but so much.

Second panel: “Rita Rocks,” the new sitcom from executive producers Stan Zimmerman and James Berg, last seen as consulting producers on “Gilmore Girls.”

Okay, with credits like that, we’ll give this panel a little bit more love. Nicole Sullivan (“Mad TV,” “The King of Queens”) stars as Rita, an overworked mother in the middle of a full-blown identity crisis. She’s happily married to Jay (Richard Ruccolo, a.k.a. the guy in “Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place” who wasn’t Ryan Reynolds), but while juggling her marriage, her job, and her maternal duties, Rita realizes that to reclaim her sanity, she has to carve out time for herself. At the encouragement of her nosy postal carrier, Patty, (Tisha Campbell-Martin), Rita forms…a garage band? Okay, c’mon, how are we defining “garage band” here? Because when I think “garage rock,” I think of Little Steven’s radio show, and what we see in the pilot – Rita kicking out a not-bad version of “Try A Little Tenderness” – only falls into the descriptor of “garage rock” because it’s actually performed in a garage.

“We’d love to do a lot of covers,” said Zimmerman, “and then maybe eventually she’ll put a song up maybe that she’s written when she was 17 and be real exciting.”

“We don’t want it to become kitschy in that it’s all ’80s music,” clarified Sullivan, “because that tends to lead to that sort of feeling. We don’t want it to all be silly. We want it to be emotional.”

At this point, a writer asked Sullivan what she listened to while growing up?

“Why are you being mean to me when you know that I listened to things like REO Speedwagon?” she asked, with a mock sob. “I had the worst taste. The worst. I love Van Halen and REO. Yeah, I was white trash. Print it. Just print it!”

I’ve seen most of the pilot, and as mainstream sitcoms go, it’s pretty funny. Sullivan’s always a stitch, Tisha Campbell-Martin is a dependable sitcom veteran, and although we haven’t seen much of Richard Ruccolo in recent years, he proved to be a solid foil for Sullivan in the scenes I caught. We’ll see how it pans out, but at the moment, I’m optimistic.

Third panel: the Coco Chanel biopic, starring Shirley MacLaine. I fell asleep watching it, frankly, but it wasn’t MacLaine’s fault. The flick covers Chanel’s entire life, and the bit that lost me was when it was exploring the early years. But MacLaine was such a stitch during the panel that I’m just going to close out this entry by listing my top 10 favorite comments.

10. “Audrey (Hepburn) and I talked about many things. I tried to teach her how to cuss. It didn’t work. She tried to teach me how to dress. It didn’t work. But in the process of our time together on ‘The Children’s Hour,’ she and I were talking about the contradictions, the ambition, the need for love, the search for beauty, et cetera, that fashion designers had because I didn’t know much about fashion, and she told me that I should play Coco Chanel, and I said, ‘Well, Coco Chanel was little and scrunched over and very short.”‘And she said, ‘No, but the spirit of the woman is what matches your spirit.’ Now, I found Coco to be everything between generous and rude, so I don’t know what Audrey really meant. But she was right.”

9. “Someone looked on the Internet and found a picture of me at a Chanel collection. I was in my 20s or 30s, something like that, but I don’t remember having been there. But, then, I don’t remember much, anyway, these days.”

8. On the similarities between herself and Coco Chanel: “Well, I think we’re both colorful. I think we’re both rude. I think we’re both spontaneous. We both can’t hold what we feel to be the honest opinion in. I think we both have talent. And I think we both are probably dead.”

7. Writer: What’s wrong with Hollywood?
Shirley MacLaine: Oh, please. Meet me later.
Writer: Over a drink?
Shirley MacLaine: Takes more than that, babe.

6. “I like playing in Canada. You know, I’m half Canadian. The bottom half.”

5. Writer: Why wouldn’t you ask Shirley MacLaine to have a French accent?
Shirley MacLaine: I wouldn’t have done it. That’s why. I’m not Meryl Streep.

4. On actors who try to upstage each other: “I never learned that art and didn’t care about learning that art. And the whole idea of where the punch line is, and you can interrupt the punch line so they have to go to you, stuff like that, that’s…that’s like George Bush in the White House. That’s not something I would do.”

3. “I’d always wanted to do a jewelry collection, and I put them together after I finished (‘Coco Chanel’). And I made all these. Do you like them? Aren’t these interesting? It’s called sky jewelry. They go on the tops of the fingers, and these are all reflections of the chakras and our inner power. Should I give you a seminar? All right, everybody close their eyes…which is probably not going to change much of what you’re doing.”

2. Writer: To a young person who would go and study your career, which three movies would you say, “Look at those first. They’re my best roles”?
Shirley MacLaine: Oh, what an interesting question. “The Apartment,” because it’s a testimonial to looping. I looped all the crying scenes, you know, and got nominated (for an Oscar). I think “Terms of Endearment,” because it’s the accomplishment of comedy and drama, and it was a very turbulent set that may or may not have contributed to the success of the movie. Do I have to do three? Okay. How about “Coco”? There should be more about her in her elder years, so that we could make a good feature film of the truth.
Writer: I have to ask: what do you mean by that?
Shirley MacLaine: Figure it out. Over the drink we’re having.

1. On whether Coco Chanel was a lesbian: “Just because you play the whole field doesn’t mean you’re a lesbian.”