The name Brini came from a Stefanie Powers mini-series called "Deceptions" while Maxwell originated from Barbara Streisand's character in "What's Up, Doc?
The show aired for five years featuring tips, recipes, entertaining ideas, craft projects, home renovation and interior design schemes.
"[2] In 1999, Maxwell was nominated for the Glam Award for Best TV Performer along with three other drag queens - Cookie, Hedda Lettuce, and Cherry Jubilee - and on December 2 she won the honor.
[4] It was reported that "some 300 drag queens and their guests burst into sustained applause as Brini, dressed in an ivory floor-length skirt with a side slit, a black sweater and a Mongolian lamb's wool wrap, swooshed through the crowd at Life at 158 Bleecker Street and onto the stage to accept the award.
The pilot showed the transformation from un-remodeled apartment to finished and decorated space with segments about painting a super-graphic, having a piece of furniture reupholstered, making a stuffed dog using a new crafting technique featuring old concert T-shirts and a location segment with Kim Cattrall in her apartment.
Location shoots for the season were taped over a period of six months in New York City, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.
The first seven years of his life were spent in Wellesley, MA with his father teaching theater at Brandeis University and his mother alternately keeping house and acting in professional productions in Boston and New York as well as touring with her own one-woman adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
In 1983 Peter took a job with The University of Missouri in Kansas City, where Ben attended Center Senior High School.
In 1988 the family again moved; this time to Hempstead, Long Island, where his father had been hired as the chair for the theater department of Hofstra University.
After four years of study, Sander graduated in 1993, and obtained a job at moderate dress house, BGB as an assistant designer.