Once in a while, the Hollywood cliché where everything turns out all right in the end does, in fact, come true. As a writer and producer for “The Golden Girls” (NBC, 1985-1992), Marc Cherry was on his way to a long, successful career, but as fate—or bad judgment—would have it, he lost everything and spent nearly three years without so much as a job interview. In the dumps and without prospects, Cherry made a final desperate attempt to score a hit—and he did, creating the wildly successful “Desperate Housewives” (ABC, 2004- ), a comic soap opera that has attracted millions of viewers, broad
