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last call
Candace Bushnell's Reign Of Terror Nearly Ended
Fear not, fans of rational portrayals of modern urban career women on television and film. Candace Bushnell's influence is almost gone from our lives. The Sex and the City authoress (or is she??) co-created a TV show last year called Lipstick Jungle that was basically a tired rehash of the SATC series but without all the fun swears and nudity and stuff. Well, that show was blessedly canceled yesterday, so we no longer have to deal with its particular brand of shoes-as-metaphor-for-longing ladybusiness. And now, oh my, Bushnell's satellite radio show has been euthanized as well. More »
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The O.G. Carrie Bradshaw Gives Big Ups
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Why We Love Candace Bushnell, Working-Class Hero
Last week I was killing time—which means I was reading Elle by myself at the Holiday Cocktail Lounge while waiting for a phone call—when I became completely captivated by their Candace Bushnell profile. I forgot about this until I saw this Q&A with the Sex and the City author in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "What do you think about the commentary about you on Gawker [and other snark-sites]?" it asks. To be sure, Bushnell has a young blogger in her latest book, which she derides as a "striking out at the world instead from behind the safety of his computer." But we have actually, seriously, learned from Bushnell—not the TV show[s], and definitely not the movie, but as a self-made woman obsessed not with status, but with class. More »
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By SheilaComment by Sally Tomato: Um, I think the bigger learning here is that SHEILA WAS A STRIPPER? You crazy, girl. More on... 15 Responses | Other threads
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books
Candance Bushnell Hates, Can't Escape Us
Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell's new novel, about the denizens of classy apartment building One Fifth, contains an editor at fictional website Snarker (snarf!) named Thayer Core. He lives in the East Village and has the audacity to sit online all day, throwing e-bricks at people! (Who can afford the East Village anymore?) Yet! There's something hilarious and ironic about a former editor for this website reviewing One Fifth Avenue for the Observer. Take it away, Doree: More »
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By SheilaComment by PrincessKashmir: That photo just screams, "I've been working on my sex appeal like you asked, God. Now send me a man.... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Emily Gould Doppelgänger Featured In TV Show
It stands to reason that a show about frazzled females in New York media might include a cameo by Emily Gould, the former Gawker editor now working on her six-figure "book of autobiographical stories" about being a frazzled female in new New York media. Via certain Observer staff Gould is just a degree or two of separation away from Lipstick Jungle creator Candace Bushnell. But after an email tip and way too much (20 minutes!) research, we've determined that those tattoos on the Lipstick extra's arms (above) just don't match up with Gould's own body art. So you (and we) should probably move on to thinking about more important things, like the implosion of Western capitalism. Or, you know, scrutinize this Gould-aping extra some more in the clip after the jump. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Richard Lawson: It's not her, but it's pretty damn close. Hi fake Emily! 1 Responses | Other threads
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sex and the city
Children Get Own Sex And The City
Oh, great: The children's division at HarperCollins is planning a novel based on the teenaged years of Sex And The City character Carrie Bradshaw. Sex inspiration Candance Bushnell will write the thing and HarperCollins will target it at both teenagers and older fans, making the novel perfect for parents who'd like to give it as a "gift" to their children before awkwardly reclaiming it once it's been read. And what sorts of sex scenes might whole families be enjoying once this book is published two years from now? The Observer's Leon Neyfakh used this question as an excuse to re-watch his entire collection of SATC videos: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by contradicto: Chapter 32: Although her father worries about the loss of her innocence, all Carrie wants to do is dance. Dance.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Who Really Wrote Sex And The City?
As we reported yesterday, Candace Bushnell uses a character in her next novel to retaliate against the disrespectful new generation of journalists which has emerged since the Sex And The City creator gave up her relationship column in the New York Observer. The bogeyman of One Fifth Avenue is Thayer Core—"a blogger on one of those vicious new websites that had popped up in the last few years, displaying a hatred and vitriol that was unprecedented in civilized New York." But the thin-skinned author gives the gossip blogs far too much credit. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by maemae: Thayer Core was so insecure that he couldn't if take a little of what he dished out... more » | Other threads
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books
In Which Gawker Infiltrates Candace Bushnell's New Novel
Sex and the City author and former Observer columnist Candace Bushnell has a new novel coming out, called One Fifth Avenue. It concerns the various doyennes and bratty socials who live at One Fifth Avenue—the most important Manhattan apartment building of our time. (It has "thick, pre-war walls"!) Gawker.com is mentioned by name throughout the book, as one of its writers makes life hell for its residents:
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It All Finally Catches Up to Rayanne and Her Cool Mom
["Sex and the City" costumer Patricia Field with original "SATC" columnist Candace Bushnell at the film's New York premiere last night; image via Splash] More » -
gossip lit
Who Said A Novel Has To Be Novel?
A Page Six reporter has sold her debut novel to Simon & Schuster. Paula Froelich's Mercury in Retrograde centers on three New York women: a newspaper reporter named Penelope Mercury, who gets fired; a wealthy socialite fashion editor, Lena "Lipstick" Lippencraff, and a newlywed corporate lawyer Dana Gluck, who moves out on her husband when she discovers he's having an affair. Finally, some insight into New York women who have it at all, but still feel unfulfilled, by attractive female New York journalist. Except we've been there before, so many many times. More »
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By rebeccaComment by 8Millionth: And if ever too loyal I decide to read three of the four you'd have me skip [GawkerLib novel name] more » | Other threads
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and the winner is
Will 'Cashmere Mafia' Soon Be Sleeping With The Fishes?
As soon as deals were signed, sealed and delivered for SATC brainchildren Candace Bushnell and Darren Star to helm their own interchangeable shows on rival networks, the claws were out. Rumors of fights between the former successful partners, publicly voiced dismissals of the others' futures in primetime, and an overall tension among loyal SATC viewers concerned about their iconic creators' feud led to a predictable race-to-the-finish come winter pilot season. And now, according to the NY Daily News, we may have a winner. Today's rumor on which Menopause And The City spinoff is most likely to bite the dust first, after the jump... More » -
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Dirge of the Jungle
It begins, of course, with shoes. Tonight's premiere episode of NBC's new series Lipstick Jungle opened with quick cuts of beautiful shoes walking. This is, after all, a series executive produced by shoe fetishist (actually, at this point, cultist) and Sex and the City columnist Candace Bushnell. We meet three frazzled New York ladies (bestest friends forever!) who are all beeswax about their high-profile jobs. Brooke Shields's Wendy is a film exec who's trying to get some Galileo movie off the ground before a rival studio snags it. Lindsay Price's Victory (yuck) is a fashion designer who's taken a critical drubbing of late. And Kim Raver's Nico is the editor of a celebrity, politics, and beauty magazine called Bonfire (of the Vanities Fair, perhaps?) They have their own quirks: Wendy can't wear green! Victory likes cupcakes! Nico is sort of a feminist! And they all have their problems: a husband who's jealous of her success, a stalling career, and adultery, respectively. (More, w/ video!, after the jump.) More »
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new york: the film set
Greenpoint, The Heart Of 'The Lipstick Jungle'
Last night, apartments in what is known locally as the ugliest building in Greenpoint were seriously papered. Were they eviction notices? Utility shut-offs? No! Just a note from Candace Bushnell and friends. More » -
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Candace Bushnell Judges Dog Show
From the mailbag:Candace Bushnell judged a dog show in my town, Washington, CT, last weekend. She looked very old, sort of like a mummy with a wig. The show was raising money for cancer, so it was nice of her, but:
More »- she was talking about a stringed bass at one point and pronouncing it like the fish
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Comment by raincoaster: I'm wondering about her qualifications for judging the dog with the most sex appeal. Does she have experience? References? (RUFFerences?) more » | Other threads
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slutty salad dressings
Sprays In The City
Candace Bushnell has so much to answer for. These animated webisodes, inspired by Sex and the City and starring Spraychel, the captivating I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® spray, and Spritzy, the feisty Wish-Bone® Salad Spritzers® Dressing, are categorically a bad thing. Tim Gunn, heretofore idolized in these parts, shills himself out as Tim Well-Done, which only adds to our sadness. In a shared act of communal grieving we ask you to help us categorize the many things gravely wrong about the above video. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by KarenUhOh: @DonPardoCalrissian: Sid or Salad? more » | Other threads
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benefit season
People Who Are Against Stuttering
Sir Harry and Tina Brown are the closest thing the New York scene has to a royal couple. (Tina is Tina, and Harry is more charming and also better-looking than HRH Prince Charles of Edinburg.) On Sunday, aboard the Manhattan-sized cruise ship the Queen Mary II, they hosted a luncheon to benefit the American Institute for Stuttering. (Their son George for many years had a severe stutter.) Katie Couric was the M.C. Carly Simon was an honoree. Jack Welch sat in turtle-like repose as did, closer to the back, a very disengaged former gossip columnist Lloyd Grove. Candace Bushnell promised to set me up on a blind date and despite the early call to port—11 a.m.!—the champagne flowed freely. Joshua, still recovering from the BBQ festival avant-hier biked to Red Hook, following the limousines to the Cruise Terminal. Photographer Nikola Tamindzic took a cab. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by ronbo: Candace Bushnell may be nice but the woman is a fucking idiot. Her success is proof of the randomness... more » | Other threads
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the earl grey
Still Nightlife With Candace Bushnell And Steve Aoki
Since time immemorial, or since maybe 2004, we have received missives from a person called The Earl Grey. As frequently as possible, we print these letters as a service to society. More »
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By ChoireComment by josh speed: @lalalina: Ditto. The man is pure genius. The prose and impressions are relentless, detailed, off-handed, and fresh. If Socialte's Rank... more » | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Anna Nicole Smith's Literary Legacy
- Says the writer whose once-shelved Anna Nicole bio is getting a new lease on life thanks to that lady's death: "I feel morally compelled to put her words out there." [R&M] More »
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By Emily GouldComment by SparrowKing: I keep hearing the headline "MY YORKIES WILL WALK SPIDEY'S RED CARPET" in alternating "My precioussss"/golem and "My reich will... more » | Other threads
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Harry Hurt's Blind (Name-Dropping) Items
In this week's "Executive Pursuits" Times biz column, 55-year-old Harry Hurt III becomes a ballerina. His teacher? "Sex and the City"-scribe Candace Bushnell's husband, for some reason! And apparently, a lot of people—a lot of famous, important people—made fun of the Hurtmeister when he told them he was going to learn ballet for his latest stunt. More » -
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Janice Dickinson, Candace Bushnell Haunted By Apparitions Of All The Thousands Of Men They've Bedded
The Times chose to illustrate their story on the potential XM/Sirius merger. with an A.P. photo of Candace Bushnell interviewing Janice Dickinson for her Sirius show. (RELATED: Does every third-rate lit-celeb have a satellite radio show? And then when do they write?) But as a sharp-eyed tipster noted, "The real story is that two women of a certain age are being haunted by a trendy ethnic ghost with an upturned collar." If we didn't know any better, we'd say it's Ron Galotti. Either way, kinda spooky. More »
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By abalk2Comment by Lucia Toledo: It's usually funny when old ladies get all kicky, but I dunno: there's something quease-making about that photo. As... more » | Other threads
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Candace Bushnell Wasn't Paid Much For 'Sex'
In news that will excite all the thirtysomething ladies who desperately need TV role models to justify their one night stands, shoe-splurges, and bloggy confessions about same, it seems that a miniseries version of Candace Bushnell's latest novel, Lipstick Jungle, will be coming soon to a small screen near you. Yawn, we know. But in Nikki Finke's writeup of the deal, we did find this detail intriguing:As for Bushnell, everyone thinks she made a mint off Sex And The City at HBO and in syndication. But lore has it [ed: we love 'lore' as a source ] that Bushnell sold the rights to Sex And The City producer Darren Star for a mere $60,000 way back in 1996. Asked about her payday from the deal, Bushnell back in 2005 confirmed to Radar that she'd taken the opportunity to cash out long before Sex And The City took off and said it was "highly unlikely" that she'd ever see a dime from its syndication (though her subsequent books and other projects have reportedly earned her millions). Interesting that, at one point, Darren Star tried to buy the TV rights to Lipstick Jungle, too, but the deal went south. No doubt, a kiss-off.
Oh, Candy. We know you're doing well now, but that must have stung for years — even though we're sure the 85 pairs of Manolos you bought in 1996 seemed totally worth it at the time. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by lypocenes: jup, every character sjp plays is the same one, with a name change. it's called lack of range more » | Other threads
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Media Bubble: Conde Biz Mag Is Staffing Up
• Ad-sales side of Conde's forthcoming business mag is filling up; prez/pub David Carey expects mag to be fully staffed — biz and editorial — by Thanksgiving. [MIN] More » -
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Media Bubble: And If You Think You Understand His Book, He Miswrote
• Penguin wins auction for Alan Greenspan memoir with an offer believed to be nearly $9 million. Obligatory question: Irrationally exuberant? [NYP] More » -
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Media Bubble: Lawsuits and the City
• Candace Bushnell and her Stanford Blatch-inspiring ex-manager are suing each other over money. Which seems far more like the real New York than Sex and the City ever did. [Radar] More » -
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Radar vs. Uday Hussein
Flak Mag's "Rejected" column compares the newly-launched Radar magazine to Uday Hussein. Kevin Baker notes: "Radar's stable of writers includes Candace Bushnell and Bret Easton Ellis, among others," while "Uday's personal zoo housed lion, two cheetahs, five cubs, and a young bear." What? You don't see the obvious connection? More » -
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Gossip roundup
· Jeff Soref, the openly gay heir to the Masterlock fortune who's an up-and-comer in the Democratic Party and "controls the wallets and pocketbooks of gays and lesbians nationwide" is being talked about as a potential successor to DNC treasurer Andrew Tobias. [Page Six] More »
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