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HBO's Washingtonienne: Sex And The City With A Lot More Anal
HBO announced it was moving forward with a pilot for Washingtonienne, based on the book that lightly fictionalized Senate staffer Jessica Cutler's adventures as an anonymous blogger who took money from politically-powerful men for sex including, famously, for lots of ass fucking. The show, whose development has been previously reported, is to be a half-hour comedy. Cutler sells her body, wacky hijinks ensue, presumably. Sarah Jessica Parker is executive producing, so it sounds like it will basically be Sex And The City, but in DC. Filming is set to begin soon. Does this mean casting has already occurred? Who will play Cutler? Who will play Gawker Media alumna Ana Marie Cox (who publicized Cutler's online diary in 2004)? Vote on this critical civic issue in the comments, even if it's the only vote you cast all year! [Variety]
Sex And The City Sequel Threatened
"'There is enormous interest' by Warner Bros., [said HBO's] Michael Lombardo... 'And I think, in fact, they’re trying, with our help, to put that together now. When that happens, how long between, can’t say.'" [TV Decoder]
the cinema
The One Where They Hold Out For $10 Million Each
The success of Sex and the City has convinced execs that film versions of beloved 90's sitcoms are a good idea, so a Friends movie is on the way. The article emphasizes Jennifer Aniston's role in the decision making process and speculates she's jealous of Sarah Jessica Parker's recent success. We should put together a magazine exclusively dedicated to speculating about Jennifer Aniston's emotions. It seems to be a popular preoccupation these days. More »
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Sex and the City Actress Decides to Wear What Her Show Was About
[Kristin Davis in Jerusalem today; image via Bauer-Griffin]
Julia Allison, International Celebrity
Now updated with a video profile of the latter-day Carrie Bradshaw—in French. (Scroll down to end.)
Now updated with a video profile of the latter-day Carrie Bradshaw—in French. (Scroll down to end.)
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Julia Allison's German Press: "Ich Bin Carrie Bradshaw 2.0"
Germany, for reasons that elude us, is going crazy for New York dating columnist/Star talking head Julia Allison. Perhaps because she seized on the opportunity of the new Sex and the City movie to brand herself as the "new" Carrie Bradshaw. (The media loves it when you just go ahead and tell them what the angle is. Saves us a ton of work and thinking!) JA had a German (commenter Swifter!) translate the unintentionally humorous "I am Carrie Bradshaw 2.0" article. "Actually, she stresses, she is a 'sociology, biology and psychology lady journalist.'" More »
books
You Can Buy the Shoes from SATC, But Not the Book
Remember the book that plays a major role between Carrie and Big in the Sex and the City movie, Love Letters of Great Men? It's not a real book! They just invented it for the movie. (Much to the dismay of booksellers—they're been swamped with requests.) [AP]
sex
Sex and the City Sex Toy Mania
Vanishing New York bravely entered the West Village's Pleasure Chest sex shop while a tour bus full of out-of-town Sex and the City worshipers descended upon it. They were there to gawk at all the silly SATC product tie-ins, like FREE paint-stirrers meant to be used for spanking and Samantha-themed "ultra stylish steel butt plugs." Meowrrrrr/barf. VNY was able to snap some photos of the (apparently) somewhat endearing frenzy, which you can find after the jump. More »
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"Haha, I Know. I Made Millions Off That Piece of Crap!"
[Well-respected, Tony award-winning theatre actress (and, oh, "Sex and the City" star) Cynthia Nixon outside the Jimmy Kimmel show in Los Angeles yesterday; image via Splash]
lady business
Sex and the City Actress To Continue Having Sex
Sex and the City star and perpetually naked old lady Kim Cattrall will continue her illustrious career of pretend-fucking on camera for HBO. The positively ancient fiftysomething coital acrobat has signed on to play the lead in a new series, copied of course from a British show, about a middle-aged woman who has a sexual reawakening, leading to major life changes. It's essentially about fucking to terms with things. No word yet on whether she'll have three shrill, shoe-worshiping friends, but you can bet there will be puns. So very many puns. [EW.com] More »
film
"It's Eerie How Similar SATC Is To Our Lives"
The self-branding opportunities that Julia Allison, New York dating columnist, can squeeze out of Sex and the City are almost over, now that the movie's premiered. Here's one final attempt!
disasters
As though awful reviews everywhere and horse jokes in the New Yorker were not enough, Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker also has to contend with infidelity on the part of her dressmaker. Designer Olivier Theyskens of Nina Ricci assured Parker no one else had publicly worn the dress he provided her for the New York premier of the Sex movie. Whoops: Turns out socialite Lauren Santo Domingo had warn it to the Met ball less than a month earlier — and Theyskens had accompanied her and posed for pictures. Also, Linsday Lohan was photographed by "throngs of paparazzi" in the dress while wearing it for a Harper's Bazaar shoot. Cathy Horyn at the Times broke news of the Santo Domingo overlap — her commenters tracked down the Lohan shot — and Parker was not happy:
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Dress-Whoring Scandal Snares Sex Star
As though awful reviews everywhere and horse jokes in the New Yorker were not enough, Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker also has to contend with infidelity on the part of her dressmaker. Designer Olivier Theyskens of Nina Ricci assured Parker no one else had publicly worn the dress he provided her for the New York premier of the Sex movie. Whoops: Turns out socialite Lauren Santo Domingo had warn it to the Met ball less than a month earlier — and Theyskens had accompanied her and posed for pictures. Also, Linsday Lohan was photographed by "throngs of paparazzi" in the dress while wearing it for a Harper's Bazaar shoot. Cathy Horyn at the Times broke news of the Santo Domingo overlap — her commenters tracked down the Lohan shot — and Parker was not happy:
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Sex and the City: A Douchebag's Perspective
So intrepid douchebag Morty White figured that the release of the Sex and the City movie would be the perfect excuse to call up a few of his SATC-loving ex-girlfriends and make fun of them. Isn't he hysterical? "My first call was to Janet. She won the prize for bringing up Sex and the City the quickest—54 seconds into the date, to be exact. We went out on our date in 1999 and haven't spoken since (not including the three messages she left on my answering machine). It took a while for her to warm up to me over the phone, but she finally agreed to play ball:" It begins... More »
fashion
Sex and the City Ladies Lose Their Fashion Sense
Oh man. Not only are the ladies of Sex and the City shallow and screechy and four years older, the fashion icons can't even dress themselves anymore! "[I]n the film the characters are now four years older and, in a disappointing way, their styles appear to have changed into one: the offbeat, orgiastic, do-it-yourself madness of Carrie, the dominant female. It is not only that they now dress alike. In every scene the women are practically coordinated by both color and style, as if they had received a morning memo detailing the day’s dress code. Let’s all wear primary colors to a jewelry auction! Let’s all wear psychedelic hippie dresses on a trip to Mexico! Let’s all wear smart black-and-white ensembles and fur coats to a fashion show!" More »
A Small Request
Hey! We know that the Sex and the City movie is the most important piece of cultural detritus ever fashioned by the hands of (wo)man, but can you please stop sending us terrible, "wacky" YouTube spoofs of the series? Pleeeease? They all revolve around the same raggedy old joke—that the ladies are old and unattractive—that's been made for years and have too much unnecessary dirty talk. The only marginally funny one is this one (if only for the "I am also female" line). So let's just call it day there. Commence the X Files: I Want All the Answers (or whatever it's called) parodies.
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Men Seeing 'Sex and the City': Why?
Sex and the City is the only thing happening in the world today, which made us wonder [Note: that is the only 'Sex and the City' joke I know]: what kind of dude went to see this movie? Gawker videographer Alex Goldberg lurked outside the Union Square movie theater last night and aggressively questioned all the men of the male persuasion waiting in line for the most important film event of our time. Why were they there? The answer was not always "to get laid." Though that was pretty much the answer with the straight guys. You fools! Didn't you watch the damn movie? Your ladyfriend will only have sex with you if you buy them fancy clothes and propose marriage. The whole scene looks like an amazing shitshow. "Cosmos? No, I had a metropolitan, though, and a White Russian."
the most important movie ever
It... it leads to babies? [NYT]
'Times' Shock: Colored Folk in Other Boroughs Watch 'SATC' Too
It... it leads to babies? [NYT]
