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Swine Flu Can Stop a Spaceship, But Not Sex and the City
News from the Sex and the City front, a new Disney comedy sounds annoying (and already done), swine flu does its worst damage yet, and another actor picks up a trident. More » -
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Lindsay Lohan Breakup Confirmed by Lohan, Locksmith, Police
Farewell, last season's Suri Cruise fashions. Goodbye, Amy Winehouse's bathing suit. Adieu, humanoid version of Lauren Conrad. And so long, LiLo and SamRon's fairytale romance. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Lindsay needs severe help, but it seems the entire Ronson family is SCUM. 13 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
And You Shall Know Them By Their Trail of Manolos
The return of Sex and the City, the not-return of Matthew Perry. Strange movies and people win strange festival awards, and Slovenia finally gets some sunshine. More »
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Sex and the Sequel
Even More Depressing 'Sex and the City' Sequel Coming
New Line Cinema, the studio everyone thought Time Warner had killed specifically to prevent the possibility of a Sex and the City sequel, is coming out with a Sex and the City sequel. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Beausoleil: Dude, can anyone get a hardon for these hags anymore? 6 Responses | Other threads
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All Those Loose 'Sex and the City' Threads to Not Be Resolved in Newly-Greenlit Sequel
Time to hit Payless: The last, lumbering, sushi-nibbling dinosaur of the conspicuous consumption era is getting a sequel! More » -
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SATC cast (sans mole) to return for 2010 sequel. [EW]
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chick flicks
Shoes, Self-Help & Catfights: What Women Want In Movies
This was the year, we're told, that Hollywood started making movies for women... as long as they were totally inane. And next year, as Self-Help Cinema launches, they'll be even more vapid! [Jezebel] -
nightlife
Mr. Big's SNL Hangout Closing
So much for watching soused Saturday Night Live cast members play Bon Jovi songs Saturday nights at "The Cutting Room," because Chris Noth is shutting his Flatiron district club.
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By Ryan TateComment by FarleyPapus: "According to one Chicago Sun-Times gossip item, Noth even culled one of his girlfriends from the ranks of the Cutting... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Sad NYC Ladies Will Pay $15,000 For Carrie's Bad-Luck Wedding Gown
Ladies, there's no reason to copy Carrie Bradshaw, who is a fictional character, in everything she does. For example, Page Six reports that bridal designer Gabriella Risatti will knock off 30 copies of the wedding dress that she wore in the Sex and the City movie. Um, hello? That's the dress that she was wearing when Big left her at the altar. (When they got married for real she wore a tasteful suit at City Hall.) The actual Vivienne Westwood dress, which was fairly ridiculous in the first place—that was the point! that the much-vaunted big wedding was hubristic and silly!—does not come avec bird-on-head hairpiece.
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By SheilaComment by Lonely Goatherd: I don't get wedding gowns, or weddings for that matter. I've been told a lot of women feel that way... 17 Responses | Other threads
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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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Six Degrees Of Carrie Bradshaw's Vagina
There was a time when a place in Carrie Bradshaw's vagina was the most coveted hot spot in premium cable. Honest-to-goodness stars like Vince Vaughn and Mikhail Baryshnikov visited Carrie's wonder spot, but it's not what you could do for Bradshaw's bits, it's what Bradshaw's bits could do for you. Just like Courtney Love, who famously said, "I have a magic pussy, If you fuck me, you become a king," doing time in Carrie's nether regions is a one-way ticket to televised success in 2008. Carrie Bradshaw's boyfriend is officially the new Jerry Seinfeld's girlfriend, as TV stars like Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, and SatC's own Kristin Davis did it with Jerry before they hit the big time. After the jump, find out the four men who originally appeared as Carrie's beaux and are now part of the most critically acclaimed shows of the year. [Jezebel] -
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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Why Was Nobody At the Million-Dollar Sex and the City Party?
Say what you will about dating columnist Julia Allison (I certainly have!), but she's basically the biggest Sex and the City fan ever. That's why even she was surprised to find a thin crowd at the extravagantly wrought DVD release party at the New York Public Library last night. "Okay, let's say that they just wanted it to be a big rope line," she told us. "Fine. Then why fly in roses from Colombia? Why have insane security when I didn't see a single boldface name—I'm not talking celebs, I'm just talking society people—or even press?" All very good questions—and what does this mean for the just-confirmed sequel? More »
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By SheilaComment by hamburgerhotdog: The irony of this is that it the person pointing it out recently threw a sparsely attended party full of... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Apparently Her Last Time at the Rodeo
[Sarah Jessica Parker at the DVD release party for her "Sex and the City" movie last night; image via Bauer-Griffin] More » -
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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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How To Be Single
How To Stay Sane: Don't See How To Be Single
When I read this morning that Drew Barrymore's Flower Films is slated to produce the film version of Sex and the City scribe Liz Tuccillo's newish book (it came out on June 10) How to Be Single, I can't say I was surprised. I had read How to Be Single before the Sex and the City movie came out in April, and I had meant to write about it but the book annoyed me so deeply I decided not to. Tuccillo, who also co-wrote He's Just Not That Into You, went to several different countries and interviewed women about their experiences living in singledom, and then vaguely fictionalized her travels to write How to Be Single. [Jezebel] -
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'Sex and the City' Wins 'Whore of the Year' and Other Notable Product Placement Honors
The soul-deadening imposition of commercial brands on your moviegoing experience got even more shameless this morning when the oft-overlooked ring of Hell know as "brandcameo" unveiled the winners of its fourth annual Product Placement Awards. You could probably guess at least most of the heavyweight competitors — your Apples, your Fords, your Manolos — from a glance at the last year's worth of releases, but that doesn't make the year's findings any less remarkable in context: The surveyors counted an average of 22.1 brands in each of the 20 films this year to have a No. 1 weekend at the box office. That number is down from 2007, when an average of nearly 25 brands were counted among the year's 32 top releases. More » -
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Sex and the City Franchise Could Help Us Grow Old Gracefully
If you thought the opportunities for further Sex and the City expansion was all played out, today's entry on the NYT blog New Old Age, "Single, Childless and ‘Downright Terrified,’" will prove otherwise. Jane Gross examines the single, childless women (and men) who will face old age alone. Even ad-hoc arrangements among friends to care for each other have no legal status. This sounds difficult and depressing. We need Carrie Bradshaw and her pals to help us through it! (After all, we all know that she and Samantha ain't having kids.) More »
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By SheilaComment by aliceathome: Ahh, you're never alone with the internet. I plan to spend half my time talking to pretend friends and... more » | Other threads
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Matthew 'Matty Cakes' Broderick Caught Red-Handed While Cheating, But Does SJP Really Care?
Unlike most adulterous celebrity scandals, the latest claim that Most Awkward On-Screen Sex Partner Matthew Broderick has pulled a Beckham / Phillippe / Hawke by getting involved in a long-term affair with a 25-year old redhead is actually filled to the brim with hilariously kinky details. The Star exclusive includes all sorts of juicy and slightly nauseating allegations, making Pat O’Brien’s “I want to fucking eat you!” sweet nothings seem tame in comparison. As sad as any remaining fans of Ferris may be to hear it, the mag’s sources claim newly mole-less SJP’s hubby is fond of popping ‘round his do-gooder mistress’ bedroom, darting out after 30 minutes, and leaving the girl “passed out on her bed in her panties.” But is this really so shocking? After the jump, we cover the many times Parker has hinted that the long-married couple has serious issues, from her comments that he’s always “secretly manipulating you,” to the time she confessed she just adores seeing him “have great chemistry” with other women: More » -
books
Fake Sex and the City Book Becomes Real!
We told you about the run on bookstores after Sex and the City came out, in search for the book that Big buys Carrie (or whatever)—Love Letters of Great Men. (The book didn't exist; it was only a movie prop.) But it was only a matter of time before some enterprising soul turned it into a real book. Soon you will be able buy it—Pan MacMillan will publish it in Britain. [Entertainment Weekly]
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'Maxim' Editors Suddenly Have 'Crush' On Sarah Jessica Parker, Their Former Pick For 'Unsexiest Broad Alive'
Was Sarah Jessica Parker’s mole removal so effective in the sexiness department that the simple laser treatment managed to majorly tighten the trousers of all those T&A experts at Maxim? As we noted this week, SJP found herself caught up in a mystery-laden MoleGate, in which her immortal beauty mark suddenly disappeared. Some (guilty as charged) played the optimist by suggesting the once-highly noticeable imperfection had simply been disguised by some genius makeup artist — but just one day later, her rep confirmed that the SATC star did go under the laser simply because "she was in the mood." More » -
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Hey Rex Reed, Hope You're Happy!
We have noted the ridiculously mean-spirited SATC review that curmudgeonly queen Rex Reed wrote for the NY Observer on these pages before. However, we have never printed the offending opening graf here on these pages, but seeing as how SJP had her beauty-mark lasered off sometime in the last few weeks (it wasn't just makeup, after all), it seems that the time is right: More » -
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Sarah Jessica Parker And The Curious Case Of The Missing Mole
The Daily Mail, that notorious rag that deconstructs celebrity faces and performs detailed analyses of every miniscule wrinkle, inflated pout, and sagging rump, has finally turned its eagle eyes towards Sarah Jessica Parker. And unlike fellow plastic surgery obsessed sites, the tab has gone beyond simply accusing the SATC behemoth of getting nips and tucks, choosing instead to focus on the famously anti-surgical enhancement star’s cute, albeit sizable, mole above her chin. You see, the British body part attack squad spotted a recent photo of SJP taken at last night's MLB All-Star Game and jumped to the thrilling conclusion that the actress has had her trademark imperfection — the one that inspired Rex Reed to spend an entire paragraph of his mean-spirited SATC review begging her to laser off — removed once and for all. But paired with Parker’s decade-long (sometimes downright bitchy) assault on peers who dare halt the aging process with needles and knives, the photo in question does little to convince us Sarah Jessica is guilty of anything more than having enough money to hire a proper makeup artist: More » -
celebrity-industrial complex
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] -
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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]
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By Ryan TateComment by backseat_driver10023: @The One: You beat me to the Golden Girls in the City bit. Gotta have a segment on wrinkles, menopause, sagging... more » | Other threads
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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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By mr.guyballComment by backseat_driver10023: @BowlingAlleyLawyer: Aniston did not do a "damn good job" in The Good Girl - gimme a break. Even if... more » | Other threads
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Horrified 'SATC' Stars Go Cosmetic Surgery Crazy, Implies Meanie Gossip Column
Sex and the City: The Movie—already a sacred Women's Studies text, pored over on campuses throughout the country as the prototypical example of early-21st Century "shoe-me" feminism—has found itself on the receiving end of some of the most petty and vicious critiques of any movie in ages. There was Rex Reed's NY Observer review, in which Reed spent the first 90 words obsessing over Sarah Jessica Parker's chin growth, and likened to the cast to "plow mules in lipstick," and Anthony Lane's subtler ("...thudding closeups of her slurping through a cocktail straw or swallowing a mouthful of guacamole..."), but no less nauseated, take on the film's middle-aged stars in the New Yorker. Now, approaching its fourth week of release, the hits keeps coming. From Page Six: More » -
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[Kristin Davis in Jerusalem today; image via Bauer-Griffin]
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Julia Allison, International Celebrity
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 »
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By SheilaComment by Pope John Peeps II: @CaptainFantastic: Seems like they just sort of.... expanded their idea of hospitality to include parts of poland. more » | Other threads
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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] -
Fan Looks
Dueling Fan Looks: The 'Sex'er Vs. The 'Flight'er
The LAT undertakes an important sociological mission today, highlighting the basic costuming differences between two very different breeds of obsessive fanperson: The Sex and the City fan and the Flight of the Conchords fan. While one group leans towards unabashed label-whoredom and pricey slingbacks, and the other towards Little Joy-friendly ironic hipsterwear and All-Stars, they manage to find some common ground in the category of animal prints—though in SATC's case, they're covering Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses, and in FotC's, they're literally paying homage to the the ironed-on wildlife prints adorning Bret's sweatshirts. More » -
short ends
Carnie Wilson's War Unlikely To Overthrow Any Soviet Regimes
· Tyra dubs Carnie Wilson's tabloid-documented weight battles "Carnie Wilson's War," mainly because every paparazzi shot of her eating an ice cream cone also features Tom Hanks engaging in witty repartee from behind a highball glass. [Tyra Show] More » -
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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] -
defamer
Explosive Behind-the Scenes Secrets of EW's Spoiler Article Revealed!
Browsing the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, we came across Steve Daly's survey of the modern spoiler, never more epidemic in the Internet age than on exterior shoots. And while some studios conceal their films' secrets by burning the entire set and even the movies themselves to smoldering rubble, we tip our cap to the more creatively minded subterfuge happening on sets from Indiana Jones 4 to Gossip Girl to Sex and the City. That's not going to stop us, though, from giving away everything that happens in Daly's piece after the jump. More » -
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'I Spit on Your Grave' Remake Promises Even Motorboatier Disembowlements Than Before
On a day when feminism in Hollywood swings wildly between pure gender-pandering and impassioned scrotum-punching, we're hearing about one developing project that could potentially split the difference: I Spit on Your Grave, a remake of the notorious 1978 rape-revenge film that made so many friends upon its initial release ("Attending it was one of the most depressing experiences of my life," Roger Ebert wrote in his original review). More » -
Sex(ism) and the City
New Yorker Film Critic Anthony Lane Has Female Trouble
The Time Out New York cover portraying the ladies of Sex and the City with duct tape over their maws isn't the only media coverage of the fabulous foursome that has the whiff of sexism about it. Newsweek critic Ramin Setoodeh discusses the near-violent dislike for Sex in the City that many men, particularly male movie critics, have shown. "Movie critics, an overwhelmingly male demographic, gave it such a nasty tongue lashing you would have thought they were talking about an ex-girlfriend," Setoodeh says. And no male critic was nastier than the New Yorker's Anthony Lane. Best Week Ever calls the caricature seen above left (which accompanied Lane's review) "almost masochistic in its grotesqueness." Setoodeh at Newsweek points out Lane's problematic phrasing when he describes Carrie and the girls as "hormonal hobbits, and all obsessed with a ring." But what galled me was Lane's description of Kim Cattrall's body, and it reminded me of his unfortunate criticism of Tina Fey's figure in his review of Baby Mama. [Jezebel] -
Discretion
Power-Player Michael Patrick King Too Petrified To Finger Suits Who Kept Him Down
Sunday LAT magazine readers were treated to a personal essay penned by none other than Sex and the City writer/director/inner-gay Michael Patrick King. The point of his story, we think, is how being true to oneself in show business often comes at the expense of being shitcanned by a superior who'd rather you be true to them. But we came away with another message entirely: That even the Man Who Toppled Spielberg can still harbor the kinds of career insecurities that would cause them to omit all the satisfying name-naming from their tale of comeuppance: More »
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