It's already sad that original chick-lit writer for Manhattanites, Candace Bushnell, fell on some hard times post-SATC. Lipstick Jungle might not even get picked up for another season! And her Sirius radio showwas cut from the line-up, despite the fact that Howard Stern is still making a bazillion dollars per episode for them.
Do you not care? Are you glad that the Carrie Bradshaws of the world are being rendered irrelevant? Well then you'll especially like this: Candace's successor in the franchise of white women living in NYC and finding rich men, Plum Sykes, can't get her pilot for the sitcom Mogulettes off the ground.
How bad is the economy that vapid stories about the overprivileged just don't sound that funny anymore? Last time I checked, Gossip Girl was still on the air, right?
If you've ever been curious as to the differences between Candace Bushnell writing about over-privileged Manhattanites and Plum Sykes writing about over-privileged Manhattanites, then this should clear it up for you: Duff is "more reflective of women's life post-9/11." Whatever that means. Well, it was attributed to some magazine article on her Wikipedia page, so it must be true. And it probably means there are more terrorist references in Bergdorf Blondes, Sykes' debut novel from 2004, then there were in the entirety of the Sex and the City franchise of Bushnell's.
But whatever differences the two writers may have had are slowly dissolving as Sykes takes a page out of Bushnell's book and tries her hand at a television series for NBC.
Sykes' Mogulettes will appear as a half-hour comedy about young female tycoons and will premiere….sometime in the future. Did no one learn the lesson from Lipstick Jungle (Bushnell's other, less successful franchise) and Cashmere Mafia (from former Bushnell friend Darren Star)? CONTINUED »
• She's about a week old, and Tom Cruise is already using Suri to promote his movie. [AP]
• Well, Jennifer Aniston finally stopped crying, so Oprah had to find someone to comfort. [NYDN]
• The Daily News only wants to hire freelancers. Uh, we think the Post just chucked a few. [Gawker]
• Halle Berry doesn't need Bruce Willis to get her off. Just his voice and her hands and, oh, oh, another Oscar. [Page Six]
• The Tribeca Film Festival is here, and the Village Voice has your guide to the top 40. Films, that is. [VV]
• We don't think Plum Sykes read her "how to be a socialite" handbook every carefully. [NYM]
• Celebrities make being pregnant look hot. Except for Deborah Messing … that was gross. [AP]
• Yay, another blog! Just what the New York Times is lacking. [NYO]
