A woman spent $3 million dollars on a Superbowl ad in hopes of catching the perfect beer-gut slouch of a husband. You can tell the Amy Borkowsky here is desperate because she describes her age as "somewhere between Carrie and Samantha," and also refers to dating as "a game," meaning she's read that Neil Strauss book from front to back.
There is nothing sadder than a 2008 SATC reference, unless its spending three million smackers to land a man that will listen to you talk about apple martinis and and shoes for the rest of his god-given life.
Right on the heels of the news that Candace Bushnell thinks she's the new Jane Austen and is in the process of writing a book of Carrie's teenage years we have news of a possible SATC sequel? (Although some overseas sources claim SJP nixed the idea.)
Down girl! Our collective cultural estrogen levels can't handle the pressure:
Hey, did you guys know that all those times in Sex and the City where the girls would go shopping or buy shoes or cry over men, it was actually a subversive parody of modern day consumer culture?
At least, that's how SATC author (and future scribe of children's books!) Candace Bushnell wants you to see it. Bushnell claims her new book, One Fifth Avenue, is "a snapshot of New York just before this financial crisis," which is just a clever book jacket spin for "Nobody wants to read about Carrie Bradshaw's shoe collection when they've lost their life savings."
But Bushnell isn't satisfied to reinvent books she's only just written, she wants to change the meaning of the canon she's already famous for:
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Because young adults need to start early if they're ever going to complain about finding love and authentic Versace in NYC like the pros, a young Carrie Bradshaw will now be featured in a new kid's series by Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell:
“It hasn’t all been resolved yet,” (editor) Ms. Bray said. “I think she’ll come here the way Candace did, with her friends, to hang out in the city on the weekend, and have a lot of social interaction there, and then eventually she’ll come to college here, as Candace did.”
Why doesn't Bushnell just write her memoirs then, instead of rehashing the same characters over and over and over. CONTINUED »
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 »
One of the things that happens when a hit movie takes over America — and sometimes even when the movie is crap — is that we become inundated with officially licensed merchandise. Sex and the City, a movie built to serve its sponsors, is definitely on that list. Beside the obvious merch opportunities like clothing is this: iPod speakers, which get their juice directly from your MP3 player. "Now I can take a little piece of SATC with me to the beach or wherever I think I will need a portable speaker," writes one pleased blogger. "It comes in hot pink with a picture of high heels and a martini glass on it. What more could you ask for?!" Maybe for it to come with a free download of Fergie's "Labels Or Love" from iTunes, just to bring this whole thing full circle.
Ew, remember Failure to Launch, The Family Stone, and Smart People, those horrific Sarah Jessica Parker movies? The first took in $88m domestically, while the second grossed $60m, and the third, uh, just $10m. Not terrible sums (minus the last one), but definitely regrettable roles. Then along came Sex and the City, racketing up $134m so far and landing Parker back in the hearts of single gals everywhere. And now that Parker has found her stride again &mdash that is, resurrected the role that squarely put her on the map — it looks like she's going to stick with what she knows best in the near future. CONTINUED »
Cynthia Nixon, denying rumors she got her breasts done after shooting Sex and the City: "We got a call from the [New York] Post (the paper that ran the story) asking if I'd had a breast augmentation, and my publicist laughed at them and said, 'No, of course not.' But they printed it anyway. If I was going to get a boob job, wouldn't it make sense that I'd get it before Sex and And the The City (the movie)?"
Is it any surprise that the website of Gilles Marini, who played Samantha's naked surfer neighbor in the Sex and the City movie, and, before that, was best known for playing "Italian Designer" on Dirty Sexy Money and "Italian Bicycle Rider" on Passions, features the actor from his most recognizable angle?
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… is now available for your NSFW enjoyment. [WinterTypppe via ONTD]
"More 80,000 people signed up as a Sex and the City fan on Facebook as of early Sunday, many writing enthusiastic reviews." [Clickz] By comparison, the "For every 100 people who join this group, I will donate a child to NAMBLA" group has 1,426 members. And "Jihad against Sex and the city" has but 9 members.
Perhaps HBO was waiting to see the box office receipts for Sex and the City before announcing – or officially inking – Kim Cattrall's new deal with the network? After SATC cleaned up this weekend with $55.7 million, HBO and Cattrall reveal she'll exec produce and star in Sensitive Skin, a single-camera comedic British import. [THR] It's part of a development deal Cattrall signed when she agreed to do the feature film, which explains why there's a "significant penalty" to be paid if HBO kills the series. (She also teamed with HBO for 2005's Kim Cattrall: Sexual Intelligence.)
Cattrall may have a reputation of being a catty actress, but she's also very much responsible for getting her, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon much higher paydays. She took the public relations hits for it, and now it appears to have paid off.
And girl is pissed.
SJP had 40 dresses selected for various Sex and the City premieres, and worse this Nina Ricci gown, designed by Olivier Theyskens, to the New York debut. She was assured it was the first time it had been worn by anyone in public. Except it wasn't. [OTR]
Last month, socialite and Vogue intern Lauren (Davis) Santo Domingo worse the dress to the Met ball. And Theyskens went with her. And there were photographs, as there often are at those type of things.
"What bothered Parker was that she felt she had been deceived by both Grauso and Theyskens, who met her in the studio and assured her that the dress had never been worn except for magazine shoots," writes Cathy Horyn. "Parker says she remarked to Theyskens during the fitting that she was surprised the dress hadn’t been worn before. He assured her it hadn’t."
And also: That Theyskens actually thought he'd get away with it.
Mario Grauso, the president of the fashion division at Puig, which owns Nina Ricci, tries explaining it away this way: CONTINUED »
With an estimated 85 percent female audience attending the Sex and the City opening – though the LAT helpfully notes "along with husbands and boyfriends, gay males are part of the show's fan base" – the movie beat most expectations for a record-setting $55.7 million opening weekend. (The "record-setting" part comes in when you apply that sum to openings for romantic comedies, where Sex beat 2005's Hitch, which earned $43.1m.) So congratulations, ladies.
But why is it, then, that this is the most exciting thing we've seen about the movie?: CONTINUED »
Oh, so you had no idea that the Sex and the City movie premieres tonight? What tipped you off?
The gimmick from Best Buy stores' Geek Squad gimmick, that has "agents" infiltrating movie theatre queues to hand out promotional packs – filled with "excuses for maneuvering one's way out of the movie at the last minute, along with quarters for use at the nearest video game arcade" – to men who don't want to be there?
Television network TBS airing the two-minute Match.com and Revlon-sponsored show Commuter Confidential in between reruns of Sex?
Or the fact that some are struggling to give the movie a few superlatives it hasn't even yet earned? CONTINUED »
New Line Cinema is blaming Radio City Music Hall for Tuesday night's Sex and the City premiere mess, where 2,000 (or was it 1,000?) ticket-holding fans were denied entry to the event, because the venue didn't open up the mezzanine area, which would've allotted 2,700 more seats. Radio City, meanwhile, blames the movie studio, for giving away more promotional tickets than there were seats for. [P6] The out-of-luck fans, meanwhile, were given vouchers to see the movie for free at the cinema. Stalking Sarah Jessica Parker not included.
Does every alcohol company need to commission a study that says men don't want to see the Sex and the City movie? Or rather: Does every alcohol company need to latch on to the Sex hype by promoting some shameless "study" that concludes men would rather be, uh, drinking booze than watching Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha on the big screen?
Earlier today, Moosehead Breweries found 36 percent of men "will be drinking beer while watching the hockey playoffs on the night of the premiere."
Now comes a report from Canadian Club Whisky – "the liquor of choice for masculine, sophisticated and unpretentious men everywhere" – that claims "41 percent of men [said] they would not be caught dead in the theater on May 30th." Bet that percentage would go up if they could bring some Canadian Club inside the theatres, eh buddies?
N.B. Absolut, which benefited so much from Smith Jerrod's fictional "Absolut Hunk" ad used in the show, didn't bother trying to find out whether men didn't want to see the movie.
"As millions of women anticipate the reunion of their beloved Sex and The City foursome, men in contrast plan to say 'pass' on the May 30th premiere. According to a survey, commissioned by Moosehead Breweries of 500 representative men, only four percent (voluntarily or not) plan to attend the movie's premiere. Of those surveyed men, the majority (36%) will be drinking beer while watching the hockey playoffs on the night of the premiere. Twenty-eight percent plan to walk the dog and 12 percent will reaffirm their masculinity by pumping iron at the gym." [PRN]
And with that, we bring you the madness outside the premiere at Radio City Music Hall, where some 2,000 ticket holders were stuck outside without seats. CONTINUED »
SEX AND THE SHITTY Singapore-based Ella Sherman paid $19,000 for a robust Sex and the City travel package – ticket to the premiere and after party, Jimmy Choo and Patricia Field shopping sprees, upscale hotel stay at Plaza Athenee, and a visit to Soho House – got almost nothing she was promised. And the travel agency who booked her trip doesn't plan on refunding her cash, claiming they, too, got scammed. [NYP]
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