Bryant Park is said to be charging the producers of Sex and the City $100,000 a day to shoot there. [Cindy]
The Post reports today that Ron Galotti, the inspiration for Mr. Big, is in talks with McGraw-Hill, for a book deal. I had to wonder, how would Carrie Bradshaw react to the news? -raronauer
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…Whether anyone else is less than shocked to hear that Chris Noth and his girlfriend are expecting a child out of wedlock.
Although the 90's are behind us – as are, thankfully, the giant flower-broaches, the gold-plated name necklaces and the throngs of Midwestern tourists flocking to the Meatpacking District for "one of those Cosmo's" – it seems the "empowering" shows (about aging female executives trying to balance their lives, careers and insatiable appetite for casual sex) are still very much upon us.
And who's the man to blame? That would be producer Darren Star, currently known as "the producer most likely to try and replicate his success with Sex and the City".
After seeing Sarah Jessica Parker's character in her latest—and, arguably, most extravagant—fashion abortion, Us Weekly asks its readers "Would you get married in Carrie's dress?" (Not surprisingly, 84% of respondents indicated that they would not.)
Meanwhile, we can't find too much fault with the giant multi-layered catastrophe.
Sure, it's fugly, but we'd much rather see the betrothed Carrie Bradshaw donning a flowy conflation of eggshell-colored tissue paper, a silky conical-shaped brassiere and scrunched-up living room curtains than watch her step foot in an church wearing an tasteful (but elegantly understated) white Vera Wang.
Besides, we're actually far more concerned about the fact that Carrie has what appears to be a dead peacock stapled to the side of her head.
**For more pics (including a closeup of Carrie's mysterious feathery "friend") click here.**
1.) Sure.
2.) Because old people are gross.
3.) Nah.
4.) Are you really asking that?
We didn't think it was possible, but these questions have made us long for the rhetorical gems of Carrie Bradshaw. Thankfully, we hear they're up to something about that now.
• Victoria Beckham to perform with the Pussycat Dolls, presumably because she encapsulates their unique brand of slim physique and questionable vocals.
• Meanwhile, Mariah Carey is mistaken for Britney Spears, presumably due to her propensity for gaining weight and history of cinematic abortions.
• Salma Hayek gives birth, but the world was too busy staring at Nicole Richie's protruding belly to notice.
• Finally! Someone admits Sex and the City would have been a whole lot sexier if the women on the show were still pre-menopausal.
• Jennifer Aniston has never looked happier than she does on the set of He's Just Not That Into You. Does anyone else find that strangely disconcerting?
• Sex and the City spoiler alert: Charlotte gets knocked up, Big is emotionally distant, but nobody cares because the SHOW ENDED OVER THREE YEARS AGO.
• Can we tawk for a minute about that meshugana Joan Rivers and her horse-faced daughter, Melissa?
• Stupidity pays: Miss Teen South Carolina stands to make $25,000 as a model for Donald Trump
• Oddly enough, not every bearded Asian man is Judge Lance Ito
• 62-year-old prostitute apprehended by police, mercilessly mocked for her $15/hour going rate.
• Bombing live performances is so now!
• In an amazing pre-taped appearance on The Tyra Banks Show, a pre-scandal Vanessa Hudgens lectures Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan on tabloid avoidance, explaining "It’s easy to stay out of those situations. You just have to smart about your decisions." Well, obviously!
• Meanwhile, OK! magazine continues to rain on Vanny's parade by informing us that she and Zac Efron are no longer fake-dating.
• Watch out! According to this sign, there are "children playing while adults have lawnmower sex," just ahead.
• Here it is! The first picture from the set of the superfluous Sex and the City movie, shown from a respectable distance so as to avoid an unnecessary close-up of Sarah Jessica Parker's giant chin pimple.
• Jessica Alba makes bad movies, good wardrobe decisions.
• Fred Goldman continues to chase the black murderer of his son his white whale.
• Chris Noth to reprise his role as Mr. Big for the Sex and the City movie. In light of Noth's temporary absence, the part of "Crazy Scraggly Homeless Person And Sometimes-Actor" will be played by his faithful understudy, Jay McCarroll Natasha Lyonne.
• Yes, of course Brad Pitt has jury duty now. Meanwhile, the most attractive person in our jury pool last week was the creepy 85 year-old woman named Madge who's "single, and still looking for Mr. Right." Octogenarian suitors? Start your engines.
• Another huge drop in the stock market today, or, as the NYP would say, "KA-DOW!"
• Boring nature video, or the most amazing 8 minutes of your life?
• Jack Black going where no man (other than Jack Black) has gone before.
Cynthia Nixon goes from playing the angry redhead (a.k.a. the one who gets chlamydia!) on Sex and the City to picking used Ziploc bags out of the public trash receptacle to donning a giant Seuss-inspired hat and reading the most monotonous children's story of all time to an unappreciative audience of spoiled brats at TheatreworksUSA.
And you thought your job prospects sucked.
Last week, we sucker-punched you with the exciting news that Sex and the City is (finally!) being made into a movie. Except by "exciting" we meant "something that would have been exciting five years ago," and by "movie" we meant "movie we probably won't see until it comes out on DVD."
And it turns out we're not alone! In this week's New York mag, Emily Nussbaum joins us in questioning whether the Sex and the City ship has truly sailed.
Have you heard the news? Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and the boring redhead are gearing up to reprise their career defining roles for a 2-hour SATC movie spectacular! Yes, we know, you've heard this all before, but this time TV Guide swears it's for real, and promises an official announcement within the week.
As we write this, we’re looking out the window and salivating over the picture perfect weather outside, currently being wasted on lazy, unemployed persons and pretentious NYU students. And so, for your sanity and ours, we’ve decided to kick off a glorious new feature called “Comment of the Day,” to provide a transient glimmer of entertainment for all you working stiffs who would much rather be downing margaritas poolside on the Jersey Shore (while fending off advances from married, guidos named Tony) than slaving away in your cubicles.
Today’s “Comment of the Day” comes to us from the New York Observer website, and it pertains to Jared Kushner's bizarre decision to reprint Candace Bushnell's "Sex and the City" columns (that originally ran back in April of 1995).
But will they stand the test of time? Do people still care about Samantha Jones, Carrie and Mr. Big? And why hasn't Bushnell written anything new in the past ten years?*
Find out, after the jump.
• Amy Winehouse's hideous beehive hairdo momentarily distracts us from her lack of dental hygiene.
• Trannies and Madonna's brother join forces to denounce Britney Spears' comeback, ratty hair extensions.
• Mischa Barton is high on life. And, apparently, marijuana.
• Jessica Alba has a brush with the law. Unfortunately, she's not a good enough actress to cry her way out of a ticket.
• The Sex and the City movie becomes a distinct possibility now that exec producer Michael King has agreed to direct it. And Kim Cattrall has agreed that she has no other career opportunities.
• Meanwhile, rumors abound that Hugh Hefner's girlfriend is preggers! Hef has already taken the precaution of baby-proofing the "Orgy Room" in the mansion, and pre-ordering Hef Jr. a lifetime subscription to Playboy.
Today, as we are sometimes wont to do, we were browsing CNN's homepage in search of a breaking news story another awesome screengrab when, suddenly, an article (on CNN sister site, Entertainment Weekly) caught our eye.
The premise? "Reader Confessions: I saw it on screen, then did it." Naturally, we figured it would be more of the "I watched Trainspotting, and then decided to go shoot some heroin" variety, but turns out we were delightfully wrong! Below, see how these two female respondents had two extremely different reactions to watching those feminist martyrs (a.k.a. slutty hobags) on Sex and the City.
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Hey, remember in the series finale of Sex and the City, when Miranda catches Steve's alcoholic mother roaming the streets and eating pizza straight out of the garbage can?
What are we saying, of course you do! It was one of those shocking/pivotal moments when we realized Steve's mom had fully transitioned from drunk Irish hag to Crazy Homeless Person, and wondered whether Miranda loved Steve enough to throw his deranged parent in the tub and hand-wash her naked, wrinkly body. (Turns out, she did!)
Anyhow, for some reason or another, that particular SATC moment came to mind this morning when we were sifting through the gossip pages. No, not while we were reading about Christopher Hitchens' latest crazy-person rant, but rather when we saw this bizarre item about how Cynthia Nixon was rooting through a trash can at Riverside Park.
More specifically, how Nixon reportedly picked some woman's Ziploc bag out of the trash receptacle, asked "is it okay to take this?" and then "took her son's half-eaten snack and placed it in [the woman's] used baggie."
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• Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic speech was a "gift," forcing him to realize what he needs to focus on. Like box office returns.
• With the Sex and the City movie supposedly back on track, Kim Cattrall conveniently forgets it was she who put up the roadblocks.
• All the women who want to sue American Apparel's Dov Charney will be happy to know he's got a big corporate backer to pay those out-of-court settlements.
• After Christina Ricci's biggest Internet fan dropped his website devoted to her and PETA named her to its Worst Dressed List because she wore fur, she's denounced her personal connection to the slaughter of our furry friends.
• If this supermodel ain't Naomi Campbell, we need a new list of anger-prone waifs.
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• It's much easier for celebs to sue non-US publications. Hence, Bonnie Fuller's natural migration to the States. [WWD]
• Jessica Simpson fires her agent for not explaining to her that "brownhead" is not a word. And for not loving her boobs as much as her daddy does. [Us]
• This is the gayest Clay Aiken press release we've ever seen. Even the gays think it's gay. [Queerty]
• We say goodbye to City Slickers star Bruno Kirby. We're sure we made out with someone at some point while that movie was playing in the background. Thanks, dude. [TMZ]
• Uhh, Sandra Bernhard is scaring the living shit out of everyone. Everyone. [MAC]
• Lindsay Lohan loves Sex and the City so much, she’ll sleep with every man possible just to have Charlotte’s experience with crabs. Maybe even a horny blogger who doesn't care about STDs? Not us, not us! [Hollywood Tuna]
• Britney Spears' dance video to her little sister "looks like something the fat emo girl who sat in the back of highschool literature would make." Good luck Jamie Lynne. [The Superficial]
• The ten millionth episode of the The Real World will be in Denver. Yay, finally some unshaven vegans will get real. [AOL]
• We have absolutely no clue why, but Lloyd Grove chased after Katie Couric with a video camera today at Michael's. Somehow we are always less embarrassed of ourselves simply because he exists. [FBNY]
• Hey Sex and the City loving bitches. Look what you did to Bleecker Street! It was so much better when that place was a crack den. [The Villager]
• We are so disappointed we didn’t know about the Chelsea Hotel bloggers sooner. We have wasted months of our lives not making fun of them. [Gothamist]
• Why not take this really pointless Crain's poll on whether or not you give a fuck about Page Six. Come on, the Observer has come and gone … you know you have absolutely nothing better to do. [Crain's]
