"Sex And The City" Continues To Inspire Sad Ladies, Hack Writers
The flurry of trend stories about the imminent release of the ode to consumption Sex And The City 2 will not cease until this movie really fulfills its Ishtar… For Chicks potential, will it? Today's New York Post has yet another profile of four women who are Living The Lifestyle, as it were, only there's a crucial twist: The ladies profiled are not friends, but they are all, by the punishingly youthful standards of Post trend stories, ancient. Or, sorry, as the Post puts it, "living proof that the Big Apple is still the sexiest city of all – for women of all ages." (Like 40! Gasp!) Each breathless profile comes with a mini-questionnaire filled out by the women in question, because who has time to write naked ploys for commenter ire and low-level class disgruntlement these days? Not to mention that it makes the feature "interactive," since people might be inspired to answer the questions for themselves!
I can only hope that my relative youth and my middle-school stint on a PAL softball team don't diminish my bona fides enough to disqualify me from answering the questions posed to Donna, a management consultant slash romance-novel author who has a schmanced-out Chelsea loft and a boyfriend who she refuses to identify by name.
How frequently do you get compared to Carrie? I have been called a "female writer" more than once! Also there have been multiple times that I've left the house looking like a demented eight-year-old playing Fancy Lady Tea Party Dress-Up.
How is your real life different from the "SATC" version? No sex. No cocktails that are sweeter than desserts. No thinking my words out loud as I type them, because who comes up with sparkling-yet-unedited prose on the first try? And I live in Queens. (Although it should be noted that one of the women who is profiled shares my home borough! She lives in a "penthouse," though, because of course.)
Style: Whatever was on sale at The Gap two years ago.
Life philosophy: "Be excellent to each other." — Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Do you still feel like a "SATC" girl at heart? If only saying "yes" to this meant that I would get on the press list for the South Australian Tourism Commission. Sigh.
Feel free to answer these questions for your own self!
Why couldn't this book/show have been based in Gary, IN?
The theme song would have been much better, for sure!
It certainly would have been more interesting had it been written by Gary Indiana!
http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/freddie-gibbs-the-ghetto
It would be nice if they included just a little bit of realism. Say, if the ladies ate cupcakes at Magnolia and then had to take a nap later from the post-sugar rush crash because that's what happens when you're older than 30.
Also, they should have to show women what happens to their feet by their 40s when they wear heels every day. I see the cautionary tales all around me in pilates class and feel pretty good about wearing sneakers or flats every day.
Mais non, I have been tottering around on very high heels for hundreds of years with no ill effects whatsoever. I credit the booze (flexible knees/ankles!) and yoga.
Another summer of skanks fighting on street corners about which one of them is "the Carrie"…
why, oh why, would anyone aspire to such a thing?
Aspiring to something that is beneath you is much easier!
*call me
are you saying you want to get beneath me?
"The twice-married, now-single p.r. whiz decorated her 'to-die-for penthouse' in Queens."
Does that even exist? What kind of Sex and the City fan would dare live in Queens? *GASP* Not to mention that she's described as a "grandma cougar". Say what you want about DC but at least we don't have people like this around. They at least have the courtesy to stay in Virginia.
Or Baltimore. I hear that John Waters's next project is titled "Grandma Cougars".
Another reason I'll never move back to Arlington…
As if you needed another.
Always Carrie … Why not Miranda? Or is she not aspirational enough?
Oh, I'm definitely "a Miranda". But that's mostly because I, too, enjoy giving cunnilingus.
That's the first question on the Sex and the City Flow Chart!
clarence, you a softball player too?
See? But everyone's wise enough to not fight over who gets to be the Kim Cattrall/Samantha. Because that shit is just dubious.
Kim Cattrall first came into my consciousness as a running joke on MST3K.
Life Philosophy: "It Hurts."
The producer was on the Daily Show last night. And judging by the clips, this sad thing is as barren of comedy as it is of relevance. But still –
Style: Mandrake the Magician as interpreted by Barney Fife.
I am frequently compared to Carrie. Particularly the scene at the end where she blows up her prom.