Sex and the City movie sucks and blows. Whodathunkit?
They didn’t really know what they wanted – career or husband, baby or Balenciaga bag? – but what they didn’t want was to turn out like their mothers.
And while straight men universally hated SATC (they professed to find Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw repellent, while in reality being unable to cope with her straight-talking prickliness), women – pretty much all women – loved it.
We loved the fact that Carrie dressed for herself and not for men. We loved that the women had far more fun with each other than they did on any date, and we loved that Carrie and co made it OK to be frivolous and girly while out to get what they wanted (a diamond ring, a Fifth Avenue apartment, a best-seller, an orgasm) with the singleminded focus of a heat-seeking missile.
Verdict: not self-involved enough.
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 10:01 am #
We loved the fact that Carrie dressed for herself and not for men.
What does that even mean?
I guess it’s just a coincidence that men often like the no-bra, short skirt, super high heel look.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 5/29 @ 10:05 am #
(they professed to find Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw repellent, while in reality being unable to cope with her straight-talking prickliness)
Um, OK. That bit of psychoanalysis is garbage.
Comment by Karl on 5/29 @ 10:06 am #
Most of the early reviews have been positive (64%), while noting that it’s msotly for fans of the series.
I am more struck by the reviewer’s rampant sexism. I must be a latent homosexual because I didn’t hate the series. OTOH, I kinda indifferent to Carrie in no small part due to her mannish horseface, so perhaps those cute Leo Dicaprio are my bag. And I think plenty of feminists might challenge the notion that Carrie did not dress for men. The feminists who have same preferences as straight men would.
Comment by Karl on 5/29 @ 10:07 am #
… and yes, I was writing down to the reviewer’s level.
Comment by sashal on 5/29 @ 10:08 am #
Charlotte is my favorite.
S.J.Parker is ugly.
We loved the HBO serial.
My wife is bugging me to go to the movies, but I have complementary tickets to the S Lauper concert from my casino. So the movie, may be next week or later?
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/29 @ 10:08 am #
Was there a “Don’t be a Sexist, Vote for Hillary” subliminal message?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/29 @ 10:10 am #
Women dress to impress other women.
Men dress to keep from being arrested.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/29 @ 10:11 am #
Holy shit, is that chick sexy! Check out her Balenciaga bag. Oh, yeah. It’s real, baby.
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/29 @ 10:14 am #
SJP doesn’t need high heel shoes, she needs a farrier. Getty up!!!
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 5/29 @ 10:14 am #
That series did some real damage to a significant percentage of a generation of women. Look! You can shop and go out to eat daily! Just put it on the magic card!
Comment by Education Guy on 5/29 @ 10:16 am #
Men dress to keep from being arrested.
Amen. Pants?!? WTF Occifer, its a saturday!
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 5/29 @ 10:16 am #
SJP doesn’t need high heel shoes, she needs a farrier. Getty up!!!
I’ll bet she kicks, though. Occupational hazard for horse-shoers.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/29 @ 10:17 am #
It’s a movie about everywoman. If everywoman is like Imelda Marco, except on a slightly more modest scale.
Comment by Nan on 5/29 @ 10:17 am #
“Men dress to keep from being arrested.”
Well,yeah, until they get married. Then they wear whatever the wife bought them.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 5/29 @ 10:19 am #
Has Kim Cattrall done anything other than reprise her “Lassie” character from Porky’s?
I never much cared for the SATC series much, as I’d had quite enough of cynical, self-indulgent women in my real life.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 5/29 @ 10:20 am #
much cared for the SATC series much
Brought to you by the Department of Redundency Department.
Shit.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 10:21 am #
I can’t stand that guy. John Corbett. Ack. The only time I tried to watch and episode of the show he and his overwhelming doucheyness popped up out of nowhere and I felt raped. It was awful.
Comment by sashal on 5/29 @ 10:22 am #
#12
poor M.Broderick
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/29 @ 10:22 am #
“Well,yeah, until they get married. Then they wear whatever the wife bought them.”
Not on weekends!!! Ratty t-shirt and shorts for me!!!
Comment by Aldo on 5/29 @ 10:23 am #
I haven’t seen SATC, but based on the description it seems like television for the Emily Gould set.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 10:23 am #
Oh. *an* episode is what I meant. It’s sort of like how I’ve got this fear that Patrick Dempsey’s Hair is lurking in dark corners waiting to attack. How I’m gonna get out of this town without a crippling case of PTSD I just don’t know.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/29 @ 10:24 am #
“Not on weekends!!! Ratty t-shirt and shorts for me!!!”
But they’ll never take our . . . never mind.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 10:25 am #
the doucheyness, it overwhelms
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/29 @ 10:28 am #
OMG. Douchezilla.
Comment by Sdferr on 5/29 @ 10:30 am #
Hey! What’s with all this anti-horseism? Horses aren’t ugly. They’re cute horsies. And you can get on their backs and ride ‘em. And shit.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 5/29 @ 10:31 am #
Has Kim Cattrall done anything other than reprise her “Lassie†character from Porky’s?
Well, she was a Vulcan once, in the sixth Star Trek movie.
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 10:32 am #
I will not stand for this, and I’m guessing SarahW will not either:
Like Mr Darcy (Austen’s and Fielding’s) you caught yourself wondering, what does Carrie see in Big, or Charlotte in Trey?
One of these things (or two) are not like the others.
Comment by ccs on 5/29 @ 10:34 am #
How fast was he going when the bird hit the front of his hat?
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/29 @ 10:35 am #
Bridle, saddle, stirrups…where are my spurs! I’ll be back in five minutes!!!
Comment by Karl on 5/29 @ 10:37 am #
sashal,
Ther have been persistent rumors about M. Broderick. NTTAWWT.
Comment by Jim in KC on 5/29 @ 10:45 am #
I didn’t hate the series, I just found it boring. Mostly because the characters were annoying.
(And there’s no way in hell my better half would buy my clothes. I have way better taste than she does.)
Comment by sashal on 5/29 @ 10:48 am #
thanks , Karl.
great quotes from my fave TV show….
Comment by Mikey NTH on 5/29 @ 10:49 am #
They do realize that this is fiction, right? Carrie Bradshaw doesn’t exist, she’s a fantasy character and no more real than a hobbit.
Comment by Rightwingsparkle on 5/29 @ 10:53 am #
Well THIS woman HATED this show. I was forced to watch 2 or 3 episodes with some girlfriends. I found it vapid, stupid and indicative of all that is wrong with women in this society. The women were shallow, selfish, self absorbed, and their values were in the gutter. Which is where the show should have been. I wouldn’t see the movie if you paid me to.
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/29 @ 10:53 am #
“They do realize that this is fiction, right? Carrie Bradshaw doesn’t exist, she’s a fantasy character and no more real than a hobbit.”
Hobbits aren’t that ugly, fictionally speaking!
Comment by Sdferr on 5/29 @ 10:56 am #
Just they feets wouldn’t fit in the shoeses
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/29 @ 10:57 am #
Should we take up a collection for RWS?
Comment by Sean M. on 5/29 @ 11:08 am #
Actually, I just find Sarah Jessica Parker repellent.
But since Hollywood seems to be out of ideas and simply poaching sixties teevee shows for new movies, she’ll be perfect for the lead when they resort to remaking this.
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/29 @ 11:08 am #
HRT for RWS!!!
Comment by Sdferr on 5/29 @ 11:09 am #
Hay!
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 11:09 am #
I first knew I hated that show when I heard a shoe designers name and realized that we had purchased some of their shoes. Greedy little marketing genius fuckers they are. Same with the purses. Ugh.
MayBee – pure coincidence that no bra, micro-mini skirts, and stilletos are liked by both Carrie and men with pulses.
Comment by Education Guy on 5/29 @ 11:15 am #
I heard a rumor once that the women on that show were modeled after gay men. Which is really a letdown because I thought SJP was a gay man.
Comment by DoDoGuRu on 5/29 @ 11:15 am #
Fantastical reviews like this just reinforce the bogus stereotype that Sarah Jessica Parker is attractive.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/29 @ 11:16 am #
Whoa-o-o-o, Willllllbur. You don’t riiiiiiiiiiiide me anymorrre.
Comment by Salt Lick on 5/29 @ 11:18 am #
…indifferent to Carrie in no small part due to her mannish horseface…
I heard the clerk at her honeymoon hotel asked if they wanted the bridal and her husband said, “Naw, I’ll just hold her by the ears ’til she gets used to it.”
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 11:20 am #
I sat next to SJP in Park City at dinner once. In person. pretty hot. On TV, Mr. Ed.
Comment by proudvastrightwingconspirator on 5/29 @ 11:24 am #
Thr truth is the SATC is, was and has always been written by a group of gay men, who relized that the American public wasn’t going to tune in by the millions to watch their fashion-centric, self-absorbed, hedonistic promiscuity each week.
BUT, if they switched the characters to attractive single women, instead of gay men, then it would be more acceptable!
So, as you watch SATC pervert the values and principles of millions of single women as they try to emulate Carrie Bradshaw and friends, remember that what’s is being pushed into the American conciousness is the idea that single women should behave just like gay men.
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/29 @ 11:24 am #
Pretty equine-like!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/29 @ 11:27 am #
I don’t have anything against SJP. I think she’s middling attractive.
I don’t care about SITC, and I don’t care even more that they made a movie out of it. It’s not my thing. Time spent hacking on why the movie is bad is time I can’t spend screwing off in some other way that I enjoy.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/29 @ 11:28 am #
The gay mafia, I’m guessing.
Comment by Sean M. on 5/29 @ 11:47 am #
I liked what Peter Griffin said about the show on Family Guy after watching an episode:
“Oh, I get it. It’s a show about three hookers and their mom.”
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 5/29 @ 11:52 am #
they professed to find Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw repellent, while in reality being unable to cope with her straight-talking prickliness
Yeah, that’s it. We were too cowed by her feminist power, we feared witch magic and hated the show because of that. It wasn’t because it was self indulgent, narcissistic, man hating trash, it was because of grrrl power.
Comment by Scape-goat Trainee on 5/29 @ 12:19 pm #
What I find stunning is that any guy on this Blog EVER watched this wretched show. I can say with complete certitude that I’ve never seen a single episode. Just seeing the previews as I was watching Deadwood, Rome, The Wire or The Sopranos was enough to tell me I could never sit in front of a TV with this crap on it.
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 12:25 pm #
I sat next to SJP in Park City at dinner once.
Yeah, I saw her in Hawaii when she was in a dark hair phase. I thought at first she was the actress Claire Forlani, who is quite beautiful (and rarely employed).
Comment by RW on 5/29 @ 12:28 pm #
ALl those lib males who have been writing a lot about “liberal guilt” lately & putting forth their excuses about why it’s pertinent? They’re so at the opening of this thing.
Comment by MlR on 5/29 @ 12:33 pm #
“I am more struck by the reviewer’s rampant sexism. I must be a latent homosexual because I didn’t hate the series.”
Seriously, I neither watched it nor gave a shit.
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 12:38 pm #
Claire Forlani – She of the drop-dead stop-traffic beautiful eyes.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/29 @ 12:41 pm #
Eyes, huh?
Comment by Karl on 5/29 @ 12:47 pm #
I can’t say I ever made an effort to watch it, but it used to come on after one of the other shows I did watch — The Sopranos, iirc.
I second everyone on Claire Forlani, esp. the eyes.
Comment by Wilson on 5/29 @ 12:56 pm #
Well, those too. But the eyes, yeah. They are a sight to behold. I watch CSI NY just to see her.
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 1:00 pm #
Oh is she on CSI NY now? I take back the ‘rarely employed’ part, then. I don’t watch that show even though I lurve Gary Sinese.
Comment by Wilson on 5/29 @ 1:03 pm #
She was on for a while, MayBee. Not employed nearly enough, I concur. She played a small role, but stole the show.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 1:04 pm #
I hate that scooby doo for adults crap. The Rob Morrow one is the worst though.
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 1:09 pm #
Numbers?
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 1:14 pm #
Thanks, Wilson. Anyway I think she is beautiful, and in person SJP looks kind of like her. Or I was drunk.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 1:23 pm #
Yes. Numbers. Except you have to write it like this… Numb3rs. Cause it’s so arcane and all. Jeez that show is painful. Mostly cause you have to watch both Morrow and Peter MacNicol be completely wasted in roles that really John Stamos and Kevin James are way better suited for, respectively.
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 1:25 pm #
MayBee – You were drunk. You were so drunk, that you cannot remember how drunk you were.
I miss Gabrielle Anwar. She is one of my all-time favorites.
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 1:28 pm #
MayBee – You were drunk. You were so drunk, that you cannot remember how drunk you were.
Probably. There were a lot of poolside margaritas involved in that vacation.
Haps- I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you didn’t care for Northern Exposure.
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 1:30 pm #
Peter MacNichol is great. I watched Ally McBeal just because of his character. And, Lucy Liu. And, that blonde lesbian chick.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 1:31 pm #
Weird. I loved that show. I really did. I have it on dvd but I’ve never watched it all straight through. I don’t think that will ever happen really. But I did like it. Mostly the Eskimo chick. She rocked.
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 1:36 pm #
huh. I would have thought maybe John Corbett and Rob Morrow bugged you too much.
Comment by lee on 5/29 @ 1:37 pm #
SJP looks like a foot
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 1:37 pm #
MayBee – That used to describe Tuesday afternoons for me.
Northern Exposure was painful for anyone. Except for Janine Turner. Nice mole.
Comment by Carin -BONC on 5/29 @ 1:51 pm #
I would be critical of the show, but honestly I don’t think I ever watched an entire episode. The women were just so foreign to me.
Comment by thor - typical PW traffic driver on 5/29 @ 1:53 pm #
Me either, never watched it. I only watch sports, news, and shows with chicks I’d actually fuck.
Comment by thor - typical PW traffic driver on 5/29 @ 1:54 pm #
Lot’s of Fox News, in other words.
Comment by thor - typical PW traffic driver on 5/29 @ 1:59 pm #
And what’s up with Andrea Mitchell’s face. I’ve got wider bookmarks than that thing.
Comment by kelly on 5/29 @ 2:07 pm #
“Except for Janine Turner. Nice mole.”
Anyone remember the name of that utterly awful movie with Dan Akroyd, Rosie O’Donnell (ahem), and Janine Turner? Escape From…[something or other]? Plot based around mild S&M? Lots of bondage gear and lingerie? Utterly awful. Horrible.
Watched the whole thing. Because of…Janine Turner. In lingerie.
Comment by Radish on 5/29 @ 2:23 pm #
Exit from Eden.
I’m ashamed I knew that.
Comment by kelly on 5/29 @ 2:33 pm #
Thanks, Radish. Ditch the shame, though.
Janine Turner.
In lingerie.
Comment by Log Cabin on 5/29 @ 2:37 pm #
It’s odd, but I am a very non-latent homosexual man and I find the entire series gross and juvenile. It seems to be based on the premise that women can achieve equality by being crass and whorish and annoying.
The best review of SATC ever is from Brian Griffin (the dog) on Family Guy:
“So it’s a show about 3 hookers and their mother?”
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates - UMBA on 5/29 @ 2:42 pm #
Sure you guys aren’t thinking of Dana Delaney?
And yeah, I watched it too.
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 2:45 pm #
Because of…Janine Turner. In lingerie
You’re rightshe looks pretty good
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 2:48 pm #
Oh. Rob Morrow I think is talented, just wasted playing the meddling kid on that stupid Numb3rs show. John Corbett I can’t stand, but his character in Northern Exposure remember was sort of a pretentious cheesey loser dj slacker person. It was the role he was born to play. After that, it’s just wrong. He should just be playing Guy With Headache or Guy That Hates His Razor now at most I think.
Comment by kelly on 5/29 @ 2:51 pm #
Y’know, I think you’re right, SPB. Now I’m confused. Either or, I sat through that offal just to see one of them in lingerie.
Comment by BJTexs on 5/29 @ 2:51 pm #
Dana Delaney was the lingerie clad and fully naked femme fatale in that unbelievably wretched, horrible movie.
Sorry to harsh the mellow of all of your Janine turner fantasies.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 2:51 pm #
Oh hey. Janine Turner is from Texas. Just like those baby raper Warren Jeffs patriarchy daddies. Small world, huh?
Comment by dicentra on 5/29 @ 2:54 pm #
Every day that passes makes me more and more glad that I don’t have cable. SATC is one of the prime reasons.
Look, Numb3rs was great the first season because the math was intriguing, and so was the dynamic between Morrow and his brother and Judd Hirsch. After that it was boring.
It seems to be based on the premise that women can achieve equality by being crass and whorish and annoying.
Which is the nub of feminism since 1968, but no one will admit it anywhere left of center.
I liked John Corbett in NE when he built that trebuchet and tossed a piano. That was classic. Also, Adam Arkin.
Comment by dicentra on 5/29 @ 2:55 pm #
Janine Turner is a conservative, yo. She was on Laura Ingraham a few weeks back promoting a new book about moms and stuff.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates - UMBA on 5/29 @ 2:57 pm #
Dana Delaney was definitely in it.
IMDB lists a “Janet Turner”, but that seems to be someone else.
Comment by kelly on 5/29 @ 2:58 pm #
Wasn’t he the “mimbo” that both Elaine and George had a crush on? Well, until the mountain climbing accident.
Comment by Sdferr on 5/29 @ 3:04 pm #
Warn’t Dana Delaney a nurse chic in China Beach?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates - UMBA on 5/29 @ 3:08 pm #
Yes, Sdferr, that was her.
Comment by Sdferr on 5/29 @ 3:09 pm #
Reds. Always did me in.
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 3:28 pm #
MayBee – linking to Rosie in leather lingerie is evil.
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 3:31 pm #
Dana Delaney’s best performance ever was in Tombstone. I have only watched that movie about 3000 times.
Comment by Scape-goat Trainee on 5/29 @ 3:39 pm #
“Dana Delaney’s best performance ever was in Tombstone. I have only watched that movie about 3000 times.”
Tombstone?
Wasn’t that the movie where Kurt Russell wore a ferret on his lip to try and prevent Goldie from being able to track him down and talk to him more?
Comment by MayBee on 5/29 @ 3:42 pm #
I did it for you, JD.
Comment by JD on 5/29 @ 3:48 pm #
MayBee – I am soaking my eyeballs in bleach and just finished with a bout of dry heaves.
Comment by kelly on 5/29 @ 3:48 pm #
“MayBee – linking to Rosie in leather lingerie is evil.”
Agreed. I’m just thanking the computer gods that the image didn’t load when I hit the link. I was reading the blurb and thinking, “hey, what’s this got to do with Janine Turner?”
Comment by SarahW on 5/29 @ 4:04 pm #
http://celebtags.com/ Is a fun site where you jot in your first descriptive thought about celebrated people. Then you can view the collective results of the words others have used…all of them scaled to frequency submitted. Sarah Jessica’s little cloud is in there, and worth a view.
Comment by SarahW on 5/29 @ 4:19 pm #
Pretty much you have to scroll down to get the whole result.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 4:25 pm #
She’s a lot like that girl in junior high you knew your mom would want you to be nice to cause she knew her mom and also it’s not her fault she looks like that cause she was a homely baby.
Comment by RR Ryan on 5/29 @ 5:02 pm #
JD-You can find the lovely Gabrielle Anwar on the summer series, “Burn Notice”. As a bonus, it’s actually very good.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 5/29 @ 5:07 pm #
Janine Turner is a conservative, yo.
Must be why she doesn’t get much work these days.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 5:41 pm #
Oh. Jeez. I can’t watch anything with Sharon Gless in it. I am Sharon Gless-intolerant. Also she’s impossibly large. If she keeps getting work we’re gonna have to dig up the word brassy just for her. Brassy means loud and fat. Like Bette Midler except not as hawt and spicy. Sharon Gless. I don’t get it.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 5:42 pm #
She’s just so that woman in community theater that bakes all the time.
Comment by jmflynny on 5/29 @ 6:58 pm #
Ace once remarked “You mean jmflynny’s a chick?” Well, I believe I’m about to betray that truth all too well in this thread.
I watched the series for the first few years and then caught the later seasons in reruns and, frankly, neither I nor my friends EVER took away the message that gross consumerism could replace love. In fact, their vulnerability in their private moments or when opening their hearts to their friends is when we knew, that they knew, that love was all that really mattered in the end. THAT’s what drew me to the series. The (sometimes) great clothes and shoes and bags were simply window dressing. All of the attempts at recreating their particular chemistry have failed and I believe that just about every network has attempted it.
As for how casually some here refer to SJP as “ugly” or “horseface” is pretty astonishing and, really, it’s just plain mean. Seriously, no matter what else, you can always fall back on a woman’s looks to find fault.
I’ve never heard of her saying an unkind word to anyone…all the way back to her teenage years…and I’ve never heard her be cruel. And, I’ve never seen an interview where she wasn’t completely charming and gracious and utterly in love and dedicated to her husband; admirable qualities all.
Still, none of that can get past the nag jokes can it?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates - UMBA on 5/29 @ 7:18 pm #
As for how casually some here refer to SJP as “ugly†or “horseface†is pretty astonishing and, really, it’s just plain mean.Seriously, no matter what else, you can always fall back on a woman’s looks to find fault.
Yes, especially given the ultra-respectful treatment that men are given on that show, right?
Sauce for the goose. Or the horse, as the case may be.
Comment by Foxfier on 5/29 @ 7:39 pm #
Given how long this thread has gone on, if anyone reads this far–
I much lost all interest when a friend called it “Sluts in the City”– as if that were a *good* thing.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 5/29 @ 7:40 pm #
neither I nor my friends EVER took away the message that gross consumerism could replace love.
No need if you start from that position. And she does have a horseface, no matter how allegedly sweet you heard her being.
Comment by CGHill on 5/29 @ 7:56 pm #
SJP stays on the good side of my ledger by dint of one line. Some standard-issue lame TV-interview type noted that both she and hubby Matthew Broderick seemed to be constantly working; said SJP, “We have bills to pay, and we have no other skills.”
After that, I could forgive her almost anything.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 9:21 pm #
Oh. That’s very charming. Also she was in Square Pegs and is a lot cool forever and also she married Ferris Bueller and you is all jealous. But for serious I remember this article too. She has a good head and there are better people to be mean to. People like Sharon Gless and Baracky and Fiona Apple and that guy that’s married to Demi Moore. They creep me out way more than Mrs. Bueller.
Comment by SarahW on 5/29 @ 9:35 pm #
I actually like SJP a lot. But still laughed hard enough to fall off the bed when I saw the size of that H in the word cloud thingie. I do fall off the bed a lot but I knocked over some V8, it was memorable
Comment by happyfeet on 5/29 @ 9:46 pm #
Oh. Me too. I passed that around the office.
Comment by datadave on 5/30 @ 3:55 am #
Hah, It’s really funny seeing the drift of PW these days….but still very Jeff-like. SJP’s pretty hideous….but lovable as she fills up the screen with pure chutzpah. Yeah, I noticed. My g/f said she’s rather ugly, and I agreed…but that’s the beauty of her, she pulls off looking good while not and then gets respect as she’s hardworking and smart.
local Vermont station says “Mr. Big” is based on a guy in Vermont married to some pretty thing who wanted him to get her a 100 acre ‘ranch’ with horses and now he’s settled down with kid(s) and enjoying his publishing rewards. Says he liked the movie, but couldn’t love it, as it’s just not meant for his ‘consumption’…(hint, it’s for the suckers who made him rich).
Okay, jokers why’d you get in a tizzy about Rachel Ray’s scarf?
but then Dan, I think our RePug governor shouldn’t blame liberals for making Vermont too expensive….it’s guys like “Mr Big” who drive up the price of real estate.
Comment by datadave on 5/30 @ 4:06 am #
not to be accused of ‘lookism’. eh, me g/f added she’s got a hot body though….eyeing my response. “Yupp!”
(the average American woman wishes she could look as good a SJP…who happened to grow up in a very poor household according to rumor. But then the average American man looks worse by half. )
Comment by datadave on 5/30 @ 4:19 am #
Mr. Big’s wife talking:
“Instead of slapping the shit out of him, she cheerfully continues, “I said, ‘Where are these so-called clothes?’ And he says, ‘In the closet.’ So I go and look at these clothes to see what size they areâ€â€and they’re a size 1! And I say, ‘Please tell me there’s a zero rubbed off.’ I’m thinking, Oh, my God, there’s a girl out there who’s a size 1. So I went from being deliriously happy to miserable. I took a ten-mile run, and when I got back, Candace had picked up her clothes.—….
that’s just page 2 of the above article. I am not going to make it to the end of the article as I am ’self-involved’ (going to work…’enjoy’)
Damn, Dan. It’s not fiction.
Comment by B Moe on 5/30 @ 4:38 am #
I have no idea what is being discussed here, but the notion that Sarah Jessica Parker is a hideously ugly leads me to the conclusion you must be speaking in some sort of code. Either that or you live in a very different world than I.
Comment by datadave on 5/30 @ 5:10 am #
it’s not code, b moe. But you’re right, she’s not ugly, but sort of average, which is shocking considering the types that get on TV.
Compared to the work of the gay Republican writer of Desperate Housewives, Marc Cherry, Sex and the City is pretty wholesome. With fewer ‘ho’s’ than the Dunkin’sized pot-full at Des. Househo’s
Comment by datadave on 5/30 @ 5:12 am #
whoa, that Mr. Big’s kinda interesting: keep reading:
“His mother had to plead with the high-school principal to let him graduate with his class, at which point he enrolled in the Air Force, which she judged to be the safest of the services at the time, with the Vietnam War at its height. Galotti spent three and half relatively peaceful, flightless, and profitable years in the service, attaining the rank of sergeant. Stationed in the Philippines, he supplemented his income by loan-sharking and later opened a brothel with the proceedsâ€â€a chapter of his military career that he confided to me after Lisa teased him into spilling it.“
Comment by datadave on 5/30 @ 5:34 am #
“We took a walk up the back hill in search of the property line and eventually found ourselves lost for some twenty minutes in the deep woods below the ridge. “Don’t worry,†Galotti said, “I’ve got a Swiss Army knife with me.†He pulled it out of his pocket to show me. “Of course, it’s sterling silver, from Tiffany’s.†He finds this detail as amusing as I do.”
aw, Mr. Big. I lost my mighty Swiss Champ in those same woods. Hope you find it.
‘course’ that’s the mythical Vermont, not like the Hinesburg bottleneck of traffic we’ve got Dan. Talking to Chris Bohjalian yesterday about that traffic…’course he don’t know me but we see each other at the gas pumps regularly. Said he’s on his way to Saratoga. Good luck!
just to confuse you more, B. Moe. Local gossip.
SJP said she was poor as a girl…but apparently wiki puts that lie to rest…big step-family though, but plenty of education and good places to live.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/30 @ 5:42 am #
Yeah, that Hinesburg thing is ridiculous. Every traffic light they install is probably just going to make it worse.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 5/30 @ 2:01 pm #
Okay, jokers why’d you get in a tizzy about Rachel Ray’s scarf?
I didn’t mind it at all, terrorist chic is wonderful. I’m planning on a line of swastika scarves myself, I figure armbands will be a big hit too. It doesn’t mean you support fascism or murder of Jews, it just looks good!
Comment by Patrick Carroll on 5/30 @ 4:56 pm #
SATC is like brunch, as described in “The Simpsons”:
Comment by Patrick Carroll on 5/30 @ 4:57 pm #
Oh and my favorite was Miranda. But, you know, I’m an engineer. So, well, you know.
Comment by datadave on 5/31 @ 8:49 am #
Yeah, Dan, I thought the same thing but more likely it’s the paving going on. A ’roundabout’ at RT 116 and Silver St. would maybe be better too instead of the stop sign although the people on 116 are sweet about letting people in the line.