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Newsweek' Newsmakers column decides to ask Sarah Jessica Parker a couple questions and she gets feisty!
There’s a fire at your home, God forbid, and you can save only one pair of shoes. Manolos or Jimmy Choos?
I don’t wear Jimmy Choos. I only ever wear Manolos. [While Gothamist has heard that Manolo Blahnik (or his manager) doesn't give out free shoes, we're sure there's a little kickback to Sex and the City.]
OK. A pair of Manolos or a Kelly bag?
Oh, well, that’s like “Sophie’s Choice.” That’s an impossible situation. [Ah, the classic comparison of choosing which of your two children lives to choosing between accessories. Got it.]
OK. All the shoes or the dog?
The dog. Jesus Christ! Do I appear to be a terribly superficial person, with all these questions about clothes? I have deeper thoughts than what I might put on that day. I’m not my character. I don’t want people to think I spend the better part of the day deciding where to shop. [Hey, Larry David has no problem being perceived as superficial...give it up, SJP.]
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I'm more interested in her opinion on Big Murakami Balls.
Those questions make me think the Newsweekers have been reading Black Table.
Yeah, those questions did seem very un Newsweek. That Mark Whitaker!
Perhaps they are trying to muscle in on People Magazine's demographics.
Newsweek's Nicki Gostin = Stuttering John.
I love Jessica Parker... questions on that interview were totally dumb.
C.
This interview with Sarah Jessica Parker, in which the actress equated rescuing either Manolo Blahnik shoes or a Kelly bag from her burning apartment to the heart-wrenching decision made by the title character in William Styron's "Sophie's Choice" was disappointing. To compare the nightmarish dilemma of a mother forced to value the life of one child over another to the choice of saving either a pair of designer shoes or a handbag is insensitive and misguided. During the Holocaust, people were forced to make choices which haunted them for decades, yet for many survivors like myself, these choices saved lives, not anything purchasable in a boutique on Fifth Avenue. Shame on Sarah Jessica Parker, and shame on the reporter for calling her "Sophie's Choice" comment "perfect" in Newsweek.
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
New York, NY
Holocaust survivor and author, "Strange and Unexpected Love: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs"
does anyone know how much money brands pay for product placement in sex and the city?
as a guy, ive refused to watch this show, until recent..now i'm hooked...
however, i really wish they had better music running in the background...i could so hear this song called 'end of the day' by ben arthur at the end of the most recent rerun on hbo...