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That rumor that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were leaving Greenwich Village for Park Slope? Totally a rumor. The NY Times finds out that the person who forked $8.45 million over for the mansion at 17 Prospect Park West is "a wealthy Google engineer and his wife who want to raise their young family away from the hustle and bustle and celebrity of SoHo, where the family now lives." Oh. The engineer, who wished to remain anonymous, said, "I hear people complain about the strollers in Park Slope. But try taking a stroller out in SoHo. SoHo is not exactly family-friendly." As for SJP, her spokeswoman "said that none of the scores of entertainment and real estate Web sites that picked up the story bothered to call to ask about Ms. Parker’s real estate plans." Snap!

Has the world gone mad? Gwyneth Paltrow, who once loved NYC (but lately has soured on America), is calling Spain her second home. In a recent interview she said, "Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C. It's incredible." Celebs do tend to be anti-development. She also noted that people enjoy life more there, as opposed to New Yorkers, who run around too much punching the keys on their BlackBerries. Meanwhile, Miss Manhattan herself, Sarah Jessica Parker might be moving to Brooklyn! Rumor has it that her and the family may have purchased Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany's double-wide, 9-bedroom townhouse at 17 Prospect Park West (pictured). Don't worry Manhattan, you'll still have Madonna and her chickens.

Reality television will soon confront its latest victim: art. Bravo is now casting for "The Untitled Art Project," which brings Sarah Jessica Parker and her production company, Pretty Matches, together with the Emmy-nominated Magical Elves ("Top Chef," "Project Runway") and Eli Holzman, to produce an hour long creative competition series among contemporary artists. It's just like how all the great artists were discovered. There will be thirteen total aspiring artists competing for a gallery show, money, and more. Each episode will have the artists creating "unique pieces highlighting art's role in everyday life" in everything from sculpture to photography. Get your portfolio together and your beret perfectly situation atop your head, the NYC casting call is July 18th and 19th at White Columns.

Well that doesn't really flow off the tongue as well, but awwww, aren't these the cutest little marriage band-aids you've ever seen? Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick (and big brother James Wilkie) are showing off their twin babies, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, who are 8 days old today. The NY Post reports that the photo was taken "in Manhattan, where the family lives, exactly one week after the twins were born to a surrogate mother in Ohio." The couple has announced that "the babies are doing beautifully," and Broderick declared, "We have to get a lot of princess toys." Full image after the jump.

Candace Bushnell, the woman who launched a thousand well-heeled tourists on to a stoop in the Greenwich Village, is now jumping on the popular Young Adult bandwagon, having announced that she's inked a deal to write two teen novels. Get excited, they're Sex and the City prequels!

A judge approved for Steve & Barry's, the cheap-n-chic retail chain which faced bankruptcy earlier this summer, to be acquired by two investments firms for $163 million. Newsday reports the new group, BHY S&B Holdings LLC, made up of Bay Harbor Management and York Capital (with Steve Shore and Barry Prevor as investors), will "Steve & Barry's merchandise inventories, store leases and all of Steve & Barry's intellectual property rights, including its celebrity and brand licenses." Though Sarah Jessica Parker is still on board, Stephon Marbury claims Steve & Barry's still owes him $2 million in licensing fees--plus more in roylaties--for the Starbury brand. But Newsday points out, "Under the bankruptcy proceedings, the new owners would owe Starbury nothing."

After finding themselves in bankruptcy last month, Steve & Barry's, the clothing retailer boasting inexpensive designs from Sarah Jessica Parker and Stephon Marbury, announced that an investment company has offered them $163 million. Newsday reports that a subsidiary of Bay Harbor Management, which specializes in "purchasing and revitalizing troubled companies," has made the offer, in exchange for some assets and would want the company to continue to operate. The offer needs to be accepted by bankruptcy court and would establish "a minimum price for other bidders during the auction process." One retail consultant said it would be a "steal." It remains to be seen what will happen with its stores--some would probably be closed.

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal and NY Times reported that discount retailer Steve & Barry's was facing bankruptcy. The chain had boasted how it took undesirable real estate and survived on very small margins to offer good quality, trendy clothing at low prices. Sarah Jessica Parker's lawyer said his client, who created a line of clothing for the company, was "surprised and disappointed" given how strong S&B's accounting statements were, but the WSJ noted this: "People close to the company’s finances say most of the retailer’s earnings came in the form of one-time so-called tenant improvement payments from landlords of $2 million to $7 million per new store."

Hollywood is apparently shocked that women can affect box office sales; Variety notes that after Sex and the City opened this weekend to the tune of $55.7 million, it shattered "decades-old thinking that females -- particularly older ones --can’t fuel the sort of big opening often enjoyed by a male-driven event pic or family movie." Way to go ladies?

       

Though the trailer echoed the sentiment that "Brooklyn is the new Manhattan," and SJP herself called the outer boroughs "desirable," last night the Sex and the City movie premiere took place smack dab in the middle of town at Radio City Music Hall.

The long-awaited, much-hyped Sex and the City Movie premiered in London and the film's stars strutted their stuff on the red carpet. In particular, Sarah Jessica Parker wore not only a Alexander McQueen dress and Fred Leighton jewels but a whimsical chapeau as well. Created by go-to-milliner Philip Treacy, the hat is like a garden scene--butterfly, flowers, and maybe a mound of moss attached to Parker's head (it's all very fashion forward)

Consider it official, it's Sex and the City month; be prepared to read about the movie up until, and past, its May 30th big screen debut. The ink's been bought by the barrell to promote this release, and even columnist Carrie Bradshaw herself never penned this many words about s-e-x during her career.

Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker play bad cop/badder cop in Street Kings, an adaptation of James Ellroy's (L.A. Confidential) novel about a brutal gang of LAPD cops. Though directed by David Ayer, who wrote the solid Training Day, the Washington Post says the “big-name casting brings no honor, or even fun, to the hackneyed roles.” And the movie’s “moral relativity...seems like a flimsy pretext for hard-core shock value.”

Just in time for the Sex and the City movie, it's the Sex and the City-inspired "Sarah Jessica Porkher" sex doll! We won't speculate how the NY Post found out about this $20 blow-up doll, but it is hilariously disturbing/disturbingly hilarious.

First Madonna dissed New York City, calling it "boring," and now Miss Sex and the City herself is saying it's "not what it used to be." Sarah Jessica Parker may actually be doing us all a favor, however, by discouraging the inevitable flock or Carrie Bradshaw-wannabees from moving to the Big Apple after The Big Movie comes out later this year.

Even though there wasn't a "villain" along the lines of Santino Rice or a favorite like Michael Knight, the fourth season of Project Runway has been pretty captivating with some very lovely work. Tonight, the three remaining designers' Bryant Park Fashion Week face-off will be shown and a winner announced.

Hello, Lovers! Last night we received the first Sex and the City trailer...finally! We sat down with a Flirtini, called our girlfriends and pressed play to find out what Carrie & Co. have been up to all these months while they weren't busy clogging up the sidewalks and becoming New York's biggest tourist attraction. Turns out we'll be seeing a lot of the same 'ol shenanigans in theaters as on TV: clothes, shoes, talking, drinking...because,...

The gasps you heard in front of certain American television sets Wednesday were because Project Runway's second episode packed a wallop. After American icon challenges during season 2 and 3, the fourteen remaining designers speculated this year's fashion icon could be Madonna, Britney ("she needs help," according to the severely coiffed Christian, who interned at Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen) or Snow White, it's possible that the actual icon was better than their dreams: It was Sarah Jessica Parker!

This past week, the big wedding wasn't even real! According to the many paparazzi photographs of the Sex & the City movie filming, it seems that Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw is finally stepping down the aisle. With, we assume, Mr. Big. The wedding between the fictional sex columnist-turned-author and the rich business guy (it's never been totally clear what Big does, except smirk and show up at the right and wrong times) took place at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The bride wore Vivienne Westwood, her bridesmaids did not wear matching bridesmaid gowns. We'll know more when the movie comes out next year.

We got mixed reviews in our poll about the Sex and the City movie that's coming out more than three years after the show ended its HBO series. Whether we wanted it or not, the movie is going to happen -- and film crews and cast have already arrived.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A home invasion robbery in Queens, an attempted abduction on 4th Avenue & 17th Street in Brooklyn, and a possible electrical shock at Broad and Bridge Streets in Manhattan
• Trees rejoice: Phone books are getting thinner because so many people have cell phones nowadays - with 1,796 pages, the 2007 Verizon white pages for Manhattan are the smallest EVER.
• A-Rod lashes out at paparazzi following him in Chicago
• Those free Shakespeare in the Park tickets mean waiting in line at dawn...
• ...and getting first dibs on Sarah Jessica Parker's "affordable" (read: cheap) clothing line means waiting since 11PM last night, when they could have been watching Sex and the City re-runs
• If someone in Vermont can be arrested for making faces at a police dog, we're sure it'll happen in NYC at some point
• Architecture styles of Dallas and Hong Kong on the Upper West Side? Ugh.
• The Politicker asks City Council member Tom White how he would have voted on the Sonny Carson street naming, had he not conveniently had a doctor's appointment on the day of the vote.

Bruni one-stars Da Silvano, downgrading it from the two stars Ruth Reichl awarded the restaurant in 1998. He doesn’t quite understand its allure, though he sees occassional glimpses: “Perhaps more than any New York restaurant I know, Da Silvano illustrates... the mind-boggling inconsistency that can exist across the breadth of a menu and a series of visits.” Celebrities love the place, though, he tells us. He even called a few to ask why. Madonna didn't get back to him, but Sarah Jessica Parker did, and she favors the linguini with clams. Why the food critic for the New York Times needs a celebrity to weigh in on merits of a restaurant, we're not quite sure, but good to know that SJP thinks Frank merits a response and Madonna doesn't.

The Devil may wear prada and Superman may wear tight red briefs but what's really should get you hot and bothered on a long holiday weekend is Amy Sedaris in prosthetic teeth and high rise pants. Wooh-wee, that's some sexy stuff.

This week’s new movie releases are all about men behaving badly, and of course the women who put up with their crap. Though if that's not what you're into there's always some good Irish beer or Korean kimchee to tempt your movie palate.

- Nicolette Sheridan does not look over-Botoxed with fish lips!

Bless you, Project Runway, for proving that as skilled as the fashion design contestants are, they are still dumb as bricks. For last night's challenge, Heidi and Tim tantalized the group with the promise of designing for an "American style icon" and saying they would meet her in her house... the designers start thinking along the lines of Gwyneth Paltrow, but it's clear when they start walking towards Toys'R'Us that it's going to be Barbie. Yet they still are thinking it might be Sarah Jessica Parker or a celebrity who on par with Nancy O'Dell, who had a dressed designed for her during last season. Anyway, they had to design a dress for My Scene Barbie (aka "Slutty Ho/Bratz-like Barbie") that would actually be produced in a limited edition for the dolls. Anyway, it seemed like a fun challenge, because who doesn't like seeing grown men and women tote around Barbies, and there were some really great dresses. Gothamist conitnues to love that smug bastard Santino and the cool Chloe, but we adored Nick for making fun of Marla and her "wickedy-wack trim." And there is excellent potential in Andrae completely cracking.

The moment people who are dying for some sort of royal-related mishap have been waiting for has come: Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in New York on their first visit to the colonies. Apparently, the British idea of a memorial for the British citizens who died at the World Trade Center is some sort of engraved gong. But Camilla did look right at home in this AP photo, as she has the "something smell funny" look anyone else would have if they had to listen to George Pataki blathering on. The British press is having a field day with the American press calling their visit a "bore."

The groans you hear are from newsstand owners and the super stylish, trying to carry the new fall fashion magazines. Plus, it's the only time of the year Vogue wants to be fat. The Daily News has a rundown of them, and depending on how you swing, we recommend you check out or avoid Vogue for Sarah Jessica Parker's gushing, Harper's Bazaar for Demi Moore's confirmation that she likes to snuggle up with Ashton naked (all we want to say is that if we were her kid, we'd never show our face at school again...but it's probably past that point for her kids), and Elle with J. Lo admitting being "Bennifer" was fun. Gothamist is waiting for the Law & Order episode where an 800 page fall fashion magazine is the weapon of choice, but at this point, we'll settle for seeing some women's segment on a morning show demonstrate how lifting these magazines counts as strength training.

Where does Detective Mike Logan rank on your list of favorite L&O detectives? Do you have any ideas why Chris Noth looks so tired and bloated these days?

Today kicks off the New Yorker Festival and if you haven't snagged your tickets for some of the events yet, here's our list of last minute events we think are more than worthwhile...that still have seats left!