Earlier this year, Demi Moore was slated to play feminist icon Gloria Steinem in a film about Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace. But since Moore is "suffering from exhaustion" (or from doing whip-its or smoking an incense-like product), she has dropped out of the film. Now the filmmakers say they have found a new Gloria, and it's our one and only Carrie Bradshaw.
Sarah Jessica Parker To Play Gloria Steinem In Porn Star Biopic, Lovelace
Will You See The Carrie Bradshaw-With-Kids-Esque I Don't Know How She Does It
Running after kids while in Jimmy Choos? Pancake batter on a Prada jacket? The lines between Carrie Bradshaw and Sarah Jessica Parker blur in the new movie, I Don't Know How She Does It, which opens today and is based on a British novel about a working mother who tries to do it all/have it all and not go insane. Oh, and in the movie, Parker's character Kate Reddy is married to Greg Kinnear (Aidan?, flirts with Pierce Brosnan (Mr. Big?), is best friends with Christina Hendricks (Miranda/Samantha/Charlotte?), has a work rival in Seth Meyers (someone mean, like Michiko Kakutani, maybe?).
Model Is Angry That Sarah Jessica Parker Is A "Fashion Icon"
A supermodel says that Sarah Jessica Parker is no fashion icon, and... it's a little confusing. Emily Sandberg wrote a takedown of the actress on her blog, noting that Patricia Field deserves the fashion icon badge, not SJP. But since Anna Wintour is placing the actress on the cover of Vogue, it gives her the worldwide fashion icon status. But people know celebrities don't dress themselves, right? And people know who Patricia Field is, right? And this is just how these things work, right? Celebrities get to play dress up with tons of cash, models get to play dress up with less cash, and they all get to make the rest of us feel terrible about our lives by creating this unrealistic fantasy world.
SJP White-Knuckling Onto Sex And The City Franchise
Sarah Jessica Parker will not let Blake Lively steal her thunder, once the Sex and the City prequel starring the much younger vixen is out, the real Carrie wants back in. The LA Times says she's not willing to give up on it, and in a recent interview the actress said, "I would go back. I think there's one more story to tell. I know there is." (Like that one about beating a dead horse?) "I'd definitely tell that [third] story. But maybe not now. Maybe in five years, you know?" Yes, after five years of moisturizing.
SJP Brings Top Artist To Brooklyn Museum
First of all, Sarah Jessica Parker (OMZzzz did you see the new Sex and the City II trailer?) is hosting a new reality television show. It'll air on Bravo in June, and is titled Work of Art: The Next Great Artist... because obviously it's through reality television that we'll find the next Kandinsky and Parker is an expert on art because she dated "artist Aleksandr Pertrovsky" in season six of SATC?
Sex and the City Sequel Trailer FINALLY HERE!
Puppies in purses, pink cupcakes, penthouses! It's the just-released Sex and the City sequel trailer, soundtracked by Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind," of course:
SJP Regrets Sex Sequel
Well this is an interesting publicity route: Sex and the City starlet Sarah Jessica Parker told the London Daily Mail that she regrets signing on for the Sex sequel! She says her work schedule has cut the amount of time she has with her surrogate-borne 4-month-old twins, Tabitha and Marion. She told them: "One [baby] would prefer to be held 24 hours a day, and the other is already suffering from type A issues. It's been amazing but complicated because of my current work schedule, which I have enormous regrets about." [via Village Voice]
Sarah Jessica Parker Is NOT Moving To Brooklyn
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!
Gwyneth Hates NY, SJP Loves Brooklyn
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 Tackles Art World
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.
Matthew and Sarah Plus Three
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.
Sex and the City Gals Get Revirginized
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!
Marbury Wants His $2 Million From Steve & Barry's
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."
A Possible $163 Million Life Line for Steve & Barry's
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.
Did $8.98 Dresses Do Steve & Barry's In?
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."
(Not All) Women Love Sex
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?
Sex Premiere Causes Commotion in the City
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.
Sex and the City Movie Makes its Entrance in London
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)
Sex Gets Pre-Release Ink
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.
Weekend Movie Forecast: Bad Cops, Illegal Immigrants
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.”
Sex and the City Gets the Sex Doll Treatment
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.
SJP Warns Future Carries: NYC is Pricey
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.
Project Runway 4: Finale Time
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.
Still 5 Months Away, Sex and the City Releases First Trailer
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,...
Project Runway 4: Clothes and the City
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!
Times Weddings Highlights, Plus Some Others
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.
Sex and the City Starts Filming...in the City
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.
Extra, Extra
- 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.
Wednesday Food News: Early Edition
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 Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Very Special Episode edition
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.

