Final Purge: Sex And The City Mania!

Posted by: Catherine Strawn Filed in: news
10:00AM, Friday May 30th 2008

We swear, after Monday, when Catherine and I will have a brief IM about what we thought of the movie, we will not write about this show AGAIN. Or at least for a very, very long time.—Editor

Over the course of the show, Carrie had 14 sex partners, Charlotte had 17, Miranda had 18, and Samantha had 40. [CTV.ca]

SATC is expected to open second this weekend—behind Indiana Jones, which will likely hold its number one spot. [LA Times]

Make your own SATC-inspired cocktail. The “Miranda” sounds the most appealing: vodka, Campari, pomegranate juice, Triple Sec, and lemon. [Toronto Sun]

SATC killed the “masculine cocktail,” or so claims the “masculine cocktail” industry. Bring back the sidecar! [Posted Torono]

Lauren Hutton blames SATC‘s portrayal of promiscuous women and stereotypical single women on gay writers. “It’s written by guys, who happen to be gay, who are sluts. That’s what I think.” [SFGate.com]

Liz Smith doesn’t think Hudson worked in the movie. “It looks like somebody thought, “It’s always been such a white show, let’s bring in an ethnic ... how about Oscar-winning Jennifer Hudson?” [FOXNews.com]

Darren Star thinks men are going to see his movie: “Their girlfriends are going to take them,” Star said. “And they’re going to like it.” [ABC News]

Kristin Davis is so cute. I want her dress. [GlamTV]

Slate thinks that labels have an all-too-prominent role in the movie. [Slate]

One Long Island-girl was so inspired by SATC that she snuck into bars to order cosmos and cheated on her boyfriend with seven guys in one week. [ABC News]

SATC is popular with women of all income levels. [NY Times]

Joy Behar is going to turn Mario Cantone straight. [The View]

Did SATC make overly sexy office attire acceptable? [WSJ]