The Sex and the City 2 trailer has just hit the web with the force of a Manolo-clad atomic bomb, and I’d like to take a minute to remind everyone that Sarah Jessica Parker is just so dismayed at how commercial New York has become:
“You know, when I arrived in the city in 1976, New York was financially a wreck,” she remembers. “But to me it’s the New York that Matthew [Broderick] and I literally try to find every day of our lives. It was the best place in the world. It was literature. It promised everything. And for someone who loved food and smells and stimulation, who was rocked to sleep by the sound of taxis—well, there’s just so much money now, and the city is so affluent, and all the colors, all the shops, the look of a street from block to block is just terribly absent of distinguishing coffee shops, bodegas. All of that stuff that made it possible to live in New York is gone.”
Not that you’d know it from the hit television series, the first movie (which grossed $153 million in ticket sales alone, by the by), and now the second movie, with its opening shot of Carrie Bradshaw exiting her Fifth Avenue penthouse without even having to break a stride, thanks to the uniformed doormen who assist her without thanks. As the executive producer of the series and both movies, do you think she had any control over how her beloved city was represented?
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Actually, it DOES look like she thanks the doormen.
Still not gonna see it. Haven’t been in a theater since Casino Royale.
That’s not the most shocking part of that quote. She claims to love food!?!
But yeah, wasn’t conspicuous consumption of all things commercial the point of the show?
So, we’ll be treated to yet another extravaganza of a bunch of saggy, peroxide-addled putas flouncing about and obsessing over their vajayjays? How many times do we have to go back to THAT well, anyway? Er, so to speak.
This reminds me of Playboy. Pure fantasy. I suppose it will be good escapism when it comes out.
Aw, Sarah Jessica — why the long face? Is the grazing bad in Central Park this time of year?
Gee, Sarah, you ought to be full of hope instead of angst now that your favorite politicians are working so feverishly to beggar the nation… NYC will be back to your beloved financial wreck before you can change your Manolos!
Why in Gods name would anyone love a city in financial ruin? How stupid is she? If she misses it so much, come to Detroit. We are in a wonderful state of financial ruin, our public schools have the lowest test scores in the nation and our politicians are so corrupt we are suprised when one of them is actually honest. Unemployment – check, Crime – check check, Drugs – check check check. We have it all!
Bizarre coming from someone who was once very poor herself.
The reason why NYC is so “affluent” these days? Rudy Giuliani. The Left HATES the fact he cleaned up that town and made it someplace you’d actually want to visit, much less live there.
Reminds me of a pro skater (white hip hop/rap type) who said he wished Carlsbad had more crime so it would be more real. I assume he meant as long as it didn’t happen to him of course. If he’s so down with the life he should be in Compton. I promise you when NYC turns back to the s$%* hole she longs for, her, Matthew and the kids will be LONG GONE.
What the hell kind of name is Sarah Jessica anyway?
HA HA HAA! I meant to remark on the fact that her status as executive producer of that shite was probably why she wsa always and forever front and center, lavished with compliments, etc. It’s very much like playing Barbies when you’re 6. If the other kids are at YOUR house, YOU get to say who’s Malibu and who’s Superstar, and who gets to use the Corvette. SJP is in truth one of the fugliest women in show business. Her nose looks like it belongs in John Holmes’ pants.
Doesn’t she know about the carbon footprint of the little furry animals that will be conspiratorially clubbed by greedy, climate-changing corporations in the making of this film?
My senitments exactly, StrawberryGirl. LN is right too, there are plenty of crummy places in the world for her to move to.
She’s definitely one to talk.
-Denise
i’m certainly no SJP fan..and the first movie was so jaw-droppingly bad that it’s unfathomable there is about to be a sequel foisted upon us..BUT.. that being said, she does have a point about NY,NY. there was once a working-class, ethnic, gritty sense of danger and potential that gave rise to the “if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere” meme. ever since guiliani turned 42nd street from a den of iniquity into disneyland-northeast, however, there has been a steady march toward the blandness of a suburban shopping mall..stocked with chain stores and the sameness that is a comfort to tourists, but the romantic challenge of the rough-and-tumble life in the big city is all but gone. to be fair, much the same can be said for other once-exciting cities like toronto and san francisco. it’s no longer possible for a kid-with-nothing-but-a-dream to just land in town and eke out his way, and it’s a great loss, not only for the younger generations, but for all of us. times have changed and not necessarily for the better.
ironically (hypocritically?) though it’s SJP who is the poster child for the extremely affluent, consumerist, conformist ‘hipsters’ that now, for the most part, populate the island.. so maybe she ought to check herself before she complains about the good old days.
If SJP doesn’t like living in the most affluent borough of one of the world’s most affluent cities, she could i imagine move someplace else, if you know, affluence is a problem. I hear there are other cities.
Hee, Sex and Compton. Doesn’t have the same cachet, somehow.
I was thinking about this story the other day, believe it or not, when I realized that SJP was 11 years old in 1976. So she was a 5th grader. It’s amazing she’s so smart, and hip that she was aware of how cool New York City was before she was even out of grade school. I don’t think I could tell time yet in fifth grade. Or I guess it could be she’s just full of crap.
Good call, Pasta. I also want to know why people (usually when they have a lot of money) think that a dirty impoverished city is sooo wonderful and inspiring. The only thing dirt and poverty usually inspire in people is a desire to get rich and live somewhere else. I doubt either of them is looking to raise their kids in squalor. If she wants a hardscrabble life, there are plenty of people in the projects who will trade places with her. I don’t think they find the slums particularly promising.