Sex and the City: The girls are back — and for the cast, the wait …
Source: MiamiHerald.com (Original Article)
NEW YORK — There are no Wookies in the Sex and the City movie — no Vulcans with pointy ears or hobbits with oversize feet or aging archaeologists fond of bullwhips and fedoras. Heck, there probably isn’t a single computer-generated special effect in it, although it’s a safe bet its overwhelmingly female target audience will be oohing and aahing through it anyway.
Considering the mania that has surrounded the movie since it began filming in Manhattan last year with as much secrecy as anyone can muster in the streets of New York, you’d think Sex and the City, which opens Friday, was directed by George Lucas or Steven Spielberg. Instead, the movie was written and directed by Michael Patrick King, who served the same duties for six seasons during Sex and the City’s run as an HBO series.
As pretty much every woman in the civilized world knows by now (along with many of their boyfriends, and legions of gay men), the show was inspired by Candace Bushnell’s newspaper columns about single women looking for love in the Big Apple and centered on four single friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Bushnell’s alter-ego, a columnist whose on-again, off-again affair with the jet-setting Mr. Big (Chris Noth) gave the show its narrative spine; Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), a tightly wound lawyer; Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), a prim and proper WASP from a wealthy family, and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), a high-powered publicist whose connections were outdone only by her libido.
It was the contrast of the four women’s personalities — along with the show’s frank approach to sexuality and its often uproarious humor — that connected so strongly with audiences, which grew in number even after the series ended its 94-episode, seven-year run via syndication on TBS and DVD sales.
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