Sarah Jessica Parker by Dimitrios Kambouris/ WireImage.com, Lauren Davis Santo Domingo and Olivier Theyskens by Jamie McCarthy/ WireImage.com
By now, the image of Sarah Jessica Parker in her flowing, silver Nina Ricci gown at the Sex and the City premiere has circulated through just about every media outlet around the globe. Yet, despite how glam the actress looked, she's now suffering morning-after headaches about the dress's exclusivity, and feels duped by the fashion house that provided it for her big night. The dress, as it turns out, had been worn before(!). To make matters worse, the dress' designer, Olivier Theyskens, accompanied the frock for its first outing, on socialite Lauren Davis Santo Domingo, earlier in May. A photo of them together on a red carpet has been on Style.com.Parker told the New York Times that Theyskens assured her that the dress had not been worn before. While she noted that dress issues are not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, the relationship between Hollywood and fashion is serious business. "My affection for the dress hasn't changed," she explained, "but what they did was so shor...
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Sex and the City courtesy HBO
With the Sex and the City movie nearing its release day rumors have been flying about whether there will be a death in the city and in particular the death of Mr Big Chris NothDirector Michael Patrick King however laid that buzz to rest more or less Kill Mr Big I would have been chased around the planet by women with torches he joked to the AP Yet King did confide that he was looking to infuse some layers of melodrama into this film adaptation of the show but perhaps not as much as a darker drama would call forMy ultimate target King said was to make our girlfriends in other words our audience happy And I dont think Mr Big dying would make them happy When pressed on the possibility of potential other deaths Carrie gets hit by a cab after tripping in her Chloe gladiators Charlotte suffocates in the steam room however King denied the possibility Its a summer movie he said Why would I want to kill anyone Do you
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HBO has hired a top TV talent agent to help find the pay cable network’s next big hit. Sue Naegle, most recently a partner and co-head of the television department at United Talent Agency, is taking the job as president of HBO Entertainment and will oversee all series programming and specials. As an agent, Naegle put together the deal for Six Feet Under (one of HBO’s most acclaimed hits) and also brought the network its upcoming Southern vampire series, True Blood. Naegle replaces longtime HBO exec Carolyn Strauss, who left the network. While HBO has remained enormously profitable, it hasn’t generated the kind of buzzworthy hits that viewers have come to expect from the network that brought them The Sopranos and Sex and the City. — Stephen Battaglio
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth courtesy HBO
Roses are played, violets are lameSex and the City, you are my dame.In the 10 years since HBO’s landmark ode to Manhattan’s Manolo Blahniked man-eaters debuted, I’ve quit drinking, smoking and shoe shopping (almost). I’m far from Amish, but still, Carrie and company would be so ashamed of me. The one indulgence I refuse to give up, however, is my raging addiction to TV’s ultimate four-play.And thanks to the gigantic, pink-velvet encased Sex and the City: The Complete Series, I can now count on endless DVD booty calls. In fact, just this past weekend, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and I all had a good old time. Twice. Yep, two seasons in three days. How I didn’t spontaneously develop a vagina is a mystery, considering the sheer amount of girl power popping off the screen. Yet, going back to the beginning, I was reminded that Sex’s sexies weren’t always so “up-with-estrogen!” The pilot is a much darke...
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Andrew McCarthy by Nicole Rivelli/NBC
Jeers to Lipstick Jungle for miscasting Andrew McCarthy as Joe Bennett, the billionaire who romances fashion designer Victory Ford (Lindsay Price). In Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell’s excruciatingly self-derivative new NBC dramedy, Mr. Bennett seems like a Mr. Big wannabe. But with his diffident, charisma-free performance, ex-Brat Packer McCarthy (Pretty in Pink) seems more like Mr. Medium-Size.
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Lipstick Jungle by Andrew Eccles/NBC
Looks like NBC is taking a stab at this trendy idea of launching a new series that revolves around a group of powerful women living glitzy Big Apple lives. From the writer of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell, comes Lipstick Jungle. And you can expect a lot of familiar faces such as Brooke Shields, Lindsay Price and Kim Raver amongst the many pretty, Jimmy-Choo-wearing people. Watch it now! | More online videos
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Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson by Frank Ockenfels/The WB
Out of all the TV shows past and present, we narrowed down a list of the small-screen lovers we'll always love. Through their tough times, breakups, makeups and romantic moments, we hold the following pairs close to our hearts. Here's our list of the top 10 TV couples we'll forever adore — and how you can enjoy them, too, on DVD. — Gord Lacey10) Mulder and Scully, The X-FilesPeople may debate about these two, but this pair couldn't have been more in love… even if they never showed it until the end. Talk about sexual tension! Buy the DVD here.9) David and Maddie, MoonlightingIf only they had hidden their feelings like Mulder and Scully did… then the show wouldn't have tanked after they hooked up. But before that, they were the most entertaining couple on TV. Buy the DVD here.8) Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper, The Wonder YearsThere's nothing like young love, and Kevin and Winnie took fans through the flirting, the dating and the nerve-racking phases of finding that...
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Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon in Sex and the City by Craig Blankenhorn/HBO
Though he has settled his beef over payment with Candace Bushnell, Clifford Streit, Bushnell's ex-manager — aka the inspiration for Carrie Bradshaw's gay pal — is shopping around Unbecoming Stanford, a tell-all about the HBO hit's early days. Among the book’s revelations, the New York Daily News says, is which of the on-screen couples also hooked up off-screen (a bombshell that promises to have present-day repercussions); why there was so much Sturm und Drang surrounding Kim Cattrall ("A natural comedienne... the camera went right to her"); and which Hollywood hottie Darren Star pegged as having no future (answer: Ashton Kutcher). — Ben Katner
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Jack Mackenroth, Project Runway
In one of the most emotional Project Runway (Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET on Bravo) episodes ever, Jack Mackenroth withdrew from the competition after developing a potentially dangerous staph infection. The good-natured 38-year-old menswear designer spoke to us about his sudden departure, his Sex and the City movie cameo and his new reality-show romance.
TVGuide.com: First, let me say how bummed I am about your leaving the show.Jack Mackenroth: Not as bummed as me! [Laughs]
TVGuide.com: Can you walk me through the sequence of events? What happened? Jack: Basically, it seems like a week but it’s only a day, tops. The day before, I had this bump in my nose and I thought, "This is weird." The next morning, I woke up, and my lip was really puffy. The progression was so rapid that I thought, "I know what this is." Twice before, long ago, I had a very antibio
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Skeet Ulrich in Jericho by Cliff Lipson/CBS
Just a thought: If the strike lasts much longer, do you think CBS' Big Brother house has room for all of us? I joke, of course, but I also fear that if things don't get resolved soon, it's going to be a long, cold winter indeed for fans of good old everyday regular non-reality TV.In the last few days, we’ve seen cliff-hanger episodes of Desperate Housewives and Heroes that felt like season finales, and for all we know, that’s what they might be, if production doesn’t resume early in the new year for the back half of their seasons. For the first month of the writers’ strike, viewers didn’t feel much pain (except for fans of late-night comedy, the first casualty) because we were in a sweeps month chock-full of original episodes. Life went on as usual. That’s about to end. There are scattered episodes of many series yet to air in December, and a few leftovers for early 2008. But come the new year, the TV landscape’s going to start looking mighty diffe...
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