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  • Better Than Mr. Big: An Old Guy With Writer's Block


    Ellen , that is one gutsy post, and a public service, too. (Maybe Prudie has some suggestions on ways to get the "Clooney it up a little bit'' message out?) No way the big-screen Sex and the City could match last night's Daily Show spoof , in which Jason Read More...
  • I Loved/Hated Sex and the City!


    I admit I watched Sex and the City , the series, pretty religiously. I missed the beginning. And after watching my first episode, I hated it. I hated the way they talked: the faux fabulousness. But it was oddly addictive. It was like a train wreck I couldn't Read More...
  • Which City Is That Again?


    Oh gosh. Can I hide in a closet for the next two weeks, until, like a bad skin peel, this movie flakes off and goes away? For the first five or six or 20 seasons that it was on, I avoided the show, out of principal. What principal, I'm not sure—just the Read More...
  • Liked Samantha's Apartment, Though


    I was going to say I watched that show sort of like I used to watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a kid. But that's wrong, because on the other side of the earth, there really are wildebeests leaving the herd. Whereas nowhere in nature are there women Read More...
  • Sex and the City, the Get-Well-Soon Gift


    As every mom and single woman in my corner of the universe knows, Sex and the City opens as a movie next weekend. So, with the critical distance born of many years of reruns, are you lovers or haters? Me, I only really discovered the show last summer, Read More...
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