Sex And The City

Oh god, it all could have been so different; for the 17-year-old girl; for the AFL; for the St Kilda footballers; for Ricky Nixon; for an enthralled, outraged public - if only she had known how to say one word- ‘no’.

Watching the AFL nude scandal girl’s 60 Minutes interview on Sunday it became startlingly clear that this whole sad affair could have been averted if she had known how to extricate herself from a footballer’s Sydney hotel room last year.

“I guess as soon as I walked into that hotel room I though ‘Oh no, this is bad, I don’t know how to get out of this situation’” she told an ever- nodding Liz Hayes.

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We’re the first to admit we heterosexual blokes haven’t always treated you, our fabulous homosexual brothers, with the respect and affection you so richly deserve.

We can only guess at the number of times some knuckle-dragger inserted your head in an S-bend at high school after being driven into a homophobic rage by your fashion-forward outfit, Truman Capotesque lacerating wit, or Elton John pencil case.

We can picture you now, pacing up and down your tastefully decorated bedroom thinking, “One day I shall I blow this tragic town, join Hollywood’s gay mafia, and create a zeitgeist-reflecting TV show revolving around four gay men cunningly disguised as self-obsessed single women.

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They’re back, those four Manolo Blahnik-shod Manhattanites, and by all accounts, they’re well past their culturally relevant prime.

Reading initial reviews of the movie, there seems little doubt the franchise has seemingly now become an over-blown, cliché- ridden, squalidly materialistic catalogue of designer frocks, accessorised with ethnically-insensitive stereotypes all for the bargain price of $15.

With the premiere of the sequel big screen outing of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte in Sex and the City 2, there will come the obvious tussle over what, if any, cultural interest this franchise still offers. But, this time around, three of the four women are sporting something else - wedding rings.

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You’d have to be living under a rock not to notice the hype surrounding the release of Sex and the City 2. Yep, it’s that obvious, Carrie fever is sweeping the world, and some people are getting antsy.

Antsy because they’re over the hype (and given it’s at saturation point it’s totally understandable) or because they simply can’t wait to indulge themselves in the latest instalment to one of television’s most popular foursome.

I don’t know if it’s sheer coincidence or clever timing, but the movie happens to coincide with the release of an entirely different chapter (if you pardon the pun) in Carrie Bradshaw’s life, depicted in Candace Bushnell’s latest novel, The Carrie Diaries (Harper Collins, $30.95). It’s probably the perfect complement to the movie’s release given the fact that it takes readers back to the mind and soul of their on-screen heroine’s high school days.

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My old neighbour once sent her husband out to rent a video for them to watch together.  He returned with a film called ‘One Tough Bastard’.

After wondering how much longer their marriage would last, my mind turned to a loftier question: what would you title the sequel to ‘One Tough Bastard’?  Would it be ‘One Tougher Bastard’?  ‘Two Tough Bastards’?  ‘One Tough Bastard and a Baby’?  Sadly, there is no such sequel.  Apparently when you’ve conquered the summit of film achievement, there’s nothing more to say.

There are a lot of pitfalls in the movie-making business.  Agreeing to make or star in a sequel is surely one of the biggest.

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Saturation marketing might have alerted you to the fact the new Sex and the City movie is nearly on our shores, and I bet there’s a whole load of teenage girls either begging their mothers to take them to see it or planning on going with their friends anyway.

You might think they’d be better off skipping the sexually-charged antics of Samantha and co and instead heading to the latest installment in the chaste Twilight saga.

After all, Twilight is all about saving yourself for marriage, getting off on holding hands, and personal sacrifice. But as role models for young women go, I’d pick Carrie and her friends over Bella any day.

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Filming in the Big Apple started this week on the latest instalment in the Sex and the City hexology, sending upper middle-aged women around the world into mildly incontinent hysterics.

Sarah Jessica Parker was snapped in character as the ever-youthful Carrie Bradshaw, skipping across a Manhattan street in a pair of Hush Puppies, falling into the arms of her on-again-off-again lover Mr Big (who has been played by Zac Efron since SATC V).

All four of the leading ladies have returned for the sixth film, after protracted negotiations rumoured to have almost broken down over the huge cost of providing their health insurance.

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