I was such a huge fan of the Sex and the City TV series, I have the entire series on DVD and was really looking forward to the movie. But with all the spoilers that have been leaked, and the dubious fashion choices being displayed in those leaks, I’m a bit over it.

I was even more over the concept when I read this comment from Kim Cattrall.

“It’s nice to step into Samantha’s skin again, but I’m only doing the film for the money,” says the 52-year-old actress. “Samantha is very dear to me and I have such a wonderful time playing her, but I can’t say more for the experience that wanting financial security.”

Cattrall’s fighting with co-star Sarah Jessica Parker may also have something to do with her reluctance to do the movie. “When I made a stand about not being in the movie because I thought the money was terrible, there was a backlash from some of my costars. The role is very much a double-edged sword,” she added.

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I guess what she is trying to say here is that maybe at her age, 51, that she needs some financial security. There aren’t many roles out there for women of that age, particularly ones who haven’t got a huge career. I’m struggling to think of what she’s done since Sex and the City was on air. She did write a couple of books about sex, trading off of her on-screen character, but she’s not really done anything else.

In other Sex and the City movie news, the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be appearing in the film as himself, following in the footsteps of former mayor Ed Koch who also appeared in the series. No details have been given about the current Mayor’s role, but he will be filming in Bryant Park on Tuesday evening, in midtown Manhattan.

Note by Celebitchy: Kim Cattrall is shown filming The Sex and The City movie on 10/2/07 and 9/21/07, thanks to PRPhotos. She has three films to her credit since 2005, according to IMDB. I know I saw her in that Ice Princess movie with Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack and Hayden Panettiere.

Sex and the City was – and still is – one of my favourite guilty pleasures on television. Even if by the time it screened in Australia the fashions were very last season. Doing my nails in front of Grey’s Anatomy just isn’t the same. So I’m pretty excited about the movie, and as hard as I tried to resist temptation, I read the spoilers.

Sporting a large baby bump and laden with shopping bags, Kristin Davis’s character and Mr Big, played by Chris Noth, get into a heated argument outside a restaurant. An outraged Charlotte takes to him with her shopping bags.

(Has Big been busted dining with a lady other than Carrie?)

Charlotte’s waters break during the slinging match and — sparing no thought for what a woman’s waters will do to luxury car upholstery — Mr Big ushers Charlotte into his car for the trip to the hospital.

In other plot news, Sarah Jessica Parker’s (SJP) character Carrie goes flat hunting with Mr Big after the pair agree to move in together.

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I’m not sure how careful the movie is going to pick up where the series left off – and will it all be tied into a nice little bundle at the end? I sort of liked the ending, as it wasn’t a fairytale, like they were real people who would keep on living.

For those of you who can’t remember the season finale, Carrie and Big were reunited in Paris after she split with sexy Russian Aleksander Petrovsky. Big’s real name was revealed to be John.

Miranda was married to Steve and living in Brooklyn with his mother and their baby.

Charlotte married Harry and they were adopting a baby from China.

And Samantha found true love with Smith Jerrod, after beating breast cancer.

The movie has already begun filming, but Kim Cattrall’s feud with Sarah Jessica Parker may be back on again, after she stormed out of a party to celebrate the start of filming the movie. Hopefully they’ll catch some of their fights on film for the DVD extras.

Thanks to Splash News for the header image of Big and Carrie kissing, which was taken on set.

Playing hard to get for once worked for Samantha. Kim Cattrall, long-rumored to be the sole holdout on the upcoming “Sex and the City” movie, signed up for the film now confirmed to be in the works only after her demands were met.

She’s now getting equal pay and equal screen time with lead star Sarah Jessica Parker. She’ll also get the same treatment on set:

After repeatedly refusing to sign on the dotted line since the TV series ended in 2004, Cattrall stubbornly held out and won what seemed like her impossible dream when producers finally caved and gave her 1) equal salary, 2) equal billing and 3) the same onscreen time as star Sarah Jessica Parker! Kick-ass Kim even negotiated an “equal perks” rider – insisting on a top-of-the-line dressing trailer identical to Sarah Jessica’s, plus an exclusive dream team of hair and makeup artists!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, July 30, 2007]

It has also been reported that Cattrall even worked out a deal with HBO for a new series!

This was a decent show, but when it finally comes out is it going to do well at the box office? According to IMDB it doesn’t start filming until the fall of this year so it will be some time before it finally comes out.

Will any of you guys go see it? I enjoyed the show occassionally, and could relate to it when I was single and lived near NY. To me it got kind of old though, and at this point I don’t really care what happens to these characters. I don’t know if this show has the kind of cult following needed to give it a decent draw in theaters four or five years after it wrapped, but maybe that’s just because it didn’t resonate with me.

Good for Cattrall for getting equal pay and perks with Parker, though. I hope that Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon aren’t too far behind, because without either of them it wouldn’t be the same, either. Woman can probably identify more with their characters’ normalcy than either sexaholic Samantha or shopaholic Carrie.

Sharon Stone said of the crotch flashers, “I was playing a part, honey, what’s their excuse?“.

They were desperate for attention, of course, because all of the crotch flashes we saw looked carefully orchestrated for publicity reasons.

We’ve covered most of the young ‘uns’ hairless kitties in our recent posts.

There are a couple of more mature women we missed, though, and here’s why we think they were motivated to show their baby-makers:

Trying to promote a book and remain relevant: Kim Cattrall, November, 2006

(more pictures of Kim at this book signing, but none too revealing, at yeeeah.)

Trying to promote a scrapbook book and remain relevant: Courtney Love, December, 2006

(picture from Socialite’s Life)

It seems the older ladies had an excuse that Sharon should be all too able to identify with.

Gwyneth Paltrow is on one of her supposedly crazy diets again where you don’t eat dairy or gluten/wheat products and avoid most fruit. It’s the lead story in the celebrity section of The Sun today, and they make a big deal out of it, but it doesn’t seem so strange to me:

Gwyneth just must have started this diet, because she sure had plenty of champagne at her birthday party last month.

I have gone on diets like that and once you’re used to the routine you feel pretty healthy as long as you’re getting the right nutrients. After my son was born I went on a no-wheat no-milk diet in order to make sure my milk was digestible. Some claim that it’s a myth that food you eat passes through to your breastmilk, but I got the diet from one of Dr. Sears’ baby books and I swear my baby stopped being colicky afterwards. After a few months less passes through to the baby through the milk so I went back to eating normal food again.

A lot of people are sensitive to gluten and dairy and a “paleolithic diet” is considered quite healthy by experts. A friend of mine’s wife had MS and was nearly cured after giving up wheat and dairy. For more on these type of diets, read up on Dr. Weston Price’s “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.”

I know I am talking about diets a lot lately, but I think they really work if you’re sensible about them and eat enough.

Here is Gwyneth at Paris Fashion Week with Kim Cattrall. She doesn’t need to lose weight, but she could do something about her makeup. I really dislike it when people put eyeliner on the membranes of their eyes without putting it beneath the eye too and think it looks strange. Makeup artist rubygirl214 commented on our J.Lo looks terrible post, so I wonder what she thinks.

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