Sarah Jessica Parker is still engaging in wall-to-wall promotion for her upcoming movie, I Don’t Know How She Does It, which (as Kaiser points out) looks exactly like “SATC” only she’s Miranda. So while she’s not busy actively refusing to split the atom of her marriage to Matthew Broderick, SJP is doing more interviews about what it was like to grow up poor and how wonderful it is to be rich now. Okay, she doesn’t actually talk about how great it is to a Salma Hayek degree or anything, but SJP clearly does reside within a wealth bubble despite her humble upbringing. Still, SJP insists that she’s not all about the money because, as she puts it, the goal was always to be a “great actor” instead of thinking about the cash, which is just an incidental benefit, right? You be the judge:

On Her Acting Philosophy: “I didn’t plot a future like this, although I know some people do. When Matthew and I started working, all we knew is that we wanted to be great actors. I don’t think I ever thought about money or that people would know my name.” Her face electric with enthusiasm, she adds, “I loooove the work!”

On Growing Up Poor: Money was tight. “We were very aware of it,” says [SJP's Brother]. “We saw the guy come to turn off the electricity, and my mother had to convince him not to because of the children.” As Parker says, marveling at her own financial transformation, “When I was a little girl getting free lunches in Cincinnati, could I imagine being on a list in Forbes magazine?”

On SJP’s Real-World Suggestions On Set: “She’s so personable and friendly, a very solicitous kind of person,” says Doug McGrath, the director of I Don’t Know How She Does It, adding that Parker offered real-world suggestions on the set, like “most mothers would hold on to a stroller with both hands.” The actress says she relates to the character she plays in her new film, especially the “coordination on the level of a military operation” required to run both career and family.

On Juggling Family & Work: “We’ve had two occasions recently where both Matthew and I were working, and it was so hard on the kids,” Parker says. “Especially James Wilkie, because he can really articulate how he feels about our absence. On the other hand, there are big chunks of time when we’re home a lot more than conventionally working parents. So you hope to make up for it.” She and Broderick employ babysitters, but they don’t have live-in help. “We love closing the door and having the only people in the house be our three children and us. It’s such a good feeling to know that we’re competent and capable and that it’s private,” she says. A typical evening at their Greenwich Village townhouse goes like this: “I give the girls their bath every night. Matthew cooks amazing things-last Saturday, pasta amatriciana and broccoli rabe, plus fennel sausage that he made. He does complex things, and I make simple things for the children.”

On How SJP & Broderick Have Changed Each Other: Parker laughs, ticking off a disparate list of things Broderick has helped her appreciate: baseball, Parmesan cheese, color (“Matthew’s mother was a painter, and he taught me to love colors and break all the rules”). She also says that “he’s given me a little cynicism,” noting that she used to take the world at face value but that her husband is more skeptical. “I’m less Pollyanna now. That’s probably healthy.”

On Refusing To Do Nudity: “When I did Sex and the City, I told Darren [series creator Darren Star], ‘I’m just not comfortable with it. It’s not some righteous thing, I’m thrilled if other people do it.’ He said, ‘Great, no problem.’ And on another movie, it came up and I said no and they said fine. There might have been [a role] I lost because of it, but I don’t think so-I think people would have said, ‘Would you reconsider?’ Now I’m so old, I think I should have done it when I was young.”

[From Parade]

Well, I can heartily agree with SJP that on-screen nudity is definitely not for her, and I promise that my opinion has nothing to do with her age or her looks otherwise. She’s just so skinny that, no, I really don’t have any desire to see her naked. However, I do find the “Pollyanna” remark to be quite strange, but perhaps it’s just a word that she uses a lot. In her August Vogue profile, SJP also made a “Pollyanna” reference about borrowing expensive clothes by saying, “Not to sound too Pollyanna about it…” Yet now, she’s claiming to be not-so-Pollyannaish. What does it all mean? Also that bit about how most mothers use both hands to push strollers seems rather tedious at best. Did the filmmakers really need to be told this information? Who knows. Anyway, I hate to nitpick (really), but most mothers also wouldn’t leave their infant twin daughters behind while they jetted off to Europe for a few months to film Sex and the City 2. Just saying.

Here’s SJP looking like a clothes hanger on the New York City set of I Don’t Know How She Does It. Matthew might very well be an “amazing” cook, but I doubt that his wife eats hardly any of that wonderful food.

Photos courtesy of Fame

Yesterday, CB covered the first excerpts from Sarah Jessica Parker’s Marie Claire cover piece for September. In a funny twist, especially considering CB is the one who usually gives SJP the benefit of the doubt much more than me, CB seemed as annoyed with SJP as I usually am. The thing about Sarah Jessica is that you want to like her, and you might actually have some residual warmth for her after all of those years of watching Carrie Bradshaw, and then she opens her mouth and ruins it. SJP’s interviews are the worst. She just tries too hard to project an image of a working mother who is all at once the best, most precious mother in the world as well as the one of the world’s busiest actresses and multi-taskers. It’s all a bit much. Anyway, in the Marie Claire interview, SJP gets all Goopy about her marriage:

With a hectic work schedule, three young children and a fourteen year marriage to nurture, Sarah Jessica Parker has a lot on her plate. The 46-year-old Sex And The City star has revealed that she has a fairly unusual way of dealing with all the pressures that life throws at her and her husband, actor Matthew Broderick. They chose not to discuss their marriage.

‘We don’t talk about our marriage a lot, which is probably wise,’ she admitted to Marie Claire magazine in their September issue. ‘There are so many other things in our lives that take precedence over the splitting of the atom of our marriage.’

Sarah and Ferris Bueller star Matthew, 49, married in May 1997 and have three children together – James Wilke, 8, and two-year-old twins Tabitha and Marion.

The I Don’t Know How She Does It star also discussed how she balances life with her family and work.

‘I love, love, love being an actor,’ she says.

‘It’s still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I’ve always been someone who likes a busy day. I love the opportunities, and if I can manage my time and the children are okay and we’re okay, it’s hard to say no…’

[From The Mail]

“Splitting of the atom of our marriage”??? Girl. I feel like this is SJP’s way of saying that Matthew is never around and when he is, he doesn’t even want to speak to her. I bet he doesn’t want to split the atom of child-rearing. I bet he doesn’t want to split the atom of fidelity. I bet he doesn’t want to split the atom of two careers. And I bet SJP doesn’t want to split the atom of divorce. What is with these women who stay in these horrible marriages?

Photos courtesy of WENN, Marie Claire.

Here are some photos of Sarah Jessica Parker at last night’s Harry Potter premiere. SJP brought her husband, Matthew Broderick, who looks comically, cartoonishly depressed, and her son James, who is a cutie. SJP wore this Oscar de la Renta Resort 2012 dress that I… well, I don’t hate it. I don’t really love it, either. It looks like a decent summery dress, but I don’t get why SJP paired it with a structured blazer. It’s not her worst red carpet appearance, though.

Meanwhile, SJP is the cover girl for the August issue of Vogue, “The Age Issue”, likely to promote her new film, I Don’t Know How She Does It (which looks like it sucks). Here are some highlights from the Vogue interview, courtesy of Wonderwall:

SJP on her juggling: Between raising three children, working for Halston and keeping a healthy onscreen career, the actress says her life these days is “like a ship avoiding icebergs.”

On the end of “Sex and the City”: “I loved it. But ultimately chose to stop doing the television series because I felt like it required, and deserved, a lot of time when I really wanted to be a parent.”

On starting new jobs: “I lose my appetite. By Wednesday of the first week on ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It,’ I was feeling so awful and ashamed, like I had let the director down.”

On being an older mother: “There are things about it that I hope have made me a better mother. I’ve had a lot of opportunities to do the things that I wanted to do, like sleep.”

On acting in her 40s: “I assumed that at this point in my life I would be feeling frustrated, left behind, or marginalized, playing parts I was reluctant to. But I’ve been so busy, I’m not sure that I see this fallow period yet.”

On comparing herself to Carrie Bradshaw: “Bradshaw’s life is nothing, nothing like mine. I loved playing her, and it changed my life in lots of wonderful ways, but I’m not a crazy shoe lady. I don’t think about fashion all day long, although I have a great respect for the industry.”

On her work ethic: “It’s kind of all I’ve known. I’m a bitter-ender. It’s potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.”

[From Wonderwall/Vogue]

I’m prepared to like Sarah Jessica Parker until she starts in about her career choices, all of the stuff she’s signed on to do, and then talks about how she’s the super-focused parent. I absolutely HATED her in her last Vogue interview, last year, when she kept pushing the issue of how involved she was as a parent – while she sat in London, after not seeing her newborn twin girls for two months while she traveled to make Sex & the City 2. She just bugs.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Wonderwall/Vogue/Testino.

Call me crazy, but I would take a million “Big southern/lion hair and Halston” red carpet appearances rather than this fugness. These are photos of Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick at the NYC Ballet Spring Gala last night. SJP can get Matthew to the ballet, but never to a fashion or charity gala. Or a premiere. But ballet, sure! Nevermind, don’t go there, of course they have a strong marriage, why would you think otherwise? Don’t they look… um, happy together?

Anyway, in my mind, SJP’s style reflects her mood. She wore this absolutely God-awful Valentino for the NYC Ballet event, and now I think that Mr. Valentino must totally hate her. Why would a designer even MAKE this ugly dress, much less give it to one of his best clients? SJP knows it sucks too – trust me, SJP knows how to work a gown, and she knows how to ensure a gown is photographed to make it look amazing, and look at what she’s doing with her styling and body language. She draped a purse across her chest, her hair is meh, and she’s got a look on her face that says “I wish I had lion hair and I was flying solo.”

Also looking rough? Brooke Shields. I know the whole “flower boob” thing is in style right now, but this is the wrong way to do it.

Oh, and in case you were interested, here’s how Betsy Johnson and her date showed up to the ballet:

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

I was going to hold the Sarah Jessica Parker stories until we got some photos of tonight’s Sex and the City premiere in London, but it’s deader than dead around here, so why not? CB and I have both been a little tired with SJP, honestly. CB confessed that she tried to watch an SJP interview and all she felt was “fake fake fake”. Personally, I don’t think SJP is fake, I just think she’s full of sh-t. Horsesh-t, to be exact. Anyway, SJP has a bunch of new interviews, and most of them are about how fabulous the movie is (everyone else disagrees), how much all of the fabulous clothes cost ($10 million), and how she’s the world’s most hands-on mother. Except for those nine weeks where she dumped her newborn twins on the nannies. Oh, I enjoyed this Parade interview because of the subtext of Matthew Broderick’s “secret life”.

“I will never live anywhere else than New York because I just simply cannot leave the heartbeat of the city. I cannot do it. We have no space in our house in Manhattan. We’re bursting at the seams. I know there are homes with more than two or three bedrooms in the suburbs, but I just couldn’t move there, even to get extra room. I love New York too much,” Parker says.

Sarah Jessica Parker soared to fame and fortune as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, on HBO and on the big screen. Now, in Sex and the City 2, Parker is feeling a little closer to Carrie, who’s married and still living in the Big Apple. Parker, the proud mother of three kids with Matthew Broderick, juggles marriage, family and career. But she knows which comes first.

Sarah Jessica says, “I love just being with my family — going to the grocery store, cooking dinner, putting my twins to bed, changing their diapers, getting my older son ready for school and packing his lunch. Staying home with my family and my husband is the thing I love most in the world. Is it sexy? I don’t know about that, but it sure is fun and it’s definitely unpredictable.”

Matthew won’t mind watching her smooch with Chris Noth and John Corbett in SATC 2.
“We’ve been together for years. Both of us have starred in movies opposite lots of beautiful, smart, interesting people. But we have still come home to the same house, to each other. Matthew isn’t jealous when I’m in a movie with a sexy guy. He doesn’t seem to show any degree of being threatened by it. I don’t know, maybe he doesn’t care.”

Matthew Broderick deserves a secret life.
“I like having some mystery in our relationship. I like not knowing everything about my husband. I think people should have things that are theirs, things that are the unknown to someone else. I think it’s good to have some privacy and some secrets in our lives.”

The secret to keeping up with your best friends.
“You can be a good friend even when you barely have time. Make the effort to send a note, or call and say, ‘I’ve got children screaming in the background, but I miss you and I love you and I think about you. You’re on my mind, even if I don’t get to tell you every day.’ I think your real friends understand that there’s lots of responsibilities you have with your family, but you just figure out how to nurture your friendships any way you can.”

[From Parade]

I’m all for keeping a little mystery in the relationship, but it’s like SJP is saying, “I know he’s fooling around, with God knows who, but whatever.” Also, when SJP was on Letterman two nights ago, she called Matthew average. Shocking! She was talking about James Wilkie’s height and how he’s “for the moment, more on the diminutive side. Some might call it a Napoleon complex, it [his age] gives him some [confidence] because he is so mature. He’s a brainiac… well I think so, naturally… He’s not quite tiny – that’s on my husband’s side – well, actually Matthew is average… not in personality or in intellect…. no, no, no, no, no… Let me clear this up. For the record, not in personality, intellect, charisma, talent, genuine likeability, well the list could go on and on… Anyway he’s average in height as I understand so the odds of our son being average in height and weight is perhaps promising.” I couldn’t care less that she’s talking about Matthew’s average-ness, but I feel for James Wilkie. That must suck to have your mom call you out on national television for being “more on the diminutive side.” Jeez, Mom.

By the way, if you want to read a slightly interesting piece about Pat Fields and why she dressed the SATC women like drag queen-maniac-clowns, HuffPo has a good one.

Here’s Sarah Jessica Parker looking SO MUCH better than she did at the Oscars. Honestly, I do like SJP’s style, but she’s so much better in business-cocktail-wear than evening wear. Look at how pretty and fresh she looks! And compare that to her Wrath of God appearance at the Oscars (photo below). Anyway, here is SJP going solo last night at a bash for… wait for it… Bravo’s “Real Houswives”. Honestly, I think the party was for Bravo programming in general, but there were a lot of ‘Housewives’ there, and SJP should be totally above that sh-t. Is she trying to sell something to Bravo? Like, a television show or something? Why the downmarket appearance?

And why was she alone?!? Oh right, because Matthew Broderick rarely makes public appearances with his wife, and when he does, he looks totally uninterested in each other. Like at the Oscars. There’s some interesting gossip about them at the Oscars, actually. In Touch Weekly reported that “Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were barely speaking at the Oscars, used separate dressing rooms and arrived and left separately.” Oh, that a good one, gossip-wise, isn’t it? And it goes along with a blind item I read yesterday:

There was a well-known entertainment pair at the Academy Awards who sat together, occasionally holding and laughing together. What a nice couple! Not. They actually can’t stand each other and haven’t lived together in months. However, as one of Hollywood’s perceived stable couples, they are not yet ready to explain to the world that their long-time (by Hollywood standards) relationship is over. Certainly not in such a public setting. And if one of them had showed up solo, or with another escort, it would have brought up too many questions. So it was easier just to go together, pretend that everything’s great, and to go their separate ways after the big event… each to a new boyfriend.

[From Blind Gossip via ICYDK]

It could be them. My initial thought was “Melanie Griffith and Antonia Banderas” but I think SJP and Broderick might be a better fit. We’ll see.

Lastly, SJP and her Sex and the City girls are going to be honored at this year’s Showest with the “Best Ensemble” award. That’s right, at some point this year (I don’t feel like looking it up) we’re going to be inundated with SATC crap for the sequel film. New stills were just released, and Agent Bedhead has them, in all of their sketchy hilarity. Agent Bedhead theorized, “I gotta wonder whether the makeup artist really didn’t like Sarah Jessica Parker all that much because she’s resembling a cadaver.” Bedhead, try this word on for size- “Corpsey”. And I totally agree.

SATC stills courtesy of Agent Bedhead. Additional photos of SJP at the Bravo event on March 10, 2010, and with Matt at the Oscars. Credit: WENN.

I swear, there’s only one picture out of the whole bunch where Sarah Jessica Parker isn’t draped on her husband Matthew Broderick. Which, you know, is fine I guess. But the weird thing is that Matthew looks like he wants to be anywhere but there. Is this rude? Of course it is. It’s perfectly possible that Matthew Broderick just looks like this always, that he always looks bored and over it, which, in all fairness, he probably is because he’s been famous for decades. Lainey summed it up be calling Sarah Jessica Parker “Always Grateful”:

It’s Photo Assumption, sure, but doesn’t she seem it? Like, super appreciative to be gifted with his attention? Maybe it’s just me…

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick attended the Broadway opening of Present Laughter last night. Funny I don’t remember him at the New York premiere of Did You Hear About the Morgans. He was likely busy. With the twins. Or something.

There’s nothing wrong with a desperate wanting to please, and being desperately pleased when wanted. Just… I wonder how often he wants her. What? Look at him. That is a man who wants his wife all the time. Never mind Photo Assumption. It means nothing. Even when the photos assume it over and over, it totally means nothing.

[From Lainey Gossip]

Sigh… this makes me feel sorry for Sarah Jessica, and I know I shouldn’t. She’s got a pretty good life with her kids and her thriving Sex and the Retirement Community sequels and all of that. But I’m with Lainey, SJP and Broderick do not look like a happy couple.

In other SJP news, she was just named the new president of Halston. A lot of critics are complaining that this was a boneheaded, Lindsay Lohan-esque move for the House of Halston, but I don‘t hate it. It‘s not like Halston is Oscar de la Renta or anything – Halston makes pretty cocktail dresses, slinky gowns and generally very cute, wearable clothes. SJP might be a natural. About her appointment as president, SJP says: “I think this is a brand new kind of business model, and it illustrates how serious I am about this position. I think it’s wonderful to feel invested in something. I tend not to just endorse something. I like feeling the stakes.”

SJP also admits that she came to the company in a “rather unorthodox way” but that unorthodox isn’t really bad, so whatever. As for what she brings to the table at Halston? “Good manners, a point of view that is inspiring, that is hopefully smart, and an incredible passion and excitement and enthusiasm, as well as some experience of what I know about women, that having been pretty much the focus of my role in ‘Sex and the City.” Oh, crap. She’s going to send of fashion lines based on Carrie Bradshaw? Halston is doomed.

Sarah Jessica and Matthew at the opening night of ‘Present Laughter’ in New York on January 21, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Though I’ve grown to have a vague dislike of both Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker as people, I still think they’re gifted actors. SJP does her thing with the Sex and the City films and that’s her niche, while Matthew Broderick seems content to be a film and television character actor and a respected stage actor. I sometimes forget just how good Broderick is – but I love him in some of his smaller roles, like his guest appearance on 30 Rock a few years ago, and his supporting performance in You Can Count On Me. So, given that, this latest news is disappointing.

According to Gatecrasher, Broderick has been sucking hard during the previews for his latest play, The Starry Messenger. Apparently, Broderick was completely unprepared during the previews, and he repeatedly flubbed his lines and stopped the play. Paying audience members left the play in droves, and the opening has even been pushed back:

Theatergoers must have wanted to “shoot the messenger” during the first preview of Matthew Broderick’s new play on Monday night. The Broadway veteran put on such a poor showing at “The Starry Messenger” that some fans left in a huff.

Producers may have taken notice of the subpar performance, too: they announced yesterday afternoon that the show will officially open a week later than planned, on Nov. 23.

The reason for all the fuss? Broderick clearly wasn’t prepared for the preview, and had to stop the play to ask for his lines numerous times during the show. And not that anyone’s counting, but, well, okay, they are: An audience member confirms Broderick flubbed 10 times in the first act alone.

A theater insider tells us that Broderick – who has starred in “The Producers,” “The Foreigner” and “The Philanthropist,” among others – is notorious for studying scripts late in the game. But fans weren’t very forgiving after Monday’s performance. Several members of the audience took to talkinbroadway.com, a theater Web site used by Broadway regulars, to air their grievances.

“Broderick should be fined for this sort of thing,” one angry user wrote. “The theater, the producers, Kenneth Lonergan (the director) and Broderick should be ashamed to have let an audience in for this.”

Another Broadway fan who hadn’t even seen the show chimed in: “For God’s sake, they are charging good money for this, and it is indeed unconscionable to use these as rehearsals. I only hope they do cancel this week of performances because I, too, have a ticket, and I don’t want to endure this either.”

Perhaps audience members were being a bit harsh. It was just a preview, after all, and a source close to the show says that a recent casting change may have led to the play’s rocky start. Merwin Goldsmith replaced Jonathan Hadary just this past weekend.

But our insider says Broderick’s flubs were more than just a few butchered lines. “It was an overall mess,” said the source. “He kept apologizing under his breath after he forgot a line, and everyone in the audience started to feel awkward.”

It’s a bad start for Broderick and his “Starry Messenger” run, which comes right after some unkind critical notices for Sarah Jessica Parker’s hubby. Several outlets panned his performance in “The Philanthropist,” which ran from April to June. While one review commented on his “dullness,” others even got a little personal, dissing the sideburns he grew for the part.

[From Gatecrasher]

Ugh… if I paid for a ticket, I would be totally pissed too. What’s up with Broderick? Too many late nights staying up with the new twins? We know that barely two months after their twin girls were brought home, SJP went to work on SATC 2, working hellish hours as both the star and producer. While some suspect that the nannies are pretty much raising those babies now, some thought that Matthew was probably picking up the baby-bonding slack. But he signed on for this play knowing that SJP was still at work on SATC. I’m going to go relatively easy on Matthew and say that his lack of professionalism is probably due to the new babies and he’s simply exhausted.

As many predicted, it seems like Sarah Jessica Parker has left her 3-month-old twins in the care of Matthew Broderick and assorted nannies. Before Tabitha and Marion were even born, several sources had SJP and Broderick fighting over their schedules and how best to care for the babies. When the twins came home, Life & Style announced that Broderick would be taking time out of his schedule to look after the twins, while SJP would work on SATC 2. Now Star Magazine is reporting that SJP had to go to work on Sex and the City 2 so quickly after twins Marion and Tabitha that she hasn’t had time to bond with her babies. SJP is working 12 to 14 hour days, and she barely has any time to spend with her family:

Sarah Jessica Parker is so wrapped up making Sex and the City 2 that she’s having trouble bonding with her 3-month-old twin girls, Marion and Tabitha.

“It breaks her heart, but she just doesn’t have a lot of time,” an insider tells Star, adding that the actress often reports to the movie’s NYC set as early as 7 a.m. and doesn’t finish shooting until late.

When done, SJP immediately heads to the West Village home she shares with her husband, Matthew Broderick, and their 6-year-old son, James, and the twins.

“She checks in on everyone; then it’s off to bed where she looks over her script before passing out,” says the insider.

Even on her day off, SJP works. She had a morning meeting, a business lunch and another appointment on Sept. 6.

“She’s beyond exhausted,” says the insider. “It’s not ideal timing for her to have two babies at home, but she’s doing the best she can.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, September 28 2009]

I do feel for SJP, because it must be difficult to keep that kind of schedule. But I don’t feel too badly, because it’s not as if SJP is just some average working mom with no control over her schedule. The thing is that the twins were born via a surrogate, so a lot of time and forethought went into their family planning, and the timing of it. And SJP is an executive producer on SATC 2 – she could have easily changed the filming schedule, pushing it back so she could have more time at home. No one is forcing her to keep this schedule – she could have said no. It really would have been that simple. My conclusion is that her first priority was getting SATC 2 filmed and ready for a summer 2010 release, and not on bonding with her babies.

Sarah Jessica Parker is shown on the set of SATC 2 on 9/9/09 and 9/16/09. Credit: Fame Pictures. Her twins are shown with their nanny on 9/6/09. Credit: Hector Vallenilla/PacificCoastNews.com

Twin girls Tabitha and Marion weren’t even born yet when the tabloids had Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick fighting over nannies and when SJP would go back to work. Many commenters questioned why Matthew and Sarah Jessica would be fighting over her schedule, when Matthew could just as easily stay at home and help with the babies. It looks like that’s what’s going to happen, at least according to Life and Style Magazine. When Sarah Jessica begins filming on the sequel to Sex and the City in a few months, Matthew will be taking a timeout on his own thriving stage career to be a stay-at-home dad:

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were at the East Ohio Regional Hospital when their twin girls Marion and Tabitha were delivered via surrogate on June 23. But not even newborns can keep Sarah (and Carrie Bradshaw) from her Monolos: The Sex and the City sequel is set to start filming this fall in NYC and open next May, an insider tell Life & Style.

“She’s not postponing the movie, even though filming sometimes could last up to 14 hours, like it did on the first movie,” says the insider. “She’s going to have a staff to make it easier on her.”

But not all the help with the twins and son James Wilkie, 6, will come from employees.

“Matthew’s ready to pick up the slack as the movie gets underway,” says the insider. “He’s very supportive of the project. The first movie being such a huge hit has a lot to do with that. It it hadn’t been such a big deal, then Matthew would have to go back to work. But starting this fall he can devote himself to the family full-time.”

Sarah, 44, will also have the support of friends, who threw her a baby shower in New York’s Hamptons on June 21 – just two days before the twins’ birth.

[From Life and Style, print edition, July 13 2009]

I’m not trying to be mean, but I really wonder if Matthew is as supportive of this whole endeavor as Life and Style (and other tabloids) would have us believe. I want to believe that Matthew is as happy with these twin girls as Sarah Jessica, and I want to believe he’s that engaged with his family. But I don’t know. Here’s another question, and one I’ve asked before – since Sarah Jessica is executive producer on SATC, why in the world didn’t she push back the film shoot to accommodate her family schedule?