Sex IN the city!
It all went down in London town last night, May 12, with the film premiere of the eagerly awaited ‘Sex and the City’ (SATC).
And my did those girls look fab! I’ve waited four years for this film after singing along to Candi Staton’s ”You’ve got the love” in the end credits of show’s sixth season finale.
The film sees friends Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha, (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) continuing to juggle work, relationships and motherhood in their 40s.
One to always steal the show was Parker, looking immacuately fabulous in her Matthew Williamson grown her co-stars were sure to be green with envy.
I was suprised as many to find that the movie was premiered for the first time which Parker told a BBC reporter ”This is where our bosses told us to go and we were thrilled to do so.”
She added: “Then we get to bring it home to America and to its birthplace – the city that we love.”
The cast were gleaming and happy to see fans on the red carpet, many who had been there since dawn.
Not only does the show have adorning female fans, it has its fair share of males too. One in particular is Radio One DJ superstar, Trevor Nelson.
He says: “It’s easy for men to get your mates down the pub and talk about girls all day but you never get an insight into how women feel about men, that’s what this show does and I love it.”
So what is so great about it, I hear you ask?
Well growing up in a British ladette culture we can sometimes find ourselves being compared to our European counterparts and failing in the lady-like etiquette sector. SATC opens up the doors for us to embody these fiesty charachters who are four highly intellectual and enterprising women who take it like a man when it comes to their sex lives, figuratively speaking.
They are women who are bold and brash about sleeping with numerous partners in aid of finding love in the Big Apple, and with wit, style and sexiness as their most common traits and qualities. Who can blame them?
Add comment May 13, 2008
sadie15
Darling, strap in the beer…I mean child!
Maybe it was the extreme heat because that’s the only only excuse I can think of that made a, clearly demented, man strap his beer down in the back seat and leave his child to sit on the floor.
I mean what reasonable person, let alone, father prioritises their beer over their child. Well I suppose this is a man we are talking about.
The man from Alice Springs, Australia was pulled over by police on the Ross Higway in the Northern Territory of the country and fined A$750 (£362) for failure to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt as well as driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle.
The BBC reporter asked the Constable who pulled him over what his response was and apparently he just looked at him ‘blankly’.
It does make you wonder in this day and age the state of parenting skills. Like when he walked out of the shop and had the choice of putting the beer in the boot but instead opted for the back seat. Was he hoping to keep it in eye’s view in his rear view mirror?
It’s just so unbeleiveable but moreover that he still seemed totally unbothered by it all after recieveing his hefty fine.
And to think perfectly humane and loving people are daily stopped or rejected from fostering and adopting children to bring them into a caring home . When this ‘father’ clearly cares far more for the wellbeing of his beer belly than his child’s safety!
The human race never ceases to amaze.
3 comments May 13, 2008
sadie15
What’s all the fuss over digital?
With some calling this the ‘digtal age’ it is hard to escape the everyday reminders of when the terrestrial television will go digital. Along with the ever increasing social networking population. It begs to question how did we ever get through the day without the internet?
FIPP published a story this week ‘One quarter of teens are super communicators‘. It states that: the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 93 per cent of teens in the US use the internet and more of them than ever are treating it as a venue for social interaction. Sixty-four per cent of online teens ages 12-17 have participated in one or more among a wide range of content-creating activities on the internet, up from 57 per cent of online teens in a similar survey at the end of 2004.(http://www.fipp.com/Default.aspx?PageIndex=2002&ItemId=14222)
So is it just me that thinks this is very concerning, I mean with all the internet faux paus around that people have about the world wide web. Surely peoples opinions that such networking sites are just venues for luring insecure and vulnerable young children.
Obviously not everyone who uses such sites are criminals, I use Facebook, but I don’t have a record, well apart from a few parking tickets, but Preston Council are devils for it!
However parents can be rest assured that such sites are applicable for the younger generation and can be safe to use. An example of such a website is Anne’s Diary. Inspired by one of Canada’s cultural literary gems, Anne of Green Gables, http://www.onedegree.ca/2008/01/social-networki.htmlhttp://www.onedegree.ca/2008/01/social-networki.html
A subsidiary of Logica Holdings Group. The site launched in November and quickly gained the valuable reputation of becoming one of the Internet’s “super-safest social networks”.
However my main concern for these types of websites and the alarming statistics published by FIPP this week, is the fact that maybe our generation is cutting itself off from reality. For instance with such high and raising figures of internet socialising, will we see a day when people actually talking face to face be a thing of the past?
Like me, in my somewhat short existence of 21 years on planet Earth, have you noticed that the form of communication has deterred from letter to telephone, to email now to networking sites. I mean are we cutting ourselves off from realisation in aid of succumbing mass communication marketing ploys such as Myspace, Facebook and Bebo?
Maybe this isn’t such a rare and irrational thought to ponder, the next time you attempt to enter your password on the digital age’s best friend, the computer.
1 comment February 15, 2008
sadie15
