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April 30, 2008
Salacious Slope May be Ready for Prime-Time
Remember that silly article a few weeks ago about how the "Sex and the City" gang might live in Brooklyn if the show was being filmed today? Turns out it wasn't so far-fetched, according to a piece in the Post that says Darren Star, SATC's creator, is shopping around a show about well-off gal-pals who live in Park Slope. The article is beyond delicious, per highlights such as these:
The Slope is an ideal setting because it's got "energy": "It takes place in Park Slope and Park Slope is one of the characters in it. Park Slope has so much juice, just like Manhattan. It's got a lot of pizzazz and energy," says its would-be writer, herself a Sloper.
The show would help combat big, bad Brooklyn stereotypes: "As a Park Sloper, I'm flattered that they would think of portraying our neighborhood in a positive way," said Craig Hammerman, district manager of the neighborhood's Community Board 6. "Hopefully, it will go far in combating the negative stereotypes people have about Brooklyn."
The show will not shy away from the Slope's most pressing issues: Of course, no show about Park Slope would be complete without at least one storyline about yuppie moms and their sidewalk-crowding strollers..."I hope it's not going to be a bunch of moms doing Pilates and drinking their lattes because that's not me," says one mother interviewed for the story.
This sounds like the best television of all time.
Call it 'Slope & the City' [NY Post]
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Oh man, is this gonna be good...
If the server is operating properly, I'm calling 150+ posts! Of course, people might be too busy selling their stuff, blood and sex to make ends meet to worry about checking out a real estate blog.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 9:40 AM
It's possible that responses to this one will most likely provide all the mindless distraction I need for today.
It's also possible that because it is so absurd we'll just let it alone, as it requires no further comment.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 9:43 AM
"Negative stereotypes about Brooklyn"? And these will be counteracted by a TV show set in Park Slope. Oh dear. The comments are going to be ON FIRE today.
I'm glad that I don't have a TV.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 9:51 AM
uhgggg
how creative...
i would think they would be more cutting edge-
and park slope is Not where its at.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 9:53 AM
Pizazz? How about Williamsburg? But I guess someone who uses the word pizazz would pick Park Slope.
Posted by: KHuebbe at April 30, 2008 9:55 AM
I am in favor of anything that attracts more hot women who think having casual sex is a badge of honor to Park Slope.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 9:59 AM
If I recall correctly, at the end of the Sex and The City series, the Cynthia Nixon character and her family moved to a Brooklyn fixer-upper.
Posted by: Hal at April 30, 2008 10:05 AM
Park slope as pizza, not pizazz. Though it does have its fair share of pieces-of-azzzzzzzz
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:11 AM
I think Nixon's character moved to Brooklyn Heights.
The REAL Cynthia Nixon, however... her ladylove lives in the Slope, I believe.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:12 AM
A number of the main characters in the SATC movie die. Each one leaves this world in accidents based on MTA warning posters (riding between subway cars, slips on the steps, hanging from subway car doorways, etc.).
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:17 AM
I thought Cynthia lived on the epper west side. Just what I heard.
According to the article, the program will be a 'dramady'. I always got confused between Dramady and Bactrian until I learned the easy way to distinguish them: Dramady has one hump as in the letter 'D', and Bactrian has two humps as in the letter 'B'.
Posted by: Hal at April 30, 2008 10:26 AM
Maybe they will advertise on Brownstoner
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:35 AM
Hal, I think they both spit at you though. Sorry for getting off topic.
How about a Spanish novella based in Canarsie???!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 30, 2008 10:36 AM
I heard that one character gets run over by a Subaru, that another is strangled by a psychotic lesbian, that another crushed by a pallet-load of organic tomatoes outside the Co-op, and the last one dies of boredom waiting for the train. All in Park Slope. It's got pizzazz.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:36 AM
I hope they have a story thread about couples that decide to start having key parties with other parents at their kid's school. Apparently this happened at ps 261 and two of the couples are now separated!! Really, the possibilities are endless for this show. Actually, maybe it will give us some good ideas about how to make our lives more interesting!
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:38 AM
261 ain't Park Slope. It's BORING Hill. Slopers know how to have a key party and stay married!
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:43 AM
Park Slope Adjacent RULES
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:44 AM
Maybe be they will shoot some scenes in the south slope. where more of the Brooklyn natives live.
5th ave should be the party scenes and 7th ave should be where they discuss "last night sex adventures" over coffee.
or how a scene where they do volunteer work at the methadone clinic. (a little off the slope of course)
or join a rally to stop wide spread over development.
or how about if one of them gets a job at wild wild west to cover their groceries at union market.
got to go, I sending my ideas to the shows writer.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:46 AM
Maybe they'll have a black friend and they go to Bed Stuy some weekend for a barbecue block party!!!!
BTW, Smoke joint is definitely taking over the Bassam space
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 30, 2008 10:48 AM
Here in Brooklyn Heights, we prefer Key Foods parties. Those 90 year-olds sure love to get there groove on by the fresh vegetables.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 30, 2008 10:50 AM
Dave, no doubt one of them would hook up at the Brooklyn Flea with the lead singer of a struggling indie band.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 30, 2008 10:53 AM
You'd all love Park Slope if you could afford it. Stop hating and start working.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:56 AM
I moved out of there for a reason...hello, why did Blue Ribbon shorten its hours?!
Posted by: KHuebbe at April 30, 2008 11:02 AM
Everything that I hate about PS can be solved by the addition of hot, sex starved, shallow women.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:10 AM
people think the women from "sex and the city" are hot?
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:16 AM
the women from sex and the city are having hot flashes.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:21 AM
"the article is beyond delicious..." ?
gabby gabby gabby
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:24 AM
11:16 - no but the fashion obsessed sluts that think the show is amazing often are....
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:25 AM
Written by Sue Kramer who wrote and directed Gray Matters. Jeeeeze was that a bad movie.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:30 AM
no one will care. having lived in PS, found the people to be too hysterically liberal, academic, and ugly to be remotely interesting. never highlight an area where political bumper stickers exist on old beat up cars, or saturns, or both. also, sarah jessica parker was simply fabulous and able to carry a TV show. i don't think lightening will strike twice for darren.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:41 AM
What's a key party?
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:44 AM
11:02 You suck if you consider Blue Ribbon to be "nightlife". There's plenty of bars in PS, plus hookers on 4th Ave!
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:48 AM
Park Slope Borderline rules too
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 11:56 AM
The NY Post article, Park Slope and this thread are all seriously overrated. SO last year. Yawn.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 12:01 PM
thats what Im talkning about. Douglass street pool hookers!! I hope they include that in the show.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 12:03 PM
Samantha will have pleanty of company with all the other people who really suck in Park Slope.
Suck it, slopers.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 12:05 PM
Guest at 10:36...too funny! Right on target!
Posted by: rh at April 30, 2008 12:09 PM
I think it's great. shows that highlight Brooklyn will only give the borough the recognition it deserves. (regardless of which nabes). Though, I would include more Brooklyn nabes to make it more interesting. Go girl keep writing, forget about all these nay sayers, let them write their own scripts. writing short cute critiques on a blog is BS in comparison.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 12:52 PM
The recognition it deserves?
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 1:06 PM
best news i've heard all week.
i live in a brownstone in the north slope and someone left a note on my door last week saying that they've seen my ground floor apartment, like the look of it, and wondered if they could use it for filming.
i wonder if it was for this show. i never called back and now can't find the note.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 1:18 PM
this thread's anemia proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this blog is on life support...
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 2:44 PM
almost every thread today is about park slope, 2:44. i think people who live there know how awesome it is and the others who wish they lived there and can't afford it, are too bitter and jealous to say anything.
after a story like this...it's kinda hard not to admit park slope is pretty terrific.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 3:52 PM
even if i could afford to live in park slope i would NEVER live there.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 3:56 PM
pizzazz.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 4:05 PM
you are one of the only ones then, 3:56.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 4:22 PM
pizzazz slope.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 4:33 PM
4:22, count me too. I did own in Park Slope and chose to leave. Never looked back. Go figure.
Posted by: rh at April 30, 2008 4:39 PM
I wouldn't want to live anywhere but Park Slope.
I think it's amazing.
I've travelled all over the world, have a 2nd home in Argentina and still think Park Slope is one of the most beautiful neighborhoods on the planet.
The scale, the architecture, the sense of community spirit, the shops and restaurants steps out your door, the environmentally friendly attitude, the greenmarket, the PARK!
I'm really not sure what there isn't to love other than a few bad seeds as there are in every neighborhood.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 5:05 PM
"after a story like this...it's kinda hard not to admit park slope is pretty terrific."
No, it's not that hard, actaully.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 5:09 PM
do any of you park slope bashers and the ps defenders who foolishly take the bait even care how unbelievably PREDICTABLE you are?
get a new game.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 6:08 PM
Lived in Park Slope for 20+ years. Loved it. Owned a place eventually. Left for reasons unrelated to the Slope.
Moved on...but still love the Slope......
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 7:24 PM
Lived in Bklyn 30+ yrs, still love it. Own two apartments in Brooklyn Heights. Always liked all of Brooklyn, but cannot understand this new preciousness towards Park Slope. It used to not be such a big deal.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:12 PM
i find park slope gorgeous.
plain and simple.
don't live there, but a beautiful neighborhood.
Posted by: guest at April 30, 2008 10:59 PM
If any place could be the basis for a sitcom, PS would be it. Somehow, though, I doubt the show will poke fun of its smug, "champagne socialist" mindset and self-consciously "correct" attitudes.
Posted by: guest at May 1, 2008 7:32 AM
only 56 posts?! wow....
Posted by: guest at May 1, 2008 2:28 PM
I was born in Cobble Hill, went to middle and High School in Park Slope, had friends in Brooklyn Heights and spent a good part of my adult life living in Boerum Hill; I have such personal and warm feeling about all these neighborhoods. It's the experiences that you have that illicit these feelings - it's not an absolute - one neighborhood is better than another. I'm sure (I hope you all) feel similarly about the environs of your tender and formative years. This is not a turf war - stop the foolishness.
Posted by: guest at May 1, 2008 6:41 PM
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