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July 7, 2009

SJP Bringing Park Slope to the TV Masses

ppw-0709.jpgFrom what we gather, the rumors of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick being the mystery buyers of the Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany mansion on Prospect Park West are not true. The famous Sex and the City actress does have a new connection to street overlooking the park: She's optioned the rights to Amy Sohn's new novel called, not surprisingly, Prospect Park West, and is planning to create a television series out of it. According to MTV, the book "follows four mothers living in the baby-buggie-friendly borough of Brooklyn, and is described as a mix of 'sex, parenthood and celebrity.'"




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I will be playing the part of the lecherous old gay man.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at July 7, 2009 9:05 AM

Oh come on! As if Park Slope doesn't get enough bad rap already.

Posted by: heck_of_a_job_brownie at July 7, 2009 9:16 AM

haha - I don't know where to start!! This is really funny!

Posted by: dirty_hipster at July 7, 2009 9:26 AM

Ok - I bet this thread will have at least 300 posts!!!
I don;t know where to even start either...

Posted by: gemini10 at July 7, 2009 9:29 AM

Well in other news - i hear they are opening a magnolia bakery, corner bistro and 5 marc by marc jacobs stores on Montgomery Pl in a few months.

Posted by: dirty_hipster at July 7, 2009 9:38 AM

ill be playing the part of the bitter poor gay man who throws water balloons off his roof at the all the characters.

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 9:39 AM

SJP definitely purchased a home in Amagansett this spring. I know one of her neighbors.

Posted by: faithful at July 7, 2009 9:43 AM

so now all my friends back home wont think im a badass for living in brooklyn?

shit

Posted by: Santa at July 7, 2009 9:46 AM

That would be a pretty funny character Rob. If it was more of a sitcom that would probably work... but only if Rob got to call the "girls" chicken-necked horse-faces once an episode. (We don't hold our tongues in Brooklyn...)

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at July 7, 2009 9:51 AM

lol rob.

wow. this is whack. i can't wait for the scene about the lost "boy's" blue hat that caused all the controversy on the park slope parents listserv.

do you think they will give the character's names or just refer to them as 'mom to [insert child's name here]'...

i don't exactly know why but i don't want this project to succeed. haven't enough neighborhoods in nyc been ruined by media overexposure?

Posted by: bodhi_brooklyn at July 7, 2009 9:53 AM

Laugh all you like, but 10 or more years ago, this would have been called "Central Park West." Park Slope is the new Upper West Side. We should all hope this TV show is a big success because it'll pull in tourists who'll spend money and home buyers who want the cache of living in a hot neighborhood. Move over Beverly Hills 90210; it's Brooklyn 11217.

Posted by: ProfRobert at July 7, 2009 9:59 AM

ugh. my one man army of park slope degentrification does not appear to be working as i had planned. is there anyone else who would like to join me in this cause!? anyone? c'mon dipster, we can offer newports to the kiddies in the park! (that sounded so bad ahhaha)

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 10:03 AM

do you think they will give the character's names or just refer to them as 'mom to [insert child's name here]'...


made me laugh bodhi.

Posted by: eh at July 7, 2009 10:08 AM

Sex in the City worked because it fed single women what they desperately wanted to hear: that it's totally ok to be a self-absorbed, materialist whore. I don't understand what the follow is supposed to be here.

Posted by: joe_the_bummer at July 7, 2009 10:10 AM

oh and i have to clarify something, that might not be obvious to a casual reader who might have opened this thread. i would absolutely never do what i just said in my previous post. (i could just imagine someone right now starting a thread on the park slope mommy message board saying there's an evil gay man in town giving their children cigarettes)!

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 10:12 AM

"anyone? c'mon dipster, we can offer newports to the kiddies in the park! (that sounded so bad ahhaha)"

haha rob - i say we make SJPs stoop our new hangout to smoke dutch masters and drink malt liquor.

Posted by: dirty_hipster at July 7, 2009 10:14 AM

I can't wait to see the episode where they have to explain to the kid that the bank is kicking them out of their brownstone.

Posted by: joe_the_bummer at July 7, 2009 10:14 AM

if you really want to degentrify the area you need to start pooping on peoples stoops and throwing rocks.

also being gay is a sure fire way to gentrify an area.

Posted by: Santa at July 7, 2009 10:18 AM

perhaps Santa, but i am part of a very very very very very very very very very very small segment of the gay population who eschew all things gay.

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 10:31 AM

Rob, it's too late to save Park Slope. It was over before you arrived.

Posted by: rh at July 7, 2009 10:39 AM

Rob, I really think menthols are a bad choice. American Spirit would make a lot more sense. After all, they're grown responsibly, without pesticides.

I'm sure there's a segment of Park Slope parenthood that would also be okay with marijuana.

Posted by: Heather at July 7, 2009 10:41 AM

well clearly the only thing that is going to relate to Park Slope is the name of the show and maybe "parenthood"

-cause there is no sex or celebrity in the real park slope - well actually there might be some sex going on but if it is, it is taking place in Manhattan (or maybe some of those sub 4th Ave motels) and virtually none of it could possibly be anything that you'd want to watch based on the people I see walking around PS (especially the generally ratings friendly 'lesbian sex')

As for celebrity - virtually zero.

Posted by: fsrg at July 7, 2009 10:50 AM

rh, oh i know that! i dont want to stop it, duh it's all done already, i wanna reverse it!

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 10:51 AM

rob- leave while you still can. I've heard that people fall prey to PSL (park slope lust) virtually overnight and that it is well nigh incurable. Cut your losses-

Posted by: bxgrl at July 7, 2009 11:03 AM

Rob I bet little Dora and Diego already know how to roll their own.

First episode... "Rob" and ________'s mother spend the day shopping at Babes in Toy Land.

Posted by: IMBY at July 7, 2009 11:18 AM

LOL IMBY hahah

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 11:39 AM

I think the follow is: Hey, it's OK to spend $1,000 on a stroller, $200/hr. to tutor your 2 year old and $20,000/year on private school for your 4 year old (even though you live in one of the best school districts in the city). Same level of self-absorbtion, just projected onto the kid.

I hope all the "sex" scenes have hairy arm pitted females, or else it ain't real Park Slope.

Also looking forward to:
*Catfight at the Coop scene
*Househunting scene referencing Brownstoner

Posted by: bkbornandbred at July 7, 2009 12:16 PM

Rob is Hired as a Gay Manny and joins the Tibetan liberation movement, after learning more about their plight from another nanny at a playdate. Meanwhile, little Olivia and Banjo run amuck in the Barnes & Noble and learn a Very Special Lesson about why not to run on escalators. Their mother, Ellen, hasn't been a lesbian since college, but develops a crush on Sorbey, the single mom emergency room nurse she meets after the escalator accident. Meanwhile, her husband, Manuel, decides to quit his job as an investment banker in order to get more quality time with the kids and finally write the Great American Novel. Hijinks ensue when he tells Ellen right after she refinances the brownstone to pay for that kitchen renovation!

Posted by: Heather at July 7, 2009 12:20 PM

beautiful heather!! i think we have the pilot episode!

Posted by: dirty_hipster at July 7, 2009 12:22 PM


Fish in a barrel.

Posted by: East New York at July 7, 2009 12:30 PM

Heather, be careful! That sounds awfully close to the truth.

Posted by: infinitejester at July 7, 2009 12:32 PM

Nice stunt, broker community. How many contracts were signed as a result of this rumor?

File with Oprah@1Han and Beyonce@1PP. I bet the "newborns" ate it up.

***Bid half off peak comps***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at July 7, 2009 12:37 PM

ha heather that was great! hahhah

*rob, manny for hire*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 12:44 PM

MILFS in a barrel.

Posted by: IMBY at July 7, 2009 12:49 PM

Wasnt there some other Park Slope show floating around by one of the other producers of SATC?

Posted by: woodys at July 7, 2009 12:51 PM

My happiness with leaving Park Slope increases with every passing day.

Posted by: DitmasSnark at July 7, 2009 12:52 PM

I don't get it. I've lived in Park Slope my entire life and yes it has changed (as all places do). There are certainly more annoying people than there used to be and the stereotypes that run amok about slopers have some merit, but are certainly not exclusive to this hood.

I won't go with the expected "you're just hating cuz you're jealous", but come on already. Give the normal folks here some credit, there really are alot of non-annoying-yuppie-obsessive-parents still around.

If people stereotype an affluent neighborhood this savagely, I really don't want to see any threads on brownsville.

Thanks for letting me vent y'all

And oh yeah, this show sounds like the worst idea ever (well not THE worst, but close)

Posted by: Troy McClure at July 7, 2009 1:03 PM

"If people stereotype an affluent neighborhood this savagely, I really don't want to see any threads on brownsville."

good point man.

Posted by: infinitejester at July 7, 2009 1:24 PM

I say they just remake The Bugaloos as The Bugaboos.

Replace Martha Raye as Benita Bizarre with SJP as Benita Brownstone and the series practically writes itself.

Posted by: DitmasSnark at July 7, 2009 1:27 PM

Funniest Brownstoner thread EVER.

Posted by: mopar at July 7, 2009 1:43 PM

Rob, if you can reverse it to what it was like circa early-mid 80's, I'll gladly move back!

Posted by: rh at July 7, 2009 1:53 PM

Is this post a joke? No, seriously.

Posted by: route52 at July 7, 2009 1:53 PM

"Give the normal folks here some credit, there really are alot of non-annoying-yuppie-obsessive-parents still around."

every neighborhood in nyc has it's stereotype - it's not limited to park slope.

Posted by: dirty_hipster at July 7, 2009 2:07 PM

"Rob, if you can reverse it to what it was like circa early-mid 80's, I'll gladly move back!"

Park Slope had already blown past the yuppification point of no return by the mid-1980s.

Posted by: Sparafucile at July 7, 2009 2:55 PM

Maybe I was too young to notice, Sparafucile, but I disagree. There were even parts of Manhattan that had not yet blown past the yuppification point of no return by the mid-1980s. Maybe I'm thinking of the early 80's though. By the late 80's, my friends were comparing PS to the UWS. But I still loved it.

Posted by: rh at July 7, 2009 3:01 PM

It is always okay to mock the rich, Troy. That is one of the benefits of not being rich!

Posted by: Heather at July 7, 2009 3:19 PM

When I was growing up in the 80's in Marine Park Park Slope was considered a higher-crime area. It wasn't a "no-go" zone like the worst neighborhoods at the time but it was defintely suppossed to be common knowledge that we were to be grateful that our parents left higher crime neighborhoods such as PS to give us a better life. That being said, once I entered E.R. Murrow (highly rated public school) highschool in the early 90's I began to meet certain kinds of kids that I never had met before. They spoke and reminded me of people I saw on TV. They spoke standard non-accented English (which means to me they sounded like "hicks"). I always wondered about these kids. These kids' families were better off and better educated and the children were happy and healthy like the all-american family of Woody Allen's girlfriend in the movie Annie Hall. So, much like Charles Dickens in Tale of 2 said, (obviously referring to PS in the 80's) it was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at July 7, 2009 3:56 PM

hahaha good story joe

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 5:08 PM

Joe from Brooklyn: Long Live Saul Bruckner!

Posted by: sixyearsandcounting at July 7, 2009 5:11 PM

this really was a funny thread, and honestly tho if the stereotypes of park slope were as evasive as people make them seem, i for sure wouldnt continue living here. yes, when u walk around here u ARE going to notice the double wide expensive strollers first, it's what the neighborhood is mocked for. what do u think people notice first in williamsburd and bushwick., harlem? new yorkers need to lighten up, and i think most park slopers take the criticism with a grain of salt and laugh it off. (tho some of them probably DO go and beat their guatemalan nanny) who knows.

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 7, 2009 7:01 PM

YEAH, SAUL!! I went to Murrow, but I grew up in Midwood. Why DO so many Slopers go there?

Posted by: rh at July 7, 2009 8:57 PM

The DOB permits list Periel Aschenbrand as the owner of the PPW mansion. An episode featuring her would be quite interesting.

Posted by: psn at July 7, 2009 10:22 PM

"These kids' families were better off and better educated and the children were happy and healthy like the all-american family of Woody Allen's girlfriend in the movie Annie Hall."

Woody Allen's girlfriend's family wasn't happy.

Posted by: Nomi at July 13, 2009 2:46 AM

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