Sex and the Other City
The first rule of television seems to be: if something works once, do it again. Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company has reportedly optioned the novel Prospect Park West to turn into a TV show. The book, by former sex columnist Amy Sohn, who also wrote the companion book for HBO’s Sex and the City, chronicles…
The first rule of television seems to be: if something works once, do it again. Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company has reportedly optioned the novel Prospect Park West to turn into a TV show. The book, by former sex columnist Amy Sohn, who also wrote the companion book for HBO’s Sex and the City, chronicles the lives, urges, and dissatisfactions of four Park Slope mothers. Here’s how The Post summed it up this morning: “The book creates a scathing portrait of Park Slope’s mommy brigade — of which Sohn is a breast-feeding member — as a parade of unsatisfied thirty- and forty-something moms sizing up their plights relative to all the other stroller-pushers at the playground. Few are having sex — at least not with their spouses.” It’s definitely the Sex and the City formula, but who knows if it will take off? Gawker asks the more important question: will it ruin Park Slope? There is already a festoon of strollers; will Berkeley Place now be clogged with red double-decker buses?
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex & the Stroller Set Show [Gawker]
Treading on a Slippery Slope [NY Post]
Is Prospect Park West the New SATC? [BuzzSugar]
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I tend to like “mouth breathers” and crosseyed guys.
LOL wtf?
*rob*
Brenda I absolutely love that H.L. Mencken quote.
omfg
Dear God, amid all this dumb locker-room banter, have any of you actually read the excerpt of this inane book on Gawker? It may be one of the worst books ever written: shallow, inane, excruciatingly dull. Is all “chick-lit” this atrocious? (I have no point of comparision, because I do not read books with designer shoes or shopping bags on their covers.) And from just two pages, it reeks as deeply offensive–not merely to the mothers, nannies, and Brooklynites that it crudely attempts to caricature, but to anyone with a mind or heart. As one commenter put it, this is the sort of book one opens, quickly shuts, and backs away from like an unexploded bomb.
Our borough brims with literary talent, discovered and undiscovered. I suggest everyone show up at the Brooklyn Book Festival (Sept. 13, Boro Hall) and look for some.
Suggestion: Let’s have a “Dark and Stormy Night” contest for *other* Brooklyn neighborhoods. Inspired by the literary droppings of Ms. Sohn, who can pen the most agonizingly bad prose about Crown Heights, Flatbush, Fort Greene, or Sheepshead Bay? Who can make Borough Park or Bensonhurst into a string of cliches and caricatures? They must be worthy of H.L. Mencken’s description of the writing of Warren Harding:
“It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.”
Soooo true Snappy. There’s always someone out there with a “fetish” or just an eye for all sorts of looks. I tend to like “mouth breathers” and crosseyed guys. Why??? I have no idea. There is one other facial “deformity” I once saw on an Asian bodybuilder and I think I became seriously obsessed.
Thankfully now there are websites for virtually any kind of fetish.. You’d be amazed at some of them.
“If not, very few people would be getting laid without the assistance of adult beverages.”
?????? – that is how most people get laid
You all give me pause on this one. I think the bottom line is that everyone’s standard of beauty is quite different. For me, when I walk down the street, I don’t even ‘see’ the women under a size 12 (I like big butts and I cannot lie!), glaze over those dressed to the hilt (screams high maintenance to me), etc. For every woman on the street, there is a man and or woman out there who will find her to be a hottie. If not, very few people would be getting laid without the assistance of adult beverages.
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Yes, dh. The same way I ewnvision many men. In fact I was doing it on the A train this morning with a hot looking Indian guy and then with a latino after I transferred to the E. The subway is the best place for eye candy and “undressing.”
:-/ why do i get the feeling Dave is a subway rubber.
*rob*
Arkady – TOTALLY true!