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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the idea that the typical PS mom can somehow be realistically the subject of a SITC type TV show is insane!
i thought 3 out of the 4 sex in the city women are BUSTED.
*rob*
Lech – true!! hahahaha!
Benson – agreed I think for the most part people who live in Park Slope are just not the kinda of people to get dressed up, slap on some cologne/perfume and go to Union Hall.
Rob, before you criticize men with strollers, try walking a mile in their Crocs…
Rob didnt say “ugly” – I said average – and then made-up in the most asexual manner imaginable. I agree with dirty-hipster there is (some) potential there [I am sure a decent number of them after a couple of risque text msgs and an afternoon at Le Blue, would put it together enough to enter the arena of “attractive”] BUT
the idea that the typical PS mom can somehow be realistically the subject of a SITC type TV show is insane!
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Women in Park Slope generally remind me of the kinds of bony liberal white girls you meet at Mount Holyoke/Smith/Welleseley/etc.
okay, ill give you that. very astute observation. in general tho i feel like people seem a lot more chill in general than what im used to, and i sort of like that. sometimes youll see someone pushing a stroller and youll be like oh they SO just smoked a joint.
*rob*
Whoooah there. No one was talking about ugly. The raw material is fine. It’s all about how you wrap it up and present it to the public. I don’t think slopers are ugly.
Pete – while your point has some general validity – Eyecandy/Women are serious business to most men(that I know) and we arent going to let stereotypes or bias effect our view of any reasonably attractive women (and btw my definition of reasonably attractive grows each day I age)
FSRG
well as a woman with good style I think for the most part the type of woman that lives in BK is different than the type that lives in Manhattan. I do feel there are more “natural” types that live in PS hence why you might see more women running around in baggy jeans & oversize T’s – but I wouldn’t assume they aren’t “sexy”.
perhaps they don’t feel the need to go showing off the goods to men on the street.
I go to the gym in leggings and my husband’s Tshirt b/c frankly I don’t want all the men to see what I have and get approached, that doesn’t make me frumpy.
There’re days on which the GAP (great American public) looks pretty good & others when all I see is uglies. I think a lot depends on my own frame of mind.