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]
Whether looking sexy for others is an appropriate goal is obviously a legitimate question. We could burn hundreds of posts trying to analyze the politics of whether men should expect women to dress sexy and whether women should do so. I was just making an objective observation about the outcome. Women in Park Slope generally remind me of the kinds of bony liberal white girls you meet at Mount Holyoke/Smith/Welleseley/etc.
While sitting on PPW for 45 minutes on Tuesday – I saw some good looking ladies walk by with strollers
Frumpy yes, but frumpy in a way they try to make hot chicks look ugly in those teen movies – just with bad hair, glasses and clothes, the potential is there.
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and PLEASE do not go to Tribeca/Soho or even Cobble Hill Park and look at the moms there for I fear that your head might explode
i work in soho, and ive worked in a gallery in tribeca before so i do get that.
i just dont agree with you that in general park slope women are ugly. annoying, snotty, entitled, rude perhaps, but not ugly.
*rob*
Gemini;
You’re right about Saturday morning. However, back to my previous post: do you really see many couples ever getting dressed up to go out for an evening in PS? I don’t, by and large.
I also feel out of place in PS. My wife likes it – I’m “meh”.
G10-
There are many ways to wear “jeans and a t-shirt” and while i am a straight man and cannot tell you what is being done – the women in Manhattan (large %) wear their Jeans and T-shirt in an ENTIRELY different way than your typical PS mom.
I think you come up with your stereotypes of people you don’t like in PS or elsewhere. Then look for anyone with some beheavior or dress to fit the stereotype – and ignore that 90% of others don’t.
Well, like Sex in the City, when it comes out on screen, that will be something else I have no interest in watching. There’s less and less reason to turn the tube on these days. Thank goodness for Law and Order reruns.
ive never had bathroom sex 🙁
*rob*
Rob, where do you work again? Neighborhood is very important in this respect.