A prestige actress just had a movie dropped into the fall slate. Watch out, ladies! Also today: a literary classic gets an Awzom! movie makeover, lots of TV shows hire actors, and some Christine O'Donnell jokes.
It's true there are no new ideas left in Hollywood, and even the old ideas are starting to not look so good. Ah well, we soldier on in spite of (or because of) it anyway.
As every newspaper profile of Candace Bushnell is obliged by law to mention, she didn't get rich off of Sex and the City, having sold the rights to Darren Star for a mere $60,000. Then she neglected to marry a Mr. Big-type mogul, opting unexpectedly for a ballet dancer ten years her junior. Her lifestyle, as a result, isn't exactly as lavish as her characters': Those seven-figure book advances don't go so far, she recently lost her radio show, and it's clear that executive-producing ratings disappointment Lipstick Jungle isn't going to provide for an early retirement. Still, at least she's got a second home, even if it is only worthy of a feature in the Hartford Courant rather than Architectural Digest.
As soon as deals were signed, sealed and delivered for SATC brainchildren Candace Bushnell and Darren Star to helm their own interchangeable shows on rival networks, the claws were out. Rumors of fights between the former successful partners, publicly voiced dismissals of the others' futures in primetime, and an overall tension among loyal SATC viewers concerned about their iconic creators' feud led to a predictable race-to-the-finish come winter pilot season. And now, according to the NY Daily News, we may have a winner. Today's rumor on which Menopause And The City spinoff is most likely to bite the dust first, after the jump...
· Bulgarian backlash: Model Saira Mohan has been getting hate mail since Esquire quoted her (erroneously, she says) as using the phrase "fat Bulgarian dog trainer." [Page Six]
· Kelly Osbourne wants the role of Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway production of "Hairspray." [Page Six]
· Quincy Jones' daughter Rashida is engaged to DJ boyfriend, Mark Ronson. [Page Six]
· Rudy Giuliani may be the next Lieutenant Governor. Darren Star (creator of Sex in the City) got booed at a Museum of Television and Radio panel in Hollywood when he said that "When the women start to push 40, they're not single, fun girls around town anymore." [NY Daily News]
