I was part of the real Carrie gang that sparked Sex and the City
We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
Dismiss
By Helen Kirwan-Taylor
Normal text size
Sex and the City, called
And Just Like That., has been announced. Those of us who knew Candace Bushnell – the real Carrie Bradshaw – when she was penning the original SATC columns for the
New York Observer are curious to see how life panned out for Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte. As for Samantha. well, unlike many, I really don t mind about Kim Cattrall bowing out. I always thought she was made up for effect.
Many of the cooler, more creative women I met had no discernible way of keeping up with the bankers and publishing professionals or the trust fund kids who went out every night. Many of them had a Mr Big in the background – someone who enjoyed the glamour they brought with them.
The female characters in SATC have often come under attack for being trivial, but their real life counterparts were trailblazers. When I graduated university in 1983, the world was our oyster. My best friend became a doctor and an MBA, now leading American health care policy. My two female flatmates were bankers earning $250k a year. In fact, they subsidised my rent in exchange for introducing them to good-looking men (they were far too busy with their careers for that). I was then working for ABC Television’s
Rosemary Harris.
Conceived and created safely for the COVID-19 era, the production is a collaboration among more than 300 students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Dance of the Snowflakes from overhead in UNCSA s new The Nutcracker for film, released Dec. 17.
Snowflake dancing masked in UNCSA s all-new The Nutcracker for film, Dec. 17. Credit Peter J. Mueller.
The film represents the 55th consecutive year UNCSA has presented The Nutcracker, and the first ever film version reaching audiences worldwide. Leveraging the institution s unique position as a conservatory with five nationally recognized arts schools, the classic work was adapted through the imagination and expertise of the schools of Dance, Design & Production, Filmmaking and Music.