BIG 6: Post-9/11 SEX AND THE CITY, Hitchcock nostalgia, more

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Encyclopedia of 9/11 – Sex and the City: Was it still okay to drink Cosmos?

Still, by October, when writing began on season five, the writers were still shaken up, unsure whether it was even possible to refit their stylized sex comedy to the new environment. “Would people want to see their four ladies having fun, or be sad with them?” recalled writer Elisa Zuritsky, who remembers cathartic venting, with writers pitching Bush-era puns (“We’re going to smoke men out”) and talk about post-9/11 promiscuity.  Read the full NY Mag article

North By Nostalgia: Remember, It Was Never Easy To Be Alfred Hitchcock

I like film nostalgia as much as anyone. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have been at the theater on a Saturday night seeing North By Northwest in the first place. And when I saw that navy dress, I did briefly think, “Why did women ever decide they should dress in any way other than that?” Read the full NPR article

The She Decade

Jane Fonda, at 73, is the ultimate been-there-done-that creature, a chameleon of endless variety: member of a leading Hollywood dynasty, Broadway actress, international film star, relentless political activist, physical-fitness entrepreneur, author. She’s constantly transforming herself, and her struggles for recognition, love, and successful motherhood mirror those of a generation of women. An untold challenge in her life occurred in 1963, when she escaped Hollywood and her father’s shadow and moved to France to work with director René Clément on a film called Joy House. Read the full Vanity Fair article

Robert Duvall on Coppola, Brando, golf and retirement

Well, [Brando] was really — for young actors — like our godfather. I remember Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman — we used to meet at a drugstore a couple of times a week in New York years ago, and if we mentioned Brando’s name once we mentioned it 25 times, because he was like “the guy.” But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It’s a medium that everyone wants to be connected with — it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.  Read the LA Times article

OFF THE CARPET: And we’re off!

From my bed & breakfast room I could often hear people walking on the street talking, discussing what they’d seen, what they wanted to see, etc. I overheard one conversation as I was working that made me smile. A gentleman told his friend, “Try not to see The Descendants too early. It will ruin the rest of the festival for you. Nothing else is better.”  Read the full In Contention post

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy: Gen Y gets its group grope

In short, these immature, fairly pitiable protagonists go about their absurd project in all the wrong ways. But you just keep rooting for them. This is the thing Sudeikis and many of his costars have, and it’s not acting ability. It’s not even “star power.” It’s sort of an id-based aspirational aura, the slight lopsided smirk of self-awareness that makes Sudeikis seem like Jason Bateman’s scruffier younger brother (and makes him a good Joe Biden impersonator on Saturday Night Live).   Read the full NY Times article

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