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...And, like the TV series, the film offers much that will resonate with singles—and yes, even Christians—who see themselves not just as a demographic in a Barna poll but as sexual beings who wrestle with balancing loneliness and a desire for romantic love with a commitment to purity and platitudes like "true love waits." (And waits. And waits.) More on that in a moment, but first, let's catch up with the main characters. ********************relatable wrestling with life that made the show not just popular, but a pop-culture phenomenon. And a phenomenon even for many Christians. For years, good churchgoing friends...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: There's a little story here in Madison, Wisconsin. It's by somebody named Michael James Moore: "Why Do Men Hate 'Sex and the City'?" Dawn, have you been to see Sex and the City? Never watched the show, she has no intention of going to see the movie. It did gangbusters out there in its opening weekend. I don't know if Dr. De Cock was in the audience, but it did something like $55 million and chick flicks do not do that well. Most people don't see them. Chicks do. But this attracted all kinds of chicks. This...

“Is 40 really the New 20?” asks Fox News, reviewing the Sex And The City hoopla that seemed to overwhelm everyone this weekend. “Pop culture expert and Party Girl author Anna David joins us to weigh in on the phenomenon…” And the burning question is, what do you make of this revolutionary idea that a woman can be single in her 30s, 40s, even 50s, and it’s not shameful, it’s fantastic? Interesting. Let’s explore this revolutionary idea. How did Sex And The City make it okay to be single? After Anna David addresses how threatening this idea is to men—it...

I’ve just seen Sex and the City and now I’m going to review it. There will be spoilers. If you’re still waiting with baited breath to see this movie (a description that I doubt applies to many Freepers) don’t read any further unless you’ve already guessed that it’s going to be pretty much like a Jane Austen story but with gratuitous sex scenes, designer clothes, and a plethora of clichéd observations about life and love. In other words, a happy ending, and no one dies. I should say right away, I was expecting someone to die because I’d overheard a...

"No. 1 Sex And The City truly shocked Hollywood pros by opening with a hanging-from-the-chandeliers $26.9 million from 3,285 theaters. The big question now is whether this staggering wanna-see among women for the HBO Films/New Line/Warner Bros female froth sustains through Saturday and Sunday showings so the weekend total can soar past $70M and maybe even $75M."

Broadcast TV finally conveyed “Sex and the City” episodes to a wider public, albeit with a bit of editing here and there. The HBO breakout chick-flickette series gathered garlands and huzzahs, and a few brickbats, thru S&C’s long run on cable. It quickly saturated the post-HBO syndicated broadcast market, and fell short of many assessments by conservative voices. Much more mainstream than you’d have guessed, and far more than I’d guessed until the saturation distribution reached my eyes and ears. And analytical synapses. Now comes a summer release of the awaited feature film, with Big and Carrie rumored to wed....

-- Woman says SATC inspired her to have sex at 14 -- ABC News.com is currently highlighting a Sex and the City- inspired story about a woman who says the HBO series inspired her to start having sex when she was 14. Will the networks news shows pick up the story or will it remain an "internet only" feature, not likely to be seen by a broad audience? The question is worth asking because ABC's Good Morning America was one of the first network morning news shows to salivate over last week's London opening of Sex and the City: The...

VETERAN model Lauren Hutton has attacked Sex And The City's portrayal of promiscuous women and blamed "gay writers" for creating the stereotype that single women are "sluts". While Hutton admitted she had not seen an episode of the hit US TV series, she went on to claim it promoted the untrue myth that it's natural for women to be sexually promiscuous. "It's written by guys, who happen to be gay, who are sluts. That's what I think. Let's face it most men are sluts. "That's what testosterone is supposed to do. As a hunter, if you stayed alive after 30,...

How That 'Sex' Show Loosened Women's Purse Strings By VICKI HYMAN   Sioban Feliciano helps Lauren Moretti try on Christian Louboutin shoes at CoCo Pari in Red Bank, N.J. The shop didn't stock shoes until customers asked for styles seen on the TV hit 'Sex and the City.' (Photo by Mark Dye)     Red Bank, NJ -- Late in the big-screen version of "Sex and the City," the gang is enjoying a round of fruity pink Cosmopolitans, prompting one of them to wonder, "Why did we stop drinking these?" Retorts Carrie: "Because everyone else started."From the cocktail craze to...

To great popular culture fanfare, the Sex and the City movie opens on Friday. I don’t expect that I shall see it, so I thought I might offer a comment beforehand. Indeed, I rather missed the entire television series, but for a rather extraordinary confluence of events. Some years ago, I was asked by my friends at Maclean’s to arrange for the participation of Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City, for their big 100th anniversary bash in Toronto. The program featured leading Canadians from industry, literature, science, show business, politics, etc., all giving various summaries of the decades of...

April 14, 2005 -- LESBIANS everywhere swooned when Cynthia Nixon, famous for playing sassy lawyer Miranda on "Sex and the City," revealed she'd left her longtime boyfriend for a woman late last year. But jaws are now hitting the floor as Nixon's mystery miss, Christine Marinoni, finally emerges reluctantly into the spotlight. Far from choosing a supermodel or movie star, the stylish Nixon is in love with a left-wing education activist who never touches a tube of lipstick - let alone a pair of Jimmy Choos. Just how the vehement anti-celebrity bagged the "Sex and the City" star remains a...

...Beginning today, Amazon plans to feature one original short film each week in a prominent spot on its home page for the next five weeks -- all commissioned by Amazon and available for free downloading by the site's visitors. The four-to-seven minute movies will star a variety of Hollywood actors in fictional stories fashioned loosely around a theme Amazon describes as "karmic balance;" characters, in essence, learn valuable life lessons.... Instead of a traditional advertising hard sell, the movies mark the escalation of an effort by Amazon to provide unique online content free of charge to its customers, some of...

(I want New Yorkers, and anybody who watches "Sex and the City" or otherwise models their sensibilities on Big Apple chic, to Google the following piece and discover that—SHOCK! HORROR!—somebody who has or had "good" cultural values actually supports the president.) Please note that not every personal revelation in the following piece is something I'm proud of—but it's all true:"My idea of an ideal Saturday is catching a ride with a friend or family, and going to garage sales and flea markets, and I am voting for George W. Bush. * My favorite clothes come from thrift stores, and I...

"Roxy Sass," the sex columnist at the Stanford Daily, advises "tragically repressed" Stanford University students to stash sexual aids in their "trusty toy box." The Daily Cal's popular "Sex on Tuesday" column welcomed University of California, Berkeley students back to school with frank talk about morning-after manners and the etiquette of the "half-night stand" - sneaking out before the sun and the bed owner rise. And Yvonne K. Fulbright, the 29-year-old doctoral student who writes the "Sexpert Tells All" column for New York University's Washington Square News, is so well-known that she was invited to speak at freshman orientation. From...

I did not have to view even one episode of HBO’s vaunted series, “Sex in the City” in order to understand what the concept was about. “Sex in the City” revolved around somewhat dimwitted career women let loose in the big city - free to indulge their baser animal instincts with a series of interchangeable men. The scripts read as though they were written by immature testosterone laden sixteen year olds . The crass and juvenile titles serve as an example: “Bay of Married Pigs” “Old Dogs, New Dicks” “The F***ing Buddy” “Politically Erect” “Belles of the Balls” “Just Say...

<p>Neither, apparently, can the love.</p> <p>An almost immediate cultural phenomenon when it debuted on HBO in 1998, "Sex and the City" (the final season begins tonight at 9 p.m.) has mainstreamed Manolos, cosmopolitans and serial dating - to the chagrin of many single New York women, who have felt pressure to keep up with the frisky, fashionable foursome.</p>

<p>I lay awake in bed for three hours straight this Thursday, panicking that I have become way too choosy when it comes to blind dates. After all, isn't New York full of lonely women in their 30s who think no one is good enough?</p>

A little odd because this is a pseudo-vanity; I have a friend who is a SATC fan, and tipped me off that the last sexual harassment incident, that supposedly occurred in the late 1980s (involving a waitress in a restaurant) in the LA Times article is virtually IDENTICAL to an incident involving Charlotte in episode 22 of "Sex and the City" (which didn't appear till the late 1990s): http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/recall/la-me-women2oct02,1,2313555.story?coll=la-home-headlines Unfortunately I was unable to find a really detailed episode guide for SATC, but this is the relevant passage from the episode guide: "Meanwhile, Charlotte meets a famous actor and acts...

<p>Here's a two-word phrase you don't see or hear much anymore: young adults. It sank beneath the waves of a more recent, more powerful force: the "youth culture."</p> <p>The youth culture in America is a lifestyle, emphasizing the one thing that youth tend to be very good at: thinking about themselves. Pridefully inner-directed, it opens itself to the outer world primarily in two ways: style and "attitude." Membership in the youth culture is defined by mass marketers as a "demographic," which begins about the age of 12 and runs without interruption to the age of 35. A "young adult" is an anachronism.</p>

"Sex and the City" sashayed into public consciousness in the summer of 1998, when sex had become, if not the national pastime, the reigning political story. Monica Lewinsky had just been featured on the cover of Vanity Fair, and her name was regularly mentioned on the front pages of major newspapers. The Clinton-Lewinsky affair had made lewd gossip an acceptable form of political commentary, and "Sex and the City" quickly became part of the pundit glossary....