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Fashion road kill, Post-it note breakups
and ‘down there’ dye jobs
BY SARA LIEBERMAN & SARYN CHORNEY
After begrudgingly agreeing to walk as a
“real person” in a charity fashion show,
Carrie freaks after being informed of
a last-minute wardrobe change that
has her wearing a tiny pair of bejeweled panties. Samantha gives
her the go-ahead with a little
“you’re fabulous” nudge, but as she
confidently starts her runway walk,
she trips in the “higher-the-better”
stiletto sandals that she wanted to
wear and falls flat on her face. Heidi
Klum steps right over her, inspiring Stanford’s tragically funny comment, “She’s fashion roadkill!” In a display of characteristic chutzpah, Carrie
gets back up and finishes her catwalk to triumphant cheers from the crowd. (Season 4:
“The Real Me”)
‘SEX’ TALK
MAGNOLIA cupcakes, name necklaces and flower pins weren’t the only things fans discovered from
“SATC.” The spot-on dialogue made
for some utterly repeatable language.
▪ baby blue (n.): Viagra
▪ bed arrest (n.): being forced into
post-coital cuddling
▪ clam mouth (n.): when a guy’s
tongue just lays in your mouth
▪ deja f - - - (n.): the odd sensation
that you’re sleeping with someone
you’ve slept with before
▪ frenemy (n.): a competitor with
whom one maintains tense social
relations
Goldic - - - s (proper n.): a woman
looking for a guy with a perfectly
sized package
Carrie wakes up in an empty bed
— after receiving pink carnations,
followed presumably by a makeup orgasm, both from Berger —
only to find a little yellow stickie
on her computer that reads:
“I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t hate
me.” She pauses in shock,
then slams the bouquet of
flowers, which are then
strewn all over her studio. It’s a slow-motion
shot, but its impact
comes fast and hard.
(Season 6: “Hop, Skip and
a Week”)
‘M
y favorite episode is the
one where Natasha
falls down the stairs
after finding Carrie in her apartment. It was hilarious and yet so,
so painful to watch. I think Carrie
finally realized she was hurting
someone by sleeping with Big —
but she needed to cause the poor
thing physical pain to reF
alize the extent of her
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harm.” (Season 3: “RunITE
ning With Scissors”)
— Robyn, 26, Brooklyn
▪ goody drawer (n.): the place
where a person keeps their lovemaking accessories
▪ Island of Lost Men (proper n.):
where guys wind up when they ask
for your number but don’t call
bouncing up and down like a rabbit
▪ loathe of your life (n.): your
most-despised ex
▪ mid-’30s power flip (n.): when
successful single men realize that
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SAMANTHA’S
DYE JOB
After finding a gray hair “down
there,” Samantha decides to give
herself a dye job. Alas, the ‘Nice-nSimple’ experiment goes awry,
and she ends up with a bright orange “Bozo Bush.” Later, during
Brady’s first birthday party, Sam
drags Carrie into the bathroom,
flashes her nether regions, and exclaims, “This is not supposed to
get old!” Carrie gasps, buries her
head in her hands and comes up
for one last look at the fearsome
firecrotch. (Season 6: “One”)
4. CARRIE BEGS
FORGIVENESS
The most tenderhearted
moment of the Carrie-Aidan saga
is when they try to reconcile after
Carrie’s affair with Big. Earlier,
Aidan exposed his vulnerability
by shouting, “You broke my
heart!” (in “Baby Talk is Cheap”).
But when Carrie opens herself
up, pleading, “You have to forgive
they’ve now got the upper hand
▪ modelizer (n.): a man who’s obsessed with models
▪ naked dress (n.): the dress a girl
wears on a night she plans to have
sex with someone
▪ reproductively challenged
(adj.): infertile
▪ real estate bride (n.): a woman
who marries for an apartment
▪ Sapphic slump (n.): a low point
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Brad Pitt carries baby
Shiloh, who totes her
own little tot, in
Cannes.
Denise Richards
visits “TRL” to promote her new E!
reality show “It’s
Complicated.”
Natalie Portman and boyfriend Devendra Banhart wine
and dine at “La Mirabelle” restaurant in Cannes.
5. CARRIE
REGISTERS
FOR SHOES
At a friend’s baby shower, Carrie’s asked to take off and leave her
fabulous Manolos in a pile of wornout slingbacks by the door. Upon
leaving, she realizes they’ve been
stolen. In an effort to reclaim them,
she’s “shoe shamed” when her
friend passes judgement on their
“extravagant” $485 price tag. Then,
Carrie spectacularly tells her
friend she’s getting married — to
herself — and is registered at
Manolo Blahnik. (Season 6: “A
Woman’s Right to Shoes”)
in a lesbian relationship
▪ see you next Tuesday (slang):
Charlotte’s way of calling another
woman something naughty
▪ sharpei (n.): a man’s uncircumcised appendage
▪ yogasm (n.): an orgasm that occurs after yoga class
Source: “Sex and the City: Kiss and
Tell” (Pocket Books) by Amy Sohn
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1. CARRIE IS ‘FASHION
ROADKILL½
2. THE POST-IT
BREAKUP
me. You have to forgive me!” the
intensity of their relationship is at
its greatest height, or lowest low.
Eventually, she melts into his
chest and he accepts her. (Season
4: “Time and Punishment”)
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T’S hard
to play favorites when it
comes to “Sex and
the City.” With six seasons, 94 episodes and countless Cosmos, picking only 10 great moments
is like picking a favorite department at Bendel’s — there are just too many good options.
Every Sunday night, for an uninterrupted 28 or so
minutes, Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha
made us laugh, cry and declare that the best part of the
morning after is dishing about it with your friends.
While ladies everywhere have their pearl thongs
in a twist over Friday’s release of the movie, here, in
no particular order, is the Best. Sex. Ever.
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Joel Madden play
with daughter
Harlow in Glendale, Calif.
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y favorite moment
was when Carrie
invites Big up to
Aidan’s cabin after being
dumped and the two guys
get into a fight in the mud.
It just demonstrates how
high school New York guys
can be. Carrie tries to be the
bigger person [by
lending her friend FA FAN
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some sympathy],
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and the guys (literally) muck it up.”
(Season 4: “Belles of the
Balls”)
— Summer, 32,Queens
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shows off a hot,
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Costa Rica.
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Czech model
Eva Herzigova arrives at
the Cannes
premiere of
“Che.”
By Sara
Lieberman
and Marie
Monteleone
6. MIRANDA’S
SINGLE AT THE
GRAVE
When Miranda’s mother dies,
not only is she faced with her
death, she says “I didn’t realize
I needed a date for my mother’s
funeral. Ignore the coff in,
there’s a 35-year-old single
woman walking behind it.”
Walking alone in the procession, Miranda loses it. Without
even thinking, Carrie steps in,
grabs her hand and walks beside her. (Season 4: “My Motherboard, Myself”)
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Milla Jovovich
flashes her
gams at the
amfAR Cinema
Against AIDS
benefit in
Cannes.
CARRIE’S DRESS
After Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda go on and on about “The Way We Were,” and how crazy it is that
Samantha’s never seen it, Carrie realizes she’s just like “complicated K-k-k-katie” herself. So when she
spots Big and Natasha leaving their engagement brunch at the Plaza, she re-enacts the movie’s most
famous scene by delicately moving Big’s hair away from his face and saying, “Your girl is lovely,
Hubble.” In return, he says, “I don’t get it.” And Carrie, in a moment of bittersweet revelation says, “And
you never did.” (Season 2: “Ex and the City”)
Here comes the bride . . . in a custommade Vivienne Westwood gown. Camilla
Bazzanti, the vice president of sales at
Scatola Sartoriale,
the British
designer’s New
York showroom,
says the custommade gown’s
starting price point
is $18,000,
including veil.
“The price goes up
based on fabric,
work, etc.,” says
Bazzanti, adding, “I
think that one is
priceless.”
THE GIRLS’ DRESSES
keep her head up from exhaustion and her food down from a
hangover, she cries, “I’ve been
dating since I was 15. I’m exhausted. Where is he?” (Season
3: “Where There’s Smoke...”)
swering machine. She then invites him to the coffee shop to
speak his piece to the rest of the
g i rl s w h e r e h e a d m i t s h e
“f - - - ed it up — many times.” He
then says, “You’re the loves of her
life and a guy’s just lucky to come
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in fourth.” After what feels like an
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he episode where
ITE eternity of silence, Miranda,
Miranda makes
leans forward and says, “Go get
a chocolate cake
our girl.” (Season 6: “An Ameriand starts eating the whole
can Girl in Paris [Part Une]”)
thing, so she quickly throws it
in the garbage. But that doesn’t
love the episode when
stop her: She starts eating it out
Carrie gets busted
of the garbage! After that, she
for smoking pot. I
grabs some dishwashing soap
mean, what are the odds?
and pours it over the cake. SeriEven the cop feels sorry for
ously, what woman can eat just
one piece of homemade cake
her [when she tells him
— especially if you’re the only
about the Post-it], which
one home! If no one else is there
adds insult to injury in a
to see you eat it, does it count? I
humane way. Then, while
think not!” (Season 4:“What’s
wolfing down a sundae in
Sex Got To Do With It?”)
the coffee shop with the
When Samantha’s diag— Kathy, 29, Manhattan
girls, she says, in a
nosed with cancer in Seaslightly stoned way, FA FAN
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son 6, her hair loss ruins a
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‘Oh! Hear that? It’s
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passionate moment with
midnight. The official
beau Smith Jerrod just days
end to what will now
before his red-carpet movie
be known as the day I got
premiere. In a rare glimpse of
arrested for smoking a
While CarSamantha’s emotionally vuldoobie.’ I love the way she
rie’s in Paris
nerable side, she admits to besays, ‘smoking a doobie.’
with the
ing scared, and boldly shaves
She’s loving the fact that
Russian,
her hair off. In an act of solidarshe
still
can
be
a
‘bad’
girl.”
Charlotte
ity, Smith shaves his head, too.
(Season 6: “The Post-it Alhears Big
As if we needed another reason
ways Sticks Twice”)
leave a love
to lust after this “absolute
confession
hunk.” (Season 6: “Out of the
— Jodie, 45, Manhattan
on her anFrying Pan”)
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7. CHARLOTTE’S 9. BIG GETS THE
GO-AHEAD
‘EXHAUSTED’
On the ferry ride home from
Staten Island, where Carrie
judged the Fire Department’s
“Calendar Contest,” the typically pristine Charlotte drunkenly declares this the year she
will finally get married. The
morning after, while trying to
LOVE HAS
A PRICE:
CARRIE’S
WEDDING
he “Sex and the City” movie’s major
moment is the mega-wedding of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mr. Big
(Chris Noth). Fantasy sequence or not, one
thing’s for sure: This dream wedding would
cost you — “Big” time.
— Saryn Chorney
8. BIG MEETS ‘HUBBLE’
Usher holds son Usher
Raymond V — who’s
rockin’ some Roberto Cavalli shoes — while filming
a promo for the
2008 MTV
Movie Awards.
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10. SMITH AND
SAMANTHA
SHAVE
The brightly colored bridesmaids gowns
are all from designer Zac Posen’s spring
2008 collection. A knee-length version of
Miranda’s blue silk Ibis dress is at Bergdorf
Goodman for $3,200, while the floor-length
one in the film costs about $5,300, according
to net-a-porter.com.
CARRIE’S SHOES
Christian Dior’s “Extreme Gladiator
Platform” sandals are Carrie’s “it” shoes in
the film, making a special bejeweled
appearance at her wedding. Their price on
eLuxury.com is $770, but after “Sex” stylist
Pat Field customized them with Swarovski
crystals, they’d fetch at least another $100.
HAIR & MAKEUP
Galit Bartleson, makeup artist to Kelly
Clarkson, says Carrie’s wedding-day face
and hair would each cost $1,500, while it’d be
about $500 to beautify the bridesmaids.
FLOWERS
Manhattan florist Dejuan Stroud
estimates that Carrie’s bridal bouquet of
white roses and ranunculus would cost
around $350, while the girls’ bouquets would
probably cost $200 each.
EVENT SPACE
Carrie’s “Chick Lit” wedding is in the New
York Public Library’s Astor Hall and
McGraw Rotunda. The landmark space can
be rented for receptions, starting at $50,000.
TOTAL COST
We couldn’t reach Anthony Marentino
(Mario Cantone), but real-life celeb wedding
planner David Tutera guesses the overall
budget would “easily be over a million
dollars.”