I have a feeling the producers of the much hyped and eagerly anticipated "Sex and the City" movie will have to somehow brace themselves and do the unthinkable: find a way to change the title of the movie - or face public ridicule. No, I'm not even kidding on this one - and I think that my suggestion would actually prove to be a very welcome change that is likely to rescue the movie from disappointing the fans and winning a few Razzies.
Why am I saying this? Well, it's quite easy to figure out. Let's imagine that one of the members of the cast... say, the lead actress, is a very professional lady who somehow always ends up being ridiculed for her looks, despite being perceived as a trendsetter and a fashion icon in certain circles. I remember
seeing these bikini pictures of Sarah Jessica Parker a few days ago and thinking that the people at Maxim magazine sure knew what they were doing when they called her "the least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women" who nevertheless manages to "still star on a show with 'sex' in the title".
And since we all know that there is no love lost and quite a fierce competition between SJP and her co-star Kim Cattrall (a.k.a. Samantha Jonson, the resident "Sex and the City" sex addict), it was only a matter of time before we were all
treated (much to our visual discomfort) with a few bikini shots of Kim that will effectively tear down the glamor air that used to surround the cast of the well-known TV series-gone-big screen flick. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm totally OK with the four ladies being human and having their defects, like anyone else.
I'm only saying that for one of the protagonists of a show that promotes "perfection" and makes use of ridiculously over the top fashion and sex to paint and spice up the story of a bunch of ultra-glam, always-wearing-killer-heels New York beauties, Kim is displaying an unusually lax attitude towards her own body. Yes, she looks kind of un-sexy, and yes, she has cellulite, big time. That much is OK - what I'm not comfortable with is the fact that it's all put on display without too much consideration of how having TWO leading actresses who look bad in a bikini (or maybe wear the wrong kind of bikini) will impact the movie's audience. That means us.
So, back to my initial suggestion of changing the name of the movie. How about "The Aging Ladies and the City"? Or "The Ladies Who Should Never Strip"? What I'd like to see is, if Kim donned this infamous bikini for the movie, just how much digital editing will they do to her body to make it live up to the expectations created by the whole "Sex and the City" franchise? And while I'm quite looking forward to that, have a look at some of the pictures in question and tell me, on a scale of 1 to 10, just where you'd put Kim's real non-digitally edited looks?
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