Photos of Naked Guy From Sex and the City

Posted by Michael Musto at 10:13 AM, June 9, 2008

Gilles Marini is the swarthy, handsome guy who captivates Samantha in the movie of Sex and the City while also walking away the the hearts and gonads of the entire audience. You'll leave humming his butt, I absolutely assure you. So here are some photos I dug up of the guy on imdb.com, and though he's fully clothed in them, just use your imagination with one hand and whatever else you like with the other. I'll also generously link you to Gilles' own website, but then that's it! I'm starting to feel like a porn purveyor!

Gilles' own website: http://www.gillesmarini.com/

The Sex and the City Movie Should Have Featured More of Us, Right?

Posted by Michael Musto at 9:00 AM, June 6, 2008

Now that everyone and their pilattes instructor has seen the Sex and the City movie, can we talk about how there should maybe have been some cooler downtowny (or even uptowny) types in cameos, like the show used to have? Oh, well, at least I did spot riotous rock chick Bridget Everett—who turned my book party upside down—in the montage of people interviewing to be Carrie's assistant. (Alas, she didn't get the job. Jennifer Hudson did and was required to be hopelessly googoo-eyed and corny.) And there was Seventh Avenue biggie Fern Mallis sitting in the front row at the gratuitous yet somehow absolutely necessary fashion show. And someone else spotted shopping demon Plum Sykes in that scene too. And that guy with three names from Vogue was fussing around with shmattes in the wedding shoot montage. And Egyptian performer Sultana told me that he had shot an extra role—out of drag—though I didn't see him any more than I saw anyone IN drag (except for Kim Cattrall). [Update: Sultana was in the fashion show scene too. That was clearly where they decided to pack in all the glamorous guest stars rather than make them bathroom attendants in Mexico, dealing with Charlotte's diarrhea.] But where was, oh, I don't know....ME?????

Separate question: When Cattrall put raw fish all over her nude body, did anyone find it mildly redundant? Oh, hush! That's just sick! What's wrong with you people?

Sarah Jessica's "Sad, Dark" Child Star Origins

Posted by Michael Musto at 9:00 AM, June 4, 2008

Unlike most child stars, Sarah Jessica Parker hasn't grown up to be a crack addict, serial killer, or reality show star. In fact, she's done quite splendidly while keeping her wit and professionalism about her and not even driving drunk or without the proper accessories. And a new memoir, Put on a Happy Face by Broadway songwriter Charles Strouse, reminds us of just how effortlessly she started out in the biz, with no failure to launch whatsoever.

Well, maybe just a little. When Sarah Jessica was nine and appearing in an off-Broadway revue of Strouse's songs, he desperately wanted her to go into his wildly successful family musical Annie, but everyone else involved in that show said no way! They were certain the future superstar was "too sad looking" and "too dark" to score in that project. (Real visionaries, huh?) Well, Strouse insisted and SJP got the part of an orphan, eventually clawing her way to the title role of the moppet with the saucer eyes, fright wig, and scary optimism. She rocked—and after that, going from Daddy Warbucks to Mr. Big probably wasn't THAT much of a stretch.

Sarah Jessica's Kid Knows From The Gays

Posted by Michael Musto at 9:00 AM, May 28, 2008

Michael Patrick King portrait by Brian Bowen Smith for Out

You may have noticed that in the current issue of Out magazine, I interviewed Sex and the City writer/director Michael Patrick King and star Sarah Jessica Parker about the project's—and their own—very substantive relation to gay people. Read on and discover how King bombed onstage when he was a closeted comic; how Sarah Jessica's little son knows about the gays; how Sarah Jessica herself first found out about them; and most importantly, how the Sex and the City characters are not—repeat, NOT—basically gay men in drag! So maybe they're trannies?

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Sex and the City Has Been Remade Already! With Testosterone!

Posted by Michael Musto at 3:45 PM, May 22, 2008

Came the email:

“Heavy.com is pleased to announce the release of its latest masterpiece, Flex and the City, a literal shot by shot reenactment of Sex and the City using hardcore female bodybuilders. Shot on location all over our fantastic city, it is the ultimate tribute and send-up of the hit HBO franchise. I would argue, though, that ours is better by sheer fact that our Carrie could kick Sarah Jessica Parker’s ass any day of the week. Hope you enjoy.

Here is the link to the first episode, Modelizers, and features a cameo by Fury from American Gladiators as Charlotte.”

Hmm. I guess stay tuned for The Sopranos as redone by Mexican midgets!

Sex and the City Overkill Has Gone Too Far!

Posted at 9:00 AM, May 21, 2008

There seem to be more publicists working the Sex and the City movie than hairdressers gathered around Tom Cruise' noggin trying to make his shit look young. I must say they've done a brilliant job (the publicists, not the hairdressers). Even magazines that DON'T have anything about the movie in this week's issue put it on the cover with a cute headline about how they're completely SATC free.

But now things have gotten way out of (manicured) hand. I just got an email begging me to do an article about the weekend the movie opens--the one starting May 30--giving people tips on all kinds of fashionista-like actvities they can engage in to be just like the characters.

The insanity-drenched release suggests:

"Would you consider a piece that covers the most fabulous upcoming events in NYC that are also scheduled for the big weekend? Maybe even a breakdown of how each individual Sex and the City character might fill the rest of their weekends out on the town?

Might I suggest...

Carrie

Spend the afternoon finding your 'sole' mates at Manolo Blahnik (31 W. 54th St.) and Jimmy Choo (645 5th Ave). On the way back uptown, meet your 'Mr. Big' at Fred's at Barney's (660 Madison Ave., 9th Fl.) for dinner...."

Ugh! No I am NOT interested in this offensive horseshit! This much journalistic stretching would make my ankles swell, thereby tightening my Choos! But let me give you overtime-working flacks some crap you can pitch to OTHER publications.

Why don't you tell Ebony: "If Carrie was black, she'd no doubt vote for Obama. How about an article about voting for Obama in November?

For Heeb: "How's about a piece on what kind of pickles Miranda would like if she lived on the old Lower East Side?"

And for Poz: "If Samantha was unlucky, she'd no doubt have AIDS. How about a piece on getting tested during the big weekend?"

Actually, wait a stylish minute. Those are actually three really good article ideas. Go for it, media!

Theater Tidbits. . . Harvey Fierstein, Gina Gershon, and More

Posted by Michael Musto at 12:00 PM, May 8, 2008

I ran into the legendary Harvey Fierstein on the street in the theater district and told him I was looking for a place to eat. "Go to Ciro," he recommended. "Ask for Massimo," he added, smirking. "Give him a blow job and you'll get dessert.". . .

Instead, I ended up at a Drama Desk event where I met the woman who plays Miranda's maid on Sex and the City. (She's Lynn Cohen, according to a comenter below. Thanks for the info that google didn't provide!) Cohen told me she's preparing to do a stage revival of Uncle Vanya with Peter Dinklage. "He's an old friend," she related. "Eventually, all friends get together. There's only 10 of us, you know..."

Meanwhile, my old friend Gina Gershon bravely includes Showgirls in her bio for Broadway's Boeing Boeing. As well she should—she rocked as Crystal! And now, back to Massimo.

No, wait, before dessert, we have to deal with the entree that everyone sent back. It was Glory Days, which closed on opening night, and while no one's rejoicing about it, it IS kind of fun to have an old-style flop, the kind they don't have anymore now that shows are so expensive they're carefully tested and marketed before they hit Broadway. What were they thinking with this one? It was written by and starred 20-somethings and was billed as young-young-younger-than-springtime, but the script's treatment of the "gay problem" was so stale and cobwebby it might have been written by 90-year-olds. And NOW back to Massimo.

Sex and the City Movie Non-Plot Twist Revealed!

Posted by Michael Musto at 11:40 AM, May 6, 2008

I doubt I'll get crucified by publicists for this because it's sort of a non-spoiler about something that DOESN'T happen. But remember all that gossip buzz about how in the Sex and the City movie a major character rolls over and dies (but in designer clothes, of course)? That sent everyone into obsessive gum flapping about how surely it was Samantha who'd croak, especially since Kim Cattrall supposedly held up the whole project (though others were certain it was Mr. Big who'd become Mr. Bye Bye). Well, people who've seen the movie reveal who the corpse really is—NO ONE! You heard me, no one dies! Thank God! Black shrouds wouldn't really go with Carrie's collection of pastel-colored handbags.

Update: Since I wrote the preceding item, I found this has been reported elsewhere, but heck, non-information THIS unimportant certainly bears repeating.

Will the Sex and the City Movie Get an 'F' For Filthy?

Posted by Michael Musto at 12:00 PM, April 4, 2008

Will the Sex and the City movie be as raunchy and kinky and gag-me-with-a-dildo flat-out sex-crazed as the show was? Damned if I know--and even if I did, I couldn't answer because of the strap-on currently lodged in my throat like a lozenge. But a friend of mine, the Boston Herald's film-crazed Stephen Schaefer, did manage to investigate this subject with the always engaging Sarah Jessica Parker herself, and here's what he came up with. Warning: This post is PG-13 rated.

Stephen Schaefer interviews Sarah Jessica Parker