http://www.afabulousmess.com/2008/04/27/random-5/ Because life is never perfect... and it's fine. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:22:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.afabulousmess.com/2008/04/27/random-5/#comment-7931 Natalia Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:04:38 +0000 http://www.afabulousmess.com/?p=530#comment-7931 Happy birthday! Happy birthday!

]]> http://www.afabulousmess.com/2008/04/27/random-5/#comment-7926 Jen Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:04:09 +0000 http://www.afabulousmess.com/?p=530#comment-7926 Thanks, Bill! I like it. Thanks, Bill! I like it.

]]> http://www.afabulousmess.com/2008/04/27/random-5/#comment-7925 Bill Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:39:44 +0000 http://www.afabulousmess.com/?p=530#comment-7925 Jen, I read an interview of Kim Cattrall in Maclean's, which is a Canadian newsmagazine. You probably know that the "Sex and the City" movie opens May 30th. Cattrall was asked "Do you think 'Sex and the City' was a sort of 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' for this generation? Mary was single, urban, working and comfortable with that It was a bit daring at that time." Cattrall's reply was interesting. "I agree. I remember that show as the first show that I saw. I remember 'That Girl', but I thought that she was such a dingbat. I wanted to be an actress and go to New York too, but she was so perky, I couldn't really get behind that. When 'Mary Tyler Moore' came on the scene, it was a career woman who was dating, single, and had friends, and it was cool. You never really met her family, her family were her colleagues at work. And then came 'Sex and the City', which is friends as family. We didn't work together but we were this unit of friendship and acceptance and support--and that's the thing that I believe most women want with their girlfriends in their lives, because I feel that a lot of us give up so much for the men, the family, and the message was different about being single. I mean Mary, to me, was never a happy character. There was something missing, you know? And here it was women who were just like, this is where we are. Let's have fun. Let's enjoy it. As difficult as it is--as much as we want those things that you're taught that you should get by a certain age or you'll die miserable and alone--it's about turning it around and making it about the fact that you're not ready because you don't want to go there yet. And that's kind of a great thing to hear." Jen, I read an interview of Kim Cattrall in Maclean’s, which is a Canadian newsmagazine. You probably know that the “Sex and the City” movie opens May 30th. Cattrall was asked “Do you think ‘Sex and the City’ was a sort of ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ for this generation? Mary was single, urban, working and comfortable with that It was a bit daring at that time.” Cattrall’s reply was interesting. “I agree. I remember that show as the first show that I saw. I remember ‘That Girl’, but I thought that she was such a dingbat. I wanted to be an actress and go to New York too, but she was so perky, I couldn’t really get behind that. When ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ came on the scene, it was a career woman who was dating, single, and had friends, and it was cool. You never really met her family, her family were her colleagues at work.
And then came ‘Sex and the City’, which is friends as family. We didn’t work together but we were this unit of friendship and acceptance and support–and that’s the thing that I believe most women want with their girlfriends in their lives, because I feel that a lot of us give up so much for the men, the family, and the message was different about being single. I mean Mary, to me, was never a happy character. There was something missing, you know? And here it was women who were just like, this is where we are. Let’s have fun. Let’s enjoy it. As difficult as it is–as much as we want those things that you’re taught that you should get by a certain age or you’ll die miserable and alone–it’s about turning it around and making it about the fact that you’re not ready because you don’t want to go there yet. And that’s kind of a great thing to hear.”

]]>