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what’s hot THE TRIUMPH of LOVE By John Polly The Sex and the City movie brings back Cosmos, Carrie and couture to summer 2008. ed Sex and the City ﬁlm opens evgoing to happen? Will devout fans be satiserywhere. (Sure, people are excited ﬁed? Will Carrie actually marry Mr. Big? Do we that Indiana Jones is coming back even want her to? to cinemas summer too, but can “With the ﬁlm, I knew it would be a mistake he negotiate cobblestone streets to pick up right where we left off,” explains in ﬁve-inch heels while balancing the show’s veteran executive producer and the an iPhone and shopping bags? Not movie’s writer and director, Michael Patrick so much.) It’s been four years. We King. “The fans of these characters have all need an ample serving of Carrie, evolved and continued their lives. They’ve Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte gotten married or had kids or gotten divorced, washed down with a Cosmo! And and these characters have to reﬂect them we need life’s messy questions back. So I had to move the girls forward and I addressed on the big-screen: Do knew I had the actresses who could back it up. women need men to be complete? They look amazing and they are amazing.” How do you cope when love lets In fact, the entire ﬁlm looks amazing. you down? And is Mr. Big truly and It’s rich and vibrant with a color palette of ultimately “the one?” a fruit salad on steroids, and fashions that For gay fans, this movie event would ﬁll a few year’s worth of big September reunites us with four of our best Vogue issues. From the second the opening friends who really are a lot like us: recap/montage kicks off (and yes, that’s Fergie Simply put, they’re four indeserving up a tweaked-out revamp of the pendent spirits forging their own show’s theme tune, now dubbed “Labels and sense of family while discussing Love”) complete with Carrie’s voice-over and last night’s sexual antics—over a speed-read through some of the series’ hotbrunch. And it always seemed test moments, you realize this is major. perfectly logical that two of the Quick update: Carrie and Big are still toSarah Jessica Parker stars as “Carrie Bradshaw” in show’s creators and writers, Darren gether, and the ﬁlm soon ﬁnds them planning New Line Cinema’s upcoming release of Sex and the Star and Michael Patrick King were their wedding; Miranda and Steve are raising City: The Movie. gay men. Parker and her posse—ditoddler Brady in Brooklyn, but are things valicious Kim Cattrall, wise and wry Cynthia okay?; Charlotte and Harry are raising their Nixon, and lovable goody-two-shoes Kristin adopted daughter; and Samantha’s in L.A. Davis—always said the things we’d thought managing the career of her rising star studfew months ago on this most about men recent season of Project Runway, the surprise and mating. appearance of a New York City icon prompted Plus, from the an unprecedented freak-out among the asbeginning the sembled designers. Sarah Jessica Parker—also show included known to the world at large as Carrie Bradgay and lesbian shaw, Sex and the City’s beloved protagonist— characters and walked into the Project Runway workroom plotlines in its and within nanoseconds the arty, jaded crowd fabric. Basically, of wannabe fashion moguls began to squeal, you had us at shriek and cry. Cut to a forty-something gay “Hello.” man—the resilient, lovable and tenacious But as designer Chris March—wiping away a tear as the movie he declared, “Sarah Jessica Parker and Sex and approaches, the City is the reason I moved to New York one can’t help City!” And we all knew exactly what he meant. but wonder PHOTO CREDIT: CRAIG BL ANKENHORN / NEW LINE CINEMA Chances are movie theaters across America Where will Kristin Davis (left) stars as “Charlotte York-Goldenblatt”, Kim Cattrall will resound with similar squeals, shrieks and this new story (center) stars as “Samantha Jones” and Cynthia Nixon (right) stars as laughs as New Line Cinema’s much-anticipatbegin? What’s “Miranda Hobbes.” PHOTO CREDIT: CRAIG BL ANKENHORN / NEW LINE CINEMA A 34 celebrating seattle’s gay community

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'MO Seattle - June 2008 Contents Letter From The Editor Voices Instant Activist Pet Project: Do You Dream About Your Pet? ’mo-BIZ: Anne Levison, Co-owner of the Seattle Storm Legally Speaking: Real Estate Buying Basics The Things We Do: Getting “Out”doors this Summer Seattle Pride Events Calendar ’mo Magazine Interview with Sandra Bernhard Anatomy of a Myth Form & Function: Turn Up the Heat on Your Triceps Gay City: National HIV Testing Day San Francisco: If Gay Had a Headquarters Book Review: Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited by Andrew Holleran Augusten Burroughs Coming to Showtime Network Sex and the City Romances the Big Screen SceneOut: People@Places Capitol Hill Guide

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