This in from Trashionista…
“HBO are piloting The Washingtonienne, a Washington-set comedy based on the book of the same name by Jessica Cutler. Sarah Jessica Parker will be the executive producer. [via THR.com]
SJP is going to be extremely busy, especially if the rumours of a sequel to the Sex and the City movie are true (please be true).” [Trashionista]
Now I’m sure y’all have read the book in all it’s incredibly trashy glory. Now the problem I had with the book was she tried to fictionalize what everyone knew was truth. Putting fake names on facts that have already been publicized does not chick-lit make.
I read the book a few weekends before I left DC in spring 2005. I just lounged and finished it in about three hours. The book however, frustrated me. It annoyed me much like “Bunny Tales” did/does (i still haven’t finished that one it’s so bad…much much worse than “Washingtonienne”) But I guess, to me, the story was hyped up. The story was almost sensationalized by all these DC gossip sites (mainly Wonkette) when really? Who the hell (outside of the beltway) gives a flying f*ck??? Really now. Come on.
I am however, eager to see how the teevee show does. I can see, if SJP does a good job with it, that it could…be…dare I say it, a decent series. A slutty DC Hill Staffer? Not so original as DC is littered with them, and I’m sure stories like hers are a dime a dozen or so. But the story itself? Would make decent teevee. I mean if “The Real Housewives of Orange County” is still on the air…that gives other shows hope right? I wonder how much say Jessica Cutler has had in the making of the show – most specifically the story lines or if SJP is just taking the idea and running with it in the glorious way that SJP does with everything.
On Jessica Cutler? Personally, I think the girl is classless, not that attractive (but if Playboy thinks so then what does it matter what I think right?) I don’t think her writing was particularly great and I think the novel? Lacked serious everything – plot, characters, etc…So what if you had butt sex with a middle aged administration chief of staff for $400? No one wants to read about your girly-bits and your lunch time play dates for some booze money…really? I’m beginning to question why I even read it in the first place. Also how the hell did Ana Marie Cox get a sweet column gig with Newsweek just because she BROKE this story to begin with? That’s just effed up. Someone give me a scandal so I can break it on my blog and become an awesome columnist for Time.com!
But it’s just another classic DC scandal. Watch, next the Elliot Spitzer gal will have a novel and a teevee show. Seriously, I’m clearly in the wrong business if trashy girls can make hundreds if not thousands of dollars by putting out and I still make less than $40k by actually using my college degree (as much as one can as an admin/research assistant). Not that I would ever spread my legs for cash but still. You see my point.
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On the Sex and the City sequel that Trashionista alludes to? Gawd I hope not. I love love loooovveeed the movie. I loved the series but really? We don’t see Friends makin’ a movie. We don’t see EVERY GREAT TEEVEE SHOW OF IT’S TIME making a movie and then another one…that’s just…overkill. I don’t know where they could take the story because really? Do we need to see a spin off about Carrie and Big raising the chill’ens? Not so much. Not. So. Much.
Thoughts from the Peanut Gallery??
