The Intercourse and the Metropolis follow-up And Simply Like That… wrapped up its 10-episode run earlier this month, after two months of generally startling developments. There was the Peloton enterprise. There was the lack of Samantha Jones. There was the uproar over Che Diaz. What there wasn’t was Candace Bushnell, the previous New York Observer journalist whose ‘90s column “Intercourse and the Metropolis” birthed the present of the identical title. She wasn’t concerned within the revival (nor was actually concerned within the many of the present or the films). However in a predictably juicy interview with The New Yorker, she strongly intimated that she wasn’t feeling it.
Bushnell, whose life partially loosely Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw, was requested by the reporter whether or not she felt just like the characters within the new present, who really feel like they “have abruptly awoken into a way of being out of step with tradition.”
Her response was merely, “No.” She added that she was “actually startled by a number of the choices made within the reboot,” distancing herself from it by saying, “it’s a tv product, carried out with Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker, who’ve each labored with HBO so much up to now. HBO determined to place this franchise again into their palms for a wide range of causes, and that is what they got here up with.”
When requested if she “sees” herself within the characters anymore, she replied, “Under no circumstances.” However her fictional analog and her parted methods some time in the past. “Carrie Bradshaw ended up being a unusual girl who married a extremely wealthy man. And that’s not my story, or any of my buddies’ tales.”
However Carrie and her have been simpatico for some time, notably how a lot each have been making in media throughout a happier time. When she labored for Vogue, within the ‘90s, she says she was paid $5,000 a month — practically $10,000 a month now, adjusted for inflation.
“I imply, this was a time that writers have been getting a Vainness Truthful contract for six items and 200 and fifty thousand {dollars} a 12 months,” she mentioned. “Individuals valued writing; it wasn’t thought of one thing everybody can do. Now, due to the pc, everybody has to do it, so we expect everybody can do it.”
(By way of New Yorker)