In another sign the world is collapsing as we speak, Sarah Jessica Parker is claiming that the apartments surrounding her apartment are now not filled with regular tenants, but instead are filled with paps who basically have her surrounded 24 hours a day. Now, I know that my math skills do not extend much beyond what I can do with my fingers and toes but to me this seems, if true, a colossal waste of money.

How much money can a juicy photo of Sarah Jessica Parker generate? I mean do they really think she is going to bring some guy back to her place and have sex with him on the front stoop just so the paps can get a good photo? The only photos anyone ever gets of her are her walking down the street, going into a store, out of a store. Who the f**k cares? They can do all of that from outside in the street. I just don’t think that Sarah or Matthew are going to do anything stupid enough to warrant the prohibitive cost of renting a NY apartment. Does seeing a photo of Sarah walking with her kid on page 63 of a magazine make you more likely to buy the damn magazine? So, where is the market?

The only thing I can guess is that perhaps the paps are in the apartments for other reasons or have other tools other than cameras to catch some type of illicit remark or conversation. Of course that would be illegal, but can always be attributed to an unnamed source or insider. I guess if you have a parabolic mike or a bug that would certainly be an insider and would probably actually lead to revelations that would get a cover story and sell magazines.

“Photographers moved into apartments next door to us and we really found ourselves kind of living like a spy movie… I feel like they think they have to be there. Like they punch in or something.”

According to NY Magazine, Sarah and Matthew have had enough of the intrusion and so are about to purchase an $18M home that would keep all their secrets a secret.

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Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker’s new art reality show has been given the go-ahead after landing a deal from a major TV network. Parker’s production company Pretty Matches will create new television series American Artist for Bravo. The program will see budding painters and sculptors competing against each other in front of a panel of judges. No world yet if Mr. Big will visit.

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 The Star is reporting that Matthew Broderick was caught cheating on his Sex and the City wife Sarah Jessica Parker with someone almost half their ages.

The beloved actress was frantically searching for hubby Matthew Broderick one night earlier this year, he was having sex in the city with a gorgeous redhead half his age, the young woman told a friend.

After meeting in a bar, Matthew began text messaging the 25-year-old youth counselor, says the woman’s pal. Soon after, the insider claims, they began seeing each other and things got passionate quickly when they met at the Manhattan townhouse of a showbiz friend.

That kind of explains why we haven’t seen the two together recently, but then again you rarely ever see them together. 

To find out more details about the rumored affair, pick up this week’s Star on stands now. 

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Sarah Jessica Parker’s refusal to submit to the surgeon’s scalpel marked her out in an industry where cosmetic surgery is the norm.

But she has finally bowed to pressure to have her distinctive mole removed.

The decision followed increasing criticism and downright abuse from fans who complained that they found it ‘distracting’.

The distinctive beauty spot was firmly in evidence in May, at the London premiere of the Sex and the City movie in Leicester Square. It was still there last month at a charity event in New York.

But only a faint mark remained where the mole used to be when the 43-year-old fashion icon attended a baseball game in the Big Apple.

The publicist for the actress known to many by her initials SJP insisted yesterday that she had not undergone cosmetic surgery.

She said: ‘Nothing has been removed.’ But the transformation from prominent mole to almost invisible blemish seemed far too dramatic to be the result of make-up artistry.

And a few hours later, a source close to the star confirmed that she had the mole removed in the past two weeks.

he source said: ‘I don’t know when exactly she had it done but she has definitely had a procedure. She’s kept it really quiet though.’

Miss Parker’s fellow thespian Ewan McGregor had two moles removed from his face last year following a trip round Africa.

He said: ‘I just went to have them checked. You have to be careful with moles if you’re pale-skinned and you spend time in the sun. So I went to see a specialist who thought they were better to be removed and indeed he was correct.’

Former supermodel Cindy Crawford, 42, still has a dark mole above her top lip, however.

She was encouraged to have it removed at the beginning of her career but refused - and it didn’t do her earning power any harm.

Kate Sowerbutts, clinical nurse specialist at the Mole Clinic in London, said: ‘Sarah Jessica Parker looks like she has a compound mole which is quite unlikely to be cancerous. It is more likely she had it removed for cosmetic purposes.

‘These type of inherited moles continue to grow and grow as we get older which may account for why she decided to have it removed. It’s such an easy procedure, she would have been home within an hour.’

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Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker is pissed off after she was tricked into wearing a third-hand dress to the New York City premiere of the movie. Designer Olivier Theyskens assured the movie star no one had worn or been photographed in the Nina Ricci gown before she wore it for the star-studded bash at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall last week. She only later discovered Lindsay Lohan wore the same dress at a showbiz party earlier this year, and socialite Lauren Santo Domingo showed it off to photographers at the Costume Institute Gala in New York City just last month. And Parker is upset by her treatment: “In the big picture, this is not important, but there is a relationship between the entertainment industry and fashion. We’ve watched sales dwindle and we’ve watched people be less inclined to spend money on clothes.”Look, my affection for the dress hasn’t changed, but what they did was so short-sighted. It’s just unethical and disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again.” She adds of Theyskens, “I just wish it had been handled differently and they had been straight about it.”

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Wow! Sarah Jessica Parker looked hot last night at the Sex and the City New York Premiere. I mean, she looked really, really good for her. The way her make up is done accentuates her beauty and makes her nose looks smaller, don’t you think? I think Kim Cattrall looks pretty old and Chris Noth’s girlfriend/wife/whatever looks like a caveman… doesn’t she? She gets a pass because she just had a baby. Other than that, I’m not sure what her excuse is.

I would totally be going to see this movie on Friday if it weren’t for me having to move for the next two days. Let me take that back. I’d probably go see The Happening first. Mark Wahlberg is looking good in that movie. I also want to see The Strangers but I don’t know when that one is out. Either way, those beat out Sex and the City. But I DO want to see it. I hope Aiden makes a cameo!

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick

Sarah Jessica Parker and Jennifer Hudson

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Kim Cattrall

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Television star Sarah Jessica Parker nagged her agent to cancel her Sex And The City contract after she signed up for the famous role.The talented actress was enjoying life working in and out of various New York City projects and baulked at the prospect of being tied to a Television show for an entire series. Her anxiety reached such a point, she called her agent in a panic and urged him to talk Sex And The City bosses out of recruiting her. She says, “I had a wonderful life in New York. I was doing theatre and movies, had plenty of free time and regularly saw my friends - so I was in a panic when I was told that I’d need to be around for regular filming.”No one could calm me down. I kept thinking, ‘What can I do to escape?’ I’d call my agent, begging, ‘You have to get me out of this. I don’t care what it takes. Even if I’m broke on the street, I can’t do Sex And The City as a series.’” However, she’s relieved she didn’t act on her irrational fears, following the show’s phenomenal success. She adds, “The result, of course, is that they got me on the set for the first day and I never looked back.”

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There may be a problem with a film when a narrator constantly tells you the meaning of what you have just seen, gift-wrapping each scene with a moral.

There may be a problem with characters who shop with such conviction while the audience looks up from the trough of a credit crunch.

There may be a problem with stretching Sex and the City into a two hour and twenty minute film - it can feel like a never ending dinner party: however pleasant the courses, after a while you can hardly eat another one.

None of these problems seemed apparent to the women who sat around me in the cinema in Leicester Square, laughing and weeping in quick succession. After a while I began to reason like one of the characters: maybe the problem was me.

Everyone else, being in possession of more than one X chromosome, seemed entirely satisfied by what they were served.

The dialogue was still sharp even if, to an audience now rather more used to women characters talking frankly about sex, it may no longer seem so daring.

There were still attempts to shock. Now they were talking about sex in front of a child, referring to the act euphemistically as “colouring”. How often did Miranda do colouring? Not nearly enough. Samantha, the goddess single of older women, of course liked to use all the crayons, while Carrie Bradshaw, our narrator and lead, said that when Big coloured “he doesn’t always stay inside the lines.”

Perhaps the child was needed to remind us that this was shocking, because since the series began, we have all become a lot more grown up.

If the atmosphere inside the cinema bordered on the devotional and the theatre was filled with the sounds of women emoting, outside the atmosphere was hysterical.

New Line, the studio behind the film, had attempted to pacify critics, curious as to why a film in which a major character is the city of New York, should open first in London.

The company claimed that the event would be “much smaller” than the New York premier, but all four women were there in their heels and dresses, and thousands had arrived to see them and scream their names.

Each in turn diplomatically affirmed their love of the city and denied or brushed aside rumours of tensions between the them during filming.

If none of the four actresses has enjoyed comparable success since the end of the series four years ago, the crowds cheered louder than they have for established film stars. Many felt they were welcoming back friends who had lived on their screens for six years and were returning for one last blast.

It was almost as if the director was feeling the nostalgia. The opening scenes are broken up with musical montages, softly lit like Hallmark adverts.

Carrie Bradshaw, (Sarah Jessica Parker), is finally to marry her Mr Big (Chris Noth). The news features in New York gossip columns, she is the forty-year-old bride featured in a wedding edition of Vogue.

The plot twists and turns like that of a pot boiler. Having inspired an entire genre of ‘chick lit’, Sex and the City the film feeds off its own progeny. Is it a film, one wonders, or an extended soap opera, will any of these crises be resolved and, if they are, will it matter, for they will surely soon plunge themselves into another dilemma, for which the only cure is an expansive shopping trip.

At the last, there is at least a brief concession to the meaner times in which we live now. And at the last, does Carrie finally marry her Mr Big? Well, dear reader, I can tell you that she…

A women’s institution

— Philip Treacy designed the hat worn for last night’s premiere by Sarah Jessica Parker. The eccentric British style icon Isabella Blow helped to make the Irish milliner a household name by stepping out in his outrageous designs for more than a decade

— Six seasons of the original television series of Sex and the City were produced on the HBO network between 1998 and 2004

— It won six Emmy awards and eight Golden Globes

— The final episode on Channel 4 in 2004 drew 4.1 million viewers

— The fifth series was cut to eight episodes after Parker and Cynthia Nixon became pregnant

— A black sequined Chanel dress with a price tag of $5,000 was among items of clothing from the series put up for sale in New York

— A channel in Shanghai produced its own version of the series in 2003 called Hot Ladies

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And it seems like the same is true for the actress who plays her, Sarah Jessica Parker. While developers of her Coty perfume lines, “Lovely” and “Covet Pure Bloom,” insist that Parker “was never asked to be on the Home Shopping Network because of her schedule,” HSN insiders get the impression that Parker “doesn’t want to ever appear” on the channel. Coty confirmed Parker’s two scents will be hawked on the dial-in shopping channel this month, but say the deal hardly involved her. Company reps told Page Six the “Sex and the City” star approved the deal, but “Coty signed with HSN, not Sarah Jessica.” Parker’s perfume launch is part of a celeb trend segment on the network - but don’t expect to see Jennifer Lopez, Calvin Klein and Gwen Stefani hawking their fragrances, either, to the folks at home.

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Cynthia Nixon’s Sex And The City co-star Kristin Davis knew all about the actress’ secret breast cancer battle, because the two friends were together when the diagnosis was revealed. Davis kept Nixon’s secret from everyone, including co-stars Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker, allowing her pal to fight the disease in private, as she planned. Now cancer-free, Nixon revealed all about her health crisis recently, insisting only a few close friends knew about the diagnosis. And now she admits Davis was among them - because the actress was at her home when she first learned she had cancer. Nixon says, “I told Kristin because she happened to be at my house.”She stood up in her chair. I couldn’t get her down until I told her everything I was doing and assured her everything was going to be OK.” Nixon is currently celebrating a year of being cancer free after a lumpectomy and radiation treatment in 2006.

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Sex And The City Cast

The creators of Sex And The City movie have decided to downsize the film’s world premiere in London England, after coming under fire for not launching the film in New York City. Both the hit television series and the movie were filmed in the Big Apple and the city features highly in all the story lines. And movie bosses came under fire from New Yorkers after revealing the movie will premiere in the U.K., two weeks before it is unveiled in its spiritual home of the Big Apple on May 12th. But now the company has released a statement playing down the London premiere, insisting it will much less high profile than the New York City screening. A spokesman says, “London will be much smaller. The whole cast isn’t even going. We’re still planning the big premiere to be in New York.”

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Matthew Broderick seemed to be disappointed by the poster for his new film, Finding Amanda, at the Tribeca Film Festival. At first, Broderick asked if he had to pose in front of it, then start to wonder why his picture was so far in the background and seemingly out of focus. The film’s publicist shrugged his shoulders and said, “Legs sell movies these days.” Broderick sighed, then brought up the poster for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. “No sexy girls in that poster. Just my good old face and look at it, that thing is a classic. Probably in dorm rooms everywhere. This one, maybe it’ll go up in the room of the creepy guy from the video store and that’s about it.”

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Sarah looking great for the evening.

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Despite  all the photos we’ve seen from the Sex And The City movie set, and all the rumors circling around about plotlines and marriages and  dream sequences, fans of the show are still in the dark regarding what lies in store for the four aging heroines. And expressing any interest whatsoever is somewhat embarrassing, since caring about the futures of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte has become slightly de rigueur as each passing year post-finale makes SATC episodes look more and more ancient and silly. But for those of you who feel no shame in wondering what happens in the big-screen version of the girls’ lives (at least in the privacy of your own cubicle or home), the NY Post has provided a few spoilers to satisfy your curiosity. More info after the jump; warning, it’s spoiler heavy.

1) The Big/Carrie Engagement and Charlotte Pregnancy Rumors Are True: Whether or not the wedding scene featuring a psychotic peacock hair piece and Bride of Frankenstein dress is only part of a dream sequence, sources tell the Post  that Carrie does in fact get engaged to Big. And despite adopting a trendy Asian baby, Charlotte does manage to get knocked up once and for all. Even more interesting in the realm of plotlines, Miranda and Steve’s blissful Brooklyn marriage hits the skids over claims of infidelity. Which makes sense in a My Wife Likes Girls kind of way, we hope.

2) There Will Be Stunt Cameos Galore: New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg may have given up on that whole Presidency thing, but he hasn’t thrown in the acting towel. The billionaire mayor is only one of several New York-y cameos, including some by co-star Jennifer Hudson’s Oscar night ruiner Andre Leon Talley of Vogue, and the indecipherable fashion world darling, photographer Patrick Demarchelier. And though we’re sure their on-screen presence is big and beautiful, we find it hard to believe that stiletto-wearing fans in the Bible Belt will know who the hell they are.

3) You Will Not Be Able To Afford A Single Thing You See: Longtime followers of the girls’ diamond-decorated lives have always been frustrated by Carrie’s ability to don designer gowns and afford spacious apartments on the Upper East Side on a freelance writer’s salary, and the girls’ lifestyles are even more mythical in the movie. We’re talking YSL gowns, beach houses in LA, and the fact that “every day the girls wore real jewels estimated at $2.5 million.” Who knew putting out a book of old newspaper columns could rack in the dough? Think we could finally buy up Barney’s by scraping together a few blog posts on Scientology and bikini pictures? We’re looking into it.

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