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| | Sarah Jessica Parker: 'We don't have any live-in help, we?re hands-on parents' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yesterday, I covered the first excerpts from Sarah Jessica Parker?s Vogue cover profile for the August issue. The problem I have with SJP is that the more she talks, the more I dislike her. If she keeps quiet, and I?m just looking at photos of her, I usually have affection for her. In this case, the photo shoot is pissing me off as much as the interview. Vogue and other fashion magazines have the nasty little habit of using small children in their photo shoots. It?s not a simple matter of photographing kids - it?s that the kids are often used as ?props? or ?accessories? in the fashion shoot. Such it is with this SJP shoot - I?m guessing that Testino shot SJP in her home, with her kids and her husband, but that Anna Wintour didn?t just want ?candid?-type photos of a realistic family. Instead, SJP is all dolled up to the nines, standing amongst the ?prop? messy house, messy babies, etc. Also: considering that SJP is promoting a film about ?the myth? of a woman having it all, it seems hypocritical that the photo shoot merely reinforces the myth. You can read the whole Vogue piece here, and here are some additional highlights that I haven?t covered already:
On the paparazzi, fame and why she?ll never move away from NYC: The paparazzi may stalk her every single time she walks James Wilkie to school or takes the girls out??They follow every move I make until I?m back inside the house??but she refuses to withdraw. ?You do start to understand the behind-the-gate mentality, the getting in the car in your driveway,? she says as she pours herself tea, ?but I can?t imagine living in seclusion. We flirted with it. We went outside the city and troubled all these Realtors and stood in these homes and fantasized, and then I kept picturing nine o?clock at night and??she breaks into mime, drumming her fingers on her crossed knees and staring into the middle distance. ?The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.? Plus, of course, there?s the cultural life. Broderick, a born-and-bred New Yorker, works mostly on Broadway. Next spring he will star in Nice Work if You Can Get It, directed by Kathleen Marshall. As for Parker, ?If I didn?t have kids,? she says, ?I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.?
Borrowing beautiful clothes, like vintage McQueen: ?I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution,? she says. ?Not to sound too Pollyanna about it, but I really didn?t imagine when I was a little girl that I would be there to see it all myself.?
On-Set, first week jitters and Pierce Brosnan: ?I lose my appetite,? she says. ?By Wednesday of the first week on I Don?t Know How She Does It, I was sobbing, I was apologizing. I was feeling so awful and ashamed, like I had let the director down. If only they would not tell me when the camera was running, I would be OK. I?m like that two weeks into every movie. But the beauty of nerves is that you can always find a comrade in it. When Pierce came??Pierce Brosnan plays her colleague and potential romantic interest??he was a nervous wreck! Of course, by then I was really relaxed, but I was so comforted by it.? Even James Bond gets the jitters.
The end of her own Sex & the City experience: Parker knew it was time to move on. The 20-hour days on set, during which she also worked as producer, were no longer viable once she became a mother. ?It wasn?t hard when I didn?t have children,? she says. ?I loved it. But I ultimately chose to stop doing the television series because I felt like it required, and deserved, a lot of time when I really wanted to be a parent.? Also, she says, circumstances had changed. ?It was such a different time in the city, culturally, socially, economically . . . the kind of liberty that Carrie Bradshaw had. You couldn?t start off with a story like that today.?
Her crazy schedule: ?It?s a pretty simple setup,? she says of the domestic situation she shares with her husband, Matthew Broderick. There?s a nanny for their toddler twins, Loretta and Tabitha, and someone else to help with the logistics of eight-year-old James Wilkie?s schedule. ?We don?t have any live-in help. We?re pretty hands-on parents. That?s something that?s important to both of us, and we don?t shirk it, because what?s the point in having a family if you?re not going to really participate in it, you know?? For now, she schedules her meetings after walking James Wilkie to school but tries to be home after the twins? afternoon nap. ?I feel like if I?m only missing up until 3:30, when they wake up, that?s not so awful.? She doesn?t use a cell phone, except in emergencies; for her it?s e-mail or texts, ?otherwise it?s one more thing I?m trying to keep up with.?
The twins: After her much-publicized struggles with fertility, Parker had her daughters via a surrogate, and, in their white sandals, slightly outgrown smock dresses, and hair ribbons, they couldn?t be more adorable. Loretta is bigger and fairer than Tabitha, who is tiny and olive-skinned, with enormous brown eyes. ?Tabitha?s very, very outgoing, but physically she?s very shy,? says Parker. ?She shakes in elevators; it?s very sweet, like Bambi. And then Loretta is pale, like my husband, with piercing blue eyes. But she?s physically bold.? Watching them, she marvels at how they could be so different and yet so recognizably related. ?I think it?s funny how much she looks like my husband,? she says of Tabitha. ?Except then I look at Loretta and she has my husband?s mouth and sort of sad eyes, you know the kind that go down? The Broderick eyes. They both really look like him.?
Being an older parent: ?I guess I think there are things about it that I hope have made me a better mother,? she says. ?I?ve had a lot of opportunities to do the things that I wanted to do, like sleep. I have slept till 11:00 for a lot of years. Honestly, the only thing that I?m concerned about is the energy: I hope I can maintain the energy. I think about all the years I?ve spent parenting James Wilkie and everything I put into it, and there are two of them.?
[From Vogue]
At the end of the day, I think I?m consistently put off by SJP because she?s just one of those women who are self-perpetuating hurricanes of multi-tasking, and I just don?t see how she finds the time to do any of it, or understand WHY she feels the need to wear so many hats when she could just sit down, calm down and focus on one thing at a time, which is my general approach to life (?Slow and steady wins the race? is one of my favorite sayings). I don?t even have kids, and some days I?m so busy that I skip taking a shower. So how does SJP do it? I have no idea. THAT should be the point of the film and the press for the film - that SJP is just a woman on the verge, like me and like so many of us. But that?s not SJP?s message, at least that?s not the way I?m reading it. Her message seems to be: ?See a movie where I play a woman who juggles everything in her life, often unsuccessfully, but in real life I have it all and then some.? It?s off-putting.
Photos courtesy of Testino/Vogue, slideshow here.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker covers Vogue: 'I?m a bitter-ender' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Sarah Jessica Parker at last night?s Harry Potter premiere. SJP brought her husband, Matthew Broderick, who looks comically, cartoonishly depressed, and her son James, who is a cutie. SJP wore this Oscar de la Renta Resort 2012 dress that I? well, I don?t hate it. I don?t really love it, either. It looks like a decent summery dress, but I don?t get why SJP paired it with a structured blazer. It?s not her worst red carpet appearance, though.
Meanwhile, SJP is the cover girl for the August issue of Vogue, ?The Age Issue?, likely to promote her new film, I Don?t Know How She Does It (which looks like it sucks). Here are some highlights from the Vogue interview, courtesy of Wonderwall:
SJP on her juggling: Between raising three children, working for Halston and keeping a healthy onscreen career, the actress says her life these days is “like a ship avoiding icebergs.”
On the end of “Sex and the City”: “I loved it. But ultimately chose to stop doing the television series because I felt like it required, and deserved, a lot of time when I really wanted to be a parent.”
On starting new jobs: “I lose my appetite. By Wednesday of the first week on ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It,’ I was feeling so awful and ashamed, like I had let the director down.”
On being an older mother: “There are things about it that I hope have made me a better mother. I’ve had a lot of opportunities to do the things that I wanted to do, like sleep.”
On acting in her 40s: “I assumed that at this point in my life I would be feeling frustrated, left behind, or marginalized, playing parts I was reluctant to. But I’ve been so busy, I’m not sure that I see this fallow period yet.”
On comparing herself to Carrie Bradshaw: “Bradshaw’s life is nothing, nothing like mine. I loved playing her, and it changed my life in lots of wonderful ways, but I’m not a crazy shoe lady. I don’t think about fashion all day long, although I have a great respect for the industry.”
On her work ethic: “It’s kind of all I’ve known. I’m a bitter-ender. It’s potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.”
[From Wonderwall/Vogue]
I?m prepared to like Sarah Jessica Parker until she starts in about her career choices, all of the stuff she?s signed on to do, and then talks about how she?s the super-focused parent. I absolutely HATED her in her last Vogue interview, last year, when she kept pushing the issue of how involved she was as a parent - while she sat in London, after not seeing her newborn twin girls for two months while she traveled to make Sex & the City 2. She just bugs.
Photos courtesy of WENN & Wonderwall/Vogue/Testino.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker won't admit that she complained about jury duty | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m not sure if anyone else will be interested in this, but it amused me. Page Six has a story about Sarah Jessica Parker turning up for jury duty, just like Carrie did in that Sex & the City episode. But instead of spending her jury duty time reading or writing a column, the real SJP chose to complain loudly (according to eyewitnesses) about how she was simply too busy to do her civic duty. Just for the record - I?ve never been called up for jury duty (I think my foreign-sounding name must immediately disqualify me here in the sweaty armpit of the South), but if I was called up, I would have no problems complaining loudly and trying to get out of it too. What I?m finding amusing about this SJP story is that she used two different contradictory excuses for why she shouldn?t be on a jury (her kid was sick AND she had somewhere else to be on business), and SJP spoke to the NY Post directly to try to brighten up her image:
She had her excuses as ready as a pair of Manolos. Sarah Jessica Parker got called for jury duty yesterday, but didn’t appear eager to serve. The Post overheard the “Sex and the City” star griping to another prospective panelist about the better things she had to do than cool her heels in Manhattan federal court.
“My daughter is at home sick,” said the actress, who has three children with actor-hubby Matthew Broderick. Parker, 46, also noted that she had an “international flight” tomorrow and fretted aloud that the fraud case being tried might last more than two days.
She then flipped out at a reporter and photographer outside the courthouse during a break, screaming, “Leave me alone!”
As it turned out, the jury box got filled before Parker was summoned for questioning, and she was discharged after being sent back down to the central jury room. In a phone interview afterward with The Post’s Bruce Golding, Parker denied having travel plans tomorrow and insisted she had been “ready, willing and able to serve.”
She confirmed that one of her twin daughters was home with a fever, but said she had hired a sitter to take care of the tot while she took the subway to court, arriving early at 8:40 a.m. And while other panelists offered an array of flimsy reasons why they couldn’t do their duty, Parker said, “I never once raised my hand. I don’t shirk any of my civic responsibilities.
[From Page Six]
Is this blown out of proportion? Probably. I don?t think anyone would blame SJP for griping about jury duty to anyone who would listen, just because everyone there probably wanted to gripe about it, as is our right. But I think it?s funny that SJP had to give an interview about it afterwards and deny that she was complaining. Seriously, SJP, we can handle it.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker's latest movie: just like 'sATC' only she's Miranda' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I read Gawker?s summary of Sarah Jessica Parker?s new movie I Don?t Know How She Does It before I watched the first trailer. So I went into it thinking ?Wait, she?s Carrie with Miranda flair?? It?s best to just watch the trailer and then you?ll understand:
You see what it is? It?s Sex and the City with SJP playing the Miranda character, and Miranda gets the lead, only instead of Cynthia Nixon?s superior acting (she was the best actress out of all of them), we get SJP?s forced girlishness and ?OMG, HOW AM I GOING TO DO IT ALL?!?? spastic act. You know how the real SJP does it all? She leaves her newborn babies in New York and flies to Morocco and Europe for two months. That?s SJP-style.
If this is Sex and the City with kids, though, who are the other characters? I want to say Seth Meyers is playing Samantha. Right? I would love to see Seth?s take on Samantha. In reality, Pierce Brosnan is probably playing Samantha or Mr. Big (as Gawker suggests). Christina Hendricks or Olivia Munn are probably the child-free ?Carries?. Where?s Charlotte? Is Kelsey Grammer playing Charlotte? No, I think Greg Kinnear is Charlotte. Which means that Charlotte is Miranda?s wife.
As for the subject matter? I mean, yeah, I guess it?s interesting to see SJP play what she is: a working mother who struggles to balance work, family and personal commitments. It?s interesting to see that represented on film. But it still feels like they?re going to be glossing over some of the real struggles that millions of working mothers face. And the clothes look great, of course.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker in Cannes, in Elie Saab: much better or still rough? | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Sarah Jessica Parker arrived at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, and she had a lot of duties. She?s trying to promote her film I Don?t Know How She Does It, which doesn?t come out for months and months. She was also there to be ?the American celebrity? at the premiere of a Chinese detective film Wu Xia (which will be called Dragon in America). I think her real reason for showing up at the festival was to show off this Elie Saab dress. It?s certainly unique, isn?t it? I?m not saying that in a crude ?It?s so ugly, I?ll just call it ?unique?? kind of way. This Elie Saab is a great improvement over that tacky, FUBAR Valentino from the other day. While I think this dress has faults - that black lace/netting junk at the too-high neckline, waist and wrists, for one - I appreciate that SJP went for something different. Hey, at least it?s not Marchesa.
The fabric - the patterned silk georgette - of the body of the gown is rather beautiful. I would like to see that fabric used for a sleeveless, long, full-skirted sundress/gown. It would be more appropriate for Cannes, and it would just be prettier overall. Technically, this gown is from Elie Saab?s Autumn/Winter collection, though, which is why it?s long-sleeved.
For another event, SJP stepped out in a doily. The actual dress wasn?t so bad (kind of Miss Havisham, but it?s okay), but then she wrapped a doily around herself. And then there?s the problem with the pearls?hh, SJP. Crazy woman.
Photos courtesy of WENN & Pacific Coast News.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker's Weekend at Cannes | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stopping for pictures along the way, Sarah Jessica Parker made a grand arrival to the Hotel Carlton Pier in Cannes, France earlier today (May 14).
The always-stylish "Sex and the City" star was prettied up per the usual while sporting an effortlessly classic look, wearing large pearl earrings, black vest, and long blue and black skirt.
Just last night (May 13), Sarah turned heads as she hit the red carpet for day three of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, wearing a flowing, floral print Ellie Saab gown at the "Wu Xia" Premiere.
Later in the evening, Parker took to the stage at The Weinstein Company's soiree, where she presented a five minute peek of "I Don't Know How She Does It," the romantic comedy she recently filmed.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker's Valentino: maybe the ugliest thing she's ever worn' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Call me crazy, but I would take a million ?Big southern/lion hair and Halston? red carpet appearances rather than this fugness. These are photos of Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick at the NYC Ballet Spring Gala last night. SJP can get Matthew to the ballet, but never to a fashion or charity gala. Or a premiere. But ballet, sure! Nevermind, don?t go there, of course they have a strong marriage, why would you think otherwise? Don?t they look? um, happy together?
Anyway, in my mind, SJP?s style reflects her mood. She wore this absolutely God-awful Valentino for the NYC Ballet event, and now I think that Mr. Valentino must totally hate her. Why would a designer even MAKE this ugly dress, much less give it to one of his best clients? SJP knows it sucks too - trust me, SJP knows how to work a gown, and she knows how to ensure a gown is photographed to make it look amazing, and look at what she?s doing with her styling and body language. She draped a purse across her chest, her hair is meh, and she?s got a look on her face that says ?I wish I had lion hair and I was flying solo.?
Also looking rough? Brooke Shields. I know the whole ?flower boob? thing is in style right now, but this is the wrong way to do it.
Oh, and in case you were interested, here?s how Betsy Johnson and her date showed up to the ballet:
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker attempts massive Southern hair: does she pull it off? | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The fashion and style sites are making a big deal about this ?new trend? - big, Southern hair. It?s a trend I embrace on women like Reese Witherspoon and my mother. It just works on Southern ladies. On non-Southern ladies, it?s kind of a disaster. Take Sarah Jessica Parker, who in these photos is arriving for a benefit for The Robin Hood Foundation (an excellent foundation). SJP decided to wear this lovely purple dress (I?m assuming that it?s Halston, since SJP is the creative director there), and she styled herself with this massive Dynasty hair. I think? um? odd.
Gisele Bundchen was at the fundraiser too - she wore this equally odd, half-sheer dress. You put this on a woman with a slightly larger bust, and she would look tacky and trashy. On Gisele, it kind of works. I hate when her hair is slicked back, though. She looks like a Disney villainess.
And here?s Mariska Hargitay, phoning it in, style-wise. She looks okay, but it?s nothing ground-breaking.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker in McQueen at the Met Gala: Streisand-esque? | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Like Gisele, Sarah Jessica Parker also decided to posthumously honor Alexander McQueen by wearing one of his more conservative dresses. Now? I don?t hate the dress in it?s entirety. I actually think SJP looks very put-together with the dress, the great makeup (I love her eye makeup in particular), the high fashion hair, and the blue shoes which ?pop?. But there?s something ?off? about the look too. I think maybe it?s the high collar on the dress?? The high collar makes it seem like SJP is wearing an old-school, Hollywood costume rather than a near-vintage McQueen ensemble. But perhaps that is the fault of McQueen, and not SJP, who just wanted to wear something special from her friend Lee. So, in the end, I can?t hate on this ensemble. She looks put-together, age-appropriate and rather lovely, although a bit conservative and dated.
Also? is anyone else seeing Barbra Streisand? It?s the hair and the nose, right? I?ve never really seen SJP look so strongly like Streisand.
And yes, Bravo?s Andy Cohen was her date. Matthew Broderick had better things to do, I guess.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Sarah Jessica Parker's Luxury Spa Getaway | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Giving herself a well-deserved rest, Sarah Jessica Parker was spotted lounging by the pool at a luxury spa in SoCal on Saturday (April 16).
The ?Sex and the City? actress read Vogue and Rolling Stone magazines with a gal pal while drinking fruity libations and working on her tan.
In real estate news, SJP and her husband Matthew Broderick have finally settled on a new home to purchase.
The power couple selected a townhouse on East 10th Street that has set them back $18.995 million, including five bedrooms, seven fireplaces, and a beefy security system.
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