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| | Cynthia Nixon reflects on how 'sex & the City' was actually kind of problematic | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As an Xennial, I was a real-time viewer and fan of several shows which are currently enjoying a second-life popularity thanks to syndication. The younger peeps can now watch Friends and Sex and the City fifteen years after those shows were done and buried and those younger peeps are like ?you guys were really into this stuff?? Yes, we were. Friends and SATC were huge deals at the time. SATC in particular was the biggest show on HBO, and those women were on the cover of Time and Newsweek and there were so many thinkpieces devoted to ?the new single woman? and ?what SATC says about women? and all of that.
But here?s the question: does the original SATC TV show hold up? If we?re looking at it with 2019 eyes, are there are parts of the show or entire episodes which make us cringe? Yes. For sure. SATC changed and influenced so many conversations in that time, but there are so many big and small parts of the show nevermind the God awful movies which do not hold up at all. Cynthia Nixon knows that too she chatted about how SATC would not be made as-is today:
Cynthia Nixon said that her hit HBO show ?Sex and the City? would have a more diverse cast if the feminist comedy had been produced in the modern day. Nixon added in an interview published on Monday that the groundbreaking show was too centered around money and did not portray enough working class characters.
?Well, I certainly think we would not have all been white, God forbid,? she told IndieWire about the program. ?One of the hardest things for me ? it was at the time, too ? is looking back and seeing how much of it centered around money, right? And how, Steve, my [character?s] husband, was like the closest we got to a working class guy, you know? Never mind a working class woman, right??
Nixon?s character Miranda Hobbes was a lawyer who married a bartender and lived the glamorous life of a Manhattan pseudo-socialite. Although the actress and politician insisted the show had a feminist tone, she admitted the series was a bit divorced from reality.
?Also, I think we wouldn?t all look like that,? she said. ?In terms of like, the perfection factor. In terms of always looking so incredible. And I know that?s the fantasy element, and in terms of the show that was important. But I think there?s a lot of ways that people can be visually compelling without looking ? quote unquote ? perfect.?
[From Page Six]
Miranda was always my favorite character because I often felt like she was legitimately the most realistic she didn?t always look runway-ready, she had a real job as a lawyer, she wasn?t looking for a man to ?save? her, and she had profound intimacy issues. It?s like Miranda was from a different (realistic) show and she got dropped into The Sugary Carrie Show by accident. Obviously, Cynthia has a point the economics and racial dynamics within the show are kind of dumb and privileged, the women are very superficial and apolitical and clueless about anything other sex, romance and love. It?s okay to acknowledge that, and still acknowledge that SATC did some good things too.
Photos courtesy of HBO and WENN.
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| | Cynthia Nixon: 'For me, homosexuality is a choice, you don't define my gayness' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Cynthia Nixon gave a surprisingly intimate interview to The New York Times a few days ago. Do you know how much I like Cynthia? She?s awesome. I would love her alone for her commitment to public education, but whenever I read one of her increasingly rare interviews, I like her even more. Anyway, you can read the full NYT piece here - Cynthia talks at length about her experiences as a child actor, how she transitioned into an adult actor, her stage work and finally, her lesbianism? or bisexuality? Cynthia has had long-term relationships with both men and women, and Cynthia considers herself a lesbian by choice. Here are some highlights:
Getting Sex & the City at the age of 30: ?Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right?? she said wryly when we sat down earlier to talk. ?They thought of me as smart and quirky. For a while I was waifish, and then I was smart and quirky, and then when I was like 30 I was cast in ?Sex and the City.? Thirty seems young to me now, but at the time 30 seemed to be kind of getting old, so it was this amazing confluence of events where I, who had never really exercised, never really worn heels, was in this thing that was about sex and grooming and your body. I might have just gone from waifs to old ladies, but I had my bombshell period in there, my unexpected bombshell period.?
Kids: Nixon is a mother herself; her two oldest children are Samantha, 15, and Charlie, 9. Their father is Daniel Mozes, a classmate of Nixon?s at Hunter College High School, where he now teaches English. The couple never married and split in 2003. As Nixon has grown older, she has allowed herself to start coloring outside the lines. A year after splitting with Mozes, she began a relationship with Christine Marinoni, now 44, whom she met while campaigning to increase financing for New York City public schools. With the help of a male friend Nixon will not identify, Marinoni conceived a child. She gave birth to their son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni, on Feb. 7, 2011.
Her mid-life change to lesbianism: ?I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ?I?ve been straight and I?ve been gay, and gay is better.? And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it?s not, but for me it?s a choice, and you don?t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it?s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn?t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.? Her face was red and her arms were waving. ?As you can tell,? she said, ?I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can?t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we?re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don?t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn?t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I?ve been out with.?
[From The New York Times]
CB pointed out that Cynthia might be in the middle of the Kinsey scale, which means that her sexuality can easily go from men to women, and that people on the far ends of the Kinsey scale don’t have a choice when it comes to sex of their partners. That could be the case with Cynthia – she could just be one of those people who are like, ?I just fall in love with whomever I fall in love with, men, women, no matter.?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Rojo Caliente & Cynthia Nixon release the first photo of their son Max | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, Cynthia Nixon and her partner, Christine ?Rojo Caliente? Marinoni announced that Christine had been pregnant all this time and had just given birth to a son. They really kept the whole thing under wraps, but now that little Max Ellington is here, Cynthia and Rojo have no problem sharing their joy. They released this wonderful photo that is so full of ginger, it should be against the law. Max is going to look like Prince Harry, you know it.
Baby in the city. Cynthia Nixon, 44, and fiancee Christine Marinoni released the first picture of their son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni, yesterday.
Marinoni, 43, gave birth to the babe last Monday, and the couple, who began dating in 2004 and announced their engagement in 2009, have not made public any details of the baby’s biological father.
Nixon has two children — Samantha, 15, and Charles, 8 — from her previous relationship with Danny Mozes.
“Maybe I’m just lucky, but I feel like Christine is so amazing with our kids ? because they?re our kids,” the Sex and the City star told The Advocate last year. “I feel like falling in love with her is part of being amazed at how she makes our family so much better.”
[From Us Weekly]
Congratulations to the happy family! I kind of like the way Cynthia and Rojo did it - keeping the pregnancy quiet, but being open about the baby when he came. It?s nice.
Additional pics by WENN.
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Adding to the growing number of celebrity babies, Cynthia Nixon has welcomed a baby boy into the world.
The ?Sex and the City? babe and her partner Christine Marinoni said hello to little Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni yesterday (February 7).
Marinoni carried the baby and it sounds like things are great. Her rep told press, ?Christine and the baby are doing great.?
Max joins his half-siblings Samantha and Charles, Cynthia?s children from her relationship with Danny Mozes.
More Photos Here
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| | Cynthia Nixon on her partner: 'she's like a short man with boobs' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Cynthia Nixon was always my favorite on Sex and the City. I identified with Miranda - mostly because she always seemed like the most realistic, grounded character, and because our caustic, stubborn personalities were similar. During the television series, Nixon left her long-time male partner and began dating and living with Christine Marinoni. That was six years ago, and now Nixon is The Advocate?s newest cover girl, and she talks about her relationship with Christine more candidly than I?ve ever heard. The full Advocate piece is here, and here are some highlights:
For years, people on the street have been calling her ?Miranda,? the cynical, type A lawyer Cynthia Nixon made famous on HBO?s Sex and the City. Six years later, now that she?s come out as gay, survived breast cancer, and stepped up as a marriage equality activist, her fans now recognize her for her.
In her new interview with The Advocate (www.advocate.com), Nixon talks about her slow coming-out after she began dating her now-fiance, Christine Marinoni. After the couple had spent many months together, the press started speculating about their relationship. Nixon hired a publicist who warned her to stay out of the headlines. Uncomfortable with that route, Nixon soon turned to Kelly Bush, an openly gay publicist. Bush suggested Nixon confirm the rumors, and that is just what she did.
?I was like, ?Really, we can just confirm??? Nixon tells The Advocate. ?So that?s just what we did. It was so fantastic.?
Freshly out, and with two children from her relationship with Danny Mozes, Nixon integrated Marinoni into her life and her family.
?She?s like a short man with boobs,? Nixon says of Marinoni. ?A lot of what I love about her is her butchness. I?m not saying I fell in love with her in a sexually neutral way. I love her sexuality ? it?s a big part of what I love about her ? but I feel like it was her.?
Nixon?s children also quickly adapted to the new relationship, not that her son?s processing started at school. ?His teachers were just so great about it,? Nixon notes, ?because they were the first people that started referring to ?Charlie?s moms,? which is so lovely, and we really hadn?t done that yet. So Charlie came home one day and he said [to Marinoni], ?You?re my mommy too!??
With a healthy family life and having overcome breast cancer, in 2008 Nixon opened up about her battle and her first big-screen nude scene. Showing her breasts, in a big way, was not a political response to the cancer battle.
?They didn?t know about it at the time. Generally, my thoughts are, if they ask me to do [a nude scene], I?ll do one,? Nixon proclaims. ?I mean, I won?t do anything, but I feel like if Michael Patrick [King] wants me to do it, there?s a reason he wants me to do it.?
[From The Advocate]
Bless her heart. And I mean that in the honest, go-ahead-girl way, not in the condescending way. Even though I think Sarah Jessica Parker was always more than cool with Cynthia coming out, I always got the impression that other people involved with Sex and the City really just wanted to shove Cynthia in the corner and hope that mainstream America wouldn?t realize that Cynthia was suddenly out of the closet. It?s interesting that Cynthia was allowed - by SATC producers and publicists - to do this Advocate cover interview. I wonder if she?s going to be hidden away for this publicity tour?
Regarding the whole ?She?s like a short man with boobs. A lot of what I love about her is her butchness.? I breathlessly await Michael K?s take.
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| | Cynthia Nixon pressures Sarah Jessica Parker to fully support gay rights | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon were friends before they even signed on to Sex and the City, more than a decade ago. They knew each other from being in the theatre community, and SJP can remember a time when Cynthia was exclusively with men. But now that Cynthia?s life-partner/fianc is a lady, Cynthia has been moved to become a stronger, more vocal gay rights advocate. Cynthia wants her old friend SJP to lend her name more fully to the cause - specifically the cause of gay marriage:
Gay rights advocate and about-to-be lesbian bride Cynthia Nixon?s putting the squeeze on buddy Sarah Jessica Parker, lobbying her to help push for gay marriage rights - but Sarah?s pushing right back!
Cynthia, who?s hoping to wed galpal of five years Christine Marinoni, ?believes Sarah?s high profile will really help the cause,? a pal says - ?but she also knows the star has her hands full with her new twins, just born by a surrogate mother. Still, she?s making it personal and keeping the pressure on.?
Busy mom Sarah, who wants to help, compromised - promising Cynthia she?ll show up if there?s a major fundraiser or other event convenient to her New York stomping grounds.
[From National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, July 20 2009]
I?m not sure what I think of this - Cynthia and SJP have always seemed very close, and I believe SJP has always been pretty active in the gay rights movement. It seems a no-brainer that Sarah Jessica would already be there to support her friend. It seems like the Enquirer might be making a mountain out of a molehill - or could there be more to this? Now that the second SATC film is due out next year, could it be that SJP is wary of alienating a large part of the potential audience by coming out publicly as some kind of gay marriage crusader?
Photos were taken on the SATC set in September and October, 2007. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Yippee! Another 'sex and the City' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Good news for fans of haggard old women who F their way through New York. You’re getting a sequel!
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis are all coming back for another installment of Sex and the City. And they’re getting raises. Big ones.
Regarding the sequel, Parker is hoping for a story “worthy of an audience.” Nixon wants the exact opposite and suggests the crew go on a “mad cap adventure.” Probably in Brazil or Mexico or any other country where it’s plausible to stumble into the middle of an ongoing orgy or something equally provocative.
Whatever they decide to do, just, please, stay away from the hi-def cameras and consider axing the Blu-Ray release. 1080p is not your friend. Maybe try filming in YouTube quality?
Sex and the City Stars Commit to Sequel! [Us]
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From book to television to movie, “Sex and the City” has always been overwhelmingly successful. And now plans for a sequel to 2008’s “Sex and the City: The Movie” are full speed ahead.
According to FOX Pop Tarts’ Hollie McKay, plans for a follow-up to last year’s uber-hit have been green-lighted, with all four main cast members securing deals with the studio.
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