Does One of Them Die?

Casting notice offers more plot details

(NEWSER) - The plot of Sex and the City 2 includes big drama for Mr. Big and Carrie, Us Weekly reports. A casting notice reveals: "Big loses a lot of money and takes a job in London," where Carrie's hubby ends up in bed with someone else. "After she leaves him, Carrie discovers she is pregnant." Meanwhile, stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, and Kristin Davis were spotted in '80s outfits while filming Wednesday in New York, the Daily News reports. More»

Fans "practically trampling each other" to get to SJP

(NEWSER) - New York went so wild for the return of Carrie Bradshaw that security on the set of Sex and the City 2 had to step up its game. "Teenage girls were practically trampling each other trying to get to Sarah Jessica" Parker, an onlooker tells the New York Daily News. And she isn't the only one inspiring hysteria: Cynthia Nixon had to be rerouted to her trailer when screaming fans tried to push past guards. More»

From cosmos to high heels, 20 uncool things are all her fault

(NEWSER) - Thanks, Carrie. You and your Sex and the City gal pals have set Mr. Big-size expectations for fans who "continue to worship at the SATC altar," Sara Stewart gripes in the New York Post. Cultural fallout includes:

1. Brunch: Men now think all female-only meals are sex gabfests.
2. High-heels: No one sprints around Manhattan in strappy stilettos.

So far, reviewers have not been kind to sequel

(NEWSER) - Sex and the City 2 premiered in New York last night, and the early reviews are not good, to say the least. Read on—or, if you’d rather see the red carpet fashions from the premiere, click here .

• “The only thing memorable about Sex and the City 2 is the number two part, which describes it totally, if you get my drift,” writes Rex Reed in a scathing New York Observer review that goes on to call the movie a “deadly, brainless exercise in pointless tedium” and its characters “vain, narcissistic, selfish, superficial, and really rather stupid.”

Sex and the City star dishes on relationship

(NEWSER) - Cynthia Nixon is engaged to a woman—or, in Nixon’s words, “a short man with boobs.” The Sex and the City star talks about her relationship with Christine Marinoni in The Advocate :

• Gender roles: “A lot of what I love about her is her butchness,” she says, but later adds, “My daughter said one time that if you really had to break this down, she would be butch and I would be femme...but really once you get to know us it's really the opposite.”
• Fan reactions: “With the first flurry of articles when I came out, there were kind of crazy quotes from people, just the average person on the street. One was like, ‘I don’t understand. Miranda’s not the bisexual one; Samantha is the bisexual one.’”