The French Open and Sex in the City
Every morning now I wake up to Paris.
Or at least a small part of it: Roland Garros, where the French Open is taking place. Thanks to the Tennis Channel I can choose which of five courts I want to watch. Or if I prefer I can watch all of them, in reduced size, at the same time. With a pain au chocolat from Croissan'time, this is as good as it gets without actually being there.
Yesterday morning I was watching Maria Sharapova and realized that she looks a bit like Samantha Jones. I got to wondering if I could make a reasonably close match of a foursome, and sure enough: Ana Ivanovich is a pretty good Charlotte York, Elena Dementieva a somewhat softer Carrie Bradshaw, and Svetlana Kuznetsova a decent Miranda Hobbes. And then it occurred to me: You could get them to travel to world capitals playing doubles matches and bill them "Sets in the City."
I should be in marketing.
Comments
you know what i love love love about "Sex and the City"? That men find it way more fascinating than women!! But I wish I watched tennis so that I could get the comparison.
I always sort of wished the show centered around one of the other ladies and not Carrie. I think I like Miranda best, but I like Charlotte's outfits the most. She is unsufferably whiney and ruins her relationships (or scares off) the best guys...rather than the elusive Mr. Big, I always rooted for Berger. I did feel bad that Maxim or whatever men's magazine or website it was rated SJP the least unattractive female celebrity. I can think of worse.
Have you ever seen Saturday Night Live's spoof of the series finale? Christina Aguilera was the host, and can do a spot-on impersonation of Samantha. The skit also involved Amy Poehler as Carrie, who verbally regurgitated nothing but puns, Maya Rudolph as Charlotte who kept doing that twitchy eye-thing that Kristen Davis does, Rachel Dratsch as Miranda who kept tossing around a red-headed baby (doll). It aired right before the series finale, and the SNL's version of the ending had Samantha coming out...as a dude. When questioned about her breast cancer, she replied something to the effect of "It turns out I did have a third lump...but it turned out to be a testicle." And in response, Amy Poehler replied in true Carrie-fashion, "All this time we thought you had cancer, you were really having a ball!" and then laughed maniacally to herself. It was awesome.
Posted by: jen | May 29, 2008 4:22 PM