Sans Cattrall, could ‘Sex’ turn into a menage a trois?
As recently reported, Kim Cattrall killed plans for a big-screen “Sex and the City” spinoff by backing out of the film. Now there’s a move afoot to kill Cattrall — well, her character, anyway.
Michael Patrick King, executive producer of the just-concluded HBO series, is being flooded with e-mails from fans suggesting different ways he could still save the film by killing off Cattrall’s sexy Samantha Jones.
King, who spent months writing the movie screenplay, was hesitant to give away too many plot details. But he did say Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) would have been seen heading to China to pick up her infant girl, and Carrie Bradshaw’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) pal Stanford would have enjoyed a fabulous gay wedding backed by a 60-member gospel choir.
Besides picking up where the TV finale left off, the film would have flashed back to the first meeting between Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), King said.
“It would have been screamingly funny,” he said. “A lot of ‘80s clothes.”
Cattrall withdrew from the project last month amid reports that she wanted more money — equal to Parker’s paycheck — along with script approval.
Those old Manolos should bring in a few bucks
Sarah Jessica Parker joined Caroline Kennedy and New York City officials in announcing plans for a huge tag sale in Central Park, with proceeds benefiting the city’s public schools.
Said Parker, who has an 18-month-old son, James, with actor husband Matthew Broderick: “It is my every intention to send this son, and hopefully many more children, to public schools.”
We’ll know if J.Lo starts to show
The latest gossip around the presumed Jennifer Lopez-Marc Anthony nuptials is that the singers had to get married because she was pregnant.
Sources in the New York Post pointed out Lopez hasn’t been baring any cleavage lately. A bountiful bustline apparently was one of the signs that gave away Gwnyth Paltrow‘s pregnancy.
“She has been very open about her desire to have children,” says Us Weekly editor Janice Min. “It’s also known she’s a strict Catholic and would not consider having a child out of wedlock, so it makes sense that she might be pregnant.”
Count us among that 38 percent
More Britons support Prince Charles marrying longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles than oppose it, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
Thirty-two percent of respondents to the Populus poll said they would support Charles if he remarried, while 29 percent were opposed. Thirty-eight percent said they didn’t care and 2 percent had no opinion.
Marriage is a sensitive issue because Parker Bowles is divorced and her former husband is still alive. Charles, who divorced Princess Diana before her death in 1997, would be the supreme governor of the Church of England if he took the throne, and some Anglicans remain opposed to remarriage of divorcees.
Who cashed in on Di’s death? The butler did it
Paul Burrell, Princess Diana‘s butler who detailed his time with her in the tell-all book “A Royal Duty,” has taken his show on the road.
In “An Evening With Paul Burrell,” which comes to New York City’s Town Hall on June 24 following performances in London, the former royal servant will discuss his life with the princess and take questions.
The birthday bunch
Singer Shirley Alston Reeves (The Shirelles) is 63. Actor Andrew Stevens is 49. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 39. Singer Faith Evans is 31. Actor Shane West (“Now and Again”) is 26. Actress Leelee Sobieski is 22.