Creator Candace Bushnell's e book "Intercourse and the Metropolis" spawned off from her Nineties-era New York Observer column.
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Author Candace Bushnell — the inspiration behind “Intercourse and the Metropolis” icon Carrie Bradshaw — has lastly given some perception into how the character was capable of afford her designer garments, luxurious house and dear cosmopolitans.
Bushnell, 63, disclosed her journalist’s wage that she made again within the Nineties, placing an finish to the yearslong chatter and confusion about Carrie’s funds.
The New York native labored as a columnist for the New York Observer and as a author for Vogue through the decade of “Mates” mania, darkish lipstick and denim every thing.
“Within the nineties, for me — it was an actual time for media. I labored for ‘Vogue,’ writing the ‘Folks Are Speaking About’ column, and obtained paid $5,000 a month,” Bushnell defined in a profile for the New Yorker.
“The ‘Observer’ paid much less, however I may afford that, due to ‘Vogue.’ I imply, this was a time that writers had been getting a ‘Vainness Honest’ contract for six items and $250,000 dollars a 12 months,” she continued. “Folks valued writing; it wasn’t thought of one thing everybody can do. Now, due to the pc, everybody has to do it, so we expect everybody can do it.”
Bushnell turned her Observer column entitled “Intercourse and the Metropolis” right into a e book in 1996 and it was made into an HBO sitcom of the identical title two years later.
Her “SATC” universe expanded into the 2013 CW prequel sequence “The Carrie Diaries,” two blockbuster motion pictures and the 2021 HBO Max sequel present “And Simply Like That.”
“And Simply Like That” follows Carrie and pals Miranda Hobbes and Charlotte York as they navigate life, love and profession of their 50s.
In the identical New Yorker piece, Bushnell additionally gave her ideas in regards to the follow-up sequence.
“I’m actually startled by lots of the choices made within the reboot,” she famous. “You recognize, it’s a tv product, completed with [director] Michael Patrick King and [star] Sarah Jessica Parker, who've each labored with HBO lots prior to now. HBO determined to place this franchise again into their palms for quite a lot of causes, and that is what they got here up with.”
When requested if she noticed herself within the new sequence, she admitted, “By no means. I imply, Carrie Bradshaw ended up being a unusual lady who married a extremely wealthy man. And that’s not my story, or any of my pals’ tales. However TV has its personal logic.”
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