The Straight-Male Case for ‘Sex and the City’
Sarah Jessica Parker stars in Sex and the City, which is “a fantasy we can all buy into, man or woman,” writes Will Rahn. “Not least because it is an artifact from a time before the internet ruined everything, and people still went to bars.” (HBO)
I couldn’t help but wonder: Is Carrie Bradshaw the answer to the male-loneliness epidemic?
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There can be something magical about a rainy spring day in New York City. Mostly because it’s a great excuse to not leave your apartment. But if you’re lucky, staring out the window and struggling to think while smoking a cigarette, lightning strikes.
That’s just what happened when I received a surprise visit from my colleague Oliver, our Anglo-American editor in Washington, D.C. He insisted on dragging me out of my living room to join him for afternoon drinks at Prefect, a Lexington Avenue mainstay for people who like to argue about Israel after taking in a symposium at the 92nd Street Y.
“I have something very important to discuss,” he told me as we sat down in our matching Barbour jackets. “But first, martinis.”
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