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I'm shaking my head right now at the coverage--do people actually believe the crap about Paula Abdul and Corey Clark? Hello, the man is writing a book. He wants to sell copies. Did ABC really fall for that? I stopped watching American Idol after the second season (Ruben's winning disgusted me--I love it that the guy who supposedly came in second is out-selling everyone) but I certainly remember Corey Clark--he was a sleazy piece of work then, and I wasn't surprised when he got kicked off for assaulting his sister. If all that had actually happened, wouldn't he have, um, said something then? Used it as blackmail so he wouldn't get kicked off? Sorry, don't believe any of it. (I'd like to think Paula has some taste--Corey Clark is nasty.)

Sex and the City

I've been watching the last few episodes (ever) of Sex and the City this week. They showed the episode where Charlotte shows her dog and Alek doesn't want to meet Carrie's friends, and the one where Alek asks Carrie to go Paris with him, they have a dinner party, the girl falls out the window and Carrie says she'll go to Paris. Okay, so far I'm enjoying these episodes--I really liked Kim Cattrall's performance in the second one when she said "we're selfish bitches who want you in New York" (I generally vastly prefer it when terribly arch people finally drop the mask and just act like normal people). And I fucking died when Charlotte wailed her dog got gang-banged in the park and Samantha said "That's so '80s..."--man, she is goin' straight to hell for that one but it's hilarious. But is it just me or do Mikhail Barishnikov and Sarah Jessica Parker have no chemistry whatsoever? He seems so remote with her--she seems a little too American-ly needy for him. (I love SJP as Carrie, BTW, that's not a slam on her character.) They just don't seem to connect; he never seems to brighten up around her.

Loved the scene between Miranda and Carrie after the funeral. Cynthia Nixon is really good. She's another one who's given all this clever arch shit to play, but it's awesome when she gets to be direct. She has a very expressive face. Kristin Davis is amusing but not that great, but she also impressed me a few weeks ago when she'd had the sort-of miscarriage (if it's actually that when you've only been pregnant a few weeks) and she stayed on the couch all weekend. The look she gave Carrie when she came to talk to her--that was some acting.