‘City’ meets her Match
Shove Silicon Valley. A pox on techies. Forget the flash drive. America’s into the Flesh Drive. Today it’s like takeout. Hungry? Instead of calling your local Gristedes and ordering a green veggie, have them send over a luscious peach. Our land of liberty is tops with libertines Doing It.
Newest matchmaker, “Sex and the City” creator Candace Bushnell, is set to collaborate with Match, the biggest online dating service.
“January, heaviest dating month, culminates with Valentine’s Day, lovers’ Super Bowl. After the holidays it’s: ‘This year I’ll find a relationship.’ Lonely ones are now eager to hook up.
“And I’m an expert at people’s ways, their tics. They’ll sign up and we’ll offer a special service. I’ll look at the daters, examine their profiles, recommend matches to equal their interests.
“I know single people. I have friends. You get an instinct for this. Sense who’ll be right for who. The idea originally came about through ‘Sex and the City.’ The site was interested then and it finally segued into my being their expert.
“We’re doing an event announcing it officially in February. They’ll do photos with me and we’ll create a newsletter. Right now I’ve signed for a year. It’s Match.com.”
This River not yet streaming
We know Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix had a baby while she filmed “Nightmare Alley,” which became a little bit of its own nightmare alley. The film started before the pandemic, stopped then restarted. Rooney: “Shooting began months before the shutdown. We had to wait for the baby then I had to go back when my son was very small. Very challenging. Everyone was helpful. It was a long process and journey. Our son’s named River after Joaquin’s late brother.”
This dark “Alley” co-stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Richard Jenkins. If you can find a theater, it’s in one of them now.
Kingly ruling
Serena, Venus, their uncles, aunts, neighbors, hairdressers, batboys all saw “King Richard,” the film about dad Richard who created, groomed and made them. Who so far hasn’t seen “King Richard” is this king himself who is really an odd duck.
Young ladies doing a smash job smashing tennis balls had to learn the game. Will Smith did not. He says: “I didn’t have to learn tennis to be in this film because Richard, self-taught, didn’t do things the way world-class professionals would do them or teach them. But I would so love for that man to see this. Richard’s attitude is classic Richard. He says: ‘What do I need to see that movie for? I was right there seeing it when it happened.’ ”
Now serving
COVID, Omicron, vax, shots, boosters, parties ugh!, empty streets, empty restaurants. Friday night. After the snowstorm. Elio’s restaurant. Three deep jammed. Even outdoors. As buses slid by spreading slush, diners kept inhaling their pasta.
Stay tuned
With Broadway pooping and Hollywood’s award shows gone lousier than Venezuela, what’s left are books. Lyricist playwright Oscar Hammerstein — “Show Boat,” “Oklahoma!,” “Carousel,” ”The King and I,” “South Pacific,” “The Sound of Music,” “Flower Drum Song” — is now the subject of Oxford University Press’ “The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II.” Including unpublished correspondence with Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern, Josh Logan, it’s history of 20th-century American showbiz. We’re talking from even back in the ’60s. Back when to see a B’way show cost $5. Back when we even had a B’way show to go see.
With residents moving in and out, with postmen delivering warrants marked “occupant,” with local hotels saying, “Even Washington wouldn’t sleep here,” with diners requesting tables in the non-shooting section, when sanitation trucks deliver not pick up — then it will be once again only in New York, kids, only in New York.
'Sex and the City' creator Candace Bushnell to collaborate with Match.com - New York Post
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