The Sarah Jessica Parker-backed reality show that promised to be the Project Runway of the art world has finally been picked up by Bravo, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

America Artist is an hour-long art competition show in which contestants compete in front of judges—start guessing names!—to draw, paint, sculpt, and hopefully do some performance art until a winner is chosen. (Then all they have to do is go on to have a successful career in the art world.)  read more »

Things went much as predicted this Fourth of July weekend. New Yorkers fell in love with a homeless wino with a penchant for busting road signs and throwing live whales into the ocean. Hancock landed on top of Manhattan's sales charts with an $850,956 box office showing. It was the same story nationally. Sony's film scored $66 million in ticket sales, putting it way ahead of Wall-E ($33.4 million) and Wanted ($20.6 million). Since first hitting theaters on July 2, Will Smith's jaded superhero has made a total of $107.3 million.

Much like his alky antihero, Smith is a force to be reckoned with.  read more »

Now that the Sex and the City movie is finally behind her, Sarah Jessica Parker is ready to move on from the role of Carrie Bradshaw. But she's not straying far, characterwise.

Meet Ivy Ames, whom the actress will reportedly play in the forthcoming film The Ivy Chronicles.

She's an Upper East Side mom whose social descent is both literal and figurative: freshly divorced and given the boot at her job, Ivy moves downtown and transfers her kids from private to public school.

She then starts a business helping fellow middle-classers land a spot for their youngsters in elite kindergartens.

In real life she probably won't have much trouble with her own 5-year-old, James Wilkie.

Sarah Jessica Parker is barely taking a baby step away from her role as Carrie Bradshaw for her next movie project. Warner Bros. is currently wooing her to star in The Ivy Chronicles, a movie based on Karen Quinn's novel about a single woman in modern-day Manhattan.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the story follows Ivy Ames, "an Upper East Side woman who, after losing her high-powered job and getting divorced, starts over again in a less ritzy downtown apartment. After pulling her children from private school, Ames starts a business to help upper-middle-class women get their children into elite kindergartens."  read more »

Far be it from actress Sarah Jessica Parker to do something so clichéd as show up at her Sex and the City co-star Chris Noth’s bar, the Cutting Room, on West 24th Street—despite her position as honorary host of a benefit concert there, also on Monday, June 16.

A number of other entertainment luminaries, including the comedian and writer Al Franken, and the actresses Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman, likewise lent their names, if not their presence, to the charity event, a fund-raiser for the fledgling Andi Foundation, which provides scholarships in memory of Andrea Parhamovich, a young activist with the Washington-based National Democratic Institute who was killed during an ambush on her convoy in Baghdad last year.  read more »

Who would dare to send Carrie Bradshaw onto a red carpet in a hand-me-down dress? Nina Ricci's artistic director, Olivier Theyskens, apparently.  read more »

Despite negative reviews, Sex and the City dominated the box office this weekend, kicking the new Indiana Jones movie out of the no.1 spot and raking in roughly $55.7 million, The New York Times reports. And, surprise! 85 percent of ticket buyers were women, “many viewing in groups.” SJP is pleased: “I am so excited about the possibilities for movies about women,” she told the Times.

Before last night's big-screen Sex and the City premiere at Radio City Music Hall, a tented red carpet sheltered Katie Couric, Donna Karan, the Seinfelds, Donald and Melania Trump, Mary J. Blige, Gayle King, and original Sex writer Candace Bushnell from the muggy drizzle outside, which Carrie Bradshaw would have just run through in four-inch heels.

The celebrities posed for pictures with cardboard posters of Sarah Jessica Parker (despite the fact that the actress herself was giving interviews nearby in a floor-length gray gown). Inside, large groups of women in short cocktail dresses and heels did the same. The occasional man looked either shell-shocked or gay.

Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley arrived and took their seats. Then it was Jason Lewis, a.k.a. Smith Jerrod. By the time Chris Noth strolled down the aisle in a khaki suit, the audience could take it no longer: A loud cheer went up and the women leaped to their feet in a flurry of flashbulbs. Sarah Jessica Parker soon made her way down the aisle at Stage Left, eliciting even louder cheers. One could have been forgiven for thinking this was a very stylish, estrogen-infused rock concert.  read more »

The media campaign for the Sex and the City movie, which arrives in theaters May 30, was executed with near-militaristic precision. You might call it “flooding the zone.”

Vogue, which itself has a recurring role in the franchise, easily secured the big kahuna: 43-year-old Sarah Jessica Parker on the cover and an elaborate photo shoot featuring her posing with Chris Noth, 53 (Mr. Big): on top of a skyscraper, on a red carpet, in the bedroom making sex tapes!  read more »

We know everyone is going through Sex and the City overload, but we just wanted to point out that Square Pegs, the 1980s CBS comedy that features Sarah Jessica Parker in tortoise-shells instead of peep-toes, was released on DVD this week... just in time for the Sex premiere.

The show started out with the typical teenaged girl stereotypes (the "smart girl," the "fat girl," the "mean girls," etc.) only to deconstruct them during the 19-episode series. (Hmmm, sounds familiar).  read more »