{"id":41192,"date":"2021-01-17T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=41192"},"modified":"2021-01-17T19:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:47:52","slug":"the-battle-for-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/the-battle-for-lucy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I already told you, a new <strong><em>Sex and the City<\/em><\/strong> series is going forward\u2026sans Samantha.&nbsp; There was an amazingly well-written piece in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> where they proclaimed \u201c<strong>Kim Cattrall <\/strong>was MVP of <em>SATC<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp; One line jumped out at me.&nbsp; \u201cAt its core, <em>Sex and the City <\/em>is neither about sex nor the city, nor shoes, nor <strong>Chris Noth<\/strong>\u2019s cleft chin, nor inexplicably wearing belts around your midriff \u2013 it\u2019s about the enduring power of female friendship.\u201d&nbsp; Without that core, there may be three interesting ladies chatting, but there\u2019ll always be the spectre of Kim Cattrall hovering over everything; saying what needed to be said, but what none of the others could.&nbsp; I smell disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on TV, <strong>Aaron Sorkin <\/strong>has signed on to make a film about <strong>Lucille Ball <\/strong>and <strong>Desi Arnaz <\/strong>called <strong><em>Being the Ricardos<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 in other words, a film about the actors working on the show.&nbsp; This will focus on the real Desi and Lucy.&nbsp; The person originally tapped for the redhead was <strong>Cate Blanchett <\/strong>\u2013 a fine actress, a curious choice, but I was intrigued.&nbsp; This week, Blanchett is out and <strong>Nicole Kidman <\/strong>is in.&nbsp; If they are looking for the person behind the character, they\u2019re gonna have a tough time prying off that mask Kidman calls a face.&nbsp; The fans are most upset that <strong>Debra Messing <\/strong>was not even considered \u2013 and she admits she coveted the role.&nbsp; Fans turned to <strong>Lucie Jr<\/strong>. and <strong>Desi Jr<\/strong>., who are listed as producers.&nbsp; But they have no power, and <em>Little Lu <\/em>is pretty much staying out of it.&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Jonas <\/strong>is being approached about doing a live TV version of <strong><em>Jersey Boys<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; That\u2019s something I could get behind\u2026repeatedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I already told you, a new Sex and the City series is going forward\u2026sans Samantha.&nbsp; There was an amazingly well-written piece in Rolling Stone where they proclaimed \u201cKim Cattrall was MVP of SATC\u201d.&nbsp; One line jumped out at me.&nbsp; \u201cAt its core, Sex and the City is neither about sex nor the city, nor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41194,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41192\/revisions\/41194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}