Sex and the City London Style!

As London hosted the world premiere of the new Sex and the City movie in Leicester Square last night, all four of the movie’s stars were in attendance.

Kim Cattrall wore a bright red satin knee length, off the shoulder number by Vivien Westwood, which in all honesty was far too young for the actress who is now in her 5^th decade.

Kristen Davis sported an equally eye catching cherry-red vintage sleeveless dress and cream peep-toe heels which, in typical Charlotte York style, covered up all her vital areas. Next in the line up came the currently ’I think I’m a lesbian’ Cynthia Nixon who arrived displaying her feminine credentials for all they’re worth in a little black floor length number that plunged lower than the morals of former New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer. The gown was created by Calvin Klein.

But the main attraction, as always, was the creation donned by Sarah Jessica Parker. Looking like the back drop for a woodland scene in a Disney movie, Parker arrived at the UK premiere (and we really cant fathom out why it premiered in London before New York City where the series is based!!!???) of the popular HBO TV series.

With all the quirkiness of her character, Carrie Bradshaw’s sense of dress, Parker strutted down the red carpet in a puke green creation by Alexander McQueen which was horrendously topped off with a hat designed by the milliner responsible for Camilla Parker Bowles’ hat worn at her wedding to Prince Charles in 2006.

Sarah’s hat stood some 15 inches high and featured flowers, grasses, a butterfly and various leaves in all shades of green balanced on what appeared to be the top of an acorn!

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Bank Job: A Brilliant Blunder!

When the Brits make a film, they really make a film! Take Four Weddings and A Funeral with Hugh Grant, made on a shoe string but grossing millions at the box office. Then there was Nottinghill again with Hugh and his love interest Julia Roberts and the Full Monty starring Robert Carlyle. But now there’s an English nugget that shouldn’t be missed, Bank Job. If the Americans, and more precisely New Yorkers think they have a scandal unraveling before their very eyes in the misappropriate behaviour of ex Governor Eliot Spitzer, then take a look at what the British Royal Family, namely Princess Margaret, (Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister) and Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s favourite uncle, got up to in the early 1970’s.

Add to the mix a group of amateur bank robbers who would make Del Boy (David Jason) and Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) of Only Fools and Horse fame look professional, the sultry Mata Hari figure Martine, played by Saffron Burrows, and a government headed by Edward Heath, all of whom seem to be into the seedy sexy underworld that was on offer in London in that decade, and you have the mix for a perfect movie.

The would be robbers come across as more lucky than cunning, as they are conned into the ’job’ which is the UK’s biggest bank heist and is actually a ’cover up’ in the making by the government. The police are portrayed as complete incompetence, Government ministers are all perverts and the movie in general moves so fast as the story unfolds somewhat like a three dimensional chess game, with the all pieces moving among the different levels.

Known as the walkie talkie robbery the ‘job’ is to cleanout the vault at Lloyds Bank on Baker Street, London. With the band of merry men squawking on their walkie talkies the story became headline news only to be hushed up by top officials in MI5 and MI6 as the true reason behind the robbery is revealed.