I was anticipating the first episode of the latest Candace Bushnell book to be aired on t.v. this past week. "Lipstick Jungle", starring Brooke Shields, reminded me a lot of where "Sex & the City" left off. We have two women who are married, kids, big salaries, and high living. The marriages are not going so well, the kids are reasons for them to not "have that drive" any longer (as stated by a male boss in that first episode), and the jobs afford them luxuries and lunches with friends....but not much time to work on anything else. The third character is a single gal who is a fashion designer. She had a rough show at Fashion Week in Bryant Park, cried to her friends, drank, and then got a random call from an obscenely wealthy man who happened to be in the audience that night and thought she was attractive. So she goes to lunch with him, to bed with him on the second date, and then has to fly to Tokyo for a business meeting that doesn't go too well & cries to this stranger on the phone who sends a private jet to bring her back. Right into his arms.
Yeah. Believable.
While the show has fantasty-life potential, it's just another glossy fashionista facade that most women can not even begin to emulate without putting their grandchildren in debt.
