The “Sex and the City” movie opened last night in Great Britain, and early reports indicate theaters haven’t been this devoid of men since “Love Story” opened almost four decades ago. Although that was the age of Alan Alda’s “sensitive man,” so perhaps there were a few more Y chromosomes in that audience than in today’s “Sex” audience.
The fading sex symbol, Miz Sharon Stone, made a horse’s tushy out of herself—again—by suggesting this week that the devastating earthquake in China was the result of bad “karma” for Beijing’s repressive policies toward Tibet. Along the lines of the late Jerry Falwell blaming “secularists” for helping September 11 happen and Muslim clerics blaming corruption of Islam for natural disasters that strike the Muslim world, Stone’s comments were particularly idiotic. She lost her coveted advertising contract with Christian Dior in China because of it. There goes the free fur coats!
Italy’s famed opera house, La Scala, announced plans to turn Al Gore’s environmental panic attack, “An Inconvenient Truth,” into a soaring opera. No word yet on which legendary sopranos are lining up to play Gore.
Ladies: George Clooney is newly single. If you can overlook his political views, start your engines. Maybe you can convince him that your first date should involve seeing “Sex and the City.”
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