Tyra, Sex and the City

I enjoy America’s Next Top Model greatly, and I like Tyra Banks’ drama mama attitude. It makes for good TV. But does she really deserve a 3,000 word+ piece in the NYT magazine? I saw the story on Friday and skimmed the multimedia section (including a graphic of Tyra’s six most common smiles), but I still don’t get it. The article has some interesting tidbits here and there, but it’s mostly paeans of praise from friends, family and colleagues.

(I should add that I’m glad she moved back to NY both with ANTM and her talk show; not that her shows have much credibility, but the NY location will definitely give ANTM some of its groove that it lost in LA).

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The best thing about the Sex and the City movie was the movie theater I watched it in. The Avalon is one of the oldest movie theaters in DC, and it’s absolutely beautiful. It was nearly torn down a few years ago, and the community resurrected it. It’s a beautiful, large, old-style theater with an intricate mural on its ceiling, a teeny-tiny ladies’ room done in Pepto-Bismol pink and it really is a community theater. Nearly everyone who came to the movie seemed to be from the community and it was lovely to see. It made up for the utter mediocrity of the movie, which had one of THE worst endings I’ve seen in a romantic comedy. I thought Made of Honor had a crappy ending, but SATC went one step worse.