‘Sex and the City’ Author Candace Bushnell Shares Excitement for Kim Cattrall’s Return, Reflects on Show’s 25-Year Legacy
variety.comSophia Scorziello editor When you talk to Candace Bushnell, you don’t really see Carrie Bradshaw. Instead, you see more of a Samantha Jones, a fabulous blonde woman wearing sunglasses inside her Sag Harbor home in the Hamptons.
She’s put together, and eager to get down to business — she says she’s working on being her own Mr. Big rather than searching for him.
In the mid-1990s, Bushnell wrote a column for the New York Observer titled Sex and the City. There, she examined Manhattan life through the sex lives and relationships of her and her friends.
As the column progressed, she began writing about herself under the pen name “Carrie Bradshaw.” Later in that decade, Darren Star created the HBO series “Sex and the City” based on Bushnell’s column.
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