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SEX AND THE CITY
*The medicine cabinet in Carrie's apartment was first spied by Sarah Jessica Parker at a flea market shortly before filming began on the series. She and Matthew Broderick didn't buy it but reconsidered. When they went back, the cabinet was already sold to "some TV show". When she showed up for filming, the medicine cabinet was there.
*The naturally blond Cynthia Nixon dyes her hair red to play Miranda on the show.
*On the day she shot the scene where she goes to the Paris Cinema to see "Joy for Two" and it later rains very heavily, Sarah Jessica Parker wasn't feeling well, so she sent her assistant to fetch her a home pregnancy test. She learned she was in fact pregnant just before shooting the scene; scripted as a rather giddy, happy scene (it is in the episode, "Anchors Away!"), this obviously helps explains why she is extra-smiley.
*The ballerina tutu that Sarah Jessica Parker is wearing in the opening credits cost only $5 from a vintage store. The episode "I Heart NY", which is a "love letter" to New York according to Darren Star, was assumed by many to be a reaction to the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001. The episode however, was actually written, filmed and titled before September 11, and shown soon afterward. The timing was a coincidence.
*The final word spoken in the very last episode was "Fabulous". The show became so popular that a tour was setup to view the New York City locations of the series by bus.
*In the very beginning of the show the last thing "Mr. Big" says to Carrie is Abso-f***in-lutely. And in the very last episode, he says that after he and Carrie return from Paris.
*Kim Cattrall turned down the role of Samantha Jones twice before being convinced by Darren Star's boyfriend to give it a try and shoot the pilot episode.
*The Versace "dress of a thousand layers" that Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) wore in the final episode has a retail price of $79,000.
*In the episode where Carrie is invited to Mr Big and Natasha's engagement party, the props department decided to make up a first name for the character to appear on the invitation, knowing that it would never appear on screen. Sarah Jessica Parker opened the envelope to find she had been invited to the wedding of "Boris and Natasha" (named after the villains in Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends), she reportedly couldn't stop laughing for five minutes.
*The early episodes of the show had characters looking directly at the camera lens and commenting on the events in the story. This element was dropped in later episodes.
*Cynthia Nixon does not have pierced ears. All of her earrings on the show were clip-ons. Sometimes the costume designers would send away earrings they liked to a jeweler to make them clip-on earrings.
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