Paper Monitor
11:59 UK time, Tuesday, 13 May 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Can one film premiere get a front page mention on nearly every UK paper with pages and pages of coverage between them? If it's Sex and the City making its global debut in London, it would appear that the answer is a resounding yes. (Checklist: The Times, Daily Mail, Sun, Independent, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Metro.)
For a film whose fifth character is often said to be New York City itself, the decision to hold the big night across the Atlantic in London apparently gave the British press a reason to gloat. But judging by the coverage - mostly photographs of the celebrities attending the premiere - Fleet Street hacks must have been enjoying the evening sunshine with very little writing to be done.
There was one, or should that be two, notable no-shows at the star-studded bash. Despite being as synonymous with the hit TV show as a Cosmopolitan cocktail, there was no sign of a pair of Manolo Blahniks amongst the four leading ladies.
Even the Independent's leader article spends several sentences on such frivolity before getting down to business - the show's feminist credentials, making it clear that it's not (all) about the dresses, honest.
Paper Monitor smirks at the Guardian's decision not to mention THAT premiere. Obviously deputy fashion editor Hadley Freeman was too busy reviewing that other haute couture unveiling, of the new bare-headed designer look for judges. Talk about a diary clash. How fashionistas must have been torn between the two.
The judiciary will no doubt be sorry to hear that, according to Ms Freeman, the new robe makes them look "like the man who sells you tickets for the Star Trek Experience at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas".
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