The 'Sex and the City' movie becomes a girls' night out
Some of the show's fans are making an event out of it, gathering large groups of friends, donning outfits that would make Carrie envious and drinking cosmos, of course.
MOCK THEM at your own risk. They have heels and they know how to use them.
They're showing up in droves, in posses, in very well-dressed tribes. Worshipers of "Sex and the City" may not look like Comic-Con fans but they're every bit as tenacious -- and they smell better. Tickets for the ArcLight Hollywood's 12:01 a.m. Friday show of the movie based on the HBO series sold out so quickly that the theater added a 12:02 show. Then 12:03. And so on, for seven post-midnight shows, and 1,800 tickets sold.
And they aren't just there for the flick; they're making an event of it. By 10:30 Thursday night, the bar and restaurant were full of groups of women, and the occasional man, downing cocktails and awaiting the midnight hour. "If you see a cosmo on a table, they're going to 'Sex and the City,' " said waiter James Warfield as he carried a tray bearing the show's signature drink. "I have a lot more ladies than usual."
Lynze Radzyminski, 24, sat at the head of a table of seven friends, sporting Chanel. Her childhood buddy, Sarah McDonnell, 25, coordinated her visit from Ohio to make it to the opening show. Most of the women, all in their early to mid-20s, knew one another from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and were fabulously dressed. They've watched all the shows on DVD many times, and wouldn't have missed the movie for anything. They did not care about the early, sometimes stinging, reviews, nor the epic length (2 hours, 20 minutes). "It can never be too long because I can watch the show for 14 hours in a row," said Sarah Perillo, 21. "I watch three episodes a night before I go to bed, every night."
Over at the bar, Kandis Mak and her friend Erica Weindruch were also impressively dressed ("This is totally a Samantha outfit, but I don't think of myself as Samantha. I think I'm kind of a Carrie with a little Miranda," Mak said.) Mak's boyfriend, Andrei Kissin -- in a sweat shirt and jeans -- was off to see the new "Indiana Jones" while the girls went to "Sex." "We've been planning this for months, said Mak, 23. "From the very beginning, we said we have to get dressed up, go have a cocktail before and pretend we're the girls before we go. It feels like we're reuniting with one of our best friends we haven't seen in four years." They got the tickets only a week ahead, so they're sitting in the front row. But that's OK, Weindruch said: "We have tickets for tomorrow night already."
