"Sex and the City" star and real-life New Yorker Cynthia Nixon made her way to Florida for this Election Day. Florida Street Teamer Anthony Wojtkowiak caught up with the actress at the University of Miami today, where she was encouraging students to vote.
"I'm just talking to students here, making sure everyone is voting," she told MTV News. "If they haven't, I'm telling them the clock is ticking. Today is D-day. Gotta vote."
Nixon was also there to speak out against Florida's Proposition 2, which would define marriage as being between a man and a woman, effectively banning same-sex marriage. "It's an antigay initiative," said Nixon, who is in a lesbian relationship. Read more...
Riding high on the success of the "Sex and the City" movie, HarperCollins has announced that Candace Bushnell (the author originally responsible for the Cosmo-swilling, Manolo-wearing phenomenon) will pen a set of two books about Carrie Bradshaw aimed at teens, to be dubbed "The Carrie Diaries," Variety reports.
The set of prequels will magically rewind time to Carrie's teen years, when she "began observing and commenting on the social scene," Bushnell said in a statement, adding that she's always been interested in writing about the future sex columnist's high school years. According to the original novel and TV series, Carrie moved to New York as a young woman, though where exactly she grew up is never mentioned. Read more...
"Sex and the City" star and real-life New Yorker Cynthia Nixon made her way to Florida for this Election Day. Florida Street Teamer Anthony Wojtkowiak caught up with the actress at the University of Miami today, where she was encouraging students to vote.