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Is 'Mr. Big' Dead? 'Sex' Rumors Addressed

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Posted: 2008-05-06 10:21:35
Filed Under: Movie News, TV News
NEW YORK (May 6) - Will "Sex and the City" have a "Death in the City?" It's been a persistent rumor in cyberspace as the buzz kicks into overdrive for the film opening later this month.

If you want the rumor to remain in play, stop reading now.

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With the opening of the 'Sex and the City' movie weeks away, fans are flocking to New York City to take a tour of the girls' old haunts. Along the way Elan Rhys of Wales sampled a Cosmopolitan at Onieal's on Grand Street, the bar that plays the part Scout, the bar owned by Steve.

But director Michael Patrick King is ready to free us from some of our worst fears. Namely, that Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw's longtime, on-and-off love played by Chris Noth, will somehow kick the bucket.

"Kill Mr. Big? I would have been chased around the planet by women with torches," said King, who also wrote the film and produced it along with its star, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Actually, the idea of a Mr. Big death was pitched to King early on, the director said in an interview. And it's true, he was aiming for some edge and pathos and melodrama in his script.

Just not THAT much edge, pathos or melodrama.

"I did want an emotional roller-coaster," King said. "But my ultimate target was to make our 'girlfriends' - in other words, our audience - happy. And I don't think Mr. Big dying would make them happy."

The death rumor has led to some naughty speculation. One of the naughtiest: New York Magazine suggested that Charlotte, the pretty and perky Park Avenue socialite, could be killed in a freak tennis accident.

So does anybody die? No plot spoilers here. But King, whose movie opens in late May, offered this answer.

"It's a summer movie," he said. "Why would I want to kill anyone?"

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Ikereeves 02:01:12 PM May 11 2008

bawnotbb 12:41:09 PM May 06 2008

Sarah Jessica Parker walks into a bar.
The bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve horses in here!"
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Hey that's real clever! What a wit! Feel better now?
That horse can buy and sell you a thousand times over, big man. Like she cares what you think. Even her hairstylist ('groomer'to you) makes more per week than you do all year.

Hiredshoe 03:01:46 PM May 10 2008

They won't killem he'll come out of the closet

sirencry76 05:36:45 AM May 10 2008

For Those Of You Who Don't Know, STASMACK is An Pathetic Arse With No Life, Addicted To Clicking on Stories and Subjects he has "No Interest In that he Thinks Are Idiotic". and Then Finding it Necessary To Insult Everyone Else Who Actually Cares about the Topic At Hand.
He Went On Damn Near The Same Tirade On The American Idol Links.What An Idiot.
Who Else BUT An Attention - Seeking, Powermongering LOSER Does That??
and The SAD Thing Is..He Thinks HIS Opinion is Gonna SWAY AnyBody Elses..Speaking of DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR. Such a LITTLE Man.
HE's Just Jealous HE Was Never Worthy of The Title "Mr.Big"..less Said in JEST.

sirencry76 05:19:22 AM May 10 2008

Chris Noth in a CAsket ?? Hell YEAH I'd CRY...even if it IS Fictional.
One of The Sexist Men Alive. We Don't See Him NEARLY Enough...so Surely That's The LAST Place I Ever wanna See Him.

Big's Sometimes an Arse..but hey...the Other 70% of his Character More than Makes Up for it..Kudos..He's Finally Gonna Marry Carrie..Bout Time!!

RBowman794 06:49:11 AM May 09 2008

I do not believe SJP's looks are the issue here, but her actions speak.
She has to be #1, all the attention on her, she has to have the main billing
and so on. Sorry SJP the other actresses are just as talented but their
ego's cannot rival hers. This is a movie about FOUR women not ONE
woman.

MauriceDargent 04:36:49 AM May 09 2008

i think it would be a better idea to kill off the three women and start a whole new chapter around Big...

poohluvshoney03 11:43:57 PM May 08 2008

WHEW! THANK GOD! i was gonna be one of the women with torches if this were true. i was thinking, if not Big, then Charlotte dies in labor or Sam gets her cancer back and can't kick it this time. but the man is right, it's a summer romantic comedy; why kill anyone?

Mshelly33 08:04:11 PM May 08 2008

choctawpride7 06:48:39 PM May 06 2008

Report This! who. cares!I thought that show was gone....

Better then reading about cops beating up people LOL!!!

DoDaCrazy 06:40:05 PM May 08 2008

Oh my,what,when,were,why,could it be

JUNGIAN2 03:12:52 PM May 08 2008

Bump off Chris Noth? Good grief.

Rivigara 01:03:29 PM May 08 2008

IF MR BIG IS OFFED I WONT GO TO SEE THE STUPID MOVIE!

cwisme 01:01:49 PM May 08 2008

I don't understand the SJP bashing...why does EVERY woman have to be drop dead beautiful to be on tv or in a movie, there are lots of different types of attractive women......she is a good actress, it is a good show. It gets a little unrealistic that every actress must be perfect, and skinny....while the male stars can look like Jack Nicholson

Dastjarjar 09:42:31 PM May 07 2008

I am looking so forward to seeing this movie. My daughter and I were fans of the show. The comments regarding SJP's beauty are unnecessary. She is an attractive woman and quite a talented actress. I admire all she has done. Some people who post here are cruel!

JTOLIVER1975 11:49:57 AM May 07 2008

LMAO!!! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH Bohemianprinces!

migrationsheart 06:43:37 AM May 07 2008

Loved the show. Can't wait to see the movie. I loved the fact that you had four very different women come together in an unbreakable bond of friendship. They were able to talk freely about sex. It was Samantha that helped me accept my sexual self. I was her and she was me. I am thankful for the show because it showed that women can be very sexual beings and it not be about them being gold diggers or *****. There are just some women who really like sex and that is okay.

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