Suddenly the guys are holding all the chips. By the time you’re an eligible man in your thirties you feel like you’re being devoured by women. MAN 1: When you’re a young guy in your twenties, women are controlling the relationships. (Newspaper headline reads ‘Unmarried Women, Toxic Bachelors)
I explore these sorts of issues in my column and I have terrific sources – my friends Column title reads ‘Sex and the City’ by Carrie Bradshaw with Carries photo underneath) Why are there so many great-unmarried women, and no great-unmarried men? To camera: It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx. They travel, they pay taxes, they’ll spend $400 on a pair of Minolo Blahnik strappy sandals and they’re alone. We all know them and we all agree they’re great. (Pan to NY street during the day Carrie is walking down the street)ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) There are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of women like this in the city. (Talking to camera) How the hell did we get into this mess? (Typed on computer and spoken) Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. Instead we have breakfast at 7am, and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. (Pan to Carrie sitting at her computer through a window) No one has ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’, and no one has ‘Affairs to Remember’… In England, looking at houses together would have meant somethingĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) Then I realised no-one had told her about the end of love in Manhattan (Carrie in picture stubs out cigarette)ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) Welcome to the age of “uninnocence”. (Cut to Elizabeth sitting in a cafe with Carrie)ĮLIZABETH: He never did call of course! Bastard!…ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) she told me one day over coffee…ĮLIZABETH: I don’t understand. (Cut to looking into Elizabeth’s apartment through the window during a rainstorm, Elizabeth is pacing in the room)ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) When she hadn’t heard from him for 2 weeks she called:ĮLIZABETH: (on phone) Tim, its Elizabeth, that’s an awfully long rain check!ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) He said he was up to his ears and that he’d call her the next day TIM: (his office) Could we take a raincheck?ĮLIZABETH: (her apartment) Of course. TIM: (on phone) My mother’s not feeling very wellĮLIZABETH: (on the other end of the line) Well gosh! I’m sorry TIM: How would you like to have dinner with my folks Tuesday night?ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) On Tuesday he called with some bad news TIM: Not yet! (Tim and Elizabeth both laugh)ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) That day Tim popped the question REALTOR: How about if we start at the top and work our way down? There are 4 bedrooms upstairs. (Cut to outside of NY Town house with a ‘For Sale’ sign up)ĬARRIE: (Voice-Over) One warm Spring day he took her to a town house he saw in Sundays ‘New York Times’ …had wonderful sex, and shared their most intimate secrets. (Cut to romantic restaurant holding hands) (Cut to Driving Range: Elizabeth hitting golf ball, with Tim guiding her with his arms around her)ĬARRIE (Voice-Over) For 2 weeks they snuggled… I think perhaps I have met you somewhere before TIM: London? Really? That’s my all time favourite city!ĬARRIE (Voice-Over): It was love at first sightĮLIZABETH: You know. TIM: I feel like I I I know you from somewhere?ĮLIZABETH: Doubtful, I only just moved here from London. ….They met one evening in typical New York fashion at a gallery openingĮLIZABETH: Yes actually, I think its quite interesting (laughs) What? A well-liked and respected investment banker who made about 2 million a year…. TIM: The question remains: ‘Is this really a company we want to own?’ĬARRIE: (Voice-over): Tim was 42. (Cut to: New York Office, Tim is on the phone) … Elizabeth was attractive and bright and right away she hooked up with one of the city’s typically eligible bachelors (Open on Computer Screen- words being typed as said:)ĬARRIE: (Voice-over): Once upon a time, an English journalist came to New York.
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