BIG APPLE, ANONYMOUS
We’re a motley crue, four very unpredictable women that get together when the sun tucks behind the Hudson to…eat, drink, talk (men, writing, Gawker, Page 6 and the like). My birthday was no different. While some thought we were charming that night, our host Georgio de Luca didn’t quite know what to do with us. Well, in fact, I think he did know what he wanted to do with “Jolie NYC…”
My birthday at Georgio’s meant flutes of champagne, prosecco and beautiful little plates from the kitchen. A first snow had just dusted the pavement of Spring Street when the 6th bottle arrived. This was exactly what I wanted—a night like any other but, with a certain energy to it, certain people to surround me. I sat back and took in the scene, the stories that we traded around…
Bigger, better, more. “Opinionista,” “Mimi,” “Jolie” and I had moved to the city for all the obvious reasons. In our 20’s, ambitious, attractive, determined to find the only down-to-earth-hedge-funder-on-the-face-of-the-planet, we moved to the epicenter of it all. Then, something happened. Rather, many separate events transpired. Love, life, career—Manhattan-style—bit us in the ass. Our web musings chronicled it all.
Four women. Four anonymous blogs. Four scandals. One city.
The television journalist, corporate attorney, Cambridge-educated stripper and beauty columnist turn the island on its head and set tongues wagging with the daily web chronicles of corporate secrets and VIP loves. The gossip rags can’t get enough while the jilted lovers just want to get even. For their own protection and sanity, the women band together to take the city by storm… and take down the house.
“Georgio’s coming over again—should I tell him that we want more champagne?” Jolie asked me.
“Huh?”
“Champagne, Birthday Girl,” Jolie said with a smile and quizzical look. “What’s going on in that blonde head of yours?”
“Nothing more than what’s at this table,” I said, smiling at her and then the others.
The credits rolled on our evening five hours later. The pilot episode had gone well. Now all I can hope for is that someone orders more episodes for 2006… maybe even bump us up to Primetime (perhaps “ABC,” before “Desperate Housewives?”)
I’d watch it. Would y’all?
December 15th, 2005 at 10:29 am
YES YES YES
December 15th, 2005 at 10:42 am
I want to see the show in 15 years when you’ve all grown tired of the City life, grown a little haggard from all the late nights and champagne, decided there are no down-to-earth hedge funders, and realize that - and god forbid Dorothy was right - there was nothing really wrong with where you came from to begin with.
Older, wiser, self assured and definitely NOT desperate… housewife or not.
December 15th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
I would most certainly tune in. Your blog is by far one of the most entertaining things I read everyday.
December 15th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
indeed I would
December 15th, 2005 at 1:56 pm
plotting your next career move?
December 15th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
only if it’s on HBO.
December 15th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
Yes, I think so.
December 15th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
If it made it’s way to the UK I’d definitely be watching.
December 16th, 2005 at 12:57 am
It does sound fascinating, but you’d need a ‘twist,’ or a ‘hook’ to get it picked up… Otherwise it’s just another Sex & the City.
Then again, we could do with more good stuff like that. Bring it! I’d watch!
December 16th, 2005 at 10:20 am
Belle,
I’d watch it.
December 16th, 2005 at 10:22 am
And if you need screen writers of for a male thought, I’m so there.
December 16th, 2005 at 11:34 am
Well, I would certainly read the book. The 4 superwomen of the blog world.
December 16th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
I love it!!!
December 16th, 2005 at 2:21 pm
Oh my gosh I would watch it in a heart beat. You had me wanting more from the one blog entry. It’s just a great idea. Go for it!
December 16th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Only if it contained gratuitous frontal nudity…
December 17th, 2005 at 3:18 pm
i would turn on the tv 4 u guys have 2 dustit off 1st tho
December 19th, 2005 at 12:49 pm
i still get weird looks when i say “y’all”.
December 19th, 2005 at 7:41 pm
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December 20th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
Sounds lovely! I’m not quite sure how you translate web logs onto television (voice-overs?), but if anyone can do it, you can!
P.S. How does NYC survive w/out the subway?!? Quel cauchemar!
December 20th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
You are so full of yourself. why don’t you put your ego aside and do something good for the world? I can’t believe any man would ever want a girl who needs someone to feed her flattery in order to motivate her to do anything.