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The person at Michael Jackson's home who called 911 Thursday told the operator the singer wasn't breathing and wasn't conscious, according to a recording of the phone call released Friday.

"I need an ambulance," the person told the 911 operator.

Police spoke with Jackson's doctor on Thursday but have been unable to reach him Friday for further questioning, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Orignal post on CNN Read full article »

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Kanye Omari West (pronounced /ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977)^[1] is an American rapper, record producer, author and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008. His first three albums have received numerous awards,^[2]^[3]^[4] and critical acclaim,^[5] All have been highly commercially successful, with 808s & Heartbreak making his third consecutive #1 album in the U.S.. West also runs his own record label GOOD Music.^[6] West's mascot and trademark is "Dropout Bear," a teddy bear which has appeared on the covers of three of his four albums as well as various single covers and music videos.^[7]

West gained fame by producing for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's classic album, The Blueprint as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally utilized pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent albums saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences ranging from '70s R&B, to synth-pop, and classical music.

About.com ranked Kanye West #8 on their "Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers" list.^[8] On May 16, 2008, Kanye West was crowned by MTV as the year's #1 "Hottest MC in the Game.

West performing in 2008.

Birth name	Kanye Omari West
Born	June 8, 1977 (1977-06-08) (age 31) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genre(s)	Hip hop, pop, R&B
Occupation(s)	Producer, rapper, musician, singer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, keyboards, sampler, percussion, synthesizer
Years active	2000–present
Label(s)	GOOD Music, Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam
Website	kanyeuniversecity.com

About.com ranked Kanye West #8 on their "Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers" list.^[8] On May 16, 2008, Kanye West was crowned by MTV as the year's #1 "Hottest MC in the Game.
West at the Nokia Theatre, New York City in August 2006.

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Background information
Born	1 April 1961 (1961-04-01) (age 48)
Origin	Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Voice type(s)	Soprano

Susan Margaret Boyle (born 1 April 1961) is a Scottish singer who came to international public attention in 2009 after she appeared as a contestant on Britain's Got Talent. Boyle became known when she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the competition's first round, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2009. In the final of the third series of the show, Boyle finished in second place, behind dance troupe Diversity.

Boyle attended Edinburgh Acting School and also took part in the Edinburgh Fringe. Prior to her appearance on Britain's Got Talent, her main experience had come from singing in church and karaoke in the local pubs in her village. She had also tried out several times for My Kind of People.

When she appeared on the Britain's Got Talent stage, the audience and the judges appeared apprehensive and judgmental of her unpolished appearance. Upon finishing her song, she received a standing ovation from the live audience and unanimous praise from the judges. She has been dubbed "The Woman Who Shut Up Simon Cowell". Cowell is reported to be setting up a contract with Boyle with his Syco Music company label, a subsidiary of Sony Music.^[8]

The contrast between the audience's first impression of her when she appeared on stage compared to the ovation she received afterwards triggered global interest. Articles about her appeared in newspapers worldwide, while the numbers who watched videos of her audition have set an online record. Within nine days of her televised debut, videos of her audition, subsequent interviews of her, and her 1999 rendition of "Cry Me a River" had been viewed a combined total of over 100 million times on the Internet.

Biography

Early life

Susan Boyle was born 1 April 1961 in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland,^[11] to Patrick Boyle, a miner, World War II veteran and singer at the Bishop's Blaize, and Bridget, a shorthand typist,^[12] who were both immigrants from County Donegal, Ireland.^[13] She was the youngest of four brothers and six sisters.^[11] Born when her mother was 47,^[11]^[14]^[15] Boyle was briefly deprived of oxygen during the difficult birth; she was diagnosed as having learning difficulties.^[2] She says she was bullied as a child,^[11]^[16] and was nicknamed "Susie Simple" at school.^[17]

After leaving school with few qualifications,^[11] she was employed for the only time in her life as a trainee cook in the kitchen of West Lothian College for six months,^[17] and took part in government training schemes.^[12] She visited the theatre from time to time to listen to professional singers,^[12] and performed at a number of local venues.^[2]

Early singing

Boyle took singing lessons from voice coach Fred O'Neil.^[11] She attended Edinburgh Acting School, and took part in the Edinburgh Fringe.^[2] Some early video clips of her performances came to light: in 1984, Boyle stood in with "The Way We Were" at Motherwell FC Social Club;^[18] at 25 years of age, Boyle was filmed singing "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar at her parents' golden wedding party.^[19] In 1995, she sang the same song in an audition for Michael Barrymore's My Kind of People^[2] at the Olympia Shopping Centre in Glasgow. She said she was too nervous to make a good impression,^[12] but her brother Gerald believes they rejected her due to her image.^[6] An amateur video shows Barrymore was apparently more interested in mocking her.^[20] She also has long participated in her parish church's pilgrimages to the Knock Shrine, County Mayo, Ireland, where she has sung at the Marian basilica.^[21]

In 1999 she recorded "Cry Me a River" for a charity CD funded by the local council to commemorate the Millennium^[11]^[22] and produced at a school in Whitburn, West Lothian. Only 1,000 copies of the CD, entitled Music for a Millennium Celebration, Sounds of West Lothian, were pressed.^[23] In what is the first known review of Boyle's singing ability, a reviewer for the West Lothian Herald & Post said that Boyle's rendition of "Cry Me a River" was "heartbreaking", and "had been on repeat in my CD player ever since I got this CD..."^[24]^[25] This recording was released onto the web in the week after 11 April 2009, and gained immediate acclaim: the New York Post writing that this showed that Boyle was not a "one trick pony" and predicted the original compilation would be a valuable collector's item.^[26] Hello! stated that the recording "cement[ed] her status" as a singing star.^[27]

In 1999, Boyle used "all her savings" to pay for a professionally cut demo tape, which she later sent to record companies, radio talent competitions, local and national TV; Boyle gave away a few copies to her close friends. The demo tape consisted of her versions of "Cry Me a River" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and was released onto the Internet after her audition.^[28]

Boyle won several local singing competitions, and her mother tried to persuade her daughter to enter Britain's Got Talent, urging her to take the risk of singing in front of an audience larger than her parish church.^[4] Former coach O'Neil has said Boyle abandoned an audition for The X Factor because she believed people were being chosen for their looks, and that she almost abandoned her plan to enter Britain's Got Talent. O'Neil persuaded her to go to the audition despite her telling him "...she was too old and that it was a young person's game".^[29] Boyle said that it was her mother's death which motivated her to go on Britain's Got Talent and seek a musical career to pay tribute to her mother.^[11] Her performance on the show was the first time she had sung in public since then.^[30]^[31]

Britain's Got Talent

Main article: Britain's Got Talent (series 3)

In August 2008, Boyle applied for an audition for the third series of Britain's Got Talent, and was accepted after a preliminary audition. Boyle auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland. Boyle performed a rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the first round of the third series of Britain's Got Talent, which was watched by over 10 million viewers when it aired on 11 April 2009.^[32] This performance was widely reported, and tens of millions of people viewed a video of her singing on YouTube.^[32] Boyle was "absolutely gobsmacked" by the strength of this reaction.^[33]

“	I know what they were thinking, but why should it matter as long as I can sing? It's not a beauty contest.	”
– Susan Boyle, The Sunday Times^[11]

Boyle is well aware that the audience on Britain's Got Talent was initially hostile to her because of her appearance, but she has refused to change her image.^[11]

When Boyle first appeared on Britain's Got Talent, she said that she aspired to become a musical theatre singer "as successful as" Elaine Paige.^[34] Since the appearance, Paige has expressed interest in singing a duet with Boyle,^[34] and has called her "a role model for everyone who has a dream".^[35] Cameron Mackintosh, the producer of the Les Misérables musical, also praised the performance, as "heart-touching, thrilling and uplifting".^[32]

She was one of 40 acts that were put through to the semi-finals.^[36] She appeared last on the first semi-final on 24 May 2009, performing "Memory" from Lloyd Webber's Cats in front of a global audience of millions.^[37] In the public vote she was the act to receive the highest number of votes and go through to the final, along with dance group Diversity.^[38]^[39] She ended up in second place to Diversity.

On the day following the final show, after consulting her doctor, Boyle was admitted to to a private clinic in London, suffering from exhaustion. Prime Minister Gordon Brown wished the star well stating, "I hope Susan Boyle is okay because she is a really, really nice person."^[40]

Media impact

News media

Many British newspapers carried articles on Boyle's performance and subsequent Internet coverage. The Sun writer Colin Robertson gave her the nickname "Paula Potts" in reference to the contest's Series one winner, the opera singer Paul Potts.^[41] In the U.S., several commentators also drew parallels between Boyle's performance and that of Paul Potts, an unexpected Britain's Got Talent success story; Forbes magazine predicted Boyle could follow in Potts' footsteps and enjoy a successful and profitable career.^[42] ABC News hailed "Britain's newest pop sensation", and its Entertainment section headlined Boyle as "The Woman Who Shut Up Simon Cowell."^[1]

International news outlets also carried stories on her, including among others, The Times of India,^[43] Germany's Der Spiegel,^[44] China's Xinhua News Agency,^[45] Brazil's Zero Hora,^[46] Israel's Ynet,^[47] and the Arabic-language Al Arabiya.^[48]

TV shows

Within the week following her performance on Britain's Got Talent, Boyle was a guest on STV's The Five Thirty Show.^[49] She was interviewed via satellite on CBS's Early Show,^[22] ABC's Good Morning America,^[50] NBC's Today and via a telephone interview on FOX's America's Newsroom.^[50]^[51]

Boyle also appeared via satellite on CNN's Larry King Live during which fellow guest Piers Morgan apologised to her for not giving her "anything like the respect" she deserved when she walked out on the BGT stage.^[52] Boyle performed an a cappella verse of "My Heart Will Go On" on King's show which stunned Morgan.^[53] On 11 May 2009 Boyle appeared via satellite on The Oprah Winfrey Show, with Simon Cowell sitting in with Oprah and commenting on the background of the historical performance by Boyle.

Social media

Websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have been crucial in facilitating Boyle's rapid rise to fame:^[2] The most popular YouTube video submission of her audition garnered nearly 2.5 million views in the first 72 hours.^[54] On the day following the performance, the YouTube video was the most popular article on Digg.^[55] The same video was judged so popular on Reddit that it was put on the site's main page.^[56] Within a week, the audition performance had been viewed more than 66 million times, setting an online record, while on Wikipedia her biographical article attracted nearly half a million page views.^[9] A total of 103 million video views on 20 different websites was reached within nine days.^[10] The Los Angeles Times wrote that her popularity on YouTube may in part be due to the broad range of emotion packed into a short clip which was "perfect for the Internet".^[57]

Social analysis

“	Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances. [...] There is not much you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example.	”
– Susan Boyle, The Washington Post^[4]

Boyle's sudden fame drew much commentary on why this story was so widely reported and what it implies, while others drew moral lessons from people's reactions to her performance.^[58] For instance, writing in The Herald, Collette Douglas-Home described Boyle's story as a modern parable and a rebuke to people's tendency to judge others based on their physical appearance.^[59] Similarly, Lisa Schwarzbaum, in an article in Entertainment Weekly, said that Boyle's performance was particularly moving as it was a victory for talent and artistry in a culture obsessed with physical attractiveness and presentation.^[60]

Following Boyle's rendition of the song judge Amanda Holden remarked upon the audience's initially cynical attitude, and the subsequent "biggest wake-up call ever" they had received upon hearing her performance.^[61] Echoing Holden's comments, The Washington Post's Jeanne McManus said that one of the main sources of drama in talent shows was the collision between performers' sometimes exaggerated sense of self-worth and the opinions and reactions of their audience.^[62] In Boyle's case, McManus believed that her initial demeanour and homely appearance caused the judges and audience to be "waiting for her to squawk like a duck".^[62] Indeed, New York's Daily News said that it was this stark contrast between the audience's low expectations and the quality of her singing that made Boyle's performance such an engaging piece of television.^[63] This article also noted that the idea of an underdog being ridiculed or humiliated but then enjoying an unexpected triumph is a common trope in literature and that this is why, when this theme made its unscripted appearance in reality television, it created an enduring and powerful effect.^[63]

Although the audience's reaction was unscripted, it may have been anticipated. Mark Blankenship of the The Huffington Post noted that the producers of the show would have been aware of the potential of this story arc, by deliberately presenting Boyle in a manner that would enhance this initial reaction.^[64] He does note, however, that "as fabricated as it is, her on-camera arc is undeniably moving".^[64] The fact that Boyle is in her forties has also been cited as contributing to this strong emotional impact. In another Huffington Post article, Letty Cottin Pogrebin wrote that although people may "weep for the years of wasted talent", Boyle's performance was a triumph for "women of a certain age" over a youth culture that often dismisses middle-aged women.^[65]

Tanya Gold wrote in The Guardian that the difference between Boyle's hostile reception and the more neutral response to Paul Potts in his first audition reflected society's expectation that women be both good-looking and talented, with no such expectation existing for men.^[66] In a similar vein, Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote on Salon.com that Boyle's sudden fame came from her ability to remind her audience that, like them, she was a normal, flawed and vulnerable person, familiar with disappointment and mockery, but who nevertheless has the determination to fight for her dream.^[67] R.M. Campbell, music critic for The Gathering Note compared her to Ella Fitzgerald, in that "[... it's] really, really hard to make a career if a woman isn't attractive. [...] The very fact that she is ordinary could help in improving her future success."^[68] Los Angeles vocal coach Eric Vetro stated "She's an everywoman as opposed to an untouchable fantasy goddess, so maybe that's why people react to her. [...] They say, 'She's one of us, but look how talented she is.'"^[69]

Several media sources have commented that Boyle's success seemed to have particular resonance in the United States. A US entertainment correspondent was quoted in The Scotsman comparing Boyle's story to the American Dream, as representing talent overcoming adversity and poverty.^[70] The Associated Press described this as Boyle's "hardscrabble story", dwelling on her modest lifestyle and what they saw as urban deprivation in her home town.^[31] Similarly, The Independent New York correspondent David Usborne wrote that America is a country that will always respond to "the fairy tale where the apparently unprepossessing suddenly becomes pretty, from Shrek to My Fair Lady".^[71] Piers Morgan, one of the show's judges, also commented on the unusual power this story seemed to have in the US, noting that "Americans can be very moved by this sort of thing", and likening Boyle's rise to fame from poverty and obscurity to that of the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa.^[57]

Mark Borkowski said that Boyle/BGT has been a fantastic soap opera for the fame-makers (Cowell and Talkback TV), but that it was the "modern equivalent of a freak show"^[72]. Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, compared the Boyle phenomenon to the Hottentot Venus, saying: "The arguments of Baartman’s managers were little different from the arguments of those in ITV who now seek to justify the display of Susan Boyle. This is an opportunity for wealth and fame, they say... the truth is that Susan Boyle is a vulnerable and exploited middle-aged woman. She is not a star in the making, being given a lucky break thanks to BGT."^[73]

Cultural references

Boyle's widespread Internet success and her appeal in reaching out to millions of people across the world, has meant that she has become a cultural icon in a relatively short time. For instance, Boyle's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" has been credited with causing a surge in ticket sales in the Vancouver production of Les Misérables.^[74]^[75] Boyle has also been portrayed humorously (in drag) by American comedian Jay Leno, who jokingly claimed that they were related through his mother's Scottish heritage.^[76]

The American cartoon show South Park made a reference to Susan Boyle in the episode "Fatbeard", which aired on 22 April 2009;^[77]^[78] the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show aired a comedy sketch showing the "feel good" effect that Susan Boyle's performance has had on people;^[79] The Simpsons aired a new commercial for their 20th anniversary show "Springfield's Got Talent", in which Homer Simpson talks about his dreams to be as successful as Boyle. ^[80]^[81] A European trailer for the video game The Sims 3 includes a character mocked up as Boyle receiving praises from other in-game characters, wishing her "good luck".^[82]

Personal life

Boyle still lives in the family home, a four-bedroom council house, with her ten-year-old cat, Pebbles.^[11] Her father died in the 1990s, and her siblings had left home. As she never married, Boyle was devoted to looking after her ageing mother until she died in 2007 at the age of 91.^[14] She said during an interview just before she sang on the talent show that she had "never been kissed" but later said "It was just banter and it has been blown way out of proportion."^[11]^[83] Boyle's devotion to her mother meant that she did not have any time for herself.^[14] A neighbour reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter "wouldn't come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone."^[14] Boyle remains active as a volunteer at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Whitburn, Scotland, and visits elderly members of the congregation at their homes.

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Katy Perry

Background information
Birth name	Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
Born	October 25, 1984 (1984-10-25) (age 24) Santa Barbara, California, United States
Genre(s)	Pop, pop rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar
Voice type(s)	Contralto
Years active	2001–present
Label(s)	Red Hill, Island Def Jam, Columbia, Capitol
Website	www.katyperry.com

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Sex and the City is an American cable television series. The original run of the show was broadcast on HBO from 1998 until 2004, for a total of six seasons.

Set in New York City, the show focused on four women, three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties. The quirky drama/comedy had multiple continuing story lines and tackled socially relevant issues such as sexually transmitted diseases, safe sex, heartbreaks, multiple partners, and promiscuity. It specifically examined the lives of big-city professional women in the late 1990s and how changing roles and expectations for women affected the characters.

The show was primarily filmed at New York City's Silvercup Studios and on location in and around Manhattan. Since it ended, the show has been aired in syndication on networks such as TBS, WGN, and many other local stations. However, basic cable outlets edit out certain explicit show content that was broadcast in the original version.

Premise

The show was based in part on writer Candice Bushnell's book of the same name, compiled from her column with the New York Observer. Bushnell has stated in several interviews that the Carrie Bradshaw in her columns is her alter ego; when she wrote the "Sex and the City" essays, she used her own name initially; for privacy reasons, however, she created the character of Carrie Bradshaw, a woman who was also working as a writer and living in New York City. Carrie also has the same initials, which reiterates her connection with Bushnell.^[1]

Darren Starr, the show's creator, paid $50,000 to Bushnell for "lock, stock, and barrel" rights to her columns, according to fellow author Toby Young.^[2] The show "bears only a passing resemblance to its source material";^[2] the columns were "darker and more cynical" than the "gentler" series that Starr produced.^[2] According to Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell, by Amy Sohn,^[3] Starr wanted to create a show that expressed true adult comedy and sex in an up-front way.

The narrative of the show focused on Carrie and her three best friends. The women discussed their sexual desires and fantasies, and their travels in life and love. The show often depicted frank discussions about romance and sexuality, particularly in the context of being a single woman in her mid-thirties. Each episode in season one featured a short montage of interviews of people living in New York City regarding topics discussed in that episode. These continued through season two but were then phased out.

Another feature that would eventually be scrapped was Carrie breaking the fourth wall (for example, looking into the camera and speaking to the audience directly in an aside). Bradshaw would question scenarios and ideas, asking the audience for an opinion or insight on different situations. The pilot also had the characters of Miranda and Charlotte as well as a few minor characters speaking directly to the camera/audience. The last such event by Carrie occurs in episode three of the second season, "The Freak Show".

The method of expressing inner monologues was shifted exclusively to voiceovers by Carrie in future episodes. Her main narration usually revolved around the premise of that week's "article", where she summed up her thoughts with, "I couldn't help but wonder...". As she says that, her computer monitor is shown while she is typing the text of her voiceover.

Character	Actress
Carrie Bradshaw	Sarah Jessica Parker
She is the narrator of each episode. Each episode is structured around her train of thought while writing her weekly column, "Sex and the City," for the fictitious newspaper The New York Star. A member of the New York glitterati, she is a club/bar/restaurant staple who is known for her unique fashion sense (particularly footwear, Manolo Blahniks to be exact). This is evident in the episode "The Real Me" in season four, when she is asked by Lynne Cameron (played by Margaret Cho) to be in a New York fashion show. She works on her PowerBook in her apartment, writing newspaper articles focusing on the different aspects of a relationship. In later seasons, her essays are collected as a book and she begins taking assignments from Vogue and New York Magazine. Carrie is house-proud; her one-bedroom, rent-controlled apartment is in an Upper East Side brownstone. Despite several long-term boyfriends, Carrie is entangled with "Mr. Big" (Chris Noth) in a complicated, multifaceted on-and-off-again kind of relationship.
Samantha Jones	Kim Cattrall
She is the oldest and most sexually confident of the foursome. Samantha is an independent businesswoman, with a career in public relations. She is confident, strong, outspoken, and calls herself a "try-sexual" (meaning she'll try anything once). One of Samantha's best qualities is her loyalty to her friends. She believes that she has had "hundreds" of soulmates and requires that her sexual partners leave, "an hour after I climax." During the course of the show it is revealed that Samantha's glamorous, impenetrable facade and dismissive approach to love actually hides a sensitive, caring nature. Samantha has a number of relationships in the show . In Season 6, Samantha's character further develops when she is suddenly diagnosed with cancer when visiting a plastic surgeon for a breast implant consultation. An operation and chemotherapy challenge Samantha, but she beats cancer and it becomes clear the experience has renewed her with a new perspective on life and love with her most permanent and fulfilling relationship yet, with a younger man, the handsome model/actor, Smith Jerrod. In the movie, Samantha is still in love with Smith, they are living in California, where both of their careers are running fast. She begins to ask herself if a stable relationship is really for her.
Charlotte York	Kristin Davis
She works in an art gallery and has had a conventional Connecticut upbringing. She is the most optimistic of the group, the one who places the most emphasis on emotional love as opposed to lust, and is a true romantic; always searching for her "knight in shining armor." She scoffs at the lewder, more libertine antics of her friends (primarily Samantha), presenting a more traditional attitude about relationships, usually based around "the rules" of love and dating. Despite her traditional outlook, she has been known to make concessions (while married) that even surprise her more sexually liberated girlfriends. Charlotte was a "straight A" student who attended Smith College where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma majoring in Art History with a minor in Finance. During the series, it is also revealed that Charlotte was voted homecoming queen, prom queen, "most popular," student body president, track team captain and was active as a cheerleader and teen model. In the 2008 movie, Charlotte is still in love with her husband and they are the parents of a lovely Chinese girl of 4. Never been able to get pregnant, Charlotte adopted a little girl and named her Lily, her favourite flower. Nevertheless, Charlotte gets pregnant at the end of the movie and gives birth to a girl. The baby is named Rose.
Miranda Hobbes	Cynthia Nixon
She is a career-minded lawyer with extremely cynical views on relationships and men. A Harvard Law School graduate from Philadelphia with two siblings, she is Carrie's best friend, confidante, and voice of reason. In the early seasons, she is portrayed as masculine and borderline misandric, but this image softens over the years, particularly after she becomes pregnant by her on/off boyfriend, Steve Brady, whom she eventually marries. The birth of her son, Brady Hobbes, brings up new issues for her Type A, workaholic personality, but she soon finds a way to balance career, being single and motherhood. Of the four women, she is the first to purchase her own apartment (across the park from Carrie, on the Upper West Side), and later a home in Brooklyn. In the 2008 movie, Miranda is dealing with the choice of either divorcing Steve or forgiving him after he admits that he has had sex with somebody else outside their marriage.

Also starring

Character	Actor/Actress	Duration
Mr. Big	Chris Noth	Seasons 1 - 6 + Movie
"Mr. Big" is a pseudonym for the charming, attractive, sarcastic, and wealthy love interest for Carrie Bradshaw. He is the reason for many of Carrie's breakdowns as he never seemed ready to fully commit to Carrie. During the course of the series he marries Natasha, who is ten years younger than Carrie. An affair with Carrie destroys Big's marriage and Carrie's relationship with her other major love interest, furniture designer Aidan. In the final episode, Mr. Big realizes that life without Carrie is nothing. He is a big jazz fan and a heavy cigar smoker with plenty of money to burn. His name was not revealed until the end of the series finale.
Steve Brady	David Eigenberg	Seasons 2 - 6 + Movie
He is Miranda's on and off boyfriend throughout the series since he was introduced in the second season. He eventually marries Miranda at the end of Season 6, after they had a child together at the end of Season 4. He is one of the few men on the show meant to counter-balance all the emotionally unstable men encountered throughout the series, as he is a constant and sensitive male character. His alcoholic mother, Mary Brady, played by Anne Meara, is also a prominent recurring character.
Aidan Shaw	John Corbett	Seasons 3 - 4, 6
Manhattan furniture designer Aidan is Carrie's next serious boyfriend after a breakup with Mr. Big. Carrie met him when her friend Stanford Blatch noticed his photo in the newspaper, and insisted that they visit his store. Their first relationship ends when Carrie confesses, on Charlotte's first wedding day, that she had an affair with Mr. Big. Later in the series, Carrie and Aidan get back together and become engaged. However, Carrie breaks off the engagement when she realizes that she is not ready to get married, and he is unwilling to wait for her. He appears for the last time in Season 6, with a baby and a wife much to Carrie's surprising delight.
Stanford Blatch	Willie Garson	Seasons 1 - 6 + Movie
He is Carrie's best friend outside of the three women. A gay talent agent from an aristocratic family with a sense of style paralleled only by Carrie's, viewers receive the impression that they have a long-standing relationship built within their younger, wilder days in the New York City club and bar scene in the 1980s. He had said that they have been friends since Carrie was riding the subways and wearing Candie's. The only supporting character to receive his own storylines on occasion, Stanford represents the show's most constant gay point of view to sex on the show, generally based on the physical insecurities and inadequacies of someone who does not "have that gay look." In the last two seasons of the show, he is partnered with Broadway dancer Marcus Adente, however in the movie, he is single. He is sometimes associated with Anthony Marentino, a gay wedding planner, and friend to Charlotte.
Smith Jerrod	Jason Lewis	Season 6 + Movie
He is a young waiter Samantha seduces. She tries to maintain her usual sex-only relationship with him, but he slowly pushes for something more. He is a wannabe actor whose career Samantha jump starts using her PR connections (including changing his name to "Smith Jerrod" from "Jerry Jerrod"), getting him a modeling job that turns into a film role. Just when she thinks Smith's age and experiences aren't enough for her, he gives her unconditional support during her fight with breast cancer. In the final episode, Smith flies back from a film set in Canada just to tell her that he loves her, which she counters with "You have meant more to me than any man I've ever known," which, for Samantha, is a far greater statement than it might be for anyone else.
Harry Goldenblatt	Evan Handler	Seasons 5 - 6 + Movie
He is Charlotte's Jewish divorce lawyer who is incredibly attracted to her from the beginning. She is not attracted to him initially, but tries to pursue a sex-only relationship with him, which leads to one of exclusivity and love as opposed to her relationship with Trey, which was reversed in this aspect. After her conversion to Judaism and one big argument that sends them in separate directions for a few weeks, the two marry and begin trying to have/adopt a child. In the end, they are approved for a Chinese adoption and adopt a girl.
Aleksandr Petrovsky	Mikhail Baryshnikov	Season 6
Referred to by Carrie occasionally as "The Russian", he is a famous artist who becomes Carrie's lover in the final season. He sweeps her off her feet with huge romantic gestures and shows her the foreign pockets of New York that she has never seen before. Her relationship with him brings up all sorts of questions in Carrie's mind about finding love past "a certain age" and whether or not she wants children. When he's preparing to return to Paris for a solo exhibit he invites Carrie to come live with him, which, after several deliberations (and one fight) with her friends, she does. After spending some time there, she realizes that he will never reciprocate the level of emotional involvement that she offers because his life and career will always come first.

Episodes

The series was divided up into six seasons altogether. The first season was twelve episodes (two discs of 6), the second season was eighteen episodes (three discs of 6), and the third season was eighteen episodes (three discs of 6). Then the fourth season was eighteen episodes (three discs of 6), the fifth season was eight episodes (two discs of four), and the final season was twenty episodes. In total, there were 94 episodes of Sex and the City.

Main article: List of Sex and the City episodes

Season	Ep #	First Airdate	Last Airdate
Season 1	12	June 6, 1998	August 23, 1998
Season 2	18	June 6, 1999	October 3, 1999
Season 3	18	June 4, 2000	October 15, 2000
Season 4	18	June 3, 2001	February 10, 2002
Season 5	8	July 21, 2002	September 8, 2002
Season 6	20	June 22, 2003	February 22, 2004

Sex and the City: The Movie was released nationwide May 30, 2008 and, as of December 24, 2008, has made $413,129,126 worldwide.

The Sex and the City: The Movie DVD was released on September 23, 2008.

Opening theme

Because of the 9/11 attacks, shots of the World Trade Center Towers were replaced by the Empire State Building during the opening sequence midway through Season 4.
An edit involving New Yorkers on a bus, then suddenly disappearing from the bus, has become a popular blooper in entertainment history.^{[citation needed]}
The opening theme seems to be the same one from the 1994 film Eat Drink Man Woman. The raising is played about halfway through the movie.^{[citation needed]}

Viewer response and impact

Sex and the City premiered on HBO, June 6, 1998, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms of the season, and the last original episode aired on February 22, 2004.

The show became well known and lauded for its frank dialogue about women and sex. An unlikely supporter of the show is author Orson Scott Card. Card stated that although the crudity of the series left him numb, the show contained some of the best writing on television.^[4]

However, the characters have been criticized for being shallow, superficial, and self-absorbed.^[5]

Criticism

It has been analyzed by feminists both as an example of progress in women's rights and life options, and as an example of the effects of corporate culture, marketing and the more individualistic strands of feminism in presenting women's empowerment as mainly tied to achieving coupledom, beauty, and personal upward mobility, rather than collective organisation for progressive change^[6].

Awards and recognition

Main article: List of awards won by Sex and the City

Over its course of six seasons, "Sex and the City" was nominated for over 50 Emmy Awards, winning seven times. Among the Emmys the show won were two for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series (Jennifer McNamara), one for its Costumes, a trophy for Outstanding Comedy Series for its third season in 2001 (the first time ever a cable channel wins Outstanding Comedy Series), Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series in 2002 for the episode "The Real Me", and for its final season in 2004, Emmys for Sarah Jessica Parker (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the episode "An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux"), and Cynthia Nixon (Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the episodes "One and "Ick Factor"). It has also been nominated for 24 Golden Globe Awards, and won 8. Its wins included Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, and Best Actress in a TV Series — Musical or Comedy, (Sarah Jessica Parker) for three consecutive years from 2000 – 2002, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series, or Movie for Kim Cattrall, and another one for Parker.

Broadcast and distribution

Season one of Sex and the City aired on HBO from June to August 1998. Season two was broadcast from June until October,1999. Season three aired from June until October 2000. Season four was broadcast in two parts: from June until August 2001, and then in January and February 2002. Season five, truncated due to Parker's pregnancy, aired on HBO during the summer of 2002. The twenty episodes of the final season, season six, aired in two parts: from June until September 2003 and during January and February 2004.

Sex and the City is currently syndicated in the US by HBO corporate sibling (under Time Warner) Warner Bros. Television Distribution. CBS Paramount Television (successors to Rysher Entertainment and Paramount Television) and their distribution arm own international rights.

Broadcasters

The United States cable channel HBO was the original broadcaster. TBS and WGN began showing edited reruns of the series. The series then went into international syndication.

In Australia, the Nine Network aired the first run of the show Every Monday Between 9:30 pm and 11:00 pm. After 2004 the Cable Channel W. Channel aired it until summer 2008 when Arena TV started airing it in a block with Will & Grace with promos stating "all the good guys are gay".

In the Republic of Ireland, TV3 premiered Sex and the City in February in 1999. In 2006 repeats of the series aired on Channel 6 and in 2009 on 3e.

Channel 4 originally aired the series in the UK with the first episode shown in early 1999. As of March 2009 a double bill of the show airs each weeknight at 10pm on Paramount Comedy 1 and a triple bill airs on Wednesdays from 9pm on Fiver

Country	Date of Premiere	Channel
USA	June 6, 1998 - February 22, 2004 2004 - present	HBO Syndication TBS
Australia	1999 - June 2004 2005 - 2007 January 2008 - Present	Nine Network Syndication W. Channel Arena
United Kingdom	1999 - 2004 2004 - present 2004 - 2006, 2008 - present 2008 - present	Channel 4 Syndication Paramount Comedy 1 E4 Fiver
Poland	Re-run. Sep 20, 2008 2008 - present	HBO TVN Comedy Central
Turkey	2000 - 2004 2006 - 2008 2008 - present	Cine 5 ComedyMax MyMax
Greece	2002 -2008 2009 - present	Alter Alpha
Hungary	2003-present	Viasat 3
Slovenia	2002 - 2008 2009 - present	POP TV
South Korea	2008 - present	OnStyle
Brazil	2004 -2006 2006 - present 2007 - present	Rede 21 Fox Life Multishow

DVD releases

All six seasons of Sex and the City have been released commercially on DVD, with season six being split into two parts. They have been released officially on region 1 (Americas), region 2 (Europe & Middle East), region 3 (Korea) and region 4 (Oceania & South Pacific) formats, but illegal bootleg editions have also surfaced for region 3 (Thailand) as well as region 0 (Universal) and can even be found on eBay. In addition to their region encoding, releases vary depending on which region they were released in. Region 2 DVDs of Sex and the City have been criticized by some fans for having little or no special features, but region 1 editions have included director commentary, cast interviews and more.

In addition to standard single season DVD box sets of the show, limited edition collectors' editions have also been released that include all 6 seasons in one complete set. Even these vary between region 1 2 and 4. While Europe got a complete set that came with special 'shoe box' packaging (a reference to Sarah Jessica Parker's character's love for shoes in the show), the USA and Canada version came packaged in a more traditional fold-out suede case and with an additional bonus DVD including many special features. Oceania's edition came packaged in a beauty case.

As well as missing out on some special features, many fans in Europe had trouble with the region 2 edition of the season 1 DVD. Unfortunately, the show was not converted into a PAL video signal, and remained in its original American NTSC format. This caused some compatibility problems with some European television sets and DVD players. All subsequent Region 2 DVD releases of the programme were appropriately transferred to PAL video using the original film prints, and season 1 has since been re-released in PAL format. Outside the US, Sex and the City boxed sets were released through Paramount Pictures (whose parent Viacom interestingly once owned HBO's rival Showtime, before the CBS Corporation split at the end of 2005) - who owned at once, certain rights to the programme's broadcast as well – it was probably because of Paramount's "no-extras" policy that the region 2 DVDs were criticized. American and Canadian DVDs were released through the programme's original broadcasters, HBO. In Australia, single editions have been released, where each disc is sold separately. In South Korea, due to the popularity of the show, a complete, six-season, special DVD shoebox set was released—600 limited edition sets in 2005; 850 limited edition sets in 2006—at suggested retail price of $300 (US). All of them sold out immediately.

Selected episodes are also available as part of the Sex and the City Essentials DVD collection. These are four separately-packaged discs containing three selected episodes that fit a common theme.

The Best of Lust: Contains the episodes "The Fuck Buddy", "Running with Scissors", and "The Turtle and the Hare".
The Best of Mr. Big - Contains the episodes "Sex and the City", "Ex and the City", and "I Heart NY".
The Best of Romance: Contains the episodes "Baby, Talk is Cheap", "Hop, Skip and a Week", and "An American Girl in Paris (Part Deux)".
The Best of Breakups - Contains the episodes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", "I Love a Charade", and "The Post-it Always Sticks Twice".

Soundtrack releases

There have been several CDs released to accompany the series Sex and the City, two of which (the albums from Irma Records) contain tracks used in the show's actual soundtrack.

Sex and the City - Soundtrack [Import]

2000/2001/2002

Sire Records

Includes the main theme from the show, written by Douglas J. Cuomo and features Mark Berman on keyboards

Sex and the City - Official Soundtrack (two disc set)

March 1, 2004

Sony TV

36 Hits, including the likes of Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Cyndi Lauper, Jamiroquai and Aretha Franklin, among others.

Irma at Sex and the City - Part 1 - Daylight Session (two disc set)

April 19, 2004

Irma Records

Ambient and chilled sounds from the show's soundtrack

Irma at Sex and the City - Part 2 - Nightlife Session (two disc set)

April 19, 2004

Irma Records

House and electronica sounds from the show's soundtrack

"Sex and the City: The Movie- Labels or Love by Fergie"

website for the song (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20194808,00.html)

Movie's soundtrack

"Sex and the City: The Movie Volume 2

Movie's soundtrack

The following are quotations from the TV special, Sex And The City: A Farewell, that aired introducing the final episode: "An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux"

Michael Patrick King, Executive Producer::"People thought, oh it's just about sex or it's just about fashion. And then slowly over the years people start to see it's really about love ... and relationships ... and sex ... and basically the battlefield of trying to be in love—whether it be with another person or with yourself."
Sarah Jessica Parker::"What the show has to have, and has had to have in order to survive six years, is a soul... if the show was a heart and you split the heart in two, one half would be the four women, and the other would be Carrie, alone, and her life in the city with her friends."
Cynthia Nixon::"These women would never wear the same outfit twice."
David Eigenberg::"They were honest about sex, they were honest about the humor of sex."
Kim Cattrall::"The show is a valentine to being single. ... Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you; now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be...and who you want to spend it with."

Promotional picture of the characters from Sex and the City: The Movie. Chris North (John 'Mr. Big' James Preston, left) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw, right)

Films

Main article: Sex and the City (film)

A feature film based on Sex and the City, written produced and directed by Michael Patrick King, has been produced.^[7]^[8]^[9] The film originally was slated for production near the end of the broadcast series run in 2004, but the movie deal fell through at that time. Multiple press reports at the time indicated a personal dispute between Parker and Cattrall, as well as Cattrall's refusal to sign a contract for the film at a pay scale considerably less than Parker's.^[10]

Michael Patrick King wrote and directed, and the four lead actresses returned to reprise their roles, and Chris North signed to reprise his role as "Mr. Big." In addition, Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson appears in the film as Carrie's assistant. New Line Cinema disributed the film, and New Line president of production Toby Emmerich, Richard Brenner and Kathy Busby oversaw the project. Parker and John Melfi produced. Filming started on September 19, 2007 in New York City.^[9]^[11]^[12]

The plot of the film revolves around the lives of the four main characters, four years after the time frame of the finale of the HBO series.^[11]

Evan Handler, David Eigenberg, Jason Lewis, and Willie Garson reprise their roles.

Filming of the Sex and the City movie was completed early December 2007.^[13]

The film's world premiere was in London's Leicester Square in early May 2008. The film was released on May 28, 2008 in the U.K. and was released May 30, 2008 in the US with an unprecedented $55.7 million three-day gross. The debut made Sex and the City the top-opening R-rated romantic comedy of all time.^[14]

In November 2008, Cattrall confirmed that a second movie was in the works and is expected to begin filming in the Summer of 2009.^[15] It was confirmed in January 2009 that all four leading ladies had committed to a sequel and would be commanding higher salaries for the second film.^[16]

Pop culture references

MADtv parodied the show as "Sluts and the City." The HBO slogan "It's not TV, it's HBO" became "It's not TV, it's porn (with Emmys)." MADtv's Michael McDonald appears as Carrie in drag with a visible crotch bulge. Nicole Sullivan, Mo Collins, and Alex Borstein also appeared in the sketch as Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda.
Jennifer Aniston portrayed Carrie on Saturday Night Live with a fake nose. Other sketch shows have made fun of Miranda being color blind for her bright hair dye color, Samantha (played by Christina Aguilera) coming out as a transsexual, and the women confusing sex with shoes.
In Charmed, Paige wonders if one of the women in Sex and the City slept around a lot, to which Phoebe suggests she was a free spirit. At the time, Jason Lewis (who played Smith Jerrod, one of Samantha's lovers in later episodes) was a new cast member on Charmed.
Sex and the City brought to the greater public eye the now wildly-popular cosmopolitan cocktail, originally known as a pink Kamikaze.
In the movie In Her Shoes, there was a scene in the old folks' home when they were watching TV and you could hear Carrie narrating. The old folks were also drinking cosmopolitans, an homage to the TV program.
In the TV series Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, the show was parodied as "Sex and Man City," focusing on the love life of the oblivious former England football team manager Kevin Keegan and his issues with new manager Sven Göran Eriksson.
On The Simpsons episode "Half-Decent Proposal," the show was parodied as "Nookie in New York." Patty described it as "a show about four straight women who act like gay men."
The TBS sitcom My Boys, episode "Douchebag in the City," parodied the four female lead characters of Sex and the City by having the former editor of female main character PJ Franklin coming to Chicago to visit. The friend/editor displays very overt characteristics of what one would presume would be an attempt by a New Yorker to emulate Carrie Bradshaw, down to having cultivated friendships with three caricatures of Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha, whom she brought along to Chicago. The point of the comparison is best nailed home when a passing bus splashes water on her and she turns around shocked, in slow motion, as in the opening credits of Sex and the City.
Logo's original series Noah's Arc is sometimes referred to as being the gay version of Sex and the City.^{[citation needed]}
The song "'03 Bonnie & Clyde," on Beyoncé's album Dangerously in Love and Jay-Z's album The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse, includes lyrics about Beyoncé from Jay-Z. He states that, "The only time we don't speak is during Sex and the City. She gets Carrie fever, but soon as the show is over she's right back to being my soldier."
On Will and Grace, the season 6 episode "No Sex 'n' the City" includes a scene of Karen and Jack talking about the Sex and the City finale. Karen declares, "Honey, I am so glad that Carrie ended up with Mr. Big instead of that 70-year old ballerina!" (referring to Baryshnikov) Jack admits he was "crying like a little girl" at the ending.
In an episode of Will and Grace, Rosario and Karen go shopping and Rosario refers to a pair of blue 'strappy' shoes as "too Sex and the City."
On Family Guy, the show was mentioned in the Stewie Griffin Movie, with Chris being tortured by Lois because he cannot remember the four Sex and the City women's names.
On Family Guy the show is mentioned in an episode where Brian is attempting to get a petition signed to stop a ban on gay marriage. Brian states that to get signatures he did "some things in West Quahog [he's] not proud of" and the screen flashes to him, presumably watching the beginning of Sex and the City with two gay men, upon which he states "So it's a show about three hookers and their mom?"
On Family Guy there is a brief scene where Kim Cattrall as Samantha is about to go to bed with another man, when her leg creaks. She uses an oil can to lubricate her leg, then invites the man to jump on top of her. When he does, she shatters.
The tagline of the Showtime series The L Word—"Same sex. Different city"—parodies the show's title.
The magazine Time Out New York released a cover mocking the overmilking of Sex and the City and the lack of reasons for creating a movie, by showing the four main characters of the series being gagged, along with an accompanying article about why many New Yorkers are sick of the show.^[17]
Entertainment Weekly has named the show #5 on its list of the best shows in the past 25 years.^[18] It also named Sarah Jessica Parker's outfit in the opening credits of the show #2 on its list of the top 50 Pop Culture Moments that rocked Fashion.^[19] It has also named the theme song #8 on its list of the top 25 TV show theme songs in the past 25 years.^[20]
In the episode "Bachelor Party" of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Robin buys Lilly a vibrator as a present for her bridal shower. When Lilly's grandmother sees it she instantly recognizes it as the one that Miranda gave to Charlotte, and then all the guests in the bridal shower say how much they like the show and which one of the characters is most like them, with Lilly's mother saying to the grandmother that she's such a Samantha
In 2004, the popularity of Tasti D-Lite frozen dessert was bolstered as a result of appearances in episodes of Sex and the City, Season 6, Episode 88.^{[citation needed]}
In the song "Dangerous" by Akon, Kardinal Offishal raps "Bad heels like Jessica P... I'm trying give homegirl sex in the city-tittie"
On an episode of Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) says that "Carrie Bradshaw is to Hannah Montana and Sarah Jessica Parker is to Miley Stewart."
In the episode "That Damn Donna Reed" of Gilmore Girls, Babette asks Rory to look after her new kitten Apricot. She says that she got cable and Rory could watch TV and listen to "those four girls talk dirty".
In Disaster Movie, Jason Boegh played Carrie Bradshaw as a drag queen who fights with "Juney" (Crista Flanagan) for her refuge in a city that is being destroyed.
In 30 Rock on the episode entitled "Cleveland," Jenna tells Pheobe (Jack's fiance at the time) and Liz over lunch that they are just like the girls on Sex and the City, saying, "Wow, how Sex and the City are we right now. I'm Samantha, you're Charlotte [to Phoebe], and you're [to Liz] the lady at home who watches it."
In the pilot episode of Ugly Betty, Amanda refers to Betty and the "Uglies" as "No Sex and the City."
In the Futurama movie Bender's Game, Mom's three goons come to the Planet Express door, looking like The Three Stooges. Farnsworth says, "Three stooges are at the door!" to which Leela responds, "I don't like The Three Stooges. Now Sex and the City, that's funny!"

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Production
Sex and the City
Sex and the City intertitle
Format	Comedy-drama
Created by	Darren Star
Starring	Sarah Jessica Parker Kim Cattrall Kristin Davis Cynthia Nixon
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	94 (List of episodes)
Executive producer(s)	Michael Patrick King Darren Star Sarah Jessica Parker
Location(s)	New York City, New York
Camera setup	Single camera
Running time	approx. 30 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	HBO
Picture format	480i SDTV
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	June 6, 1998 – February 22, 2004
Chronology
Followed by	Sex and the City: The Movie
External links
Official website

Sex and the City is an American cable television series. The original run of the show was broadcast on HBO from 1998 until 2004, for a total of six seasons.

Set in New York City, the show focused on four women, three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties. The quirky drama/comedy had multiple continuing story lines and tackled socially relevant issues such as sexually transmitted diseases, safe sex, heartbreaks, multiple partners, and promiscuity. It specifically examined the lives of big-city professional women in the late 1990s and how changing roles and expectations for women affected the characters.

The show was primarily filmed at New York City's Silvercup Studios and on location in and around Manhattan. Since it ended, the show has been aired in syndication on networks such as TBS, WGN, and many other local stations. However, basic cable outlets edit out certain explicit show content that was broadcast in the original version. Read Full biography of sex and the city

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Robert Pattinson raised $60,000 to kiss two teenage girls

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The "Twilight" star auctioned off two "pecks on the cheek" at the star-studded amfAR charity benefit at the Cannes Film Festival last night (May 21, 2009).

The 23-year-old actor was sitting at a table with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana at the lavish Hotel du Cap when movie mogul Harvey Weinstein suggested Pattinson sell a smooch.

A fellow partygoer said: "Harvey joked from the stage that his daughters changed their last name to Pattison after they saw 'Twilight.'"

"Harvey then suggested auctioning off an opportunity for someone's daughter to meet and get a kiss on the cheek from Pattinson. There were two bidders who paid £20,000 each for their daughters to have that kiss."

Pattinson was shocked by the impromptu auction, but agreed to take part to raise money for charity.

A source said: "Harvey put him on the spot, in a playful way. And Robert agreed to it in his usual brooding, modest way."

The proceeds will go to amfAR, an international foundation for AIDS research.

Joshua Jackson, Diana Kruger, Josh Hartnett and Danny Glover also donated items, including a saxophone donated by former US President Bill Clinton, which sold for $130,000.

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Hit Movie Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire and his wife, Jennifer Meyer, welcomed their second child Friday, the actor’s rep tells PEOPLE.

“I can confirm the Maguires had a baby boy today, and the family is healthy and happy,” says rep Kelly Bush.

Maguire, 33, and Meyer, 31, are also parents to daughter Ruby, 2 1/2. The couple met in 2003 and married in 2007.

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Hot Kim Kardashian thinks a spruced-up Bruce Jenner is better than ever.

“Bruce has gotten a lot of media criticism in the past for getting an ill-advised partial facelift and a nose job,” Kardashian tells PEOPLE exclusively as her step-father’s latest plastic surgery is documented and revealed on the family’s reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

“He has never ever spoken about this until now,” she says of the incident 25 years ago. “It’s very heartfelt and I think people will see how sweet and simply human Bruce is.”

Regarding Jenner’s look on her blog Monday morning, Kardashian writes, “Unfortunately, the result wasn’t what Bruce had hoped for and for years since then he has been the victim of cruel taunts from the media. Since he’s turning 60 in October, Bruce felt it was time to correct the mistakes made by the previous doctor so he went to a new doctor for a second facelift. The results are amazing! Bruce looks better than ever and he is extremely happy with the result.”

This time around the Olympian “just wanted to be more natural and refreshed,” adds a source.

Jenners’s new look will be revealed next Sunday on the show.

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