Brimley/Stritch

From an article about the upcoming “Sex and the City” movie:

While the film revolves around Carrie and Big’s wedding, Mr. King was insistent that no mother or father of the bride be shown. “My idea always was that these women were purely creations of New York,” he said. “The prototype of the series is that these are four grown-ups who make a family of one another.”

Also driving Mr. King’s decision was his fear of falling into cliché. “Who was going to play Carrie’s mother? Connie Stevens? It’s such a traditional sitcom limb. It’s the Thanksgiving episode, and there are Wilford Brimley and Elaine Stritch. I never wanted to do anything like that.”

I would pay to see Wilford Brimley and Elaine Stritch as anyone’s parents in a sitcom episode.

3 thoughts on “Brimley/Stritch

  1. ok, seriously. I mean, Elaine Stritch is comedy GOLD as Alec Baldwin’s mom on 30 Rock. SJP would BE so lucky to have her as Carrie’s mom.

  2. You know, that’s one of the things I always felt was a little strange about Sex and the City. We never knew where Carrie came from, whether she had any siblings, never heard her refer to her family (at least not that I remembered). Now I know why!

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