Sarah Jessica Parker Profile: On Matthew, Motherhood And Carrie Bradshaw

It is a famous fact about Sarah Jessica Parker that she is a good girl. She objects to things that are "vulgar." She uses phrases like "a bee in my bonnet." She is reflexively prim and has been that way since her teen years--"although prim is not a good word; modest," clarifies Cynthia Nixon, her co-star on Sex and the City, who got to know Parker when the two were 13, filming a movie of the week in Nashville, back when rolling down a hill outside their hotel seemed like the best fun in the world. (In Nixon's memory, the actress was a conservative dresser but a master accessorizer: "She would take a different ribbon every day and braid it into her hair.")

But Parker, now 43, is also a person who knows how to steer her own ship. We meet just after a photo shoot she's doing in the East Village, in a studio that used to be a gay bathhouse. Parker runs downstairs, having changed from her stilettos into silver flats, and she is so hostesslike, so obliging, it's almost indecent--full of compliments, her head tilted, touching me on the knee, offering me a drink, literally running off theatrically when she has to go pee. It's a type of friendliness that might seem over-the-top if it weren't so disarming. She's tiny, with enormous blue eyes. She looks her age, but then, so do I.

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Comments

[Theda]

Her best film was "L.A. Story" with Steve Martin. A very funny movie and a loving satire on life in Los Angeles.

[NoSillyName]

I should care enough about her to read the whole story, why?

[Ihaveadream]

Hey Huffpo - you have a problem with me calling sweatshop factories vulgar? Have you ever visited one?

[Ihaveadream]

Another aging huckster. She's pulling in hundreds of $millions from perfumes and clothing - branding is what it's called. And the constantly repeated line when she's out hawking it on Oprah and elsewhere, " that she's making "fashion" affordable to all the poor women who want to be just like her" ....

She objects to vulgar things? The ONLY way she and that chain can sell the garments at retail prices under $20, and still make lots of money, is to have VULGAR third world sweat shop type factories producing them. And she sure doesn't wear that cheap stuff except for photo shoots, while she laughs all the way to the bank.

[Fair]

I agree, there is no way their alleged cheaper rents can subsidize the prices they are charging.

They have to be getting dirt cheap labor, I worked in the NYC Garment Center, there's sweatshops somewhere safefully tucked away in their story....

[SmootyBooty]

Didn't she break down at the Derby?