Manolos And Mayhem: A Sex And The City Origin Story Cameron Rodney

Synopsis

Journey back to the 1980s in this young new adult, coming of age romantic comedy drama Sex and the City origin story, exploring the HBO backstory you never knew. Meet Carrie Bradshaw as an only child in Connecticut, navigating a close bond with her mother Mimi after her father's departure when she was just five. Discover the roots of her fashion obsession, her first sexual encounter at sixteen with Seth Bateman on a ping pong table which involved half a joint, and her high school romance with Jeremy her high school boyfriend who she was in a lip lock with for most of 1982 and who she didn't have sex with as they were kids and wanted to wait and used to make out in front of her high school locker, in his AMC Pacer car with the gearshifts used to stick out of his ass ouch and a code to come over to watch a movie to also make out and his mum used to walk in with her laundry and her Tab and he looks like a young David Duchovny which is a Sex And The City reference as he was played by David Duchovny on Season 6 Episode 10 Boy Interrupted of Sex And The City. Follow Carrie to Brown University, where she makes new friends and dates her first bisexual boyfriend, Alex. At nineteen, just shy of her 20th birthday, Carrie sporting a pristine white pair of skinny denims, an off the shoulder slouchy jumper, fresh Converse's and a clear PVC satchel arrives in New York City at 3:30pm on June 11th, 1986, ready to chase her writing dreams – famously choosing Vogue over dinner because 'it fed her more.' See her standing before 1030 Fifth Avenue, the building she'll one day call home with Mr. Big . The story unveils how Carrie meets her lifelong friends: her gay best friend Stanford Blatch (or 'Stanny'), from an aristocratic family, whose bond with Carrie began in the 80s NYC club scene; the preppy, blue-blooded 20 year old Charlotte York who is looking for love and the one who is from a traditional wealthy family in Connecticut after attending Smith College in Massachusetts where she graduated with a degree in Art History and a minor in Finance wearing a classic preppy look including a polo shirt, a colourful anorak (windbreaker) and a bright pair of Keds, encountered during a memorable subway ride in 1987 where a homeless man dropped his pants; the feisty, stunning future lawyer Miranda Hobbes from the Philadelphia area wearing a style that reflects the era's fashion trends including a cropped uptight Dorothy Hamill wedge hairdo hairstyle and white trainers with ankle socks , met in a Bloomingdale's changing room in 1989; and the oldest of the group, the dynamic Samantha Jones at either 28 or 29, bartending at CBGB's in 1986 or 1987, sporting a blonde perm and dressed in Whitesnake-esque glam rock attire from the 1980s and we see how Samantha decides to start working in Public Relations and how she runs her own firm as a PR agency owner and how she becomes sex positive, how she manages to protect her heart and why she never judges those she cares about aka the best friend ever . Witness the moments that forge their connections, leading to their iconic lunches and dinners and how a Cosmopolitan became Carrie's drink and how she started smoking. The narrative also delves into Carrie's experiences, including a one-night stand in 1988 resulting in a pregnancy and abortion (known to Samantha, who also had two). Fast forward to 1995, as a 29-year-old Carrie moves into her rent-controlled brownstone known as the fictional address of 245 East 73rd Street , secures her 'Sex And The City' column for the New York Star, and becomes the famous writer we know. We also glimpse the men who shaped them, like Samantha's heartbroken ex Dominic Delmonico who broke her heart he wined and diner her, set the bar for hot sex and then dumped her for a Icelandic supermodel named Anka and Miranda's 'asshole' ex Eric from 1997 who was the love of her life until he dumped her for another woman. Plus, meet younger versions of other fan-favourite characters: Kurt Harrington a on-and-off relationship Carrie had when she was 26,29 and 31 , Capote Duncan, Skipper Johnson a geeky website creator (who later dates Miranda), Amalita Amalfi another friend of Carrie Bradshaw an international party girl, she is of Italian decent, always dresses fashionably and earns her money through her changing male acquaintances, Jeremiah a performance artist turned cater waiter who Carrie is friends with until he becomes an old friend, Kyra Bronson who made a name for herself in the early 90's taking pictures of anorectic actresses on beds at the Chelsea Hotel Carrie and Stanford knew her, Lainey the 'Manhattan party Animal', Bobby Fine a satellite friend and piano bar legend who had known Carrie and Stanford when she took aerobics and when Stanford used to have hair , and Barkley Carrie's artist friend . This is the story of how they became a chosen family, long before cosmopolitans and columnist fame