I Can't Complain by Elinor Lipman

Author:Elinor Lipman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

EPILOGUE

Four years later, I met Sarah Jessica Parker, star of the show, at the movie premiere of Then She Found Me, which featured her husband, Matthew Broderick. After spotting her across the room (Nobu 57, scene of the after-party), I darted in her direction but was headed off by someone from her past. (Summer camp? I remember thinking. Or Annie?) I didn’t want to form a queue, especially because she was eating and because I didn’t want to look as obsequious as I felt. But as I was leaving the restaurant, standing at the bottom of a long, wide stairway, wondering where my husband and son had gone, down came SJP alone, heading toward me in this empty space—“as if we were the only two people in the world,” I have often described the sensation.

I introduced myself as the author of the book behind the movie, then rushed to say, in case I needed more bona fides, that years before, the Boston Globe had asked me to write about the finale of Sex and the City in advance of the last episode and to predict how it would end.

She listened graciously, patiently, adorably. Her dress was white with a big splashy blue print. I later learned it was from her new collection and cost $14.

I added, “I didn’t get anything right. Well, one thing: that we would find out Big’s real name.”

Her already darling expression turned to one of astonishment at my prognostication. “No one guessed that!” she exclaimed.

I said, “I didn’t mean I guessed his actual name—just that we’d find it out.”

“Still,” she said, with a firm shake of her blond head, “no one guessed that.”

I told her I was looking forward to the upcoming Sex and the City movie.

Her expression changed, from earnestness to consternation. She said, with what felt like great sincerity, “Oh! I hope you like the choices we made.”

I said, “I will. I know I will.”

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