She won an Academy Award for the performance and has since scored roles in the Sex and the City movie and Winged Creatures, an upcoming indie flick also starring Kate Beckinsale and Forest Whitaker.

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Written and directed by Michael Patrick King, a safe pair of hands from the HBO days, "Sex and the City, " the movie, is aimed fair and square at the fans.

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"Sex and the City 2" (May 27): Many are fearful of what this movie will feel like now that the ladies are a little older, but I'm excited to watch Carrie Bradshaw as a wifey.

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