MANOLO BLAHNIK PRETTY BLAH ABOUT FAWNING 'SEX' • "'Sex and the City' fans love Manolo Blahnik, but is the feeling mutual? Asked by humorist Amy Sedaris in Bergdorf Goodman magazine how Carrie Bradshaw ended up wearing his iconic $945 cobalt blue shoes in the screen version of the HBO series, Blahnik admits he never actually watched the show, and only recently saw the movie in a hotel room."

Wow! Is Nickelodeon finally returning to its glory days and giving adults a reason to watch TV with their kids? This hasn't happened since The Adventures of Pete & Pete went away*.

The minds behind the subversive 1999–2000 cult TV favorite Strangers With Candy are reuniting this fall on… Nickelodeon?! Amy Sedaris will play a screwy principal who gets moony-eyed over a competitive gymnast–turned–PE teacher (Christopher Meloni) in Gym Teacher: The Movie, airing Sept. 12. Strangers co-creator Paul Dinello not only directed the comedy but specifically requested that his longtime collaborator “pack up her wig” and join the movie, which features Meloni as a redemption-seeking athlete who’s up for Gym Teacher of the Year.

It's times like these we seriously consider getting cable. But then we remember that everything ends up stolen and on the Internet sooner or later.

_{*Look, Ren & Stimpy was OK, but it was too inconsistent to be considered on par with Pete & Pete, which offered the perfect amount of oddball silliness each and every episode.}

It has descended upon us: The Sex and the City movie premiered last night in New York City, much to the delight of … Eli Manning? He was one of the guests in attendance, for reasons unknown, at the type of over-the-top shindig that should only be reserved for stuff like the second coming of Xenu.

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Bust magazine managed to combine two of my favorite things on the cover of the latest issue: Amy Sedaris and cake. The love of cake is self-explanatory, but I love Amy Sedaris because of gems like this quote from the Bust interview in which she explains her thoughts on children:

It's easy for me to get into a fight with [kids] for some reason. They can just push my buttons. … [Friend and frequent collaborator] Paul Dinello walked in on me once, and I was having an argument on the phone with somebody, which I never do. He goes, 'Who are you talking to?' and I go, 'This f–king three-year-old!' Someone had sent me some kind of tools in the mail, and I tracked the number down and was asking him, 'Why'd you send these to me?' I said, 'Is your mother home?' and he kept saying, 'No!' and I was like, 'Oh, right, you're three and your mom's not there?' … It turned out Paul had ordered the tools off eBay from the three-year-old's parents.