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By SHARON FINK, Times Staff Writer YOUR "SEX AND THE CITY" COMPANION PIECE: Our TV critic, Eric Deggans, reviews tonight's season premiere on HBO with a story in today's Floridian. Sideshow dug up a few more tidbits to pass along: Much is being made of three of the four female characters baring their breasts tonight. But Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) says the ones you see attached to her aren't hers. Because Miranda is breast-feeding and Nixon is not, you'll see $11,000 prosthetics in some scenes. "And it took hours to attach (them)," she tells New York's Daily News. "It's glued to you, and you spend the entire day with a makeup artist painting or fixing it. The huge fake silicone breasts inside get very heavy. It's very unpleasant." Nixon also worried that the baby playing her baby, born at the end of last season, would become figuratively attached to her fake chest. "But he was in no way fooled," she said. For closeup nursing scenes, a double was used for Nixon. The New York Post continues to say that the Sex women can't stand each other in real life. Now it says the biggest problem is between Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker. It's big enough that that two won't pose together for magazines, and if they have to be in pictures at promotional events, they get Nixon and Kristin Davis to stand between them. Which is what happened at Sex's premiere party in New York last week. Then again, Sideshow notices that any photographer who wants the women to line up shortest to tallest puts Parker and Cattrall at either end. Early trend alerts, from InStyle magazine: Poole lip gloss and eye shadow; clothes by designer Nanette Lepore; Atlantic City; and a fragrance oil called Lein, designed by show co-makeup artist Nicki Ledermann for Parker and now available to us all. * * * SPEAKING OF BREASTS . . .: Natalie Portman says she had fake ones for a movie she did a few years ago called Where The Heart Is. And not only were they fake, they were previously owned. "They were Angela Bassett's breasts," Portman tells British Glamour. "They came in a box that said "Angela Bassett.' I guess she'd worn them in a film right before me and 20th Century Fox had breast archives or something." * * * MORE REASONS TO LIKE MINNESOTA: The state that help mold Joel and Ethan Coen and elected a former professional wrestler governor is naming its drainage ponds after Simpsons characters. The state Department of Transportation thinks that's a good way to keep track of the hundreds of ponds at highway interchanges, tvguide.com says. The names include Apu, Clancy Wiggum, Maggie, Itchy, Lenny, Quimby and Bart. * * * NEVER ENOUGH "ZOOLANDER'!: So much for the appeal of DVDs to the intellectual movie fan. The format's most popular extra feature is scenes from the cutting-room floor, according to a poll by the Video Software Dealers Association. "I was surprised," association president Bo Andersen tells USA Today. "I always thought it would be the directors' commentaries," which finished in the middle of the pack. Not that the industry is complaining about the result. "This is wonderful news," Andersen says, "because deleted scenes are always available."
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