Miranda Rites
Back when I was just a smart teenage nerd with a budding anti-authoritarian streak, The Manhattan Project, a film a about a teenager who builds an atomic bomb, was a natural and instant favorite. Hell, I eventually even sampled the damn thing:
But of course, whatever real merits the movie may have had, I was also just totally hot for the sexy bad-girl (hey man, she smoked cigarettes and everything!) who partnered up with the deviant genius. I mean, well, she was no Ally Sheedy, but she was absolutely a defining and important celebrity-slash-fictional-character crush
So then it was a weird moment when, maybe a year or so ago, I saw the movie again, and realized — holy shit! That girl went on to become Miranda on “Sex and the City”!
And maybe that was especially weird because I was always uncomfortable with my reaction to Miranda as I watched that show — because while I always found her the most intellectually attractive of the four friends, I never actually found her all that appealing on balance, and I couldn’t place why.
But then tonight I saw her guest starring as the patient in a 2nd season episode of House, and despite the fact that she’s clearly beginning to show her age, I found something very sexy in her once again.
So, I don’t know, maybe it was just something about the Miranda character. Or maybe it was still completely shallow and I just didn’t like her with short hair. I don’t really have any deep analysis of all this prepared, it just seemed like something to write about.
My mom and I were just talking about this while watching a Sex & the City rerun last week. Check Cynthia Nixon out in one of her earliest roles as the little hippie chick in the 1980 summer camp film Little Darlings, starring Tatum O’Neal, Kristy McNichol, & Matt Dillon.
I had not seen her in anything since then until I saw her in Sex & the City, and was like “Whoa…!” Totally unexpected popup when I hadn’t seen her in anything in almost 20 years.
Ha, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that. Looks like it isn’t out on dvd yet though.