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  Candace Bushnell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Candace Bushnell (born December 1, 1959 in Glastonbury, Connecticut) is a writer based in New York City.
Bushnell married New York City ballet artist Charles Askegaard on July 4, 2002 [1].
Bushnell was, upon dropping out of Rice University in the late 1970s, known all over New York as a party goer and socialite.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Candace_Bushnell   (300 words)

  
 SIRIUS Satellite Radio :: 'Sex and the City' Author Candace Bushnell to Launch Weekly Talk Show on SIRIUS Satellite ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Candace Bushnell's Sex, Success and Sensibility, debuting this spring on SIRIUS Stars channel 102, will be a live, weekly, four-hour show where women discuss the issues, challenges, triumphs and aspirations they face with men and careers.
Candace Bushnell's acute and humorous observations of single life in New York City were first chronicled in her Sex and the City columns in The New York Observer, which were the basis for bestselling book which later spawned the multiple award-winning HBO television show of the same name.
Today, Bushnell is still breaking ground and providing social commentary on the trials and tribulations of the modern woman through her most recent bestselling novel Lipstick Jungle, which explores the new paradigm of the modern career woman.
sev.prnewswire.com /entertainment/20060307/NYTU03407032006-1.html   (901 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - LIPSTICK JUNGLE by Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell's sexy female friends are still having sex in the city, just not as often since they are prowling the lipstick jungle of New York's most competitive and high profile industries --- fashion, publishing, filmmaking --- to secure the corner offices, multi-million dollar salaries and billboard recognition.
Bushnell's message to her mass audience of women in "Sex and the City" was to embrace and enjoy sexuality with confidence.
Candace Bushnell is one female who has successfully secured a place for herself in the lipstick jungle.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0786868198.asp   (680 words)

  
 Candace Bushnell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Candace Bushnell (born 1959) is a New York City writer.
Bushnell was, in the late 1970s, known all over New York as a party goer and socialite, and one of her favorite places was the old Studio 54.
HBO executives recently announced that the 2003 season will be the last one for Sex and the City on the air.
www.webstercc.com /encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/c/ca/candace_bushnell.html   (244 words)

  
 New York Metro: The Blonde Who's Had More Fun
Candace Bushnell, the real-life alter ego of Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, has been a princess of the New York night since the days of Studio 54.
Candace, the blonde who created (who is) Carrie Bradshaw, is nowhere near as famous as Sarah Jessica Parker, the blonde who plays her on TV, but Candace doesn't care if everyone knows who she is — "the people who matter know," she says.
Candace seems tall because she is loud and lean and fond of high heels, but she's actually a little person.
www.newyorkmetro.com /personals/articles/02/02/singles/bushnell1.htm   (1733 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Candace Bushnell
And if Candace Bushnell is as good now at getting her finger on the pulse as she was with Sex and the City, then her new novel, Lipstick Jungle, recently published in the US, suggests that there is indeed a different tempo on the way.
Candace Bushnell was invited to speak, and, while she is a best-selling author with a smash hit show based on her book, at the same time one must ask why not someone else.
Candace Bushnell looks as sleek as you'd expect for the author of "Sex and the City" and the new novel "Lipstick Jungle," in which three fabulously successful 40-something females angle for even greater heights of fame, fortune and fulfillment...
news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Candace_Bushnell_Book.html   (4601 words)

  
 Candace Bushnell explores a lipstick jungle
Bushnell began crafting "Lipstick Jungle" after watching clumps of professional women share intimacies and lunch at the same swanky Manhattan restaurants that were once the bastions only of pinstriped men.
Bushnell grew up in a middle-class Connecticut family, arriving in New York in 1978 as a waitress, aspiring actress and freelancer.
Author Candace Bushnell is photographed at the SOHO House in New York, Aug. 24, 2005.
www.azcentral.com /ent/arts/articles/0914candace14.html   (949 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
But Bushnell's emphasis on female friendship and career ambition may also win her a legion of new readers.
"Bushnell's new novel will not disappoint her many fans....Although the novel has its share of awkward plot machinations, Bushnell is skilled enough to create likable yet strong characters who ultimately draw in the reader.
Candace Bushnell is the author of the international bestsellers Sex and the City, 4 Blondes, and Trading Up.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0786868198   (793 words)

  
 CNN.com - Candace Bushnell talks about 'Sex' and 'Blondes' - September 15, 2000
Candace Bushnell's column and novel "Sex and the City" has spawned a hit TV show.
Bushnell, in fact, has gotten away from her own life with a new book, "Four Blondes" (Atlantic Monthly Press).
Bushnell faced a problem last Sunday night: "Sex and the City" was a major presence at the Emmy telecast, where it was up for nine awards, while an episode of the series aired on HBO.
archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/09/15/candace.bushnell   (543 words)

  
 Writer's Blog: Candace Bushnell Sued By Former Manager
Candace Bushnell is being sued by her former manager who claims she cheated him out of $1 million in fees for helping her sell the story that inspired the TV show Sex in the City.
Clifford Streit accused Bushnell of failing to pay him the agreed-upon 10 percent of her share of the show's profits — a figure he estimates at $10 million.
Bushnell's reps could not be reached for comment.
www.writerswrite.com /cgi-bin/wwblog.pl?wblog=62051   (232 words)

  
 Trading Up: A Novel by Candace Bushnell
Not since author Candace Bushnell created Carrie Bradshaw and Sex and the City has there been a heroine like Janey Wilcox, the protagonist of Bushnell's extraordinary new novel.
Like Jane Austen or Edith Wharton, Bushnell lovingly skewers a society she knows well, and brings readers inside the heads and conversations of characters who could have come right from the pages of Vanity Fair.
Candace Bushnell is the author of the international bestsellers Sex and the City and 4 Blondes.
www.januarymagazine.com /features/tradingupexc.html   (2326 words)

  
 Bushnell Dating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Candace Bushnell, the creator of the Sex And The City sitcom, is here to promote her latest novel...
Candace Bushnell, in the divinely bitchy Sex and the City, answers this question by introducing a formidable corps...
Candace Bushnell, in the divinely bitchy Sex and the City, answers this...
www.adatingagency.co.uk /personals/datingindex4584.html   (564 words)

  
 The BEATRICE Profile: 1996
I went to visit Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City (Atlantic Monthly Press), at a time when president Clinton, with thinly veiled pre-election gladhanding, has approved the citizenship of a record number of immigrants to the US.
Candace has been at the Plaza meeting her new agent speicalizing in television appearances by non-actors, she explains, as we enter a cluttered, ambiguously appointed "office" which also seems to be a potential residence.
Candace whips up the receiver but the line is dead.
www.beatrice.com /profiles/bushnell   (1292 words)

  
 JS Online: Candace Bushnell, who spawned 'Sex and the City,' learned some lessons the hard way about being a single ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This would be OK - except she is Candace Bushnell, the author of the column-turned-novel "Sex and the City" and the catalyst for the HBO series about swinging singles Samantha, Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda (played, respectively, by Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon).
The never-married Bushnell also is a role model for women who want to do more between the sheets than eat Oreos and watch Jay Leno.
The book brings Bushnell - infamous for her now-defunct "Sex and the City" column in the New York Observer - to town tonight for a reading and book signing at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop in Shorewood.
www.jsonline.com /enter/books/oct00/candace12101100.asp   (1426 words)

  
 Salon.com Audio | "4 Blondes"
Candace Bushnell is the author of "Sex and the City," a collection of her New York Observer columns that chronicled the life of uppercrusty Manhattan single women and their problems with men.The book was adapted into the HBO televsion program starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
Bushnell is also a contributing editor to Vogue.
Listen to Candace Bushnell read from "4 Blondes" in which Winnie, disappointed in her literary journalist husband's financial status, must finally face the truth about her own life.
www.salon.com /audio/2000/10/02/bushnell   (300 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell created a sensation with her first book, Sex and the City, spawning an HBO series that has become a phenomenon.
With her sharp insight and uncensored observations of the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, Bushnell has become a celebrity in her own right--on television, on the newsstands, and in bookstores across the globe.
The heroine of the story is Janey Wilcox, who was first introduced to readers by Candace in one of the four stories that comprise her bestselling Four Blondes.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/CandaceBushnelleBooks.htm   (310 words)

  
 westword.com | News | Blonde Ambition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Few marchers in life's rich pageant are enjoying their success as much as Candace Bushnell.
Fortunately, though, even the least of Bushnell's efforts (and some of them are little more than lightweight riffs) are made tolerable by her trademark sassiness, not to mention her playful vulgarity.
After revealing that a hideous movie-bigwig character's insistence on anal sex in "Nice N'Easy" was inspired by a trip to Aspen, where Bushnell was told that intercourse of this type had become the "in" thing in Hollywood ("because that way their girls can't get pregnant"), she recalls the roots of her scatology.
www.westword.com /issues/2000-10-19/nd2.html   (539 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lipstick Jungle : A Novel: Books: Candace Bushnell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In a way, Candace Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle picks up where her career-defining book Sex and the City left off, in the money-soaked, power-hungry, beauty-obsessed jungle that is New York City.
Bushnell has turned chick lit on its head by writing about women who have the power, the money, the success, the drive, and the charcter flaws usually associated with men.
Candace Bushnell certainly has her finger on the pulse of what women want.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786868198?v=glance   (2981 words)

  
 Social Diary 6/24/03 - Candace Bushnell book party
Thirty blocks south at the W Hotel on East 39th Street was quite a different book party, sponsored by Gotham Magazine for Candace Bushnell and her new book Trading Up (as in life style), which I suppose you could say is a kind of learning ability.
Bushnell, who as the world must know by now created Sex and the City (for which she sold the TV rights for a measly twenty grand).
Bushnell’s third book, I think, the last being Four Blondes which she dedicated to her friend Ann Fell, one of those blondes you know is (and has) more fun.
www.newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2003/socialdiary06_24_03.php   (728 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: Candace Bushnell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In her fourth novel, Candace Bushnell writes about three powerful New York City women at the top of their fields, each navigating her way through...
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Showbiz | Sex and the City creator marries
Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell has described her whirlwind romance as "freaky" following her beachfront wedding.
The book was a collection of columns Bushnell has written for the New York Observer about life in the city.
As the couple were pronounced husband and wife, Bushnell ran across the sand and leapt into the arms of her new spouse.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2115591.stm   (348 words)

  
 Alibris: Candace Bushnell
In her witty and sometimes brutally candid style, Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs.
Bushnell introduces Nico O'Neilly, Wendy Healy, and Victory Ford, numbers 8, 12, and 17 on "The New York Post's" list of "New York's 50 Most Powerful Women." In 21st-century New York, to get ahead and stay ahead, these women will do anything, including jeopardizing their personal and professional relationships.
Author Candace Bushnell, New York Observer journalist, reports with acerbic humor and irony the secret lives of New York women.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bushnell,Candace   (511 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Candace Bushnell celebrates birth control advance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But her creator, author Candace Bushnell, is helping open a new chapter in reproductive lives of American women.
While a woman still continues to have a menstrual cycle when using oral contraceptives, a new type of FDA–approved pill, called extended-cycle oral contraception, promises to reduce a woman's monthly event to only four periods a year.
And Bushnell wants to remind women that oral contraceptives do not protect against STDs or HIV infection.
www.usatoday.com /news/health/spotlighthealth/2004-02-20-candace_x.htm   (1061 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Sex & Sensibility on Sirius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Candace Bushnell, the author who spawned Bradshaw, "Sex and the City," and a whole generation of women talking frankly about sex, is joining Stern at Sirius Satellite Radio.
While this is Bushnell's first radio show, she claimed she's well-suited for the medium.
At age 47, Bushnell, who is married to New York City ballet principal dancer Charles Askegard, said she's more focused on "careers and aspirations" than on landing Mr.
www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/story/397365p-336776c.html   (325 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Four Blondes: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Candace Bushnell made her reputation as the creator of the hit US TV series Sex and the City, based on her book of the same name (based in turn on her Eros-intensive New York Observer column).
Bushnell is famous for this sort of sexual brashness, and the book is full of her sharp wit, both in and out of the boudoir.
Bushnell gives you lots of details about various psychological disorders, drug addiction, unpleasant sexual practices, and various forms of humiliation.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/034911403X   (1722 words)

  
 Candace Bushnell's saucy Lipstick Jungle a success - Edge
The stories of three powerful working women in their early 40s are woven together in Candace Bushnell's latest novel, Lipstick Jungle.
Similar to Bushnell's worldly famous Sex and the City, these ladies find strength within themselves and within each other throughout the course of their turmoil, sending a strong message to all women: It is possible to be successful, married and a mother.
Leave it to Bushnell to continue to write interesting, thought-provoking novels about women without allowing her characters to be too wrapped in sex and men.
www.thehurricaneonline.com /news/2005/11/15/Edge/Candace.Bushnells.Saucy.Lipstick.Jungle.A.Success-1057393.shtml   (227 words)

  
 Candace Bushnell: News
From the bedroom to the boardroom, Bushnell and friends will explore what women really say about men, relationships and careers.
NEW YORK — March 7, 2006 SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Sex and the City phenomenon, will host Candace Bushnell’s Sex, Success, and Sensibility, a live, weekly talk show that brings her keen eye and sharp wit to satellite radio.
Now, with Candace Bushnell’s Sex, Success, and Sensibility, this dialogue continues and will be taken to the next level,” said Scott Greenstein, President of Sports and Entertainment, SIRIUS Satellite Radio.
www.candacebushnell.com /news.php   (815 words)

  
 4 Blondes - Candace Bushnell - Literair CafĂ© - Trends and Lifestyle - Trendystyle.net
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www.trendystyle.net /literaircafe/4_blondes.html   (176 words)

  
 Book Reviews - Trading Up by Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell (author of Sex and the City) skewers the society she knows so well.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says "Bushnell is in acid-tongued fine form, dissecting the mores of the rich and wannabe famous.
This is fun with a cruel edge." The Portland Oregonian says, "Fourteen-year-old Anne Frank had much more interesting things to say about humanity in the face of great evil.
www.reviewsofbooks.com /trading_up   (168 words)

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