Candace Bushnell will be a guest tonight on Splendid Frame. The program by Geppi Cucciari that guides us on a unique journey through cinema, music, and fascinating stories, will have many famous faces tonight offering us sparkling entertainment. Among them is the author of Sex and the City. Let's find out more about the writer.
Candace Bushnell, who is the author of Sex and the City?
Candace Bushnell was born in Glastonbury in Connecticut., on December 1, 1958 (she is 65 years old) is an American writer. She's an author, journalist, television producer currently living in New York. She owes her popularity to the book Sex and the City, and the television series inspired by it, which was followed by two films.
The origins
Daughter of Calvin L. Bushnell and Camille Salonia, Candace comes from a bourgeois family. Her father was one of the inventors of the air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell that was used in the Apollo space missions in the '60s. Her ancestors in the United States can be traced back to Francis Bushnell, who was one of the signatories of the Guilford Pact, who emigrated from Thatcham, Berkshire, in England in 1639. Her mother was of Italian origin. Together they live in Connecticut, but she has much bigger ambitions.
Life in New York
She leaves Rice University, a good university in Texas, she wants parties, fashion, she wants the center of the world, she wants New York. And she really goes to New York. In the '70s she was very well known in the famous Studio 54. And so she learns that "I could have been an actress. One of the things I learned is that acting is much easier than writing a novel, really"
After trying to become an actress, she later found work in various women's magazines, such as Ladies Home Journal and Self and Mademoiselle. In an interview she said: "I felt at home. That was a time when I would never leave Manhattan. In fact, I never left Manhattan, and I always dressed in black. I wrote for women's magazines, I only bought discounted designer labels, I went to clubs and had really glamorous friends. But New York was tough. It's expensive and there's a lot of competition and people are mean. You know how mean people are on the Internet? Well, people were that mean in real life!".
The success of Sex and the City: from the column to the film
Her big break came in 1994: she was offered to run her own column in the New York Observer, where she could write whatever she wanted. Candace remembers that: "It was all supposed to be fun. I wrote one article a month and sent proposals all the time. I wrote this article called The Gold Diggers of 1989 and it was about all my friends. One of them, one who always wore Chanel, will appear in one of the first episodes of Sex and the City". And so a star is born: the famous Sex and the City column, in which Carrie Bradshaw, Bushnell's alter ego, talks about her crazy nights with friends in New York, between the bars of TriBeCa, summers in the Hamptons and trips to Aspen.
The column becomes a book, the book becomes a TV series (perhaps the most followed ever) that lasts six seasons, the TV series becomes a film. Then another film comes, which no one likes.
Private life
In June 2002 she married New York City Ballet dancer Charles Askegaard but divorced in 2011. She never had children and today says she regrets it. She spoke to the Sunday Times about her life, regretting never having thought about family and admitting to feeling "really alone".
"When I was in my 30s and 40s, I didn't think about it", she remembered. "Then, when I divorced I was 50, I began to recognize the impact of not having children and of being really alone. I see that people with children have a special anchor that is missing in those who don't have them". She then added: "We are all single women, without children", and concludes "And you think, what will you do when you get old? Who will take care of me?".
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