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...with Hillary's health-care platform. But as Martha Stewart and Katie Couric have discovered, high-powered women are prone to the Goldilocks dilemma: This one's too hard! That one's too soft! "Women aren't allowed to express their ambitions sometimes," says Oliver Goldstick, writer-producer of Lipstick. "There's a long tradition of Hollywood pictures where powerful women are punished for their success...
...third of married women in the U.S. earn more than their husbands, but it's still a challenge to make the problems of big shots appeal to a mass audience. Some of the stories on Lipstick and Cashmere are universal: both have had plots about juggling work with a son's birthday party. Others are less so: What to do when your nanny raids the good Bordeaux or writes a tell-all roman à clef about...
...those inexplicable feats of pop-culture timing that this is also the season of the feminist soap opera in prime-time TV. Cashmere Mafia on ABC and Lipstick Jungle on NBC both center on high-income, high-powered, high-style Manhattan friends who talk business and love lives over expense-account lunches. In the process they raise some of the same questions the presidential race does: Is women's success held against them? Can they be different yet equal? Can they stand by their men and get stood by in return...
...shows recall Sex and the City--which returns as a movie this summer--it's no coincidence. Cashmere is produced by Star, Lipstick by Candace Bushnell, who wrote the newspaper column SATC was based on. SATC combined a fashion-conscious urban fairy tale with sharp observation of the trade-offs working women face: a little glass slipper, a little glass ceiling. It was a love story that was also about loving yourself; the series ended with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) persuading wealthy flame Mr. Big to move to New York City--where her life and career were--rather than...
Cashmere and Lipstick borrow this setting but give their characters promotions, husbands, kids and a lot more cash. (As Star says, they can actually qfford the clothes we saw on SATC) Cashmere's quartet includes a hotel coo, an investment banker, a marketing executive and a magazine publisher; Lipstick's trio consists of a movie-studio head, a fashion designer and another magazine bigwig. (Memo to producers: Please inform my bosses how lavishly paid magazine workers are supposed...