Main makes no bones about playing off the Sex and the City name, but argues he has every right to do so. Well, pretty much. He did take the series' theme music off his site. But so far, he's not budging on the name, typeface or the use of a girly-girly color that HBO seems to think it owns.
"I can show them 100 colors of pink," Main said. "Which one are they suggesting we don't use? All of them?"
Now we're sure it's Zellweger in the city
First official Renee Zellweger sighting: Monday, outside Sassanova, a Harbor East shoe shop that had its grand opening that very morning.
Zellweger is in town to film My One and Only.
Co-owner Marion Warner noticed a woman in Spandex leggings, loose T-shirt and dark shades lingering outside.
"She was really, really skinny. So skinny that it was, like, 'Is this a celebrity?' I mean, she looked minuscule."
Ogling the Guiseppe Zanottis? Or just waiting for the store to empty so she could shoe shop without fear of being recognized?
Probably the latter. Zellweger seemed to get scared off when some woman - probably all juiced up from Sex and the City - ran inside, cutting right in front of the star.
Somebody's keen for no-frills espresso
Second official Zellweger sighting: Inside the Starbucks around the corner from Sassanova, minutes later Monday morning.
Double espresso, no lid. And latte, no foam.
One was for Zellweger, the other for an unidentified woman with her. Team Starbucks thinks Zellweger had the espresso, since it was she who gave the lid back to barista Arturo Ozaeta. Don't look for the lid on eBay, since Ozaeta told staffers he's keeping it.
Barista Sarah Pfeil was impressed with Zellweger's lid-shunning because espresso should be downed within seconds. Seems to know her Joe.
Hey, big spenders, we're not impressed
If you've had enough of celebrity gossip and Harbor East, read no more.
The guys from the MTV reality show Making the Band 4, in town last week to perform at Pier 6 Pavilion, don't have any fans at James Joyce Irish Pub and Restaurant. They had dinner and drinks for about an hour Friday, and let's just say they're lousy tippers.
"One of our waitresses looked after them," a manager told me. "On a $200 [check], they gave her zero. Service was good. We weren't too impressed with that."
And that was after the manager agreed to sign a waiver to allow the group to film in the restaurant. Wonder if MTV will show the part where they stiff the wait staff.
Andrea Manning, a publicist for the show, said, "Oh, no."
