The days prior to the release of the Sex and the City movie, have been marked with heavily-promoted premieres where the cast members show up for several minutes, twirl on the red carpets while wearing their ridiculous outfits, and wave to screaming fans who clearly have nothing better to do than to wait outside of a movie theatre for hours in the hopes of glimpsing one of their favorite stars.
I’ll save you all the diatribe about Sex and the City being one of the main reasons that groups like Al-Qaeda hate the United States (though I agree with Al-Qaeda on this point), there has been one positive that has come out of the release of this film.
In the past few days, the New York tabloids have told stories of women who have spent tens of thousands of dollars on tickets to the New York City premiere at Radio City Music Hall (and/or the afterparty) and who have discovered that their tickets are worthless. One woman flew in from Singapore after having paid $19,000 to discover that the tickets she supposedly had purchased for the premiere and afterparty didn’t exist.
Evidently, thousands of fans (mostly women who came dressed in their finest rags) stood outside Radio City the evening of the premiere clutching first-come/first-served passes to the film and were shut out of the film after spending many hours and in many cases, hundreds and thousands of dollars, on these passes that didn’t guarantee admission.
Those who live in New York City are likely familiar with the passes: small postcards with the film’s poster on the front and theater locations on the back. These are promo passes, which do not guarantee admission. It appears that some brokers got their hands on these and started selling them for top dollar.
Meanwhile, it appears that the promoters didn't plan on letting any of the well-dressed commoners into the screening, this despite the fact that Radio City Music Hall has a capacity of approximately 6,000 for movie screenings. The result: Lines around the block of stiletto-wearing harpies who missed work, and, spent, in some cases, thousands of dollars to travel to New York City to see a film they could have seen in their hometowns three days later for no more than $12.
Admittedly, it was a crappy of the promoters to hand out these promo tickets if they had no intention of letting anyone not on the guest list into the building. At the same time, if you are one of those entitled women who believe that throwing enough money at a situation will get you everything you want, it's nice to know that sometimes, there is a little bit of justice in this cruel, cruel world.
