Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, Susan Dominus, a staff writer for The Times Magazine whose profile of Sarah Jessica Parker is on the cover of Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section, muses on some eerie similarities between the trappings of her own life and those of the leading TV characters Ms. Parker has played over the last two decades. It took me a moment to realize that all those lookers were in fact professionally attractive extras who were there for a shoot, for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new HBO show, “Divorce.” As my train pulled away to take me into New York that day, I caught a glimpse of Sarah Jessica Parker herself on the train platform, waiting for a shoot to start, in a shabby chic coat. It was one thing to relate to her in New York City; it was another to find that Sarah Jessica Parker — or rather, her latest fictional alter ego — had followed me to Hastings-on-Hudson, where I ended up with those twins and my husband. I had left Carrie behind along with my 20s; now here was Sarah Jessica Parker, at least 50 and still smashing, once again in my own environment.

Source: New York Times September 23, 2016 21:11 UTC