Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

In 1997 Bushnell's columns were publiCandace Bushnelld in an anthology also called Sex and the City and soon after became the basis for the popular HBO television series sharing the same name. While attending high school in Glastonbury Candace was accompanied to her senior prom by Mike O'Meara now a nationally syndicated radio host who also dated Candace's sister "Lolly". Bushnell began writing for the New York Observer in 1993.

Sex and the City publiCandace Bushnelld in 1996 was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Candace Bushnell (born December 1 1958) is an American author and columnist based in New York City. Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed international best-selling author of Sex and the City Summer and the City The Carrie Diaries One Fifth Avenue Lipstick Jungle Trading Up and Four Blondes.