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Sex and the City may be on hiatus, but there's still Lifetime's The Golden Girls. The similarities are uncanny. Rue McClanahan even sees a lot of her Blanche in Kim Cattrall's Samantha, though ''Blanche was more selective!''

THE GOLDEN GIRLS

Dorothy (Bea Arthur) has a fling with her ex.

Sophia (Estelle Getty) stealthily signs up the girls for a walkathon.

Rose (Betty White) is forced to care for an uncle's pig.

Dorothy is shocked to learn her date is a priest.

Rose tries celibacy to end her hometown's drought.

Blanche learns that her ''straight'' brother is actually gay.

The girls fly to L.A. and get mugged.

The Miami police think the girls are prostitutes; they get arrested.

SEX AND THE CITY

Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) has a fling with her ex. Again. And again.

Samantha stealthily signs up the girls for a sex workshop.

Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is forced to care for a boyfriend's dog.

Samantha is shocked to be turned down by a priest.

Miranda tries celibacy to protest her own dating drought.

Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns that her ''gay'' buddy is actually straight.

The girls fly to L.A. and get bikini-waxed.

A French architect thinks Carrie is a prostitute; she keeps the cash.


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Posted Aug 24, 2001 | Published in issue #610-611 Aug 24, 2001 | Order Article Reprints