'Sex and the City' tell-all in the works
Tuesday, January 8th 2008, 4:00 AM

The next shocking "Sex and the City" installment could be a book, not a movie.
Clifford Streit, the former manager of author Candace Bushnell, is shopping a behind-the-scenes memoir of the series' early days tentatively titled "Unbecoming Stanford." (Stanford Blatch, Carrie Bradshaw's flamboyant gay best friend played by Willie Garson, was intended as a caricature of Streit.)

Recently, Bushnell and Streit amicably settled a financial dispute over payment from the show.

Included in a proposal being circulated by Artists and Artisans agent Adam Chromy are details of a real-life affair that allegedly took place between two of "SATC's" on-screen lovers. It is a story that will cause plenty of headaches if it makes it into print.

The book suggests tensions on set began because Kim Cattrall was "a natural comedienne, and a scene-stealer in the best possible sense - the camera went right to her." And executive producer Darren Star passed on Ashton Kutcher for the show because, he privately confided after a dinner meeting, "I don't see this kid going anywhere."


Then there was a night out at Moomba, when the show was enjoying its first flush of success. Streit recalls getting so drunk on Cosmopolitans with cast members that he actually threw up on Chris Noth's shoes.

"I see my wit has failed me again," he quipped.

Ben Widdicombe of Daily News