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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Sex" moved from the city to the cinema on Friday as hordes of determined women descended upon Manhattan for the premiere of "Sex and the City" in the city where the hit television show-turned-film takes place.

"Is there a New York girl that isn’t (a fan of the show)?" asked Nikki Lamarine, who stood outside a Times Square cinema as she and about 30 girlfriends clutched opening-night tickets they had secured several weeks in advance.

"If there is, she’s weird," Lamarine added.

In honor of the premiere, the women sported bright dresses, high heels and dramatic hats that owed more than a little to the four style-savvy stars of the new film and the hit HBO television series on which it is based.

One of the very few men in the crowd was New Yorker Dennis Castillo, a longtime fan who had come with a group of female friends.

"I’m really excited to see Samantha and all her craziness," said Castillo, referring to one of the four women friends who in the film are portrayed living their lives four years after they left off when the TV show went off the air in 2004.

An online survey of more than 10,000 moviegoers buying tickets for "Sex and the City" found that 94 percent were women, and that 67 percent planned to attend the movie this weekend with a group of female friends.

Several Manhattan bars were serving free Cosmopolitans, a cocktail favored by the foursome on the TV show, to those who had attended opening night.

Sarah Jessica Parker, who stars as the fashion-conscious Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw, said this week that fans expecting "the joy and the good times and the whimsy and the clothes and the cocktails and the salty language" would get their fill, but might be surprised to find "that the shank of the movie is pretty sad."

That could account for at least some of the grumbling on film-centered Web sites such as the Internet Movie Data Base, where more than 3,000 users had rated the film a paltry 3.7 of a possible 10 as of Friday night.

But the voting breakdown hinted at a healthy dose of sexism in the city, with men casting nearly three times as many votes as women, and rating the film a 3, while women gave it a 7.

 

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new documentary that takes a wide-ranging look at steroid abuse suggests an American culture of winning at all costs is at odds with its public condemnation of the performance-enhancing drugs.

"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*," which opened in the United States on Friday, features interviews with gym junkies, medical experts, U.S. lawmakers and athletes such as former sprinters Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson and cyclist Floyd Landis.

But the documentary from the producers of Michael Moore’s hits "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine" also includes comical and touching first-person accounts by director Chris Bell and his confessed steroid-using weightlifting and bodybuilding brothers.

"I am basically looking at all the hypocrisy surrounding steroids," said Bell, 35, who chronicles growing up idolizing and emulating "winners" such as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"Seeing all these larger-than-life heroes, I wanted to be like them and I did not know they were using steroids," he said. "Nobody wants to talk about steroids and I knew my brothers would tell me the truth so I started with them."

The film broadens its scope when it explores why steroids have a bad name — they have legitimate medical purposes but it is illegal to use them without a prescription in the United States — and why America obsesses over body image.

"More scrupulously reported than your average Michael Moore film but every bit as entertaining, ‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster*’ is as commercial as documentaries come," said Variety magazine.

The film suggests that part of the problem is a penchant for making scapegoats out of athletes like former Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson when in fact steroids can be traced back to American Olympic teams in the 1950s and 1960s.

It also points to the lack of regulation by agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of enhancers such as legal dietary supplements, which can include stimulants.

"They should be working on defining better rules and regulations. You have to follow the rules but then the rules are really blurry," said Bell, adding that more money needs to be put into drug testing.

"Everything has to be bigger and better and that is part of the American psyche," he said. "It’s not steroids that are the problem, they are a side effect of being American. The idea of steroids comes out of the idea of winning."