Ed Wood. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1992 book, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
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Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
Rudolph Grey, 1992
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Tim Burton, 1994

In 1952, Ed Wood is struggling to enter the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety magazine that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensen’s life story, Ed meets with Weiss to direct a now fictionalized film titled I Changed My Sex! Ed then meets his longtime idol, horror film actor Bela Lugosi, with whom he becomes friends. Ed takes to film production with an unusual approach.


Sex and the City. Poster of the 1998 TV series and cover of the 1996 book
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Sex and the City
Candace Bushnell, 1996
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Darren Star, 1998-2004

Carrie Bradshaw lives in Manhattan and writes a column called Sex and the City. At a birthday party for Miranda, Carrie and her friends decide to start having sex like men, meaning without emotional attachment. However, she realizes she cannot after getting brushed off by a man she has sex with one time later. Carrie has many chance encounters with a handsome businessman whom Samantha refers to as Mr. Big.


And Just Like That.... Poster of the 2021 TV series and cover of the 1996 book, Sex and the City
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Sex and the City
Candace Bushnell, 1996
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Michael Patrick King, Cynthia Nixon, 2021-

The series will follow Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.


The First Wives Club. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1992 book
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The First Wives Club
Olivia Goldsmith, 1992
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Hugh Wilson, 1996

At Middlebury College in 1969, four young friends, Annie MacDuggan, Elise Elliot, Brenda Morelli, and Cynthia Swann, are graduating. In the present time, the four friends have lost touch with one another, as evident when Cynthia is tearfully gazing at the picture of the four of them on that graduation day.


Mars Attacks!. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Mars Attacks!
Jonathan Gems, 1996
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Tim Burton, 1996

A spaceship is seen departing from Earth and returning to Mars, where it gathers hundreds of other Martian ships and heads back to Earth. Several days later, the President’s science aides set up a first contact meeting with the Martians in Pahrump, Nevada, as Dale watches the development on television with his wife Marsha and his daughter Taffy.


Extreme Measures. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1991 book
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Extreme Measures
Michael Palmer, 1991
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Michael Apted, 1996

Under the care of English physician Guy Luthan at New York’s Gramercy Hospital, a homeless individual meets a gruesome end. To Luthan’s astonishment, the patient and his medical record vanish without a trace. Despite being instructed by his superiors to let the matter go, Luthan refuses to abandon the case. His investigation leads him to a disturbing discovery: the exploitation of homeless individuals for scientific experimentation.


Sex and the City. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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Sex and the City
Candace Bushnell, 1996
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Michael Patrick King, 2008

Carrie walks through the streets of New York City thinking about events that have happened to her and her friends. Carrie herself is now in a relationship with Mr. Big, and they are viewing apartments with plans to move in together. Carrie falls in love with a penthouse far from their price range. Big offers to pay for it.


I Don't Know How She Does It. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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I Don't Know How She Does It
Allison Pearson, 2001
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Douglas McGrath, 2011

Kate Reddy devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard and their two young children. It’s a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate’s acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison performs on a daily basis, and that Kate’s super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo fully intends to avoid.


Sex and the City 2. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 1996 book, Sex and the City
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Sex and the City
Candace Bushnell, 1996
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Michael Patrick King, 2010

Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda attend the wedding of their gay friends Stanford and Anthony. For their anniversary, Carrie gives Big a vintage Rolex watch engraved with the message ‘Me and You, Just Us Two’ while he, much to her dismay, shows her a new TV in their bedroom as his gift, which Big says they can use to watch old films together, something they did at the hotel at Anthony and Stanford’s wedding and seemed to enjoy.