Kim Cattrall has swapped sleek Manhattan for gray Liverpool to accept an honorary fellowship from a university in her English home town.

The “Sex and the City” star was named a fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in northwest England on Monday in recognition of her contribution to the arts.

The 53-year-old actress was born in the English port city but was raised largely in Canada.

She told hundreds of graduating students packed into Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral that the honor was “a dream come true.”

Wearing academic cap and gown, Cattrall told the audience that she was proud of her Liverpool roots, and said “whoever said ‘you can’t go home again’ didn’t come from Liverpool.”

Sharon Stone has never shied away from controversy, either on screen (see ‘Basic Instinct’ ) or off (see her comments on China’s earthquake being “karma”).

Now, according to DeadlineHollywood, the actress is joining the cast of the sure-to-be-protested comedy ‘Sweet Baby Jesus,’ which transplants the nativity story to ’70s-era Bethlehem, Maryland. Since the events play out at Christmas time, the locals begin expecting a Second Coming.

Stone will play the mother of pregnant hippie chick Mary, a role once reportedly offered to another 50-something sex symbol, Kim Cattrall.

In yet more cast changes, Adrien Brody is now in final negotiations to play Mary’s boyfriend Joseph, instead of Sam Rockwell. The lead role of Mary was once going to be played by Britney Spears; instead, 19-year-old British singer Pixie Lott — her hits include ‘Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)’ and ‘Boys and Girls’ — was announced for the part in May.

Peter Hewitt, who gave the world ‘Garfield’ and ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey,’ will direct. Filming begins in Maryland and Ireland next month.

Stone recently did a four-episode guest arc on ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ as A.D.A. Jo Marlowe.

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has said that she is set to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool.
The British-born actress will be given the doctorate at a ceremony later this year at the university in North West England and she can’t wait to don the traditional cap and gown, reported Daily Mail online.

“I was born there and have a lot of family there. I can’t wait to get into a gown and wear one of those caps. Very sexy,” said Cattrall.

The 53-year-old actress is set to spend more time in Liverpool this autumn when she stars in a production of Antony and Cleopatra with Jeffrey Kissoon at the city’s Everyman theatre. Cattrall is looking forward to tackle the role of the iconic Egyptian queen. “Cleopatra’s such a fascinating woman to explore and I’m excited to get back to doing Shakespeare,” she said.

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TWELVE years, 94 episodes and two blockbuster movies later, the ladies of Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon have decided to hang up their Monolos and call it an end.

After the second movie of the Sex And The City received disappointing reviews, Grazia reports that all plans for a third installment have been placed on hold, despite the cast’s optimism to have a trilogy of the flicks.

Sarah Jessica Parker recently said: “I hope Carrie will live on.”

And John Corbett said: “I think the girls are up for [another movie] and Michael Patrick King has lots of ideas.”

The second movie was surrounded with controversy after scenes set in Abu Dhabi being branded “borderline racist”.

In addition the movie was universally slammed by critics, Entertainment Weekly wrote a scathing review: “SATC 2 transformed four once mildly likeable characters into rancid, obliviously overentitled grotesques.”

The movie performed disappointingly at the box office, coming in third in the U.S on it’s opening weekend and taking in $37million (over R280 million) compared to the first movie which raked in $57million (over R435 million).

Sex And The City was based in part on writer Candace Bushnell’s book of the same name compiled from her weekly column in the New York Observer, with the show focusing on four big city professional women living their lives in New York City.

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Kim Cattrall is clueless about men.

The ‘Sex and the City’ actress – who plays maneater Samantha Jones in both the TV series and on the big-screen – insists she doesn’t know much about the opposite sex and just accepts people for who they are. Kim – who has been married three times – said: “I’m dating again, but I know nothing about men. They remain a mystery to me, other than that they are predictable. I think a man shows you on the first date who he is, so that’s when you should be very aware. But I don’t think that you can change anybody. They are who they are. I think that’s the secret to a successful marriage, or a successful relationship, accepting the other person for who they are.”

The 53-year-old star also admitted she sometimes finds it tough being single but relies on her friends to get her through the hard times.

She told Parade.com: “I’m single at the moment, and sometimes you get very lonely being single. Sometimes it’s tough. It’s great to have girlfriends in my life that I can call, just like the characters do in Sex and the City. They get you through the rough times and you also have some amazing, fun times with them.”

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Australian fans of Sex and the City have not let terrible reviews of the new film stop them from seeing it.

Opening weekend grossed almost $9 million in Australia alone.

All over Perth ladies enjoyed champagne and movie launch parties, hitting the red carpet and getting dressed up in order to be Carried away.

Sex and the City 2 follows the hit television show’s characters on holiday to Abu Dhabi, and carries many cringe-worthy moments.

The leading ladies, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon engage in some amazing costume changes, and whine their way through the film as they discuss how their lives have turned out – which is to say, exactly how they wanted their lives to turn out.

There is a flamboyant gay wedding, Liza Minnelli, poolside perving, Samantha behaving very badly, Samantha behaving badly again, Carrie being silly, some fun moments and plenty of fabulous fashion.

But the film fails to live up to the television series, which was more quick witted, socially relevant and clever.

That knowledge has not been enough to scare off audiences.

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Kim Cattrall talks about how women are mostly portrayed according to men’s fantasies

Samantha is a very strong and sexy character. How do you get the balance as an actor?
Kim: The most important thing is what you say because the audience is listening. You always have to be a little bit ahead of your audience, a little bit ahead of what’s happening in the news. For me to have this storyline of menopause is quite refreshing because it’s never really been done before. He has tackled something that is quite unique and for me to play it as an actress was just a delight.

Fashion was also quite exotic. Any favourites for you?
Kim: Oh! quite a few. I liked the bathing suits that were made; they were from a Turkish designer. I had a Japanese designer doing my finger nails. I loved specifically the colours because we were in such an exotic place and everything was hidden; and so these colours, stood out because everything else was quite dark and mysterious.

Has playing Samantha over the years in any way seeped into your real life?
Kim: No. I don’t think so. I see a very clear delineation between myself and Samantha. That doesn’t mean that I don’t love her. I do. And I love playing her. Although in some way, she has definitely influenced my fashion. But I’m not a character who lives in her world. I make a very clear definition of it when I go home, I’m Kim not Samantha.

The movie has influenced the world, including India. Is it the message, the look or the feel that let it go on for so long?
Kim: I think that there has never been enough for women about women’s lives, about how they really are and about how they really speak and communicate to one another. I think there have been men’s ideas about how women react and these are mostly due to fantasies of how men want women to react and speak. But it’s been such a relief for women all over the world to relate to something that is strong, truthful and real. It was like when women were waiting for the pill.

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Cattrall, stepped out at the Tokyo event in a sleek angled bob that featured brow-length bangs. Her locks were still their signature honey-hue, and she donned a sparkling gold dress.

Cattrall looked wonderful from head to toe, and we love the new look. It is, however, a little strange for an actress to switch hairstyles in the midst of a press junket. Perhaps Cattrall is using the sexy look to channel her sultry alter-ego: Samantha Jones.

The rest of the ladies looked lovely as well. The film has received a slew of bad reviews, but if Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda look fabulous, then it can’t be all bad, right?

The film has taken in $31,002,000 at the box office thus far, and is in second place, behind “Shrek Forever After,” according to “BoxOffice.com.”ADNFCR-2773-ID-19814628-ADNFCR

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Kim Cattrall has promised she will no longer remove her clothes for sex scenes now that she is in her fifties – insisting she will stay covered up from now on.

The 53 year old became famous for her saucy role as Samantha Jones in the “Sex and the City” TV series, which saw her disrobe to act out graphic sexual scenarios on a regular basis.

Cattrall has continued the character in two movies, but she’s adamant fans hoping to see her strip on screen in “Sex and the City 2″ will be disappointed.

She told Heart FM, “When I turned 50, I decided that I didn’t want to be photographed nude anymore, so you don’t really see me nude (in the new movie), you see me doing maybe a physical, a sexual act, but there’s no part of my body that is exposed. I don’t consider these sex scenes, I consider them comedic opportunities because all of these romps that Samantha goes on are funny. They’re mostly about looks and dialogue than they are about any kind of sexuality or sexual act, and they always have been.”

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Kim Cattrall has joked she wants to form a girl group with her Sex and the City co-stars.

In the new movie, Kim, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon filmed a riotous scene at a karaoke bar. The actresses have also recorded a song for the album which accompanies the film, lending their vocals to a cover version of Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman.

Kim is thrilled with the results and was pleasantly surprised by her vocal talents. Other stars to appear on the album include Liza Minnelli, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson. Kim has suggested they should all get together and secure a lucrative residency in Las Vegas.

“We have got to go to Las Vegas, we got to tour. Especially after recording the song and having Liza do one too,” she exclaimed. “It would be so much fun. We could make a new girl group.”

Kim had to wear a number of outrageous outfits when she reprised her role as maneater Samantha Jones for the second movie. Many of the clothes were inspired by the 80s and featured studs, big shoulder pads and bright colours. Kim has revealed the dress she wore for the karaoke scene actually belonged to someone else and stylist Patricia Field demanded to use it in the movie.

“The outfit with the big shoulder pads was extraordinary. That was on the back of a drag queen at a party that Pat went to about a week before we filmed the karaoke sequence. She literally ripped it off his back and said, ‘I need that for a character in my movie.’ Then she called me and I came in for a fitting,” Kim explained on British programme GMTV.

“But it wasn’t a dress it was a shirt so they extended it overnight and it was absolutely fabulous. It was like something out of Battlestar Galactica.”

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