I’m not sure if anyone else will be interested in this, but it amused me. Page Six has a story about Sarah Jessica Parker turning up for jury duty, just like Carrie did in that Sex & the City episode. But instead of spending her jury duty time reading or writing a column, the real SJP chose to complain loudly (according to eyewitnesses) about how she was simply too busy to do her civic duty. Just for the record – I’ve never been called up for jury duty (I think my foreign-sounding name must immediately disqualify me here in the sweaty armpit of the South), but if I was called up, I would have no problems complaining loudly and trying to get out of it too. What I’m finding amusing about this SJP story is that she used two different contradictory excuses for why she shouldn’t be on a jury (her kid was sick AND she had somewhere else to be on business), and SJP spoke to the NY Post directly to try to brighten up her image:
She had her excuses as ready as a pair of Manolos. Sarah Jessica Parker got called for jury duty yesterday, but didn’t appear eager to serve. The Post overheard the “Sex and the City” star griping to another prospective panelist about the better things she had to do than cool her heels in Manhattan federal court.
“My daughter is at home sick,” said the actress, who has three children with actor-hubby Matthew Broderick. Parker, 46, also noted that she had an “international flight” tomorrow and fretted aloud that the fraud case being tried might last more than two days.
She then flipped out at a reporter and photographer outside the courthouse during a break, screaming, “Leave me alone!”
As it turned out, the jury box got filled before Parker was summoned for questioning, and she was discharged after being sent back down to the central jury room. In a phone interview afterward with The Post’s Bruce Golding, Parker denied having travel plans tomorrow and insisted she had been “ready, willing and able to serve.”
She confirmed that one of her twin daughters was home with a fever, but said she had hired a sitter to take care of the tot while she took the subway to court, arriving early at 8:40 a.m. And while other panelists offered an array of flimsy reasons why they couldn’t do their duty, Parker said, “I never once raised my hand. I don’t shirk any of my civic responsibilities.
[From Page Six]
Is this blown out of proportion? Probably. I don’t think anyone would blame SJP for griping about jury duty to anyone who would listen, just because everyone there probably wanted to gripe about it, as is our right. But I think it’s funny that SJP had to give an interview about it afterwards and deny that she was complaining. Seriously, SJP, we can handle it.
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too much botox… oh man.
She is not aging well at all.
If she loves New York as much as she claims to, than she should be willing to do her civic duty without griping and screaming (which I do believe she did).
Bad show Sarah.
I don’t know about the States but in Canada it’s an obligation of citizenship to sit on a jury when called. I’ve done jury duty before and I really appreciated the experience.
It was hilarious hearing people go before the judge with ridiculous excuses to try and get out of it.
It irks me when people complain about jury duty. C’mon, Kaiser, seriously. Other than pay taxes, this is one of our responsibilities as American citizens. If you are called, I hope you “man up” and show up. It’s the LEAST any of us can do to maintain a our rights as citizens.
EVERYBODY complains about Jury Duty. This is a non story.
Not only is this woman ugly but she is a whiner. If you ever need a jury, you will suddenly discover how important a right this is. Jury duty is as important as voting – which I assume she also complains about and does not do.
Armpit of the South? gross
Who doesn’t complain Jury Duty and for people saying it’s your civic duty need to get over it people complain about Jury Duty all the time stop bitching at SJP for doing the something hundreds of people do.
Blacks and women were forbidden to sit on juries for a long time. Because of this discrimination, many innocent men and women were found guilty and guilty men were found innocent. And now we’re complaining?? We are a nation of whiners.
Ya totally blown out of proportion – I’m sure everyone in the room was complaining & she and the others were just bitching together. She did show up after all.
Complain about the system of law we have in order to receive a fair trial? I detest this mindset. There are folks in Africa in jail for YEARS over stealing a bike due to non-existent judicial process. Take your over-privileged ass down to the jury pool to partake in your civic duty.
Over-wrought reaction to gossip site story….finished now.
I guess she had to gloss things over since everything she says is subject to
criticism. I complained loudly about jury duty and so did 1/2 of the people there.
Nothing to be ashamed of SJP.
It’s a story b/c SJP works so hard to cultivate a nice-girl non-diva image.
I saw her in a restaurant a few years ago and she stayed in the ladies room a good 30 min. Just saying.
@ #14 maybe she was taking a dump???
Just sayin……
@ #14 maybe she was taking a dump???
Just sayin……
Yeah, she should’ve been honest — she can’t keep her eye off her husband, lest he stray yet again. (Did we ever find out who donated the eggs for her twin daughters? SJP was probably too old, given the fertility issues she had with her son. Of course, he might not be her biological child, either.)
I know someone who was there with her! They said she was really nice. Go figure.
I would serve on a jury if called, for the same reason that I always go to vote even if I choose to spoil my ballot – because it’s a priviledge not every person (especially women) gets. However, my friend turned up to his jury duty wearing tweeds, a Barbour jacket and with a copy of the Daily Mail (right-leaning British paper) under his arm, and promptly got sent off on his merry way. No p*ssing or whining needed!
@tapioca: What do you suppose is the female outfit equivalent to tweeds and a Barbour jacket?
Not that I shirk any of my civic responsibilities either, natch.
“Her face looks like a foot.”
– Peter Griffin
@Cirque28: I’m not sure there’s really an equivalent for women that says “I’m a hanger, flogger & castrator and if the case has actually made it’s way to trial they MUST automatically be guilty” quite as effectively. Maybe a Margaret Thatcher-style blue suit with terrifying hair?
I just got called for fuc*ing jury duty the week of July 5. Again! i get called ever damn year because I vote. They can call you every year here is CA. Bitching about jusry duty is a necessity.
Good Lord she’s ugly.
That outfit she has on in the top picture is horrible. It looks like something a creepy cat lady spinster would wear to a tea party with her Madame Alexander dolls.
She’s become such a terrible actress. She’s just a collection of juvenile mannerisms now. A 40+ woman squaling and exclaiming like a 12-year old does not inspiring movies make. I wish they’d hired another actress for I Don’t Know How She Does It.
Miami Rhapsody is one of my favorite movies, but she’s really gotten lazy and complacent. And delusional about what she looks and sounds like onscreen.
Firstly, I’d LOVE to be called for Jury Duty. I haven’t yet, but I’d love it. I’d feel like I was an actual citizen, and making an important decision that not only affects the defendant, but the community. I would be really chuffed if I was called to do Jury Duty.
Ok, IF this is true, something doesn’t add up here. She had a sick child at home, but had to take an international flight the very next day. How serious can her ‘sick child’ be, if she is willing to abandon her child and go on an international flight? On one hand, she uses her sick child as an excuse, then immediately talks about taking an international trip? Either this story is bs, or SJP is bipolar and can’t stick to one story.
Clearly I’m the only dork who LOVES getting called for jury duty! I get out of work, still get paid and maybe get to do something a little interesting. It’s a win-win for me! I am a law geek, though! ;0
The reality is she probably would never have been placed on a jury because she would be a distraction. One of the lawyers, either defense or prosecutor, would probably strike her off the list just for that reason alone. I don’t know what the case was about, but if it had been in the papers, the judge would probably ask if the jurors could be impartial despite any media coverage. If not, raise your hand. That would get you out of there instantly. I have seen that happen.
@ Tooey – I’m not a law geek but like being called for jury duty. The people watching opportunity is just too good to pass up!
I just got summoned yesterday-but as I’m the sahm of 4 including a 2 year old, I got out of it. SJP is supposed to be fairly low key-I can’t imagine her having histrionics over this-but I can visualize her trying to get out of it.
“Good Lord she’s ugly.”
That was going to be my exact comment also.
carrie, carrie, carrie
very bitches about getting summoned to their friends and, maybe jokes about what a pain it is while waiting to see if you’ll be questioned or selected but her complaining while she was there does sound over the top. That said, why did she have to hire a babysitter to watch the girls while she went to jury duty? I had assumed with all the events she goes to, there was at least one nanny on board.
i definitely have a foreign sounding name [as does my mother], live in florida, the southern armpit’s penis cousin, and we both constantly get called for jury duty! personally i think its ridiculous what they “pay” jurors to waste their day at a courthouse listening to these cases but luckily my job always tells me they will pay me the full day so i rarely complain… [my biggest complaint so far has been the freaking times they make you get there! but i love love love answering truthfully to the atty’s questions, haha, and since i always show i know a lot about the law, they tend to disqualify me quickly, so i have never actually sat for jury duty… bummer!]
I love jury duty, I get to read and people watch. My only problem is I’ve never served on a jury! I’m ready willing and able, but I don’t get picked. I’m beginning to feel very rejected.
Rx bring her cuteness back:
collagen & a 5-10lb weight gain would be a game changer for her. 😉
Boy is she haggard looking! I love her in the Sex and the City series, but she is not aging well.
At least she doesn’t live in Clearwater, FL where she might have been picked for the Casey Anthony trial. Oh man, I would hate to be a juror on that one!
I can’t believe how horrible she looks! Has a witch face for sure. She could probably look better if she gained some weight and got a hair cut. Put her in some striped pjs and she wouldn’t need anything else to look like she just got released from a death camp.
She looks totally harsh. I do remember twenty years ago when I thought she looked cute. Now? shivers!
Eurgh. That face. Nasty!
Oh puh-leeeze, Jury Duty sucks!
Everyone complains about it, so what if she does?
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