Breakfast w/Greg: SATC girls together again; MTM Season 5 on DVD; Remembering Army Archerd

Good morning everyone!

GOOD SEX: It just does my heart good to see my Sex and the City gals back together again.

I love and adore Samantha (Kim Catrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and can’t wait to see the second of what I hope are many more Sex and the City movies.

The four actresses are currently filming the second movie in New York City and there will be high expectations for it at the box office since the first movie grossed a surprising $152.6 million domestically.

Some fans – including some friends of mine -had nit-picky complaints about the movie and I just wanted to tell them to put a lid on it! I loved the movie and had so missed these characters. Thank God they are coming back again in May 2010!

THE WJM GANG RETURNS: I am so glad to learn that The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s fifth season is finally being released on DVD. The date is October 6!

I have the first four seasons and was furious when 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment stopped putting them out. Making matters worse was that earlier this year, a collection of all seven seasons of this comedy gem were being sold as a single set and it appeared the only way to get the remaining three seasons was to buy that.

But common sense has prevailed and we will be able to have the Chuckes Bites the Dust episode on DVD at last. Season 5 marked a transition for the show with the departures of Mary’s BFF’s Rhoda (Valerie Harper) and Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) who each got their own spinoff shows. This meant the emergence of Betty White’s delicious Sue Ann Nivens character and an expanded presence for Georgia Engel as Georgette Baxter.

Fox has now committed to releasing all three remaining seasons, covering episodes from the fall of 1974 to the spring of 1977.

ARMY ARCHERD PASSES: Longtime Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd died on Tuesday at the age of 87.

If anyone ever had a nice, long run, it was Army.

He began covering entertainment for the Associated Press on Oct. 18, 1945, and started at Daily Variety in 1953 when he began penning the daily “Just for Variety” column. His last column ran on Sept. 1, 2005, and he continued contributing to the paper and writing a blog for Variety.com. His last blog posting was July 27.

His 900-word column ran on page 2 of Daily Variety five days a week until the 1990s, when it went to four days a week. Also, for 47 years, Archerd was the official greeter of the Academy Awards, serving as emcee and interviewer of stars on Oscar’s red carpet.

Rest in peace, Army.