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archive.parade.com/2004/0201/0201_instepwith.html
In Step With Chris Noth
By James Brady
Published: February 1, 2004
At a Manhattan eatery famed as a power-lunch spot for powerful New Yorkers, I was with none other than “Mr. Big” from the hit HBO series Sex and the City.
Tall, tough yet affable Chris Noth was understandably disheveled following a day-long weather delay at the Montreal airport—no jacket or tie, unshaven, drinking black coffee, eating a bison burger and needing a little sleep. But that didn’t stop people from coming over to the table to say hello. (One pretty waitress asked for a date.)
On Feb. 16, Noth (rhymes with both) will star in a 2-hour original TNT movie called Bad Apple, about the underbelly of New York’s criminal world. As one of the executive producers, he nurtured the film to life after years of trying to get it made. It’s based on an Anthony Bruno novel, and Chris portrays FBI agent Mike Tozzi, with Elliott Gould as a mob boss. “Elliott is wonderful,” Noth said. “We don’t play it for laughs. There’s laughter, but you know lives are at stake. I love Anthony Bruno’s books. If this one works, we’ll do some more—not as a series but as individual movies with the same characters.”<br>Noth’s current gig, Sex and the City, is winding down to its final episode, which is scheduled to air Feb. 22. I asked Chris about working with Sarah Jessica Parker. “Sarah Jessica is impeccable,” he told me. “She’s warm, professionally and personally, and lights up when she has a good line or a good scene—or when you do.” And after the series ends? “She’ll raise her kid,” he said. “She knows what’s important.”<br>Is Noth going to miss being “Mr. Big” on the show? “Sure,” he said. “They’ve told me I’m in the last episode. They’re really keeping the lid on. I’m going to miss the company—the women. It’s the women’s show, really. They’re terrific.”<br>As for women, Chris has never married. He has a girlfriend and lives in L.A. He also has a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan but is looking for a larger place. “I don’t make that big Hollywood money, but I’m doing OK,” he said. So much so, in fact, that he’s co-owner of a bar and restaurant in Manhattan called The Cutting Room. He scribbled the phone number and manager’s name on my newspaper. “We have great jazz and great burgers,” Noth said. “At night, singers drop in and perform. You’ve got to come down.”<br>
archive.parade.com/2004/0201/0201_instepwith.html
In Step With Chris Noth
By James Brady
Published: February 1, 2004
At a Manhattan eatery famed as a power-lunch spot for powerful New Yorkers, I was with none other than “Mr. Big” from the hit HBO series Sex and the City.
Tall, tough yet affable Chris Noth was understandably disheveled following a day-long weather delay at the Montreal airport—no jacket or tie, unshaven, drinking black coffee, eating a bison burger and needing a little sleep. But that didn’t stop people from coming over to the table to say hello. (One pretty waitress asked for a date.)
On Feb. 16, Noth (rhymes with both) will star in a 2-hour original TNT movie called Bad Apple, about the underbelly of New York’s criminal world. As one of the executive producers, he nurtured the film to life after years of trying to get it made. It’s based on an Anthony Bruno novel, and Chris portrays FBI agent Mike Tozzi, with Elliott Gould as a mob boss. “Elliott is wonderful,” Noth said. “We don’t play it for laughs. There’s laughter, but you know lives are at stake. I love Anthony Bruno’s books. If this one works, we’ll do some more—not as a series but as individual movies with the same characters.”<br>Noth’s current gig, Sex and the City, is winding down to its final episode, which is scheduled to air Feb. 22. I asked Chris about working with Sarah Jessica Parker. “Sarah Jessica is impeccable,” he told me. “She’s warm, professionally and personally, and lights up when she has a good line or a good scene—or when you do.” And after the series ends? “She’ll raise her kid,” he said. “She knows what’s important.”<br>Is Noth going to miss being “Mr. Big” on the show? “Sure,” he said. “They’ve told me I’m in the last episode. They’re really keeping the lid on. I’m going to miss the company—the women. It’s the women’s show, really. They’re terrific.”<br>As for women, Chris has never married. He has a girlfriend and lives in L.A. He also has a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan but is looking for a larger place. “I don’t make that big Hollywood money, but I’m doing OK,” he said. So much so, in fact, that he’s co-owner of a bar and restaurant in Manhattan called The Cutting Room. He scribbled the phone number and manager’s name on my newspaper. “We have great jazz and great burgers,” Noth said. “At night, singers drop in and perform. You’ve got to come down.”<br>