She arrives in the city’s theater scene and meets an endlessly entertaining group of artists.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, New York City in the 1940s?

I want to write about that!

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When we meet the pair, they hate each other; after a one-night stand, sparks fly.

But forSex and the Cityauthor Candace Bushnell, it’s exactly the age when women need her the most.

But it’s been a long wait since her lauded 2011 debut,The Tiger’s Wife.

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“That’s something I’ve been intrigued by since I was a kid.

O’Neill spent 20 years wrestling with that question, andChaosis his final answer.

“The satire has to be more than reality,” says author Reed King.

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“I kept having to go back and change things!”

“Apollo 13andBackdraftwere two of my favorite movies when I was a kid,” Hart tells EW.

“Ron Howard was one of the first directors that I could cite by name.

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All of these years later, for him to be interested in a book that I wrote?

It’s completely surreal.

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