Plum Sykes 2007. Some have seen Sykes' books as lying in natural succession to "Sex and the City", Candace Bushnell's column in the "New York Observer", which was the inspiration for a highly successful television series (HBO 1998–2004). Others remarked that the story was no less than the kind of offensive vapid claptrap you would expect from a dead-eyed rich girl. However, despite their satire, others have regarded them as too rooted in Sykes' own Park Avenue "set" to be reflective more generally of women's lives in post-9/11 Manhattan. Anita Loos' "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1925) is perhaps a closer, if incomparable, antecedent.
The Lookie Loos The Lookie Loos The Lookie Loos are a New Zealand rock band formed in 2005 at the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton. The two founding members of Tim Steers (Guitar and Vox) and Alex Mustard (Bass) met whilst studying. Steers moved from the U.K to study music in New Zealand and Mustard made the long journey from Waihi to study sport. The first full line up of the Lookie Loos saw the addition of an American drummer by the name of Joe Gruber, the three-piece then began playing live in Auckland and Hamilton in as many venues as they