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 returned and the band continued to play as many shows as they could to heighten their profile within NZ whilst finishing their own E.P. The Lookie Loos wrote, recorded and engineered their debut E.P, "Timing Is Everything" over a 3-month period at the Waikato Institute of Technology. They have since gone on to play at The Big Day Out in 2008 and have become known for their British influenced pop rock. 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