Sarah Jessica Parker lines up 'Ivy'

June 25, 2008 After pulling her children from private school, Ames starts a business to help upper-middle-class women get their children into elite kindergartens. The project, based on Karen Quinn's eponymous novel, is described as following in the vein of "The Devil Wears Prada" and "The Nanny Diaries" as well as Gigi Levangie Grazer's "The Starter Wife," which became a successful limited series on USA. About eight months before "Sex" became a summer smash, Parker had signed on to a romantic comedy titled "The Late Bloomer's Revolution," which HBO Films was to have produced for Picturehouse; with the dissolution of the unit, that project's status is uncertain.

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