Sequels are risky. Whether you’re checking out the much-anticipated part two of a movie franchise or diving back into a relationship for that just-one-more-chance shot at blissful forever after, well, it’s a 50-50 shot.
But when it comes to “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” we are all in and committed. It’s fun! Of course, the journalism parts (lay-offs, shrinking salaries and resources, the motivations of money v. truth, still-earnest writers enduring it all) were particularly delicious from our side of the fence. But also as gorge-able as popcorn is the way the once-untouchable and powerful Miranda Priestly — a female character long at the top of her game but now on wobbly ground — has to endure the indignity of the million little paper cuts in an industry that’s fighting to stay alive (magazines and newspapers, that is, in case you missed that). And that the White Knight [SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you haven’t seen it] isn’t some dude with deep pockets who’s simultaneously ruining something while he “saves” it (yes, we are still angry about the ridiculous plot of “You’ve Got Mail”), but instead comes in the form of dynamite Lucy Liu? That’s good stuff.
And it’s playing this weekend pretty much everywhere: Southampton Playhouse, Sag Harbor Cinema, Sunset Theater in Westhampton Beach, and the Regal UA East Hampton. That’s a whole lotta Prada.
Remember the cerulean blue speech? Allow us to remind you:
“You think this has nothing to do with you?… You go to your closet and you select, I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that sweater is not just blue. It’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns… and then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic, casual corner where you no doubt fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs.”
Oof! Withering. We can’t get enough of it. Or this lovely cocktail, an ode to the above Priestly speech (although, we’d imagine, she might take issue with the color; it’s really more of a turquoise) and certainly a lovely thing to kick off the weekend, friends. Cheers to you and your devils.
Cerulean Martini
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz Bols Blue 1575 liqueur (if you can't find it, blue curaçao will do the trick)
- 3/4 oz vodka
- 1/4 oz simple syrup
- 1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
Directions
- Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice.
- Shake until well-chilled, about 10 to 15 seconds.
- Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass, or a coupe. Cheers!
