Lipstick Jungle Reviews!

What to say about "Lipstick Jungle" when the title alone says it all? Power babes duking it out in the big city (because, presumably, if they were rural power babes, lipstick wouldn't figure in so heavily). Me, I'm not so crazy about reducing an entire gender, particularly my own, to a cosmetic. And as for "jungle," well, there's only one power species in the jungle, and that's a cat, a metaphor that just doesn't seem terribly modern, does it?Granted, there wasn't much NBC could do, since "Lipstick Jungle" was adapted from a novel of the same name, written by Candace Bushnell, who created the newspaper column "Sex and the City," which became that HBO series we've all heard so much about. Why mess with a proven brand?

“Lipstick Jungle,” which stars Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price as career women, debuts tonight — but will you be watching? And will “Lipstick Jungle” be different enough from “Cashmere Mafia” to matter? Or will both of these new women’s series cancel each other out?Well, because "Lipstick Jungle" is to "Sex and the City" what New Coke was to Coca-Cola -- a brand extension best forgotten. Whereas "Sex and the City" minted a genuine, shiny, new modern heroine -- the sexually active, sexually explicit but still romantic good girl -- "Lipstick Jungle" is content to play dress-up with a bunch of frayed-at-the-edges paper dolls. Here's Wendy Healy (Brooke Shields), the nicest movie executive you'll ever meet (she doesn't even swear), dutifully struggling to fill her roles as deal maker, mommy, wife and BFF. Needless to say, she's on the phone a lot.