No 'Sex And The City' For These Two, Even Though They Spent $16K For It
Do YOU have $16,000 to spend trying to attend a movie premiere? Apparently the families of two girls from British Columbia did, only to be turned away at the New York debut of the film:
They wore sexy high-heels and designer dresses hoping to walk the red carpet like their idol Carrie Bradshaw.Instead, Jen Ferguson and her pal Devon Cross had to lean on umbrellas to ease the pain in their feet, and cower for cover when the heavens opened.
The best friends from Virginia, British Columbia - who paid $16,000 for the New York trip to see "Sex" - were among thousands of disappointed "Sex and The City" fans who waited for hours outside Radio City Music Hall Tuesday only to be told the venue was overbooked. [...]
Security officials said up to 2,000 people - who had bought tickets through promotional giveaways authorized by movie studio New Line Cinema - were shut out of the screening.
Ferguson said her father bought theirs through a similar promotion from Bluefish Concierge services but had no idea if they would be refunded.
Their tickets were marked "first come, first served" but they arrived at Radio City at 3:30 p.m. and with more than 6,000 seats up for grabs, they never imagined they would not get inside.
"First come, first served." Kind of self-explanatory, don't you think? You may get in, you may not...soooooo, what's not to understand?
Well, apparently there was some sort of a snafu at Radio City, where there were too many tickets and not enough seats:
"The movie studio gave out way more promotional tickets than could fit in the orchestra," said one insider. "Radio City managers told the New Line people, 'You can solve this by opening up the mezzanines, which have 2,700 more seats - but they wouldn't do it."However, a New Line source countered, "It was Radio City Music Hall making that decision. They took control of the fan line. They turned the fans away."
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