Even then, no one was quite sure what to make of Cynthia Nixon. It was 2009, nearly a decade before her campaign for governor of New York, and Ms. Nixon was in Albany lobbying lawmakers on a marriage equality bill. One Republican senator began their meeting clutching a printout that suggested Ms. Nixon had been hypocritical. Ms. Nixon cut him off. As Miranda Hobbes, her character on “Sex and the City.”“He just kind of folded up the paper and put it away,” Ms. Nixon recalled recently as she sat in her kitchen in Manhattan, where a birthday card from her in-laws showed Gov.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2018 09:00 UTC