Cynthia Nixon has hit out at reports that she had a boob job last week - instead pointing out that she was actually going in for a check to make sure her cancer had not returned.

“I was at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital for my ‘three-monthly’ checkup,” said Nixon, a breast-cancer survivor. “I was in the Oncology Department. I guess they think that means ‘plastic surgery.’” Badum-bump!

“We got a call from [the Post] asking if I’d had breast augmentation, and my publicist laughed at them and said, ‘No, of course not.’ But they printed it anyway. If I was going to get a boob job, wouldn’t it make sense that I’d get it before ‘Sex and the City’?” Ba-dump!

Cynthia adds that her lumpectomy did not warrant reconstructive surgery.

I’m really starting to wonder if hospitals should have some kind of protection services for celebrities, particularly following the leaks from UCLA about Farrah Fawcett’s cancer treatment and Britney’s breakdown. I’ve been to hospital twice recently and I was not receiving treatment either time, but if I was a celebrity I would be either pregnant or having plastic surgery. Considering that Cynthia Nixon has spoken about her cancer previously I think it was wrong to suggest that she was having a breast augmentation.

The Sydney Morning Herald today has a an article questioning whether the photography of newsworthy figures - not only celebrities but also other public figures such as politicians or murderers - should be considered part of the freedom of the press. It asks what balance needs to be made between public interest, profit and news.

Cynthia Nixon is shown at the Susan G. Komen National Race for the Cure event at the Newseum in
Washington DC on 6/6/08, thanks to WENN.

David Ross’ “The Babysitters” is an ugly affair masquerading as either a black comedy or, even more cynically, a peek into the misunderstood psyches of teenage girls and the middle-age men who’d love to have sex with them. An unfunny waste of at least a couple of talented actors, the movie - which opened in limited release this weekend - is too safe to be prurient and too leering to be convincing as an after-school special.

For reasons that appear to be purely monetary, a group of high-school girls transform their “baby-sitting” service into a call-girl ring catering to the lustful and disaffected dads of their charges. The 16-year-old Shirley Lyner (played by Katherine Waterston) is the waif-turned-madam whose dalliance with a client’s dad (played by John Leguizamo, also the film’s producer) earns her a guilt-inspired big tip and sparks an idea.

Justification or character motivation appears to be of little interest to writer/director Ross. The 94-minute film is on a veritable sprint to get Shirley and Michael from first handshake to forbidden kiss to copulation.

The leap from that improper tryst to Shirley enlisting her friends - and Michael lining up his - is equally speedy, with every male character over the age of 18 (including Anthony Comeau, Ethan Phillips and Adam LeFevre) more despicable than the next. The girls, who are either all business or severely damaged, aren’t much better.

Shirley, we are to understand, is working through the slings and arrows of her first love while socking away some college money (she writes the word “Trouble” on the bills, bless her moral soul) in the process. Apart from some take-charge bristling when her girls threaten to cut her out, Waterston (the daughter of “Law & Order’s” Sam Waterston) is utterly un-credible as a high-school misfit.

An even greater crime is the presence/waste of “Sex and the City’s” Cynthia Nixon, who, playing Leguizamo’s devoted but unknowing wife, interjects the film’s only bit of believability.

“We made a mess,” giggles Shirley immediately following her deflowering. Where “The Babysitters” is concerned, truer words were never spoken.

The cast of “Sex and the City: The Movie” reunited April 24 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, four years after waving goodbye to the hit HBO show with the chat show doyenne.Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Chris Noth all joined Oprah in the studio for the episode, which will air on Thursday May 1. “I am excited — excited is like a flip-flop to a high heel. Like it doesn’t even describe [it],” an upbeat SJP told Winfrey of the hype surrounding the hotly-anticipated movie.

“[The reunion has] been such a blast,” added Cattrall, offering little fodder to fuel the rumors of an ongoing feud between herself and Parker.

In fact, filming the movie was such a blast that Chris Noth has already told Extra that a sequel could be in the works.

“I imagine if it made a lot of money, they’d want one. I don’t know where Sarah [Jessica Parker] stands on that… it’s sort of up to her. I’m just riding her coattails,” he told the show.