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Long before ‘Sex and the City’ turned into a global pop culture phenomenon, Sarah Jessica Parker played little orphan Annie on Broadway and a frizzy-haired teenager on “Square Pegs.” As the latest SATC movie opens this weekend, Parker tells Kurt about the career path that led her here. How much of the fictional Carrie is in the real Sarah Jessica? ‘Thirty percent,’ she says.

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