Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticWillie Garson was, in his most famous role as “Sex and the City’s” Stanford Blatch, a constant.
Lovers came and went for Stanford’s best friend, Carrie Bradshaw, but Stanford was a perpetual presence — reliably warm, witty and humane even when being drawn in once again to Carrie’s chaos.
It’s a testament to Garson, who has died at age 57, and his screen presence that while Stanford was not among the show’s leads, it’s hard to imagine future iterations of the franchise without him waiting in the wings with a bon mot cued up.Much has been written about the friendships among the women on “Sex and the City,” and about the love matches between the show’s four central figures and the men they chose.
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