No ‘Sex’ and the big screen

Aspen, Colo. — Bad news for “Sex and the City” fans: The show’s producer, Michael Patrick King, who wrapped up the series with a final show Feb. 22, told an audience at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., that they’d be wasting their time waiting to see Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her gal pals frolic on the silver screen in a film adaptation of HBO’s comedy of the mannerless.

“Nothing we did in the series was altered to save something for the movie,” King said. “This is exactly the way we wanted to end the series.”

King’s sound bite comes amid tabloid rumors that the show’s two alpha gals are the real cause for the nonmovie. It all depends on what you want to believe. Either Kim Cattrall loathes Parker because of the way she was treated by the series star, or both actors have derailed the big-screen project by demanding a reported $14.4 million plus royalties to star in it.

Image makeover, part I

Tokyo — David Bowie, pushing 60, says he’s headed for another experimental phase.

Speaking in Tokyo to start this week’s Japan leg of his world tour, Bowie said he’s stripping down his act to try out some new approaches.

“I’m heading for another period of experimentation,” he said. “(I’m at) a time when I’m collecting myself before I break all my own rules.”

The iconic artist has gone through various personas during his more than three-decade career, including Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke.

Now, he said, he wants to focus on his songwriting and singing.”It’s probably the simplest tour that I’ve ever done,” he said. “This is very stripped down. It’s really not working with theatrics at all.”

Image makeover, part II

New York — Johnny Depp isn’t averse to acting a little weird — even off camera.

The actor, whose role in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” earned him a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination, said he has disliked conformity since his career began.

In the latest edition of Time magazine, Depp says that in the 1980s he was so desperate to get out of playing heartthrob detective Tom Hanson on Fox’s “21 Jump Street” that he wore odd clothes and spoke in tongues on the set. The producers, though, didn’t buy the nutty routine.

“It was a weird thing not to be in control of your own image,” he said. “I remember saying to myself, ‘Man, when I’m free of this, I’m going to do only the things that I want to do. I’m going to go down whatever road I decide.”‘

Travis uninjured in bus crash

Lakeville, Pa. — A tour bus carrying country singer Randy Travis ran into a ditch in eastern Pennsylvania, but no one was injured.

The 45-foot, customized bus careened into a driveway Sunday afternoon and then went into the ditch on state Road 590 near Lakeville, said Elizabeth Travis, the singer’s wife.

The Travises and driver Jeff Davis were the only ones on the bus.

After two tow trucks pulled the bus from the ditch, Travis continued on to a performance two miles away at a Caesar’s resort.