Everyone wants to believe that the new "Sex and the City" movie brought the four stars closer together.

Maybe not: Rush & Molloy report that at a New York gala Monday night, SJP was very conspicuously not at the same table with Kim Cattrall, Kristin ... and yadda yadda. Anyway, they were very kissy and squeally for the shooters, but they had to sit apart during the dinner.

Event organizers says that there's no rift, just a quirk because SJP was giving an award to Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and thus sat at his table.