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NEW YORK — Sunday's finale of 'Sex and the City' promises to be a fight to the finish for the heart of Carrie Bradshaw. Hanging in the balance is not just the man (Aleksandr Petrovsky or Mr. Big?) or the place (Carrie's beloved Manhattan, or Paris, where she defected last week?), but also the feelings of fans after six randy seasons on the town with sex columnist Carrie and her three gal pals. What of the sweet sorrow of those viewers Carrie is leaving behind? Many questions are afoot -- stylishly shod in Manolos, no doubt -- as 'Sex and the City' concludes at 9 p.m. EST on HBO (preceded at 8 p.m. by a series retrospective). Of course, what made the show so much more than a hit is, in part, its knack for raising questions the audience was already asking themselves -- or eager to. Stocking four flavors of dishy, piquant womanhood, it treated viewers to one tasty conundrum after another. 'Can women have sex like men?' posed Carrie, the show's provocative narrator, on its very first episode. Later she would wonder aloud, 'How often is normal?' ... 'Can you be friends with an ex?' ... 'Do we need distance to get close?' ... 'Why are we should-ing all over ourselves?' But now the big question: How will it end? 'We made a decision,' said series star and co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker, one of the few who know, 'and I hope people understand why. I hope people will feel that Carrie is loved and loving, and that she feels contentment.' But even Parker is full of uncertainty as she closes the book on Carrie and Miranda, the cynical but softened-up lawyer played by Cynthia Nixon; Charlotte, the bright-eyed true believer (Kristin Davis); and hot-to-trot PR exec Samantha (Kim Cattrall). 'It's just as complicated as it could be,' Parker said last week from her Soho apartment, trying to assess her state of mind only days after completing post-production on the final episode. Ending the show was voluntary, she noted, 'but that doesn't make it any le
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