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Posted on August 19, 2009 with No Comments
Looks like Gossip Girl’s lone black girl (oh, wait we forgot about non-talking Nicole Fiscella!) is getting some company. The CW has just cast veteran actress Gina Torres as Vanessa Abrams’ mom!
Torres, who we LOVED in Chris Rock’s I Think I Love My Wife, will play Gabriela Abrams, a “free spirit” who lives “off the grid” in Vermont.
We can’t wait for this new injection of color!
Posted on August 2, 2009 with No Comments
Tyra Banks is joining the cast of Gossip Girl for a guest appearance in the third season of the teen drama series.
Banks will play the character of Ursula Nyquist a “larger-than-life actress” who has a run-in with Serena at a film premiere. Blindie smells catfight? Or maybe another shoe fight like in the Hannah Montana movie?
Hilary Duff is also slated to appear in the upcoming season, as an actress who rooms with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) at NYU.
Posted on May 19, 2009 with No Comments
Our favorite Upper East Siders are graduating from high school and surprise, surprise Gossip Girl is going with them to college.
Here are Blindie’s TOP 10 moments from the season finale episode “The Goodbye Gossip Girl”:
- The love affair between Lily and Rufus is off again, and then on again, just like Blair and Chuck and Vanesa and Nate.
- Nate Archibald divulging his cougar love affair to his father who promises to protect him from any future repercussions is truly touching in a preppy, rich, waspy sort of way.
- Gossip Girl calls Nate a class whore, Dan an insider, Chuck Bass a coward, Blair a weakling, and Serena “officially irrelevant” after graduation.
- Serena tries to bring down Gossip Girl and Jenny tries to break the cycle of mean girl hierarchy. Wait what? That would make everyone irrelevant.
- Should we be offended that Nelly Yuki (Yin Chang) spends her time at the graduation party chasing after a soup dumpling or that she winds up being the sloppy drunk at the next party? Actually, her almost drunken declaration of love to Dan Humphrey offends us more!
- Blair uses the beheading of Ann Boleyn as an example to Jenny Humphrey to “forget boys” and “keep your eye on the prize.” And because Chuck still hasn’t surrendered his heart Blair advises, “You can’t make people love you, but you can make them fear you.” Spoken like a true Queen Bee.
- Blair gives Serena the ultimate It girl gift – her framed mugshot photo!
- Jenny is chosen as the new Queen Bee-yatch as she is crowned with a headband (what else?).
- We love that just about everyone is going to NYU. Even Scott (Chris Riggi), the love child of Lily and Rufus and Georgina!
- Our hearts broke everytime Chuck broke Blair’s, and when he finally came to his senses and declared his love for her we absolutely melted!
Posted on May 11, 2009 with No Comments
Lily (Kelly Rutherford) proves the old adage “like mother, like daughter” holds true as she finds herself becoming just as controlling and manipulating as Cece just to avoid scandal and protect her family name while Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester) learn GFs come before BFs. And hello, flashback city as creator Josh Schwartz unveils the Gossip Girl spin-off
Here are Blindie’s Top 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “Valley Girl” episode:
- The zingers were flying all night as Serena zaps her mom with, “I would rather give my kids up for adoption than end up like you. Oh wait, you did that.” And Lily sums up Cece saying, “my mother doesn’t need forgiveness, she needs electro-schock therapy.”
- We’re so over the Dove Go Fresh commercials! Why is the only non-white girl featured in the series a broke filmmaker from Brooklyn? What, they couldn’t find any privileged Upper East Side ethnic girls?
- We’re loving Grandma Cece’s fondness for gin! “May I have a gin and tonic, no tonic,” she orders in an 80s flashback. And now her daughter Lily accuses her of “rushing back to that bottle of gin she has hidden under the sink.”
- How fitting for 80s dreamboat Andrew McCarthy to play Lily’s dad Rick. But wait, wasn’t McCarthy a preppy teenager wooing Jenny in Pretty in Pink in the mid-eigthies, not a big time music exec shirking his parental duties.
- We must have the music from the Gossip Girl flashback soundtrack: “Mirror in the Bathroom,” by English Beat; “Dancing with myself” by Billy Idol; “I Melt With You” by Modern English; “Blue Monday” by New Order; “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats.
- No Doubt posing as a punk band and Gwen Stefani looking so young and hot, like she doesn’t have two kids and a hubby at home.
- Loving how the lure of a tiara convinces Blair that prom queens aren’t just for “suburban schools and the lame teen comedies that are set at them.” And Mother-Chucker Bass making sure that Blair gets the crown and all her scrapbook prom dreams come true -right down to the dress!
- Now that Blair has achieved her ultimate high school dream of going to prom with Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), she realizes she’s over him.
- When is Lily’s sister going to resurface in the present day? She’d probably bring more drama than Georgina!
- Did the final flashback scene on the L.A. bus remind anyone else of Pat Benator’s “Love is a Battlefield”
Posted on May 4, 2009 with 1 Comment
The Gossip Girl gang is all here, Blair, Chuck, Nate, Serena even Georgina, and they’re scheming and plotting together like true Upper East Side friends. But can born-again Georgina take the wheel back from Jesus and steer everyone out of a financial mess?!
Here are Blindie’s TOP 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “Wrath of Con” episode:
- Poppy Lifton (Tamara Feldman) is using Gabriel (Armie Hammer) to run a Ponzi scheme on Serena’s friends and even Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle) gets caught up in it. Because Ponzi schemes aren’t just for Jewish people anymore.
- We love how Lily Bass (Kelly Rutherford) would rather pay everyone off and prevent scandal and a ruined social image rather than go after the real crooks.
- Rufus Humphrey plans to surprise Lily with dinner and pop the question so he wheels the food to her ritzy Manhattan apartment in a rickety wagon! Hasn’t he ever heard of delivery?! Take that old lady wagon back to Brooklyn!
- Last season everyone wanted Serena (Blake Lively), now Blair (Leighton Meester) is in high demand as Nate (Chace Crawford) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) fight for her attention.
- Can Dan Humphrey’s (Penn Bagdley) big mouth ruin anymore plots?!
- Blair asks Chuck to declare his love for her or let her go. Of course Chuck does not let his guard down and he lets Blair go, then admits to Serena that it’s because he loves her and can’t make her happy.
- Georgina’s cell phone ring is a “praise the Lord” song.
- The big plan to bust Poppy goes south as Serena is hauled away by the cops and Poppy trots off with Georgina’s bible money.
- We lost count of the Jesus mentions after the first half hour, but here are tour faves: “I gave up my old ways when I let Jesus take the wheel,” Georgina tells Blair; “I will never forgive you for what you did and neither will Jesus,” Blair screams at Georgina; “You can tell Jesus that the bitch is back,” as Georgina finishes the job that Chuck and Blair couldn’t and goes after Poppy.
- How good and kind of cheesy was the teaser for the next episode featuring flashbacks of Lily and Rufus in their teen years and a performance by No Doubt! Yes, it’s a pilot for that Gossip Girl spin-off about Lily’s wild years.
Posted on April 27, 2009 with No Comments
Chuck & Nate battle over Blair, Serena steals her new beau from a frenemy and Blair’s mission with Chuck brings Georgina back! Here are the TOP 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” episode:
1. “You know how much I hate ironic facial hair!” Blair (Leighton Meester) says of the NYU crowd she’s joining in the Fall.
2. Nate (Chace Crawford) tries his darnest to get Blair on the subway so she can visit him uptown at Columbia University from NYU, but she responds: “It’s full of mole men and middle class professionals!”
3. Greeting Blair, Chuck (Ed Westwick) says, “I see you’re wearing your beret…who’re you spying on tonight?”
4. Blair and Chuck unite forces to end Serena’s (Blake Lively) love triangle with southerner Gabriel (guest star Armie Hammer) and socialite Poppy Montgomery (guest star Tamara Feldman)–she also dubs him “North CaroLIEr”! Is Blair’s mission just a means for her to be near Chuck?
5. We know Dove is all about TRUE beauty, but why does Jessica Szohr have a 5 o’clock shadow in those Gossip Girl spots?
6. “Serena didn’t steal me, she swept me away,” Gabriel tells Poppy as he dumps her ass (and all of his company’s investments) for Serena. “I’m really glad you chose me over money!” Serena responds, before her beau reunite
7. Dan (Penn Badgley) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) play a confessions drinking game, where V admits to never sleeping with Chuck and Lonely Boy admits to never sleeping with Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg).
8. Nate asks Blair to move in with him and she accepts his residential proposal so she doesn’t have to take the subway from NYU.
9. Chuck and Blair bring the “Wicked Witch of the East Side” Georgina Sparks back in their efforts to get to the bottom of Serena’s boooorrring beau, who is, in fact, a conman!
10. Bootcamp rehabilitates Georgina into a born-again Christian, who supervises children making paper mache apostles. But we’re not buying that Georgina’s completely “saved”! If anyone could make a good girl go bad, it’s Chuck Bass!
Posted on April 20, 2009 with No Comments
Passover dinner was never as fun as on Gossip Girl! With Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) pretending to be together with Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and not married to Gabriele (Armie Hammer), and Dan pretending to not be a cater waiter and taking Elijah’s seat at the dinner table, it was the most entertaining Jewish holiday ever.
Here are Blindie’s TOP 10 moments from Gossip Girl’s “Seder Anything” episode:
- We love Blair Waldorf’s (Leighton Meester) cockney accent as she channels Eliza Doolittle in her My Fair Lady dream sequence.
- Still lovin’ that zinger dialogue: Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) declares “I’m a 17 year-old billionare with incredible stamina,” referring to his sexual prowess; and Dan confesses he’s Eleanor’s “bitch boy” for the night as he caters her Passover dinner.
- Blair strikes a deal with the devil, er, Nate Archibald’s grandfather to convince Nate to go to Yale instead of Columbia. And when she doesn’t deliver, the old man sells her up the river!
- It’s all about the verbal smack down! First, Nate tells off his grandfather for snitching on his corrupt father in front of a roomful of partygoers, then Little Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) serves up some sharp words as she tells off little orphan Chuck for his womanizing ways.
- Chuck can’t have sex with the same random girl twice?! Really? Who the hell does he think he is? Oh yeah, he’s a 17 year-old billionaire. Carry on!
- “Williamsburg is already over,” the art dealer at Eleanor Waldorf’s seder dinner declares. You heard that hipsters? GG has decreed it and so it is!
- A little remorse goes a long way! Chuck apologizes for nearly raping Jenny last year (it’s about time!) and Blair apologizes for plotting with Nate’s grandfather, snubbing her stepfather Cyrus’ seder dinner and turning her nose up at NYU.
- Just when we thought Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) was going to be upgraded to Manhattan bitch status she disappears! And where is Dorota? Probably off filming her own spin-off.
- Serena isn’t really married?! What a fake out! We thought she was going to get her first quickie-d.
- Come on people, this is the Upper East Side where Bar Mitzvahs are more common than Communions and these people can’t even get past the third stage of the dinner! And how sacrelig was it when when Dan sat in Elijah’s seat and Serena and Eleanor drank the wine before they even dipped the parsley in the salt water? “Oy gevalt!”
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