By Drew Grant 12/20/12 1:25pm

Gossip Girl

Goodbye strangers, it's been nice! (CW)

Gossip Girl Finale Keeps Fans Wondering Why We Loved These Jerks in the First Place

One time we tried to watch an episode of Gossip Girl. It was 2007, and Obama was gaining grass-roots support among young voters thanks to the hard work and dedication of Will.i.Am, Scarlett Johansson and two teenage newcomers, Blake Lively and Penn Badgley.

Yes, these two–dare we say–heroes had stood up together (in accordance with CW regulations) and announced in a commercial that they were voting for Barack Obama. The two co-stars, who, from the little we had seen of their program, were not especially interesting but found themselves endlessly fascinating, were given special celebrity passes because they were dating both on and off the show. And that’s always fun. Read More

By Rex Reed 4:22pm

movies

Quinto and Badgley in Margin Call

Margin Call: Toxic Assets

Described in the production notes as an “entangling thriller”, Margin Call is definitely knotted, but it’s about as thrilling as the monthly statement of a failing Individual Retirement Account on the verge of a bank foreclosure. Set in the first 24 hours of the 2008 financial crisis, Margin Call, confusingly written and boringly directed by J. C. Chandor, proves again why Wall Street is so neurotic and disconnected. You need to hire a systems analyst to follow it, and even if you do, you may wish you hadn’t bothered. Read More

By Christopher Rosen 9/15/09 3:25pm

Gossip Girl Returns on Horseback!

For most teen shows, the transition between high school and college is the beginning of the end—the death rattle before inevitable cancelation. For Gossip Girl, however, it appears nothing will change at all. Think about it: has a show about high schoolers-turned-undergrads ever cared less about featuring its characters in class? We can Read More

By Irina Aleksander 11/25/08 9:23pm

The Cast of Gossip Girl: The Way They Were

Before Penn Badgely acquired his sarcastic smirk, before Leighton Meester had a stylist, before Blake Lively’s breasts became the lead characters on Gossip Girl, before Taylor Momsen‘s ’80s glam hair, and before Ed Westwick mastered the Chuck Face, the young actors on the CW show were, shall we say, not quite as polished.

Digging Read More