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The 30-Year-Old Man’s Guide To Gossip Girl: Memoirs Of An Invisible Dan

The 30-Year-Old Man's Guide To Gossip Girl: Memoirs Of An Invisible Dan

Before we start with this week’s review, I’d like to take a moment to applaud the renegade visionary who titles these episodes. I know it’s probably a team effort, but I prefer to imagine a single crazed genius locked in the dark confines of some Hollywood back lot, sitting at a bare desk in an empty room, surrounded by scraps of paper filled with his abandoned ideas. He’s focused, eyes screwed shut, sweat gathering at his brow, thick glasses fogged with the escaping heat from his overtaxed brain. Finally, with his deadline looming, he captures that elusive muse, that inspiration, and he cries out, “Eureka!” More »

The 30-Year-Old Man’s Guide To Gossip Girl: Yes, Then Zero

The 30-Year-Old Man’s Guide To Gossip Girl: Yes, Then Zero

Joshua Friesen is a man in his 30s who’s obsessed with pop culture. This is how his brain processes Gossip Girl.

DAVID O. RUSSELL
? Are you kidding me, Gossip Girl? Not six months ago, he was in a tux at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel hoping to collect an Oscar for directing “The Fighter.” Now he has a cameo on a CW soap opera? The only possible explanation here is blackmail. Remember, George Clooney once punched this guy in the jaw. O. Russell’s all over You Tube screaming at poor Lily Tomlin. By all accounts he’s a miserable human being. The producers must have something so terrible on him, something so heinous that he’s at their beck and call. Or he’s stopped taking himself so seriously and he’s just having a good time. It could go either way. More »

Photos of Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley Are Released, We Just See Hungover Dan Humphrey

Photos of Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley Are Released, We Just See Hungover Dan Humphrey

There are three flicks about dreamboat musician Jeff Buckley currently in the works (we wrote about them all here), and the first photos from Greetings from Tim Buckley, the film starring Penn Badgley, have hit the web. I’m trying to get on board with this casting choice, but all I see when we look at these photos is Dan Humphrey after a bender (two bottles of wine, in his loft, split with his typewriter), late for coffee with Nate on the Upper East Side. Here’s another set photo, compared to a picture of Jeff Buckley: More »

Crushable’s (Selected) Predictions for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards

Crushable's (Selected) Predictions for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards

The list of nominees for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards is (no joke) eleven pages long. It’s like they’ve become the Oscars for the younger set — only twice as long! We don’t know how they’re going to keep viewers’ attention long enough to get through every single award. Hell, we could only pick out our favorite categories to give you our predictions for who will win best Hissy Fit, Villain, and Liplock. More »