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08-25-2008, 05:24 PM
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| Administrator   |  Leighton Meester/Blair Waldorf Discussion & Picture Thread #1 Please post all post related to Blair or Leighton in this thread LEIGHTON MEESTER as BLAIR WALDORF Leighton Meester stars as Blair Waldorf in The CW's new drama "Gossip Girl," from Josh Schwartz ("The O.C."), based on the tremendously popular book series about privileged teenagers who attend an elite private school in New York City. After making her television debut when she was 13 on "Law & Order," she got her breakout role in 2004 with a recurring role as the Britney Spears-like singer Justine Chapin on the hit series "Entourage." She continued to work steadily with guest-star roles on series like "8 Simple Rules," "Numbers" and "CSI Miami," and has had recurring roles on popular series such as "24," "Veronica Mars," "Shark" and "House." In addition, she had regular roles on "Tarzan" and "Surface." Meester made her film debut in the feature "Hangman's Curse," based on the best-selling novel by Frank Peretti. She also recently starred in the independent film "Flourish" with future "House" co-stars Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer, and in the drama "Inside." Meester's upcoming feaure films roles include the dramedy "The Beautiful Ordinary," the horror/comedy "Drive-Thru" and the thriller "Dead of Night." Raised in Marco Island, Florida, Meester became interested in acting when she appeared in a local production of "The Wizard of Oz." When she was 11, she moved with her family to New York City and soon after began working as a model with Wilhemina, booking a Ralph Lauren campaign shot by Bruce Webber and working with then photographer Sophia Coppola. When not on the set, Meester passionately pursues her talent for music and creative writing. She has recorded a song for the soundtrack of her upcoming film "Drive-Thru." She currently resides in New York. Filmography # "Gossip Girl" .... Blair Waldorf (23 episodes, 2007-2008) # Killer Movie (2008) .... Jaynie Hansen # The Haunting of Sorority Row (2007) (TV) .... Samantha Willows ... aka The Deadly Pledge (UK) # The Beautiful Ordinary (2007) .... Tori ... aka Remember the Daze (USA: new title) # "Shark" .... Megan (3 episodes, 2007) - Porn Free (2007) TV episode .... Megan - Trial by Fire (2007) TV episode .... Megan - Blind Trust (2007) TV episode .... Megan # Drive Thru (2007) .... Mackenzie Carpenter # "CSI: Miami" .... Heather Crowley (1 episode, 2007) - Broken Home (2007) TV episode .... Heather Crowley # "House M.D." .... Ali (2 episodes, 2006) ... aka House (South Africa: English title) (USA: short title) - Lines in the Sand (2006) TV episode .... Ali - Informed Consent (2006) TV episode .... Ali # "Numb3rs" .... Karen Camden (1 episode, 2006) ... aka Num3ers (USA: promotional title) - Dark Matter (2006) TV episode .... Karen Camden # Inside (2006) .... Josie # Flourish (2006) .... Lucy Covner # "Surface" .... Savannah Barnett (12 episodes, 2005-2006) # "Secrets of a Small Town" .... Kayla Rhodes (1 episode, 2006) - Pilot (2006) TV episode .... Kayla Rhodes # "Veronica Mars" .... Carrie Bishop (2 episodes, 2005) - A Trip to the Dentist (2005) TV episode .... Carrie Bishop - Mars vs. Mars (2005) TV episode .... Carrie Bishop # "8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter" .... Nikki (1 episode, 2005) ... aka 8 Simple Rules (USA: new title) - The After Party (2005) TV episode .... Nikki # "24" .... Debbie Pendleton (4 episodes, 2005) - Day 4: 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (2005) TV episode .... Debbie Pendleton - Day 4: 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. (2005) TV episode .... Debbie Pendleton - Day 4: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (2005) TV episode .... Debbie Pendleton - Day 4: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. (2005) TV episode .... Debbie Pendleton # "Entourage" .... Justine Chapin (2 episodes, 2004) - Date Night (2004) TV episode .... Justine Chapin - The Review (2004) TV episode .... Justine Chapin # "North Shore" .... Veronica Farrell (1 episode, 2004) - Pilot (2004) TV episode .... Veronica Farrell # "7th Heaven" .... Kendall (2 episodes, 2004) - Little White Lies: Part 2 (2004) TV episode .... Kendall - Little White Lies: Part 1 (2004) TV episode .... Kendall # "Crossing Jordan" .... Marie Strand (1 episode, 2004) - Missing Pieces (2004) TV episode .... Marie Strand # Hollywood Division (2004) (TV) .... Michelle # "Tarzan" .... Nicki Porter (5 episodes, 2003) - Emotional Rescue (2003) TV episode .... Nicki Porter - Rules of Engagement (2003) TV episode .... Nicki Porter - Wages of Sin (2003) TV episode .... Nicki Porter - Secrets and Lies (2003) TV episode .... Nicki Porter - Pilot (2003) TV episode .... Nicki Porter # Hangman's Curse (2003) .... Elisha Springfield ... aka The Veritas Project: Hangman's Curse (USA) # The Jackalope (2003) .... Lorraine # "Family Affair" .... Irene (1 episode, 2002) - No Small Parts (2002) TV episode .... Irene # "Once and Again" .... Amanda (1 episode, 2002) - Gardenia (2002) TV episode .... Amanda # "Boston Public" .... Sarah Breen (1 episode, 2001) - Chapter Twenty-Eight (2001) TV episode .... Sarah Breen # "Law & Order" .... Alyssa Turner (1 episode, 1999) ... aka Law & Order Prime (USA: informal title) - Disciple (1999) TV episode .... Alyssa Turner |
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08-28-2008, 08:43 PM
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| Administrator | "Gossip Girl" Season 2 Celebration in NYC               Everyone's favorite mean girl I'll never forget the first time I met my very own Blair Waldorf. I was in eighth grade and I was walking down the hallway when a pretty girl stepped out from a row of lockers. "Nice pants," she said, staring at my jeans, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "I can tell you've had them hemmed." Her group of friends giggled behind her as I stared, terrified and confused. Yes, my pants had been hemmed. I didn't know why that was a bad thing. But I knew that this girl thought it was, and the way she spoke, with a pout and an icy look in her eyes, suggested that she was not someone people disagreed with. Every week on the CW's teen melodrama "Gossip Girl," I'm confronted with the same pout and the same icy stare. It appears whenever Leighton Meester, as the Upper East Side's resident bad girl, Blair Waldorf, struts onto the screen. While the show, about the double-crossings and sexual exploits of a group of wealthy Manhattan teenagers, is chock-full of pretty people and scandalous content, the most engrossing part of it is Meester's performance as Blair -- not only because watching her eviscerate less-worthy opponents brings up deep-rooted and traumatic memories but also because Meester, with her porcelain-doll face and outrageous designer outfits, actually makes you want to root for her. Meester, whose previous credits include "Entourage" and "Seventh Heaven," brings a finely tuned bitchiness to her character that, given media reports, may not be entirely an act. She has been notoriously snarky to reporters seeking her comment at public events, and gossip columns were abuzz earlier this year about a growing feud between her and her costar, Blake Lively, who plays her best friend, Serena van der Woodsen, on the show. Whether true or not, these accusations have helped make Meester a household name (especially in households with young teenagers) leading up to "Gossip Girl's" second-season premiere on Sept. 1. Salon spoke to Meester over the phone about the show's racy new ad campaign, her character's sexual appeal to grown women, and what it's like to be a 22-year-old in the media spotlight. There seem to be a lot of adults who enjoy "Gossip Girl" as a kind of guilty pleasure -- I know three professional women who work high up in TV and have this obsession with your character in particular. One of them said Blair is the only person she would ever go bisexual for. Oh my God! Obviously the show is intended for a largely teenage audience, so why do you think that older women respond to Blair Waldorf like that? I think you're hanging around some weird people. [Laughs] Just kidding. Most people might be weirded out by that, but I find it to be very endearing and flattering. As much as she does and says outrageous things and isn't the nicest person in town, I think that Blair is what a lot of people wish they could be. She's got really good fashion and she lives in a gorgeous apartment and she's got tons of money and she's very well taken care of, well coifed, has beautiful boys surrounding her, all this stuff. I think that a lot of women also relate to her because she is imperfect and she has her insecurities. And also, she's quite sexual, if that's what they're saying. Yeah, and it seems like a lot of people have, at some point, had horrifying experiences in high school with someone they want to be but also hate at the same time. That's what I was trying to say. You hate to love her. Every day on my way to work, I walk past this enormous billboard of you in a pool making out with somebody with the words "A nasty piece of work" next to your head. I assume you've seen these, too. How does it feel to be splashed around the city as a threat to our country's youth? They definitely altered it a little bit, which I'm not sure if they deny or they don't, but they altered it a little bit to make it look like my top wasn't there. I was wearing a bikini top in the episode they took the still from. But I think it's good. It's using what people have said against the show to make it look better and make them look silly. We're owning up to the fact that, yes, it is racy, and, at the same time, it's a smart, funny way of giving people a warning. It's for entertainment purposes, and if you don't like that, don't watch it. There's also been this emergence of meta-gossip around the show. The show itself is about gossip, but Gawker and New York magazine have had this kind of obsession with the cast. Is that something you were prepared for? I didn't really expect it. It's come in such a slow wave. I'm not necessarily a huge fan of all the gossip, but I think it just goes to show that more people are watching the show. There are reports of you getting stoned in restaurants and of fights on set -- is there anything that's popped up online that's really pissed you off? Not really. I'm disappointed and unhappy when I have to hear people saying stuff about Blake [Lively] and me fighting in real life. I think that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Because we're not fighting in real life. And you just want to go to that person and just be like, "You're an idiot, you don't know." But you can't really, because people are going to say whatever they say. Do you, on some level, also enjoy the negative stuff, because it seems to be part of the viral marketing of the show? I don't necessarily enjoy negative gossip, especially about me or the show. But people like to see it. People want to see drama in real life, which is understandable. It would be boring if we all got along. Are you annoyed that you can't do the kind of things as a young person that you would otherwise be able to do? No, because I have a ton of fun. I don't hold back on the fun things that I want to do. But mostly what I consider fun is not going out and getting trashed. I'm not really worried and I don't really watch my back. What's your ideal career trajectory? Whose career would you like to have? Cate Blanchett has a beautiful career that's inspiring, and she's a beautiful woman. She's never pigeonholed as one specific thing. She can go from being a hot schoolteacher to playing a very intense role, as in "Babel." I think she's very versatile. I think Bette Davis was an incredible actress. And I look to her for a lot of inspiration, too. http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/2008/08/29/meester/ |
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09-09-2008, 03:00 PM
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| Administrator | Calvin Klein Celebrates Milestone 40th Anniversary     Gotham Magazine    ‘Gossip Girl’ ready to record an album As Blair Waldorf on “Gossip Girl,” Leighton Meester has perfected the art of playing an uptight Park Avenue teen queen. But Meester’s talents lie beyond just making us love to hate her each week on the hit CW show. As she told Access Hollywood at New York Fashion week, she is gearing up to record an album. “I am, yeah,” she said. “Technically, yeah I am. I mean, for real this time… I’ve always done (music), just now I am actually doing an album that I plan to release.” While she has plenty of television experience thanks to “Gossip Girl” as well as guest parts on “Entourage,” “CSI: Miami” and “Shark,” Meester told Access making an album provides an alternative artistic outlet. “It’s so cool because it’s a completely different creative process,” Meester said. “From beginning to end it’s yours and you make it… You can see the finished product. It’s sometimes hard when you’re acting to be like, ‘Oh, I see the finished product right before my eyes.’ So it’s cool you’re there from start to finish when you are writing.” In a life-imitating-art scenario, during her guest spots on “Entourage,” Meester plays blond preening pop star Justine Chapman, who often has her eye on star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26613588/ Leighton Meester's Ex-Con Mom Books Herself Lynne Spears isn't the only celebrity mom coming out with a memoir. E! News has learned exclusively that Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester's mother, Connie Meester, who gave birth to her daughter while doing time in a Texas prison for a drug-related crime, may soon be coming to a bookshelf near you. Connie's manager, Loch Powell, confirms that Mama Meester has penned "a memoir" about her family life that began as a screenplay "three or four years ago," but that she has yet to find a publisher. The book will reportedly tell Connie's life journey from drug-ring co-conspirator to suburban real estate agent to author and, of course, to the rearing of her TV star child. As for Leighton's reaction to it, Powell says the star is supportive. "Leighton and her mom are very close," he says. "Connie has had a spectacular life." On the heels of Gossip Girl's successful season two premiere, Star magazine reported Tuesday that Connie was jailed in 1985 for marijuana trafficking. The report asserts that she (along with ex-husband Doug, Leighton's father) were part of a family-run drug ring that imported Jamaican weed to the U.S. After an FBI bust in 1985, Connie began serving a one-year-plus sentence at a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. Her stint was briefly interrupted in April 1986, when she was released to give birth and nurse Leighton for 12 weeks. Meester ultimately returned to the clink, where she served until November '86. http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b2762...mom_books.html You can listen to Leighten sing the song 'Betty Davis Eyes' here. I really like the song and the way she sings it. I didn't expect much of it, but I really enjoy it. Can't wait to here some more stuff from her. |
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