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Crossing You In Style

Joshua Stein · 10/11/07 12:05PM


Last night's episode of "Gossip Girl", which is a retelling of the Bible through the hurlyburly lives of rich Upper East Side teenagers, sorta good girl Serena once again finds herself in sorta evil girl Blair's poor graces. Blair was supposed to model for her mother's clothing line, Waldorf! But Serena was recruited too. Through this Medean maneuvering of Blair's mother, Blair feels somehow less than. And so what could have been a rapprochement turns instead into another wedge in their friendship. Sad! In this Dreamgirlian scene, Blair chastizes Serena for improperly seizing all that was hers. Serena is the Deena Jones figure; Blair, the Effie White. At any rate, Serena's love interest Dan hears the argument and gets upset. These two drifters seem destined to float down the Moon River, after the same rainbow's end and the same pot of gold.