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Josh Schwartz on Life After Gossip Girl
I have to ask—first Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson dated on The O.C., now Penn Badgley and Blake Lively from Gossip Girl are dating in real life, too. What is it about your shows that bring couples together?
I don’t like to comment on what goes on with the real life of the cast but I suppose you could discern that info. It’s the nature of these shows that at some point everybody dates everybody. You come to work, you have an incredibly attractive co-star, you’re asked to make out with them all day. I mean, you do the math. But luckily the actors that we work with have been incredibly professional and I’ve never seen it affect the work.
You often say you enjoy writing high-school shows because it’s such a painful time in life.
I guess I’m probably reliving some …trying to undo some traumatic stuff that happened to me at parties where I was rejected. I write a lot about kids who feel like outsiders no matter what world they’re in and that’s certainly something I’ve always felt like, this notion of being part of the cool crowd or the cool scene, figuring out the values that are important. And these are all things that I’m still working out. It only takes one really painful moment in your adolescence to stay with you forever. [Laughs.]
So what was your most painful high-school moment?
I’ve got to save that for my therapist.
Joel Keller is the editor in chief of the AOL blog TV Squad. His writing about pop culture, food, and travel has appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Cinematical, and Radar Online. Even after writing about TV for five years, he still hasn't figured out how to write off a 50" plasma TV on his taxes.
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Joel Keller is the editor in chief of the AOL blog TV Squad. His writing about pop culture, food, and travel has appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Cinematical, and Radar Online. Even after writing about TV for five years, he still hasn't figured out how to write off a 50" plasma TV on his taxes.
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Joel Keller is the editor in chief of the AOL blog TV Squad. His writing about pop culture, food, and travel has appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Cinematical, and Radar Online. Even after writing about TV for five years, he still hasn't figured out how to write off a 50" plasma TV on his taxes.
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Joel Keller is the editor in chief of the AOL blog TV Squad. His writing about pop culture, food, and travel has appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Cinematical, and Radar Online. Even after writing about TV for five years, he still hasn't figured out how to write off a 50" plasma TV on his taxes.
"Leaky Lee" ...are you serious? ok, you care so little about your subject matter that you didn't bother listening to any of the music discussed. should we assume that goes for the television shows as well?
Oh shush Lykke Li is pretty awesome. This guy deserves the credit he gets, he had make two of the biggest shows of my generation in such a short time period, and his character development is astounding. He has also introduced some of the now most popular bands (which I respect entirely because of a fondness for indie rock). He has a great career ahead of him.
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