Salon.com > gossip girl http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 22:39:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A “Gossip Girl” star becomes Jeff Buckley: “I was not his most rabid fan” http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/a_gossip_girl_star_becomes_jeff_buckley_i_was_not_his_most_rabid_fan/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/a_gossip_girl_star_becomes_jeff_buckley_i_was_not_his_most_rabid_fan/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:01:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13284750 Penn Badgley didn't go into his role as the late singer Jeff Buckley with much of a plan. "I did not have any clear-cut method to the point that sometimes I’d be like, 'What the fuck am I doing?,'" he told Salon at his hotel recently before a Tribeca Film Festival screening of "Greetings From Tim Buckley."

"I’d just be like, 'Wait a second, there’s no rules that anyone’s asking me to follow. No one’s checking in with me.'"

Part of Badgley's liberation in playing Buckley came from the fact that there wasn't any input from the Buckley estate. "Greetings From Tim Buckley," which takes place before Buckley's rise to fame and premature death (by drowning, at 30), does not use any of Buckley's music; the filmmakers did not obtain the rights to his music. Indeed, a competing Buckley biopic titled "Mystery White Boy," endorsed by Buckley's mother, Mary Guibert, and set to star "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" stage actor Reeve Carney, is in development at present.

Guibert has been a gatekeeper for Buckley's legacy on film, rejecting proposed projects about her son both for being too truthful and not truthful enough.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/a_gossip_girl_star_becomes_jeff_buckley_i_was_not_his_most_rabid_fan/feed/ 7 Hate-watching “Smash” is one of life’s great pleasures http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/hate_watching_smash_is_one_of_lifes_great_pleasures/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/hate_watching_smash_is_one_of_lifes_great_pleasures/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13191447 “Hate-watching” is a not a properly descriptive term: “Hate-watching,” when truly practiced, is a joyful experience. If one truly dislikes a show — finds it boring or offensive — one does not watch at all. Watching, one does not feel a rush of bitchy glee at the ridiculous heights the show scales, the incidental lunacy it achieves. Hate-watching is what happens when you turn into your most judgmental self and start pointing and laughing, but without feeling a twinge of guilt or shame that your time could be better spent. The object of your derision is not unworthy, it's not just some god-awful TV show — it is a god-awful TV show with pretensions and the ability to surprise you, even if it is only with new lows. Hate-watching a show is not the same as loving it, but, as ever, hate and love bear a passing resemblance: They are the feelings reserved for that which you are most passionate about.

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