The Peach Pit got a facelift (and an espresso machine), the popular blonde got a perm, and Shannon Doherty got kinda old and raggedy, but not much else changed from the days of the old 90210 and the new one. (Except the acting. That totes went downhill… and I am being generous.)

Even some of the token characters from the old/better days have been reincarnated for the 2008 watered-down version of the best show of all time.

Like David Silver, the dorky yet adorable techy guy who was always carrying a giant video camera around. His modern day doppelganger? Navid Shirazi, also a dorky yet adorable techy guy who always carries around a camera, only his is much sleeker.

And, yes, his name is Navid. As in David with one letter changed. Creative!

So, which one is cuter? My beloved Brian Austin Green, or the fresh, young Michael Steger?

If you happened to catch the new 90210 last week, I’m assuming you’re in agreement with me that the show itself was rather hard to watch. Good thing there were some cute outfits to add something worth looking at.

Obviously, since most of us don’t live in one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, we can’t afford to wear designer duds on a daily basis, but achieving the look of the new class of West Beverly Hills High doesn’t have to cost you your firstborn. With a trip to your local Target, Express or Forever 21 (my personal faves for inexpensive fashion) or a few mouse clicks, you can pull together a great 90210-inspired ensemble. Read More »

Lauren Conrad takes another stab at Fashion Week.

Jessica Simpson is dowdy.

Looks like the real drama on 90210 is happening off-screen.

Not sure who to vote for? Figure it out.

Short Shorts Girl makes us laugh.

A Winehouse burrito.

In your FACE, healthy people.

4 inch heels: hot and dangerous.

Brad and Jen are back…at least for drinks.

Chick flicks you can watch with your boy-toy.

Betsey Johnson runway show: crazy and fabulous.

He has been stuck in the rainforest/practicing to be a rabbi/deep conditioning his facial pubes.

After much anticipation, the new 90210 debuted last night. Personally, I was way against any show that would attempt to do the original series justice – because it is the best show of ALL TIME – but I sat down and gave it a shot. What a mistake. From the minute the new theme song started playing (“Is this the Maroon 5 version?” my friend asked) I was o-v-e-r it.

The acting is awful, the fashion is awful and Naomi, the evil girl character, looks like a poor man’s Jesse Spano. Oh, and the whole gossipy blog thing that Kelly Taylor’s (somehow brunette/brooding) little sister writes looks a lot like Gossip Girl. But not nearly as awesome.

I give this show one month until The CW replaces it with America’s Next Top Model marathons. I only give it that long because fans of the original, like myself, will be watching to find out if Kelly Taylor’s baby belongs to the one and only Dylan McKay.

What do you think? Read More »

I have something shocking to tell you:

I just went a full 24 hours without Internet or TV.

I know it is hard to believe – impossible, even – but it is easy to go twenty-four hours without checking your email, refreshing your Facebook home page to see if there are any new updates from your friends and watching old re-runs of True-Life, I’m Moving to New York.

Unfortunately, I have become one of those girls who, in her downtime, sits with her laptop, refreshing Facebook every twenty seconds (just in case someone changes their status!) while watching reruns of Beverly Hills 90210 on the Soap Network. Did my ex-boyfriend break up with that tramp he’s been dating? Did my best friend add a new band to her favorite music? And did that person that I met once (and therefore HAD to add as a friend) add a new application?

Sad? Absolutely. Addicting? You bet.

In an effort to get my life back, I decided to throw caution to the wind and step away from technology. Read More »

Big things coming out of The CW today – you know, that station that Gossip Girl is on? Yeah, that one. Word on the street is the brilliant minds (and stylists) behind everyone’s favorite East Coast O.C. – Gossip Girl, duh – could be working on a spin-off for one Ms. Jenny Humphrey.

Oooooo.

I don’t really read trashy novels (in public), so I don’t know much about the GG book series, but apparently there was a spin-off series of books called, It Girl, in which J Humph. left New York City and headed to boarding school. People are saying that this book spin-off could become a TV show spin-off (how creative!) sometime next season. Read More »