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You never forget your first heartbreak. It was February 2007. I was 15, a high school sophomore. I’d been burned before, but not like this. This was “Gossip Girl.”
I spent the month auditioning, again and again, to play Jenny Humphrey on the iconic show. For weeks, I was the favorite. Then I didn’t get the role.
My love affair with Hollywood began in 2001, after my family paid to go on a Caribbean cruise hosted by the Olsen twins (long story). Throughout middle school, I acted on TV, attended film premieres, accepted free swag and, in my downtime, curled up with the rich, hot, traitorous Upper East Siders from the “Gossip Girl” books. If it were possible to overdose on materialistic teen fantasy, I’d be dead.
As The Pretty Reckless tops the charts, singer Taylor Momsen makes herself home on midcoast
Momsen has been spending more time at her home in Maine, where her band also recorded its recent album, Death by Rock and Roll.
Photo courtesy of Fearless Records
During some really dark periods in her life, singer Taylor Momsen has turned to Maine for light and hope.
She first started on a downward emotional spiral – drinking too much, not devoting as much energy to her music as she wanted to – in 2017 after the suicide of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, a personal musical hero of hers. Momsen’s rock band, The Pretty Reckless, was on tour with Soundgarden when Cornell died. To try to refocus and recover from the shock, Momsen retreated to her home on the midcoast.
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Moxie Dressed Hadley Robinson For A Riot Grrrl Revolution She fights back against her school s toxic culture in the Amy Poehler-directed teen flick, armed with an instantly iconic leather jacket
By Gina Marinelli
As far as transformative style moments in teen-movie history go, few compare to the image of Sandy emerging from a crowd of Rydell High students in the final scene of
Grease. Even before delivering her iconic line â âTell me about it, studâ â itâs obvious sheâs broken from her otherwise squeaky-clean reputation. Itâs the big hair, the lit cigarette, and where Sandyâs demure cardigan sweater once sat, itâs the black leather moto jacket. The garment acts as a symbol of rebellion, just as it has on countless other film and TV characters for decades, even as definitions of and motives for resistance have changed. Take, for example, the timely flick,