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'90210' Stars Jennie and Shannen: Ladies Don't Punch, They Scratch
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 8:15 AM on August 28, 2008
Despite the fact that Jennie Garth is still taunting Shannen Doherty with expertly crafted put-downs, EW was able to wrangle the two 90210 stars for an arm-in-arm photo shoot and revealing Q&A. In it, Doherty reveals that she never really liked Brenda Walsh ("They just took her in a really odd direction that I didn't necessarily agree with at the time") and that she still harbors insecurities begun by the seminal "I Hate Brenda" newsletter. All well and good, but what about the matter everyone still cares about: the long-rumoured Doherty/Garth catfights?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, but back to the fistfight: fact or fiction?...
DOHERTY: No, we never punched each other.
GARTH: Scratching? I'm not going to deny that.
More excerpts (and salacious sexual revelations) after the jump!
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: For the new 90210, you were both involved with determining where Kelly and Brenda were in their lives. Jennie, the producers initially wanted Kelly to be a West Beverly Hills High School board member, right? How did she become a guidance counselor?
GARTH: I didn't want to be on the show for no reason. I wanted to have some value. When Gabe and [exec producer] Jeff [Judah] told me some of the things they were doing, I was like, ''Whoa. That is not 90210, people.''...
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What kinds of things?
DOHERTY: All I know is there's a girl giving a guy a b—- job in the first episode.
GARTH: When they told me that, I thought, Aaron Spelling is rolling over in his grave right now.
Dare we dream that Lucille Bluth is the loose woman in question? That's right, CW: Bluthwatch '08 continues! But then, this tidbit concerning the initial Garth/Doherty reunion:
GARTH: There had been so much buildup. Everyone was asking me before what it was going to be like. I was like, ''I don't know. I haven't talked to her in 10 or 15 years.'' I had that tension and I started to let it get to me. Is she going to be nice? Is it going to be a bad environment? But when I saw her everything was fine. [To Shannen] I was going to call you and tell you this -- I got your number from Gabe [Sachs, 90210 producer] but I never called.
Jennie, Jennie, Jennie! Have you still not learned to use a phone after the Tori debacle? We know that the kids today have moved onto Sidekicks and iPhones, but sheesh: can't somebody hand the girl an oversized 90's cell phone she feels familiar with?
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Juancho
Posted 10:48 AM 28/8/08
@TurdBlossom: the peace...and the show.
@RocketRockit: Agreed, never has something that will get such low ratings get such press...aside from Gossip Girl.
I wasn't allowed to watch the first one, pretty much.
Juancho
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 10:45 AM 28/8/08
@RocketRockit: I'mma sick of it too. And now look, they let Little Miss Picasso Face back on the cover of a magazine!
Huge Tracts of Land
RocketRockit
Posted 10:37 AM 28/8/08
I am so sick of this damn 90210 redux. I didn't even like the first one.
RocketRockit
queensissy
Posted 10:25 AM 28/8/08
@Sleepyhead: And now I'm going to have the "Hating Brenda" song stuck in my head the rest of the evening. Great.
queensissy
TurdBlossom
Posted 10:24 AM 28/8/08
Notice how Garth's role is "open-ended" while Doherty's is four eps. Make of that what you will, but I think producers are hedging their bets with how long the peace will last.
TurdBlossom
Sleepyhead
Posted 10:20 AM 28/8/08
The I Hate Brenda newsletter. Jesus. Kids, that's what we did in the olden days before you could whip up a blog in 10 minutes.
Sleepyhead
zoethebitch
Posted 11:06 AM 28/8/08
@Juancho: I was allowed to watch the first one and never bothered to do so.
La même chose this time around also.
zoethebitch
Werrick
Posted 9:44 PM 28/8/08
The first one annoyed me... it was like there was all these rich kids with their huge problems, and then I looked at the fucked-upedness of my own life and thought "Not only do I have it worse than these drama-whores, but I have no money, no car, no designer clothes, no rich friends. I have nothing like that!" And within about 10 minutes of watching the first episode of 90210 I ever saw I had to turn it off. It felt like the show was mocking my own problems by turning them into fluff.
The only redeeming value of the show was the hotness of Jennie Garth.
Confession Time! - I used to flip the show on occasionally and put it on mute when Jennie was in the shot.
Werrick
kookla
Posted 2:30 AM 29/8/08
I love how Garth thinks a high school guidance counselor has more significance than a member of the school board.
kookla
MrRewrite
Posted 3:47 AM 29/8/08
where's luke and brendan
MrRewrite
Decebal
Posted 4:06 AM 29/8/08
I could never get over the premise of the show. They move from the Mid-West because the dad got a job in Beverly Hills and he buys a house IN Beverly Hills. Like Beverly Hills is an island with no other neighborhoods that have homes they could actually afford....
West Hollywood (ops, too gay for the Mid-West),
Hollywood (nope, back then drug dealers and hookers at Sunset/Vine, now $3 million dollar condos)
Hancock Park (ops, too Jewish for the Mid-West)
Miracle Mile (ops, too Korean for Mid-West)
Culver City (ops, too boring for the Mid-West).
Guess they had to buy in Beverly Hills, even though all these neighborhoods were a 20 minute drive for dad's work.
Decebal
IKnowThings
Posted 4:05 AM 29/8/08
I effin' loved 90210 the first time around. I think I already hate this version, because I hate Kelly, not Brenda. I loved Brenda. That bitch Kelly always gets everything. I hope Dylan shows up just to break up with her again and leave with Brenda.
IKnowThings
MrRewrite
Posted 3:41 AM 31/8/08
ok, that was totally non-grammatical and impossible to read. Meanwhile, bring back Luke Perry.
MrRewrite
MrRewrite
Posted 3:40 AM 31/8/08
Beverly Hills was not portrayed as super-rich, just kind of upper-middle-class, which is absurd, but back when the obsession with zip code and 'cribs' was only just starting when this show debuted. Oh, Sarah Wack-Job is a non-starter.
MrRewrite