(2005) Gilmore Guy Moves to Philly
'Gilmore' guy moves to Philly
THANKS TO W.C. Fields, Philadelphians are so used to the city being a punchline that some of us actually got excited Tuesday night when the WB's "Gilmore Girls" showed some enthusiasm for Philadelphia.
Turns out that Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory Gilmore's (Alexis Bledel) bad-boy-boyfriend-turned-novelist, is now living here and working for a small publishing house on Locust Street.
Who knew?
(Before we get too worked up, let's remember that Rory's been living and working in Hartford, Conn., a place that not even the ever-optimistic "Gilmore Girls" has been able to make look cool. When I came to Philly from Hartford a couple of years after college, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.)
Citing a recent New York Times piece that talked up the city as a new mecca for up-and-coming artists - and others who can't afford Big Apple housing - Rory even remembered the picture that accompanied it of all those twentysomethings standing around on a roof trying not to look as if they were posing for a picture.
At least, though, she didn't pick up on the Times story's eyebrow-raising claim that some Philadelphians refer to the city as New York's "sixth borough."
"Gilmore Girls" executive producer Daniel Palladino, who wrote Tuesday's episode, said yesterday that he moved the New York-born Jess to Philly because "it just sounded different from him going to Brooklyn... It just seemed like the right thing to do."
It was Palladino who read the Times story originally, and after talking to a few people who confirmed that Philadelphia did indeed have a "burgeoning creative arts" community, suggested it as Jess' new home to the show's creator (and his wife), Amy Sherman-Palladino.
"We try to put as much authentic detail in people's lives as we can," he said.
As for Ventimiglia, who left the show a few seasons ago but continues to date Bledel in real life, his character will probably return a time or two this season, Palladino said.
"He is going to remain in Philadelphia," he added.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/13130260.htm
- Submitted by Trisha
THANKS TO W.C. Fields, Philadelphians are so used to the city being a punchline that some of us actually got excited Tuesday night when the WB's "Gilmore Girls" showed some enthusiasm for Philadelphia.
Turns out that Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory Gilmore's (Alexis Bledel) bad-boy-boyfriend-turned-novelist, is now living here and working for a small publishing house on Locust Street.
Who knew?
(Before we get too worked up, let's remember that Rory's been living and working in Hartford, Conn., a place that not even the ever-optimistic "Gilmore Girls" has been able to make look cool. When I came to Philly from Hartford a couple of years after college, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.)
Citing a recent New York Times piece that talked up the city as a new mecca for up-and-coming artists - and others who can't afford Big Apple housing - Rory even remembered the picture that accompanied it of all those twentysomethings standing around on a roof trying not to look as if they were posing for a picture.
At least, though, she didn't pick up on the Times story's eyebrow-raising claim that some Philadelphians refer to the city as New York's "sixth borough."
"Gilmore Girls" executive producer Daniel Palladino, who wrote Tuesday's episode, said yesterday that he moved the New York-born Jess to Philly because "it just sounded different from him going to Brooklyn... It just seemed like the right thing to do."
It was Palladino who read the Times story originally, and after talking to a few people who confirmed that Philadelphia did indeed have a "burgeoning creative arts" community, suggested it as Jess' new home to the show's creator (and his wife), Amy Sherman-Palladino.
"We try to put as much authentic detail in people's lives as we can," he said.
As for Ventimiglia, who left the show a few seasons ago but continues to date Bledel in real life, his character will probably return a time or two this season, Palladino said.
"He is going to remain in Philadelphia," he added.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/13130260.htm
- Submitted by Trisha
posted by MissCoffee @ 11:59 a.m.
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