Lauren Smelcher

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After learning that my high school stint at McDonald’s wouldn’t get me a job at a mag, I worked as a freelance journalist for a few years. With much haggling and many annoying phone calls, I got a job at Cosmo! As web ed, no two days are the same – some days I’ll be at a video or photo shoot, others I’m interviewing celebs or updating myself on the latest goss (all for research purposes, obviously).

Apart from that, I have a healthy addiction to cupcakes, clutches and Christian Bale. I once watched a VH1 countdown of ‘The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever’ and was proud to announce that I loved every last one of them. I’m very good at tripping over, talking too loud and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Oh … and in an acrostic poem that my friends wrote about me, the “e” in my name stood for “embarrassing.”

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Brenda's back

The gang from West Beverly returns

Friday was a very exciting day. Aside from the fact that: (a) it was Friday; (b) it was a designated diet-free day; and (c) um, it was Friday, it was also the day that I pre-ordered my copy of Beverly Hills, 90210: Season four.

In a few weeks, I'll be reunited with the gang from West Beverly: Brenda, Kelly, Brandon, Steve, Donna, David and … Dylan. Sigh. You might also like to refer to Dylan as "My One True Love" or "The Man to Whom I Compare All Others" (that's what I like to do).

I just love 90210. I loved watching it as a kid, idolising Kelly and Brenda and dreaming about Dylan and Brandon. I love re-watching them now, to laugh at the ridiculous hairstyles (Brandon, you seriously needed to reconsider the length of your sideburns; Brenda, cut that fringe ASAP; Kelly, get those roots dyed right now), the ridiculous casting (uh, 31-year-old Gabrielle Carteris playing 17-year-old Andrea Zuckerman) and the ridiculous plotlines (Brandon taking in a homeless man at Thanksgiving; Dylan's father dying in a bomb attack; Kelly's mum marrying David's dad; you get the idea). Which is why I'm both excited and nervous about the new spin-off show.

Here's the wrap: the new show will debut sometime later this year, simply named 90210. The show will focus on the Mills family, in the same way as the old show centred on the Walshes. The story so far? Harry Mills, the family patriarch, moves his family from Kansas to California after he's appointed the new principal at West Beverly High (yep, in the same way that the Walshes moved from Minnesota to California). The new twist? The show will feature three generations of the Mills family, including the daughter and adopted son of Harry, who are students at West Beverly.

So far, so inoffensive. So why am I so ambivalent about the show's reprise? For the same reason that die-hard SATC fans are upset that the producers made a film. For them, the first product was flawless, and they don't want to risk being disappointed by the film.

Nevertheless, I'm certain that most of these fans will check out the film, just like I'll be checking out the new 90210. Sure, it might be disappointing, but I'll never know if I don't take a look.

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Posted 20 May 2008 by Madison
I'm so happy to hear that there is another 90210 fan out there! The week i recieved season 3 i spent every night at home to watch it...ahhh the prom, the kelly/dylan/brenda triange. i can't wait for the next season...although then it gets sad as it's one season closer to the end.  Report thisReport this


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Have you ever been to New York City? I’ve just returned. I mean, literally just stepped off the plane and, yes, my hair looks like crap after … oh 18 or 19 hours flying time. But what a trip! What a city! What a hoot! Let me explain … I was in New York on official Cosmo business, a fact finding mission where I was privy to a whiff of two divine new fragrances that I’ll tell you all about in the mag very soon! Let me just say this – there’s one for him (the sexy 91X RocaWear) and one for you (the mischievous and delicious new scent, Juicy Couture!)… so just keep your Christmas list (and Christmas shopping list!) in pencil for a little while yet. When working for Cosmo, however, luckily business often meets pleasure and so I also had the opportunity to play tourist, eat at some amazing restaurants, absorb the electric atmosphere of the US Presidential Elections, make new friends, catch up with old friends and shop in Zara like a woman possessed. Here are some of the highlights: