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January 23, 2005
Smart, Sassy TeeVee by Women
Sunday's NYT features an interview of Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and executive producer of "Gilmore Girls," by Virginia Heffernan.
Now I understand what appeals to me about the show. Like me, Amy is a Jewish woman from the Valley. We have all sorts of quirks, including an intense desire to be more connected to our community and a fantasy vision of what places with four seasons feel like. Hence her setting her show in a small Connecticut town and making her main characters WASPs (cause frankly, without a lil fam money, what's the use of a fantasy family?
Posted by cj at January 23, 2005 08:32 AM