ABC has hired one of the writers from Dawson’s Creek, Maggie Friedman, to recreate the 1987 classic, The Witches of Eastwick, into a new TV pilot. We’re so psyched—and not just because we’ll be saving the movie theater ticket price!  Just like the film, the TV adaptation will be loosely based on the John Updike book about three women who were stuck, jilted by their husbands, in the same small New England town.  Together they use some womanly wizardry to summon up a man to satisfy them, but he’s (of course) more trouble than he’s worth.  Now, the original cast was slammin’: Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Jack Nicholson. But since the teen drama is totally BACK—hello, Gossip Girl and 90210—which teen TV queens can hold a candle up to the spell they cast today? We here at The Frisky have some suggestions:

• The Devil, originally played by the irresistible Jack Nicholson, has some big sexy shoes to fill. It’s gonna take a guy who’s so seductive, he’s evil.  We’re thinking Gossip Girl’s bad boy, Ed Westwick because he can make women do anything—even like plaid short-shorts on a guy. Plus “Westwick does Eastwick” makes a great headline. Come to think of it, “Westwick Falls In Love With The Women Of The Frisky” does have a certain ring to it too…

The Gossip Girl star fights the wind’s urge to blow her away as she heads to film a segment at MTV. [New York City, 8/04/08]

Today’s New York Times Style Section article “Shorts Crack the Code” says it’s okay and increasingly common for men to wear shorts to work. We don’t support this fad because:

1. Forests of leg hair.
2. Dangling bits.
3. The existence of air conditioning.
4. Shorts + loafers = douche.
5. Even Chuck Bass can’t pull them off.

ABC News has a big story out today that talks about sex in advertising. American Apparel, BMW, and Gossip Girl are just a few of the latest brands to embrace carnal desire in print ads, but they’re taking it a step farther by putting people who look very young in provocative positions to draw attention to their products.

Jessica Szohr, aka Vanessa on the hit CW show, gets under cover from the (fake?) rain. Cute color combo too! [New York City, 7/25/08]

It may be a case of life imitating art, or maybe its art imitating life—either way blonde beauty Blake Lively has a man and wardrobe sparking envy from women everywhere both on-screen in the mega hit Gossip Girl as well as off. With boyfriend Penn Bagdley always by her side, Blake has been looking more radiant, confident, and gorgeous than ever. And thanks to many public appearances and tons of leaked Gossip Girl images, we’ve been treated to a vast array of date-night outfit inspiration. Here are three of my favorites, after the jump….

Honestly, I don’t even realllllly like the show, but these ads always make me want to watch. I love seeing anyone thumb their nose at annoyingly shrill prudishness.

Whoa there tiger. Leave her some face for later. [Filming Gossip Girl, New York City, 7/15/08]

Did you tune into Gossip Girl each week for an hour-long fashion fix? Did you ever miss a key plot point because you were daydreaming about Blair Waldorf’s latest Balenciaga handbag? Well…so were the rest of the 2.7 million viewers. Gossip Girl is more than a show about Manhattan’s elite private schools; it’s a cultural phenomenon that has had a great impact on retail trends, making preppy staples like piped blazers and argyle fashionable again. And although the television season has ended (you can watch repeats on The CW Monday nights), we’re sure its ritzy, collegiate style will be showing up in department stores nationwide when the “Back to School” season begins. Now if only there was a definitive answer to: “How old is too old to wear knee-socks and a short pleated skirt?”

“I once heard someone say that I’m similar to Paris Hilton – since I have a dog and blonde hair, that must mean we’re alike. It’s a dumb thing to say. I don’t think that makes Paris and me similar ... I don’t go to clubs, I don’t party, I don’t dance on tables, and I don’t like sex tapes.”—Blake Lively in the August issue of Seventeen

This does nothing to dispel those gay rumors, that’s all we’re gonna say. [On the set of Gossip Girl, Far Rockaway Beach, New York, 6/27/08]

No seriously! That’s what the description on this picture said! We wouldn’t make something like that up. [New York City, 6/18/08]

The War in Iraq, the recession, the high price of gas, the second season of Gossip Girl is over…sigh. What the world needs now is love, sweet love!  And Sanrio, the creators of Hello Kitty, have wrapped some up in two cute little furry packages with a big pink bow!  They just announced some new characters called Cherinacherine—two besties with big brown eyes that live in a cherry forest. Squeal! Sanrio, of course, plans on merchandising up the wazoo, but guaranteed you’ll want it all too. Who could say no to those adorable little furballs?  [Mainichi]

Cecily von Ziegesar, the author behind the Gossip Girl series of books, is working on a new series for adults, to be published by Hyperion. The first book, about a group of young adults who meet freshman year of college, is called Cum Laude. She makes Latin sound dirty. [NYMag.com]

Normally, wet white t-shirts have been used on drunken Spring Break girls. But the geniuses at In Style have finally appropriated the tight, sheer, T for women by putting Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley in one. I’m sure he was cold on set soaking wet, but the pictures are super hot. Then, once they got him stripped down and warmed up, they asked him about what he finds sexy.  So based on his responses, The Frisky scientists have extrapolated how a date with him would go: After you cheer for him while he plays sports, he’ll take you home, put on some sultry Common, feed you chocolate strawberries and then eff you.  That damn Serena Van der Woodsen really is the luckiest girl in the world! (For more hotness, there’s a video after the jump…) [Towelroad]

Last night’s season finale of Gossip Girl was a spectacle, and one of the more interesting plot lines was the Blair/Chuck romance. Basically, Chuck admits (to Nate) that he’s in love with Blair. He makes this sappy toast at his father and Lily’s wedding, and then he invites Blair to go to Tuscany with him on his family’s private jet. Has Chuck reformed and gone from date rapist to romantic? Well, I got really excited because I think he and Blair are really cute together, mostly because they’re both so evil, but then things went awry! Chuck’s dad tells him that taking Blair to Tuscany will change everything, and Chuck decides he’s not really ready to commit and leaves Blair to fly alone (well, with some random hot guy), and instead hits on blonde hottie Amelia. I guess some guys never change.

Gossip Girl delved into major Melrose Place territory when (SPOILER ALERT!!!) it was revealed, kind of, sort of, that Serena may have killed someone and that’s what evil Georgina is holding over her head. Whatever. The reason to watch last night was to finally see, once and for all, which character was going to come out of the closet. We’ve known for weeks that it was going to be Serena’s lil’ bro, but it was a nice added touch that he’s been snogging Jenny’s posh boyfriend. Also, Jenny is really falling from grace in our eyes, by actually going along with the dork’s plan to pretend the two are sleeping together—which would “raise” her social status and keep his gayness quiet. Anyway, here’s a clip from the episode when that infamous gay bomb is dropped.