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Independent reports and Bwog tipsters have told us (xoxo) that the CW show/fashion plate "Gossip Girl" is currently filming near "Earl Hall." For those of you hoping to catch some spoilers, the popular show is apparently only filming "exterior shots," which normally do not include cast members. Still, it could include some B-roll footage of cast members and there are at least a few cast members present, so fans might have a shot at meeting them. It's unclear how much longer they'll be filming (or if this is the only time the show will be shooting here). We haven't been able to snap any photos of famous celebrities (or the crew, we guess), but if you have any, send them along to bwog@columbia.edu and we'll update the post to include them.

Photos from Just Jared, and fearless photojournalist Miram Schachter's shots of the action -- plus plot details! -- after the jump.

Apparently Columbia is supposed to be Yale -- sounds like senior year of high school, eh? Also, filming is going to continue at "a bar on Amsterdam" later today.

The blog Just Jared is on the scene as well, and has about 15 photos for your stalking, including these first two.



Posted by whyami@work?: #1 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 3:38 PM (from campus)
just sent in some photos after watching them film for an hour and a half. i already know i need to get a hobby or something, so no need to make fun
Posted by Columbia Guy: #2 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 4:04 PM (from campus)
I've never heard of this show.
Posted by fuck this: #3 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 4:43 PM (from campus)
these people need to go fuck themselves and let me out of dodge
Posted by Street signs: #4 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 5:08 PM (from campus)
on Amsterdam and 116th say no parking for GG both today and tomorrow, so I would assume they'll be here all day tomorrow as well.
Posted by oh?: #5 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 5:09 PM
"Apparently Columbia is supposed to be Yale"

Jeez that hurts.
Posted by Columbia: #6 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Yale Lite?
Posted by ugh!: #7 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 5:49 PM
CU admin should not allow people to film on campus if they are going to turn around and act as if they are at another university. It would be a way to get Columbia some more press (not like we need anymore Gossip Girl followers)
Posted by problem is: #8 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM
...the administration's policy is the exact opposite of that.
Posted by exactly: #9 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 6:46 PM (from campus)
remember...letting TV shows/movies pretend we're another university is how the lawns get re-done each year....
Posted by I don't understand: #10 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 7:10 PM
what is their rationale for that?
Posted by #9 explained it: #11 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 7:32 PM
cash 4 lawnz. lyk duh.
Posted by no I meant: #12 (in reply to #11) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 7:36 PM
comment #9 seemed to imply thay we ONLY let filming if they pretended we are a different college, which I didn't understand. Perhaps I misinterpreted.
Posted by er I meant: #13 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 7:37 PM
comment # 8. sorry, typo.
Posted by anonymous: #14 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Apropos of nothing, whenever anyone wants to complain about gentrification, show them this:

[external link to www.skyscrapercity.com]
Posted by hey, but, but...: #15 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 7:52 PM
but it was gritty and real man. crushing poverty, crime, the omnipresence of crack, and crumbling infrastructure is better than hipsters in williamsburg and yuppies in park slope! down with gentrification, etc!
Posted by Anonymous: #16 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Oh yeah, and one of those first few pictures is of a rusted and broken down car just a few blocks from the old WTC.
Posted by xoxo: #17 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 8:20 PM
[external link to www.bwog.net]
Posted by ...: #18 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 8:28 PM
looks like the TL in san francisco, circa 1998.
Posted by superhero: #19 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 8:39 PM
hey, at least we have superman. that kicks gossip girls ass any day
Posted by oops: #20 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 8:40 PM
i mean, spiderman
Posted by Wow: #21 (in reply to #15) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Yeah, a choice between the grittiness soul-crushing poverty of 1980's New York, and the soul-crushing pseudo-poverty any normal New Yorker feels now at the prospect of not being able to afford an apartment anywhere, even on a salary that most would deem excessive in comparison to the rest of the world...

...And crime, dirty streets, and drug addiction are still going on here. It's just that you have to pay $10 million for the privilege of looking down on it all from the top of your skyscraping luxury condo in your "hip" but still secretly pretty shitty neighborhood.

Neither one of these extremes is a living, and neither one of them makes New York a city that anyone could even remotely learn to love.

It's over.
Posted by but....: #22 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 9:41 PM
one of the characters in the series goes to Columbia.

...I'm going to pretend I didn't know that.
Posted by oh please: #23 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 9:50 PM
oh go fuck yourselves.

the movie "21" filmed at Boston University and the movie chronicles students from MIT. Get your ivy league heads out of your pretentious asses, please.

xoxo
Posted by ...: #24 (in reply to #21) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 10:24 PM
quite frankly, i think the most annoying thing about living in a city is listening to the same tired observations that everyone makes when they first arrive.

1) wow. transportation is different. you don't have to have a car. the subway/streetcar/flying-saucer system is amazing.

2) actually.. public transit kinda sucks.

3) gentrification, gentrification, gentrification! ZOMG!

4) i like bikes. i'm so countercultural...

5) ZOMG critical mass...

6) you know, maybe we are the gentrifiers...

7) actually, critical mass is counter productive and full of a bunch of tools just looking for an excuse to be toolish.

8) i hate this fucking place and all it's inhabitants.

9) oh hey look, now i have children. am i going to move to the burbs like any sensible human being? NO, i'm going chase and ram fucking pedestrians with my loaded stroller.

10) see you at whole foods!
Posted by mmNo: #25 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Actually...Columbia has a stick up its ass about who is allowed to use its name. They review scripts and usually don't allow anyone to use it.

I don't know how Spiderman I and II got to use it, because they do this to avoid "negative portrayals" and I'm not sure how being bitten by a radioactive spider while on a field trip at CU is positive. I guess there's that whole turning-into-spiderman thing which is sorta positive. Oh and while Peter went here in II, so did that psycho villian Doc Oc, so I don't know what criteria they use exactly.

Point being, Columbia makes no sense. They should get over themselves and just let people throw the name around. I don't see other ivies getting their knickers in a twist about casual use of their name or main characters as students.
Posted by SEAS '09: #26 (in reply to #24) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Fucking awesome comment.
Posted by also: #27 · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 11:16 PM (from campus)
They're filming night at the museum II outside the museum of natural history right now.
Posted by EAL: #28 (in reply to #25) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 11:20 PM (from campus)
I agree. I mean, even Dartmouth allows its name to be used in Superbad, which doesn't help the school's image unless it's trying to attract more awkward, misfit high-schoolers.

Cornell allows its name to be associated with one Andrew Bernard of Dunder Mifflin Paper, and Lord knows THAT certainly doesn't help their image.

I've never seen Penn mentioned in a movie. They're the Ivy League school that everyone seems to ignore.
Posted by umm...: #29 (in reply to #28) · reply · track
August 18, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Freedom of Speech. The schools can't do anything about it if the movie/shwow's not being filmed at the school.

Actually, there's a Mexican crime/drug lord/mayor on Weeds right now that's supposed to be a Columbia graduate.
Posted by There's also: #30 · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 12:17 AM
a story about this crazed Serbian war-lord accused of crimes against humanity who apparently has a graduate degree from Columbia. Oh wait, that was real.
Posted by ...: #31 (in reply to #29) · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 12:30 AM (from campus)
it's called copyright dude. welcome to the real world...

speaking of which, searching the uspto database for trademarks registered to "columbia university" brings back some rather awesome results. i highly recommend it.
Posted by so yeah: #32 · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 12:41 AM
we're being sued for supposedly being man hating femme nazis

[external link to www.nydailynews.com]

Posted by EAL: #33 (in reply to #32) · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 1:40 AM (from campus)
That crackpot's barking up the wrong tree. He should be suing Barnard.

Or better yet, maybe he will find that Columbia's plight is a result of Barnard corrupting its students with man-hating feminist dogma. At which point, the court will order Columbia University to end its ties to Barnard College once and for all. That would satisfy a lot of people (mostly Columbia girls).

I love conspiracy theories. Think of the possibilities!
Posted by EAL: #34 · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 1:42 AM (from campus)
I meant, of course, Barnard corrupting Columbia students. Not only through their classes, but also through their students' infiltration of our classes as well.

Posted by Mustafa: #35 (in reply to #34) · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 9:17 AM
Sleepover Cells
Posted by ratko mladic: #36 (in reply to #30) · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 7:08 PM
radovan karadzic he did a year of training at columbia med school, he doesn't have a graduate degree.
Posted by LLC: #37 · reply · track
August 19, 2008 at 10:18 PM (from campus)
they're in front of the LLC now. posing with that statue under the cupola gazebo thing.
Posted by stupid: #38 · reply · track
August 25, 2008 at 4:55 PM (from campus)
stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid
Posted by boy: #39 · reply · track
September 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM (from campus)
is the cast coming back? hopefully.

and who gives a fuck is columbia doubles as yale on the show? get over it.

by the way, across the universe filmed on campus, and mentions columbia by name (context: lucy is participating in a protest at the school, jude goes to find her).
Posted by Columbia 01: #40 · reply · track
September 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM
This is bad, but there is a worse precedent. Anyone here remember Extreme Measures, or something like that with Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman? Earl Hall was supposed to be NYU Medical School!
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