You do things like this!
Turns out 80’s heartthrob-turned-hasbeen Andrew McCarthy is set to direct an episode of Gossip Girl.
Does the cast even know who he is?
Trying to keep his name in the press for as long as possible, the “director” isn’t saying much about his episode, stating “I can’t give you much. Except, there is a 9 1/2 Weeks kind of thing going on in the story line.”
Doesn’t ring a bell?
The film he’s referring to is a 1986 drama that chronicled an erotic affair between art gallery assistant played by Kim Basinger and a wealthy business man played by Mickey Rourke.
The Gossip Girl episode is slated to air in the spring of 2010, which is when he’ll return to being a nobody again.
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