August 2009

Look what we found in our TV Guide:  Your first look at Blair's dorm room at NYU.  Where's Dorota's bed?

As the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center fast approaches, one of NYC's newest Museums allows visitors from all over the globe to enter the private world of the "Recovery at Ground Zero." Ground Zero Museum Workshop, located in the Meatpacking District (420 West 14th St.), features the stunning images of the Official Photographer at Ground Zero as well as rare artifacts that guests are allowed to pick up and hold.

The Associated Press has run yet another article on New York City's love for cupcakes: "This city is crazy for cupcakes. There are cupcake classes and cupcake tours, lines down the block at cupcake bakeries, a cupcake tea at a five-star hotel, and a cupcake truck with 6,000 followers on Twitter." We know it, sister! We love us some cupcakes. Luckily, they provided us a list of 11 great spots to pick up those delicious pieces of heaven: Babycakes NYC 248 Broome St., between Orchard and Ludlow streets, Lower East Side, babycakesnyc.com When you order, be ready to answer: "Gluten-free or spelt?" BabyCakes cupcakes are vegan: dairy-free, soy-free, egg-free, and most are sweetened with agave nectar. Customers with wheat allergies take the gluten-free ($3.95 each); the spelt are made from a high-protein grain often used as an alternative to regular wheat ($3.25). But don't worry — the cupcakes are just as delicious as any made with white flour, sugar, butter and eggs. The lemon is blissful, and the vanilla is so intense and infused with flavor that kids accustomed to bland, mindlessly sweet or artificially flavored vanilla might have to be convinced that this is what vanilla really tastes like. Baked by Melissa 529 Broadway, Soho (pick-up window on Spring Street between Mercer and Broadway), bakedbymelissa.com The city's cutest cupcakes, beautiful bite-size confections with a tall cap of fluffy frosting. Don't be fooled by the pretty rainbow swirls in the tie-dye variety — it's vanilla.

Grant Wilfley Casting is seeking SAG actors who can portray the following for background work on the upcoming feature film Wall Street 2:

• Prison Guards- Male, All Ethnicities, 22-50 years old.
• Prison Inmates- Male, All Ethnicities, 18-65 years old.
• Real Wall Street Traders- Male/Female, All Ethnicities, 22-50 years old.
• Newstand Clerk- Male, East Indian, 22-65 years old.
• Laboratory Techs- Male/Female, All Ethnicities, 25-65 years old.
• Supermodels- Female, All Ethnicities, 18-25 years old who are 5′9 or taller.
• Basketball Player- Male, African American, 18-30 years old.
• Chinese Investors- Male/Female, 25-65 years old.
• Cafe Host- Male/Female, Asian, 25-55 years old.
• British Barber- Male, All Ethnicities, 25-65 years old.
• Govt. Officials & Financial/Corporate Executive Types- Male/Female, all Ethnicities, 25-75 years old.
• Artist Types- Male/Female, All Ethnicities, 18-55 years old.
• Female Movie Star- Female, All Ethnicities, 25-45 years old.
• Lawyers- Male/Female, All Ethnicities, 30-75 years old.
• Stand-in/Photodouble for actor Michael Douglas, Height 5′10.
• Stand-in/Photodouble for actor Shia LaBeouf, Height 5′9.

Email a recent picture and contact info to wallstreet@gwcnyc.com. Write the role for which you are submitting in the subject line of your email. Filming begins in NY beginning of September.

Want to sip cocktails like Don Draper? Check out Shot On This Spot member, The Roosevelt Hotel’s Madison Club Lounge on Sunday, August 16th for the premiere of the new season of Mad Men. Cocktails are $7–$14 between 9:30 and 11pm, and the premiere will be aired on flat screens throughout the lounge. Come in costume for a chance at a prize. Want to make a day of it? Gridskipper has this guide to Mad Men's NYC: spend the day checking out the sites and knock back a few cocktails at night!

Heads up: Free screening of Sex And The City: The Movie tonight at Pier 54 (West 14th Street along the Hudson). There's free popcorn and the movie begins around 8:30! Sex and the City Quotes - Read and vote for your favorite Sex and the City quotes

Spotted by our TV & Movie Tourguide, Brian: Mischa Barton and Ashton Kutcher on the set of Beautiful Life on Thompson Street, around the corner from Ben's Pizza.

This is also our first look at the WTF! promo campaign for the series. While it does not show the new GG character that will be played by Hilary Duff, it does quickly feature two other new characters played by Joanna Garcia and Chris Riggi (Scott Ronsson, long-lost lovechild of Lily van der Woodsen and Rufus Humphrey). Can't wait for September 14th!  In the meantime, you can always check out of list of things to help you survive the summer without Gossip Girl.

Are you a New York City business that has appeared in a TV show or movie? Get Shot On This Spot!

"Shot on this Spot" is a city-wide program to identify and bring attention to businesses that have been used as filming locations for TV shows and movies that have been shot in New York City. We invite businesses that have served as filming locations to participate in this new and fun program, sponsored by On Location Tours The advantages of participating in this program are:

• The program is free.
• The program brings awareness to local residents and tourists that something was filmed there.
• Increased exposure for your business - Businesses that participate will be listed on our company website as program members. The On Location Tours website receives 25,000 hits per day on the average.
• Media attention - On Location Tours will officially launch the "Shot on This Spot" program this fall with a kick-off event and coverage by New York media as well as travel media.

Shot on this Spot participants thus far include:

• Grotta Azzurra
• Hi-Life Bar & Grill
• Lucky Cheng's
• Madame X
• Onieal's
• St. Mark's Comics
• The Cutting Room
• The Pleasure Chest
• Vesuvio Bakery

For more information on the program or to join, please contact: Pauline Gacanja PR & Marketing Associate On Location Tours 212-683-2027 paulineg@onlocationtours.com

Are we sure this wasn't The Sopranos Tour??  TV & Movie tourguide, Roseanne, spotted James Gandolfini at Bubby's Restaurant Bar-Bakery at N. Moore and Hudson Streets today around 1pm. Keep the celebrity spottings coming!

By 10 a.m. today, more than 500 people vying to be extras in the upcoming Sex and the City sequel were lined up outside the Metropolitan Pavilion on 18th St. The queue, full of wannabe fashionistas of all shapes and sizes, wrapped around several blocks. Didn't make the call today? No worries.  Email a recent picture and contact info to: sexandthecity2@gwcnyc.com for your chance to get in behind the scenes.

In time for tomorrow's Sex & the City 2 Casting Call, we ask, "who better to be cast as a SATC lady than our SATC ladies?!"  That's right, our lovely "Sexperts," the Sex & the City Hotspots Tourguides will be entering themselves in the running for roles in SATC sequel.  How meta, we say! Meet some of the contenders:

• Lindsey: Lindsey is a recovering Samantha, a closeted Charlotte, but mostly Carrie.  When she is not busy being a sexpert, you can find her acting on set and stage, recording voice overs and performing improv and sketch comedy.  Check out her website, www.lindseygentile.com.
• Natasha: Natasha has been seen recently on Vh1's Tough Love and is currently hosting the new web series, Shop NYC.  When Natasha is not acting or on the SATC Tour, she's working on her latest screenplay, going out with friends, and running her business, ShopNYC Tours.  Check our her website, http://www.natashamalinsky.com/.
• Ally: Ally is 50% Carrie and 50% Miranda, and living in Brooklyn with her very own Mr.