'90210' pool billboard upsets Brooklyn Jews

In addition to plausibilty, teen drama 90210 has violated Hasidic Jewish law with a billboard showing mixed company lounging around an oddly shaped pool. Unlike the Parent Television Council, United Jewish Organization president Rabbi David Niederman isn't worried about threesomes. Instead, he says the billboard offends merely because "having men and women swimming together is ... not permissible, even if they are fully clothed," which is why he's protesting its placement facing his Brooklyn community. We'd love to ask him why he's getting bent out of shape over something that's tame by contemporary ad standards. But actually, we'd rather know what percentage of his community goes swimming fully clothed. Via Jossip.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Published on September 3, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Filed under 90210, Controversy, Kiefaber, Outdoor

PTC can't wait for the '90210' threesomes

With the political season in full swing and the fall TV season near at hand, can the squawking of the Parents Television Council be far behind? That was a rhetorical question, and we all know the answer. The PTC's latest target is the remake of 90210, which hasn't even been screened for advertisers. The group fears the show might "glamorize drug and alcohol use along with casual teen sex, including threesomes." On a CW show featuring randy young hardbodies in Beverly Hills? I should hope so! The PTC is, of course, urging advertisers to take a pass. Threesomes, huh? Back in high school, I'd have settled for a decent onesome and a B in chemistry. Maybe they'll get lucky and the premiere will deliver a foursome. Then they'll really have something to TiVo. Er ... I mean boycott.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Published on August 26, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Filed under 90210, Controversy, Gianatasio, Threesomes

Diet Pepsi will meet you at the Peach Pit

So Diet Pepsi is using characters from Beverly Hills 90210 to illustrate how people prefer it to Diet Coke. But why? Not only is this a forced regurgitation of pop culture, it isn’t even current pop culture. 90210 went off the air seven years ago in a freefall after everyone who made the show popular jumped ship. Maybe I’m being too mean. Yes, the ad ridicules 90210. But even that strategy feels stale. And surely it isn’t time yet for a ’90s pop-culture revival. Maybe the guilty parties here got into Lindsay Lohan’s Panamanian Fairy Dust before putting pen to paper.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Published on May 7, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack (0)
Filed under 90210, DDB, Kiefaber, Pepsi

New Year’s wishes from Brandon

I finally got around to opening the last of my holiday mail, and was pleased to discover Jason Priestley in the stack, encouraging me to keep him reading in 2006. Sure, no problem there. We’ll have to start following ex-90210 stars more closely in the coming year. The photo/gift came from L.A. boutique agency 86 the onions.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

Published on January 5, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
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