“Spotted, Juliette Lewis in Tribeca. Greenwich Street between Watts and Desbrosses.” (omgicu)

Website OMG ICU (omgicu.com) allows users to share New York City star sightings with each other.

Often the information just includes the name of the celebrity and the location; but sometimes the information is juicier.  For example,what they are doing, who they are with, even critiques of how they look are sometimes included. I found first spottings of engagement rings and smooches, and I’m sure there will also be spottings of weddings, newly married couples coming out of churches in the future, too!

You can search by most recent sightings, neighborhoods, or celebrity standings (A to D list). You can also do specific key word searches for celebrity names, streets, or other key words. A list spottings include everyone from Stephen Colbert to Justin Timberlake and the Dalai Lama. D list spotting examples are: Nicholas Cage (what?! I do not agree!) and Fisher Stevens (formerly married to Kirstie Alley).

Members also get to rate whether they care about the celebrity sighting (or not). For example, 75% of members cared that Uma Thurman was spotted “…on her blackberry, Busy but friendly, smoking a cigarette and looking great.” (omgicu)

Members who live in the NYC area can sign up to receive texts when sightings occur.

This site is great is you are in New York City, but also fun if you just want to keep up to date on your favorite celebs!

Heather Matarazzo

Heather Matarazzo (of Welcome to the Dollhouse and The Princess Diaries fame -she was also DJ’s girlfriend on Roseanne) spotted on the 5 train to Union Square“reading Conversations with God with an engagement ring on“(omgicu).

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Edward Westwick and Chace Crawford

In a beautiful case of irony, Gossip Girl fans can keeps tabs on their favorite gossip boy crushes Chuck Bass and Nate with OMG ICU. Also a great way to find out where they are filming so you can try to catch a glimpse of them ‘for reals’.

“…saw ed westwick and chace crawford at a gossip girl set infront ofgramercy dorm “Chase Crawford with a big posse @ The Thompson Hotel (190 Allen St) on the les around 1am wearing a hat and hoodie.” (omgicu)

OMG ICU is a new website (it is currently operating as an alpha version) so I think the lack of current members is swaying the ratings quite a bit. Do them a favor and sign up and help save Kyle Maclachlan and Kim Gordon from the D-List category, for heaven’s sake!

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Who is Chuck Bass?

A character like Chuck Bass only come along once in a while and then suddenly the cable bill doesn’t seem like such a useless waste of money after all. We revel in his badness, we feel for his vulnerability – and we’re attracted to him, even though we know it would end badly (for us)…

Chuck Bass is a Classic Character

A powerful, tough, passionate character wearing flashy clothes, the Chuck Bass character is reminiscent of many bad guys in classic black and white movies – particularly the characters played by actor Edward G. Robinson.

“Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.” (Edward G. Robinson)

Edward G. Robinson lived in New York City for most of his life. He appeared in his first movie in 1923. In real life, he “was a sophisticated, cultured man with a passion for fine art” (imdb) but in the movies he usually played brutal criminals. He appeared in many Humphrey Bogart movies, but he is probably most well-known for his role as gangster Rico Bandello in “Little Caesar” (1931). I think my favorite Edward G. Robinson movie is Key Largo (1948, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall). The movie that reminds me of Chuck Bass the most is “The Whole Town’s Talking”. In this movie Robinson plays two different characters: a vulnerable dreamer who is secretly in love with his coworker and a violent schemer who will do anything necessary to save himself.

Here is Edward G. Robinson with Joan Bennett in the film Scarlett Street

And here is our other Edward… Edward Westwick -the actor who plays Chuck Bass

Edward G. Robinson in the 1944 film Tampico (with Lynn Bari)

Let’s face it, Gossip Girls is hot. 

Gossip Girls is the only show I watch every week. I like other shows but I refuse to allow myself to schedule my life around them – so until I get a Tivo, Monday nights are the only nights I have to stay home (at least between 8 and 9). My husband watches it, too. We are both fascinated with bad boy Chuck Bass. He is horrible and very amusing at the same time – one of the best characters to hit TV.

Spotted. E and D making out at the Kings of Leon concert.

By the way, the British actor who plays Bass, Ed Westwick, is pretty kick ass in my books as well: he was apparently making out with Drew Barrymore at a Kings of Leon concert day before yesterday!

Chuck Bass - Master of the Intense Face

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