‘Gossip Girl’ Says, ‘Granny, Get Your Gun!’

Published: December 6, 2007, 9:35 am

Was it us, or were Lily's boobs bizarrely prominent in this dress? And, wait, is Jenny carrying a purse made of STARBURST WRAPPERS?Photo Courtesy CWAh, the wicked grandmother. It's a time-honored archetype — think Flowers in the Attic I, Claudius, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. But none of those old broads were as nakedly manipulative, as fabulously coiffed, simply as stone-cold awesome as Celia "CeCe" Rhodes, Serena's Cotillion-crazed, possibly cancer-fakin' granny. Drunk with power (and Tanqueray), CeCe stole the shit out of episode eleven. It made us wish that someone would put her in an updated version of The Golden Girls so we could see her and Blanche face off over a man and a pair of shoulder pads. But we didn't love CeCe simply because she revived the class tension between Dan and Serena, reminded us that even old ladies can be catty bitches (it could happen to you, Jenny!), and wore eyeliner that reminded us of a demure Amy Winehouse. She also put to rest a question that

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