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    PEOPLE 90210
    PEOPLE 90210
    PEOPLE 90210
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    PEOPLE 90210

    By The Editors of PEOPLE

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    The editors of PEOPLE Magazine present Beverly Hills 90210.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeople
    Release dateAug 13, 2019
    ISBN9781547851942
    PEOPLE 90210

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      PEOPLE 90210 - The Editors of PEOPLE

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      FOREWORD

      MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED

      MIXING RICH-KID FANTASY WITH TEEN ANGST, FOX’S HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA BECAME A GENERATIONAL TOUCHSTONE

      THEN AND NOW The cast celebrates taping the 200th episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1997. From left: Brian Austin Green, Jason Priestley, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth, Kathleen Robertson, Jill Novick and Ian Ziering.

      CONFIDENTIAL MEMO

      From: The Vice Principal

      To: The Faculty, High School U.S.A.

      I’m sure I don’t need to remind you what happened when we didn’t prepare for Bart Simpson last fall. The school was flooded with rude, antieducational T-shirts. Some cows were had. Well, as a new school year gets under way, I believe we face another daunting challenge: Brace yourselves for Beverly Hills, 90210.

      The fictional internal memo at left began People’s 1991 cover story about a sassy teen TV show set in Los Angeles’s most exclusive enclave, where a pair of fresh-faced twins, recently transferred from Minnesota, struggled to catch up to the fast-lane lifestyle of West Beverly Hills High. The prime-time soap opera—which got its zip from a cast that was blemish-free and wickedly cute—was an example of what show-business people call a sleeper: Up against NBC’s Thursday night powerhouse Cheers, Beverly Hills, 90210 lagged in the ratings following its 1990 debut until that summer, when the up-and-coming Fox kept airing new episodes of the show while the big networks were son hiatus.

      Come back-to-school time in September, Brandon, Brenda, Dylan, Kelly and the rest of the gang had found their young audience, and 90210 landed in the Top 20. Viewers were riveted by the show’s fantasy of rich-kid privilege—an underage Dynasty—that was grounded in emotionally realistic portrayals of the challenges and dilemmas that kids face every day and everywhere: parents who drink too much, brushes with the law, popularity contests, exhilarating first loves (followed by crushing breakups) and, of course, angst about sex. It seemed as if the show’s writers had bugged a real high school’s lockers and crashed its prom.

      Looking back, I’m really struck by how carefully and how responsibly we dealt with so many issues that were facing the young generation back then, says Jason Priestley, the Canadian actor who played 90210’s all-American male lead, Brandon Walsh. We were the first show on television that had young people talking about it, as opposed to just parents wagging their fingers and saying, ‘Don’t do that.’

      Plotlines that resonated were just part of the appeal of the series, which was created by Darren Star—then 30, who went on to prove his talent for selling sex on Melrose Place and Sex and the City—and produced by Emmy winner Aaron Spelling.

      The cast was, to use words then current, totally hot. Blonde and entitled, 90210’s Spring Dance queen Jennie Garth had to be escorted from a public appearance in Illinois when fans got out of hand. So did Luke Perry, who played the show’s James Dean-like bad boy, when a crowd stampeded the stage at a Florida mall during an appearance in 1991. (Perry died earlier this year following a stroke at age 52.) Priestley told People that he let his beard grow and dressed not like Brandon to avoid being spotted on the street.

      "I thought The Mod Squad and Charlie’s Angels got a lot of publicity in their heyday,’’ said Spelling, who produced both of those shows, "but it doesn’t compare to this. It’s crazy. . . . These actors can’t walk down the street!’’

      While 90210 remained on the air for 10 seasons and nearly 300 episodes, its young stars—whose on-the-set friction and offstage couplings were covered by the press—grew into young adults, their characters experiencing college, first jobs, marriage and childbirth before the series bowed out for good in 2000. And now, in middle age, they’re back: Fox’s BH90210 reunites seven of the show’s stars in a tongue-in-cheek comedy reboot, playing their familiar roles as well as their forty- and fiftysomething selves.

      For this collector’s edition, we’ve rounded up six of the cast for interviews, delved into the archives for rarely seen behind-the-scenes photographs, sampled the Peach Pit jukebox and celebrated hits (and misses) of 90210 style. In the spirit of the ’90s, we invite you to stop reading—not!

      People’s Sept. 9, 1991, cover.

      BH90210 cast members attend the Fox upfronts in New York City in May. From left: Spelling, Priestley, Gabrielle Carteris, Ziering, Garth and Green.

      Best Friends Forever

      DURING THE 1990S, THE KIDS OF WEST BEVERLY HIGH GREW INTO ADULTS, SHARING THE HIGHS—AND MEMORABLE LOWS—ALONG THE WAY

      CLASS FAVORITES Everybody said, ‘It’s not going to work. Who wants to see a show about kids?’ said executive producer Aaron Spelling. From left: Jason Priestley (below), Brian Austin Green, Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty and Ian Ziering.

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