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Darren Star was 28 when he made 90210. Thirty-five years later, he’s still making hits.
For about as long as any millennial has been watching television, Darren Star has been making it: Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Sex and the City, Younger, Emily in Paris. They scrutinized it because I’d written and directed this spring-dance episode at the end of the first season, where Brenda ( Shannen Doherty) and Dylan (Luke Perry) have sex at their junior prom. Doherty has said that a “horrible” drug-addled marriage to fellow actor Ashley Hamilton was the source of her on-set problems that led to her eventual firing at the end of the fourth season.
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