The Festival of Living Art

The Festival of Living Art
Season	4
Episode	7
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Airdate	4 November 2003
Written by	Daniel Palladino
Directed by	Chris Long
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The Festival of Living Art is the 7th episode of Season 4 of Gilmore Girls. This episode is also titled Love Me or Louvre Me.

Synopsis

As the town prepares to serve as last-minute host to the Festival of Living Pictures, Kirk takes Method acting a bit too far and Lorelai tries to rewrite a bad review. In other events, Lane works to convince the rest of the band that she has found their new guitarist (guest star Sebastian Bach of the band Skid Row); an overdue Sookie opts to have her baby at home and hires a midwife (Rusty Schwimmer); and Luke is surprised by a proposition from Nicole (guest star Tricia O'Kelley).

Starring

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James Scott Patterson as Luke Danes Keiko Agena as Lane Kim Sean Gunn as Kirk Gleason Special Guest Star Sebastian Bach as Gil Recurring cast Liz Torres as Miss Patty Jackson Douglas as Jackson Belleville Todd Lowe as Zack Van Gerbig John Cabrera as Brian Fuller

Guest starring Michael Winters as Taylor Doose Sally Struthers as Babette Dell Nick Offerman as Beau Belleville Tricia O'Kelley as Nicole Leahy Grant Lee Phillips as Town Troubadour Mike Gandolfi as Andrew Rusty Schwimmer as Bruce Co-Starring Brian Berke as Joe Rini Bell as Lulu Kuschner Lynda Scarlino as Buff Otis Gabriel Brock as Chinese Acrobat

Events

• Living Art Festival

Locations

• Lorelai's House
• Sookie's house
• Miss Patty's School of Ballet
• Town Square
• Gazebo

Trivia

• The episode won an Emmy for Outstanding Make-Up For A Series. It is the only Emmy the show was ever nominated for.
• Even though title of this episode is "The Festival of Living Art", it is referred to as "The Festival of Living Pictures" by the characters.
• Lorelai notes that her mixtape includes "99 Luftballoons," the song she was listening to at the hospital when she went into labor.
• Lorelai recalls a "John" a high-school volunteer at the hospital where she eventually delivers Rory. He gives her his digits and says "Call me when you get your figure back."
• Lane invites Gil to join the band, in which he will remain for the rest of the series.
• Kirk and Lulu are now dating.

Photos

Stills

Screenshots

Paintings

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY (1525)
Girolamo Parmigianino

CENACOLO VINCIANO (1498)
Leonardo da Vinci

ARUNCUS DIT AUSSI UN MOISSONNEUR ET VERTUMNE (1657)
Nicolas Poussin (design)

DANSE À BOUGIVAL (1883)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Gilmorisms

Music

• Pink Floyd
• R.E.M.
• Thompson Twins
• Bananarama
• Quiet Riot
• Skid Row
• Stevie Wonder

Literature

• The Bible
• 1984 by George Orwell

Film

• The Godfather
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• The Matrix
• Sunset Boulevard

Pop Culture

Sookie – Leave Oscar Wilde here to his reading.

Lane – I've already figured out that our Spin cover should be against a blood-red backdrop with a skull hovering over us.

Lorelai – Well, very Norman Rockwell.

Lorelai – You better do what John Ashcroft says or they may just follow us home.

Lane – We could dress him up like Angus Young in AC/DC, that school boy outfit.

Brian – He could have seen AC/DC with their original lead singer.

Zack – And 1980 is when that guy choked on his own vomit.

Lorelai – The magazine I was reading that night with a special feature on who's hotter Andrew McCarthy or Emilio Estevez.

Lorelai – You might want to check that Gumby-Pokey watch, Kirk.

Taylor – ...of our former ally, France

Rory – You ready for your close-up, Miss Desmond?

Lorelai – I'm a Weeble, and Weebles wobble.

Rory – Close your eyes and think of England.