Remember back when it was possible for people to simultaneously be famous and also seem genuinely cool? Hillary Frey, the new culture editor of the New York Observer, totally does. "An It Girl was out and about; she walked our streets, shared our parks, sat next to us at the International Bar on First Avenue. She was Chlo . Parker. Claire." Sadly, though, those ladies are all now successful in mainstream TV show and movies! (Also, Claire Danes and her English lover were sitting two feet away from Hillary Frey last Tuesday at the Old Town Bar, which is kind of funny.) Also, Our Girls are older and not as wild now. And a new crop of "It Girls" hasn't risen up to replace them, according to Hillary. Why? Oh, oops, it's our fault.

"So where are the It Girls of 2007? They are surely out there. But in our obsessive need to unpack mystery rather than enjoy it, our poring over Gawker Stalker, Defamer and US Weekly, as we stalk our hometown famous with our camera phones and chronicle their every sip of latte, we've stripped our It Girls of their It-ness." Eeek! Our bad.

But maybe there's still some vestige of "It" out there. Hey, look, there she is, hovering over this very article like a benevolent ghost, in an advertisement for the New York Times!

Help us, Scarlett! You're our only hope!

Meet The Wuz Girls [NYO]