Chace Crawford: His Summer Faves

The ''Gossip Girl'' star likes ''Modern Family'' and Michael Chabon

By EW Staff
Published on July 2, 2010 04:00AM EDT

Crawford, 24, stars alongside Emma Roberts and 50 Cent in the Joel Schumacher-directed thriller Twelve (out Aug. 6). We checked in with him about some summer classics, his hot-weather plans, and how he’d most like to fill a day off.

Movies that remind him of summer
The Graduate, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Music that reminds him of summer
Sublime, Jimmy Buffett

Books he’ll be reading this summer
Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

TV shows he’ll be catching up on this summer
Modern Family, The Pacific

His perfect summer day
”Breakfast, 18 holes on the golf course, steak dinner, and a concert.”

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