the town's true state. Books The Ice Storm, by Rick Moody In popular culture "It's [Darien's] detestable, but that's the way it is. It's even worse in New Canaan. There, nobody can sell or rent to a Jew." Gentleman's Agreement (1947 film). The 1955 novel Auntie Mame takes place partly in New Canaan, disguised under the name of "Mountebank" but identified (in the stage version) as "Just passed Darien. You'll love it. It's the most restricted community in our part of Connecticut." New Canaan author Edward Eager set two of his children's books in the town: Magic or Not (1959) and The Well-Wishers (1960). In The Cricket In Times Square (1960), main character Chester Cricket lives near New Canaan. The Neighbors are Scaring My Wolf by comic writer Jack Douglas was a 1968 book based on his experiences living in town. The Official Preppy Handbook (1980) makes reference to New Canaan as one of the "preppiest" towns in the country. In the 1997 movie Fools Rush In, Matthew Perry's character grew up in New Canaan. The exteriors of Waveny Mansion are used as Palmer Cortlandt's home in the ABC soap opera All My Children. Karen suggests that Jack's father may be one of the "eight Black brothers of New Canaan, CT" in an episode of Will and Grace. In the ABC drama Commander in Chief, Geena Davis's family home was in New Canaan. In one of the books in the series Gossip Girl, a minor character says he needs to stop in New Canaan. In the ABC television series Sports Night, managing editor Isaac Jaffe (played by Robert Guillaume) lives in New Canaan. In the USA television series Royal Pains Hank tells Tucker to take his father to a fictional rehab center called Simon Ranch in New Canaan CT. In the Syfy television series Warehouse 13, in "There's Always a Downside", former Warehouse agent Hugo moves to New Canaan with his nephew and calls the Warehouse agents to retrieve a bag of marbles that caused students in a fictitious school to be consumed with a single, overriding goal. In the Stephen King series The Dark Tower, protagonist Roland Deschain hails from a fictional city called Gilead, which in turn is nestled in a fictional country/ state called New Canaan. In CW TV show Supernatural, episode Ask Jeeves (Season 10, Episode 6), the Winchester brothers take a case in New Canaan,