The Beautiful Life Is… Beautiful!

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Tis the season for new shows and they are all competing for best new show status. It’s hard to decide what to watch, especially when most of these shows are on at the same time. Well I’m here to help you out with this major decision… The Beautiful Life! It’s a must watch. The Beautiful Life tells the story of a group of young models trying to make it in the big city (New York that is). The parties, the lying, the scheming and the love story all make you want to come back for more of this lovely new addiction of a show.

Who are we looking at here? The two young lovers, (Well not yet but it looks like the romance is creeping up)  Raina and Chris, are played by Sara Paxton and Benjamin Hollingsworth. Rayna is a young model on her way to the top who unfortunately for her (But fortunately for us on the drama scale) has a dark past and a bad ass sounding father in jail. Chris on the other hand is just a small town boy from Iowa who accidentally turned a NY family vacation into the beginning of a  fabulous modeling career. Though he keeps getting screwed over by groping agents and scary photographers, he keeps trying to stay. If not for the desire not to become like his father then at least for the girl.  And then there’s the girl who was born to play a bad girl model, Mischa Barton , who plays Sonja. Sonja was always the top model in the city, but after the 6 month break she took to have a secret baby (Which is kinda weird since I could have sworn it takes 9 months), her popularity has crashed and burned.

Another familiar face on the show is that of the head of the modeling agency which employs all these brats and that would be the face of Elle Macpherson. Elle plays the caring yet tough yet out for herself former supermodel Claudia Foster. Of course there can’t be a show without the  bitchy British girl, the drug dealer, the pretty boy, the cougar, the Russian mob and last but not least High School Musical’s own Corbin Bleu who plays Isaac Taylor, the DJ wannabe [can't get a job unless I sleep my way to the top] model.

There’s nothing more I can tell you. Not because I don’t want to tell you but because I don’t know myself. Though I’m definitely dying to find out…

Well looks like I’m not going to get a chance to find out because unfortunately the Ashton Kutcher produced show was officially canceled on Friday after only two episodes… too bad, I really liked it!

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Zooey and Emily Deschanel are sisters!

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So I’m sure this is a known fact to a lot of people, but to me this came as a pleasant surprise as I watched two of my favorite actresses and started noticing how alike they are. I decided to do some research, the first clue was the fact that they have the same last name! I was convinced. And when thoughts about my first blog came about, the first story that came to mind was the one of these two beautiful and talented women, so let me begin.

 

Emily Deschanel, born October 11th, 1976 in Los Angeles, California (only 6 days after me…and 6 years before me) to actress Mary Jo Deschanel and cinematographer / Director Caleb Deschanel, after receiving her Bachelors of fine arts in Theater from Boston University she made her debut in the 1994 movie “It Could Happen To You” along side Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda.

 

With a few major films under her belt such as “The Alamo”(2003) with Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Quaid, “Spiderman 2”(2004) with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, “Boogeyman” (2005) with Lucy Lawless ( Xena…I love that show), “Glory Road” (2006) with Josh Lucas and Tatiana Ali ( Ashley from the Fresh Prince), and even a few Television guest appearances on show like “Crossing Jordan”, “Providence”, and “Law & Order: SVU” all led her to the amazing show that made her a television icon -“Bones” along side the hottest man alive (according to me) David Boreanez (profile to come).

 

Emily plays the brilliant and extremely calculated forensic anthropologist – Temperance Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, DC and dabbles in writing mystery – murder novels based on her full time job (that even led to real murders in one of the episodes). With her partner FBI Agent Sealy Booth (David Boreanez) and her team of “squints” as Booth likes to call them, they solve the most mysterious cases by carefully examining skeletal remains and giving the victims a story. This is one of my favorite shows so please check it out Thursdays at 8 on FOX.

Zooey Deschanel, born January 17th, 1980 in Los Angeles, to obviously the same parents as Emily. Zooey decided to follow in the footsteps of her family of actors after graduating from CaliforniaCrossroads High school in Santa Monica, California.

Much like her older sister, Zooey also managed to collect a healthy list of movies to her bio starting with her claim to fame “Almost Famous” with the amazing Kate Hudson, “The Good Girl” (2002) with Jennifer Aniston, “Elf” (2003) with Will Ferrell, “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” (2005), one of my favorite movies “Failure to Launch” with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey where I first noticed her – how to kill a mocking bird ; “there’s a guide? One copy, right here” hahaha brilliant, and her 2008 success in “The Happening” with Mark Walberg and “Yes Man” with the ridiculously hysterical Jim Carrey.

Recently Zooey became engaged to “Death Cab for Cutie” Ben Gibbard.These too amazing actresses are extremely talented no matter what role they take so I guess it runs in the family…

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