Emily Deschanel Biography
Emily Deschanel is an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California on October 11, 1976 to father Caleb Deschanel and mother Mary Jo Deschanel. She has one sister, Zooey Deschanel who is also an actress.
Emily graduated from Boston University’s Professional Actors Training Program with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater.
She made her feature film debut in the 1994 film It Could Happen to You. She has been gaining recognition as an actress and in October of 2004 she was named one of six actresses to watch by Interview Magazine.
In addition to starring in feature films, Emily has had several guest starring roles in television shows such as Crossing Jordan and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
Emily can be seen most recently playing the role of forensic anthroplogist Temperance Brennan in the FOX TV show Bones, based on the real life of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
Devon Aoki Biography
Devon Aoki is the frontwoman of the new fashion wave that appreciates women of various ethnicities. Born August 10th, 1982, Devon Edwenna Aoki is the daughter of Japanese Olympic wrestler and Benihana steakhouse magnate Rocky Aoki and Anglo-Bavarian jewelry designer Pamela Hilburger.
A New York native, she grew up in the swank ‘burbs of Malibu, only to move back to her hometown in her early teens. It is rumored that she was discovered at a Rancid concert in NYC, where she gate-crashed. She was 13 when her godmother introduced her to Kate Moss, who later took Aoki as her apprentice.
At 14, she moved to London with her mother, divorced from Rocky Aoki, and her siblings. There she joined Storm Model Management, which also represented her mentor Moss. Says Aoki of Kate, “It was cool because when I got to know Kate, I realized that she was not only incredibly beautiful, but smart, too.†Both women soon appeared together on the cover of Interview magazine.
Aoki spent most of her adolescence juggling modeling and school, always giving equal attention to both. Some of the high-profile designers on her resume include Chanel, Thierry Mugler, Balenciaga, Fendi, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Givenchy. She was also featured in ad campaigns for Chanel Couture by Karl Lagerfeld, Versace Atelier by Steven Meisel, and Junko Shimada by Bettina Kimenda.
In 1998, the 5′6″ model replaced Naomi Campbell? as the face of Versace, after an alleged dispute between Campbell and Donatella Versace. Her most recent modeling contract is with Lancome, where she joins the ranks of beautiful women like Mena Suvari, Elizabeth Jagger? and Uma Thurman.
Aoki just recently forayed onto the big screen, starring in two films and working on her third. 2003′s Death of a Dynasty, her first movie, was a musical-comedy about the hip-hop industry and was directed by rap mogul Damon Dash. That same year she played Suki, a speed-loving babe in 2 Fast 2 Furious, the sequel to the successful The Fast and the Furious. Not knowing how to drive, she received her first lessons from a stunt driver for the role. She will next be seen as Dominique in D.E.B.S., a spy flick slated for 2004 and co-starring Jordana Brewster.
But she won’t stop there. Aoki plans on launching her own clothing line, and has signed on to New York entrepreneur Richie Akiva’s record label, where she will cut her own album, a move no doubt inspired by her rocker ex-boyfriend Lenny Kravitz?.
Having recently joined L.A.’s ICM for representation and The Firm for management (which manages the likes of J.Lo and Adrien Brody), Devon Aoki will only get bigger, and her face will become more recognized and endeared by the public.
Devon now lives on her own, and keeps her personal life private (for the most part…). No word has leaked of boyfriends since Kravitz, but she is often seen alongside major hip-hop and Hollywood men at high-profile social functions and movie premieres.
James Cameron Interview With HDVideoPro Magazine
Avatar director James Cameron took time out of his busy ‘making Avatar cool’ schedule to talk with HDVideoPro magazine. He mainly talks about 3D technology, and if you want to see the whole article, run over to here. However, he did talk a little bit about Avatar:
A Glimpse of Avatar(James Cameron) “I can’t think of a better movie for 3-D - action, creatures, big aerial battles and more. It’s going to rock the house. It’s another world - a world of great beauty and savagery, a mystical place where humans, with their greed and technology, confront a virgin world of great danger and wonder. When the humans try to take what’s not theirs, as they have done since the dawn of time whenever they inhabit a new land, the land fights back. And the fight is on; the scale is off the chain. And that’s all I am saying.”
The more I hear about Avatar the more I want to see it. The fact that we have to wait nearly two years to see it makes me cry a little inside, but any movie that spends two years in pre-production with WETA will no doubt be worth the wait.
Big aerial battles, action and creatures, oh my!
Britney Spears’ Big Interview; Family Boating Adventure
Britney Spears’ Big Interview; Family Boating Adventure
With all the hype and drama surrounding Britney Spears, you gotta wonder what she’s thinking. The ” Stronger” singer has been pretty quiet about all of the rumors going around, and she’s about to weigh in.
In what is promised to be a “shocking interview,” OK! Magazine plans on running a story next week that contains a very candid conversation with the fallen pop princess. They met up with her on the set of her new video earlier this week, and “got her take on everything.”
With a new single ready to go, and a new video in the works, Brit’s got a lot on her plate. She’ll be hosting the grand opening of LAX in Las Vegas, and is rumored to be kicking off her comeback this September at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Alas, it will be good to hear directly from Brit’s mouth what has been going on with her. And maybe she’ll confirm or deny the rumors that she’s preggers again. Who knows?