She took a draw on the cigarette, and, in the smoke and the early evening light, she looked almost pretty, like a girl in a television show the night before she runs away from everything, written out of the script, to begin a new life somewhere else.

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One day the lucky owner of Sea Axe may be similarly dismissive but, this week in Fort Lauderdale, this working class girl of Aberdeen is truly the best in show.

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Gregg Gillis, the obsessive brain and tireless body behind the electronic mashup project called Girl Talk, is, perhaps, the hardest-working man in show business.

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Modern young women visiting Italy might not recognize those limits, though, because the stripper or girly show girl was so mainstreamed in Italy, especially during the years of Silvio Berlusconi's control of Italian television and politics.

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But in its sophomore season, New Girl blossomed into the rare show that enjoys both a mainstream fan base and a cult following.

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In addition to her work on the hit Fox show New Girl, Deschanel has spent the last 12 months building Hell0 Giggles which she likens to a female Funny or Die.

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The blackmail arose after she starred in a reality show Billion Dollar Girl.

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In addition to "Gossip Girl" she's working on "The Carrie Diaries, " a new show about "Sex and the City" protagonist Carrie Bradshaw's high-school years.

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"Around the Bend" has been featured in an ipod touch commercial, a few tracks were on an episode of the CW show Gossip Girl, and the band's first gig was opening for Amy Winehous at Copenhagen's largest music venue.

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