LOW FOR SHOW... Plunging necklines and belly-baring
bold
ensembles ensure a glam-packed fall season
in Hollywood.
When Alaina Kalanj was just 13, the Vancouver native
heard about an open casting call for a Fox Family Channel pilot.
She told her parents, got on a bus, and headed
downtown to discover hundreds of kids looking for a break. Despite the
competition, Kalanj landed a lead in the pilot and, soon after, landed another
pilot lead. Neither show got picked up, but a model scout soon recruited
Kalanj in a local mall and sent her off to work in Japan and Germany for the
next several years. She tired of modeling before long, though, and when
her father moved to Dallas, Kalanj jumped at the chance to live in the U.S.
and enroll in college. As fate would have it, she wasn't in school for
long before landing a rapid-fire string of indie film roles, a small part
in the Matthew Perry/Elizabeth Hurley comedy Serving
Sara, and a guest stint on Dawson's Creek,
all while still living in Dallas. A Hollywood-based manager soon came
calling, and the easy-going, good-natured Kalanj moved to Los Angeles earlier
this year. Ingenue dressed her up
and shot her at the Viceroy, a modernized "Hotel California" by
the sea. What a great place for the new kid in town.
