# Emily or Zooey? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876 "2006-08-31T03:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/1 "2006-08-31T03:47:04Z")
Which one? I think they’re both hot, but in different ways. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/2 "2006-08-31T04:01:02Z")
I’ll speak for the 25 other people who viewed this thread without replying: who are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/3 "2006-08-31T04:03:14Z")
I assume he’s talking about the Sisters Deschanel. I would say that Zooey is the less creepy-looking of the two. Just my opinion, though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![parrot\_recipes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@parrot\_recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parrot_recipes)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/4 "2006-08-31T04:05:10Z")
Zooey, blonde. How about others; Mary Kate or Ashley? Hillary or Haylie Duff? I saw a photo of Christina Aguilera’s sister rachael and oh my god, shes beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/5 "2006-08-31T04:24:31Z")
At one time I might have said Zooey but not too long ago I saw a horrid movie she did called “Winter Sucks” or something like that. It’s Emily all the way now. Isn’t there another Deschanel sister? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/6 "2006-08-31T06:00:29Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] I’ll speak for the 25 other people who viewed this thread without replying: who are you talking about? [/QUOTE] I knew who he was talking about just by the Subject Line, but I just knew that others wouldn’t. Being a het fem I don’t find either of them “hot” but I do like them, Zooey especially. parrot recipes, I don’t think it’s fair to lump them in with the other sisters in the biz you mentioned. The Deschanel sisters are from Hollywood legend stock (father being Caleb), have been around professionals all their lives, and they’re both very good actors. How about other siblings? Luke or Owen? (Luke for me) Jake or Maggie? (Jake) Rob or Chad? (Rob) Which Baldwin? (Adam, but he’s not a brother, otherwise Alec) Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis or David? (Patricia) John or Joan? (John) Dennis or Randy (Dennis) Wilson Gyllenhaal Lowe Arquette Cusack Quaid ---
**Author:** ![parrot\_recipes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@parrot\_recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parrot_recipes)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/7 "2006-08-31T06:10:19Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] Rob or Chad? Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis or David? [/QUOTE] Chad, ever since Life Goes On. Alexis! (and I’m a het fem too) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/8 "2006-08-31T16:23:17Z")
Both Emily and Zooey have this odd quality wherein they look fairly ordinary one moment (by Hollywood standards, anyway) and impossibly hot a moment later. Dang. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/9 "2006-08-31T18:19:09Z")
Zooey. One of my current major crushes. [QUOTE=Equipoise] …I don’t think it’s fair to lump them in with the other sisters in the biz you mentioned. The Deschanel sisters are from Hollywood legend stock (father being Caleb), have been around professionals all their lives, and they’re both very good actors. [/QUOTE] Their mother, Mary Jo Deschanel, is also an actress; she and Caleb both worked on my favorite movie. Talented family. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/10 "2006-08-31T19:21:07Z")
I haven’t gotten around to seeing any of Zooey’s work, but I like Emily on “Bones.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/11 "2006-08-31T19:29:27Z")
I’m familiar with Zooey, and she’s majorly adorable. But I can’t seem to place Emily. And what’s a thread like this doing without pictures? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/12 "2006-08-31T19:29:38Z")
**Emily or Zooey?** Emily all the way! Zooey’s decent, but Emily is interesting, and I find that far more appealing. **Luke or Owen?** Ick, neither. Can’t stand either of 'em. \*\* Jake or Maggie?\*\* Jake…no, Maggie…no, Jake! Dammit. Can’t decide. **Rob or Chad?** Rob **Which Baldwin?** Adam, of course, but that’s cheating. I’ll have to go with Stephen, just because of my _Young Riders_ crush when I was 13. **Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis or David?** Patricia \*\* John or Joan?\*\* John. Joan’s voice makes me want to throw things. \*\* Dennis or Randy?\*\* Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/13 "2006-08-31T20:09:48Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] Zooey. One of my current major crushes. Their mother, Mary Jo Deschanel, is also an actress; she and Caleb both worked on my favorite movie. Talented family. [/QUOTE] Robot Arm is a fan of _The Right Stuff_, I take it. One of my favorites as well. [QUOTE=Chronos] I’m familiar with Zooey, and she’s majorly adorable. But I can’t seem to place Emily. [/QUOTE] She hasn’t done a lot of films, but Emily has a highly recognizable bit part in the Spider Man movies as JJJ’s cute receptionist. [QUOTE=JThunder] Both Emily and Zooey have this odd quality wherein they look fairly ordinary one moment (by Hollywood standards, anyway) and impossibly hot a moment later. Dang. [/QUOTE] Agreed. Very much agreed. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/14 "2006-08-31T21:13:41Z")
Bones!! :d ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/15 "2006-08-31T21:22:40Z")
**Emily or Zooey?** Zooey. **Luke or Owen?** Luke, I guess. Should Vince Vaughn be an alternative choice, here? **Jake or Maggie?** Peter Sarsgaard. He’s family! **Rob or Chad?** Rob **Which Baldwin?** I’m jumping on the Adam lovetrain, and I’m kickin’ bitches off. 😉 So much better than a “real” Baldwin? **Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis or David?** Alexis! **John or Joan?** If I must choose, I’ll take John, just because of the heterosexual female thing. But he must cease and desist making crappy romcoms immediately. **Dennis or Randy?** Seriously? Dennis. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/16 "2006-08-31T21:27:58Z")
Zooey. Kaylee. And of course, Mary Ann. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/17 "2006-09-01T03:51:58Z")
Zooey here. **Eva, Magda or Zsa Zsa** (in their primes, of course) - I’d say Eva **Meg or Jennifer** - Meg 1st, then Jennifer. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/18 "2006-09-01T03:52:02Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] Robot Arm is a fan of _The Right Stuff_, I take it. One of my favorites as well. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, how could I forget…I love that movie! She was Annie, John Glenn’s (Ed Harris) wife, the one who stuttered. She was also Eileen Hayward, Donna Hayward’s (Lara Flynn Boyle) mother in **Twin Peaks** (the character was in a wheelchair, it was never explained why, which I thought was cool). She still acts. She’s in an upcoming movie called **Breach** by director Billy Ray, who directed **Shattered Glass**. It also stars Laura Linney, Chris Cooper, Dennis Haysbert, Ryan Phillippe, Bruce Davison, Gary Cole and Kathleen Quinlan (another astronaut’s wife though in a different movie), and is based on the FBI agent, Robert Hanssen (Cooper) who sold secrets to the Soviet Union. Cool. [QUOTE=Chronos] And what’s a thread like this doing without pictures? [/QUOTE] Pictures here: [Emily Deschanel](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0221043/) [Zooey Deschanel](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0221046/) (kelly5078, you need to see **Almost Famous**!) [Alexis Arquette](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000793/) [Patricia Arquette](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000099/) [Rosanna Arquette](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000275/) [David Arquette](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000274/) [Courtney Cox](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001073/) (Ok, if Peter Sarsgaard can be a Gyllenhaal, Courtney is an Arquette) [Peter Sarsgaard](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0765597/) (yum) [Maggie Gyllenhaal](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0350454/) [Jake Gyllenhaal](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0350453/) [Adam “Animal Mother” Baldwin](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000284/) The Brothers Baldwin: [Alec](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000285/), [Daniel](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000838/), [William](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000287/), and [Stephen](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000286/) (he’s the Fundie Republican) The Siblings Cusack: [John](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000131/) and [Joan](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000349/) The Quaids: [Dennis](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000598/) and Randy (nah, I’m not gonna do Randy. I loved him in The Last Detail but I’m pissed that he sued the Brokeback Mountain producers) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/19 "2006-09-01T03:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] [Stephen](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000286/) (he’s the Fundie Republican) [/QUOTE] D’oh! Can I change my vote? I’ll trade him in for the other Gyllenhaal, how’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876/20 "2006-09-01T03:59:50Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] She hasn’t done a lot of films, but Emily has a highly recognizable bit part in the Spider Man movies as JJJ’s cute receptionist. [/QUOTE] I hate to nitpick, but Jameson’s receptionist isn’t Emily Deschanel, but rather the ultra-hot Elizabeth Banks, who is amazingly gorgeous and also hilarious. You can see her in\* The Baxter\*, _Slither_, _The 40-Year-Old Virgin_, and the last two episodes of season 5 of _Scrubs_, and I think she is currently in _Invincible_, the football movie that’s out now. I adore Elizabeth Banks! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emily-or-zooey/370876.md?page=2)