Alex's Hollywood Scandal

> "'**Summer Cove *sweetheart Alex Morgan has been arrested for DUI!*"**
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Alex's career as Hollywood's best-loved is threatened when her drinking spirals out of control. Jo struggles with whether or not to continue with L.A. Beat when a new executive producer joins the show. Lizzie helps Christy with a duet for her demo tape.

## Quotes

* --: Lizzie, your agent just called. Your sister, Alex was arrested last night.

Lizzie: What? What happened?
--: It was a DUI charge.

## Excerpt

Hollywood's best loved actress faces the dark side of fame....

Alex Morgan is back on Hollywood's Radar, she now co-stars on the hottest nighttime drama, Lawyers, playing prosecuting attorney Jennifer Mancini. Although, she had a new steady gig that puts her back on the map, Alex is having trouble staying on top. Her constant drinking takes center stage and she'll find herself on celebrity news and tablod magazines when her status as an serial drinker hits headlines.

Jo Morgan is a veteran co-star of TV's popular cop drama, L.A. Beat. But when a new executive producer joins the cast and decides to make changes to the show, Jo wondered if she'll continue her role as best-loved TV detective Hannah Montgomery.

Lizzie Morgan is a musical theatre actress who has performed on stage and screen, like her mother. But when she agrees to help her sister, Christy with her demo to the biggest record company in L.A. will it be enough for a big record deal for Christy?

Chapter 1

Alex Morgan was in hair and make-up, prepping for her scene in an episode of Lawyers, the red-hot popular courtroom drama for CrimeTV, a network channel in Hollywood. Alex's character was Jennifer Mancini, the sexy, yet tough prosecuting attorney, who enjoys putting criminals behind bars. She wears colorful suits and five-inch stilettos, giving her the nickname "The Prosecuting Stiletto"
With her hair and make-up finished, Alex leaves the hair and make-up room and races to Stage 4 to began filming her scene.
Alex was happy to not just have a paying gig on a television series, but the role on a drama was her chance to prove to critics and viewers that her role as Meadow McAllister was a thing in the past. Meadow was a character Alex protrayed in the teen drama, Summer Cove. It was her first hit series that made her a teen idol. She was on every cover of popular teen magazines in the world. She was in every TV movie of the week during her time on Summer Cove. But when the series ended, Alex spent much of her career being cast in short-lived TV shows that never survived the first season.
The only acting gigs Alex had managed to land in were more TV movies and guest appearances in kids' TV shows. She still appeared in every red carpet event to stay in the spotlight. The lack of sucessful TV shows after Summer Cove had plunged Alex into alcoholism. A trait she picked up by her late father. Out of all the things Alex inheirited from her father, besides acting, she got his alcoholism. She kept her drinking from her family, agent, and even the cast of Lawyers. If the producers ever found out she was hitting the booze, her contract with the show would be disbarred. She would have a bottle of scotch in her purse to ease her nerves and her mind.
Alex arrived on set of the show's fictional courtroom with her blonde hair feathered and wearing a grey, black and orange colorblock dress with a coral blazer the show's costume designer picked for Jennifer Mancini.
"Places, everyone!" The director yelled out.
As soon as the director yelled "ACTION!" Alex imediately became Jennifer, the sexy, sassy, and serious lawyer in a fictional courtroom on TV.
"Mr. Talbert, would you mind explaining to the court, where you were on the night of the murder?"
"I was out with friends, at Roscoe's."
The actor Timothy Lynch was playing a man Alex's character was questioning in the TV courtroom.
"That's Alex Morgan?" One of the crew members of the production whispered.
"So?" The other crew member asked.
"My niece was such a fan of her character Meadow McAllister. She was this wholesome sweetheart. I never imagined she was going to be play a lawyer on the show."

Chapter 2

On a Wednesday afternoon, Jo Morgan was in the hair and makeup room. She was in 754 studios for her appearance on the Mandy Mack show, a wildly popular talk show on channel 5.
"I saw your sister, Alex on Lawyers." said Marla Finn. She was the makeup artist doing Jo's makeup. She was giving Jo a fresh sunkissed glow.
"I was surprised when she joined the show. I mean. I remember her from Summer Cove. She was such a little girl back then."
Marla was a longtime fan of Lawyers. She didn't expect the star of a now-canceled, yet still popular in reruns, teen drama to play a sexy lawyer in heels.
Jo had worked hard to be taken seriously as a actress. So has her sister, but people in the industry still see her as the wholesome on-screen sweetheart who doesn't drink, smoke, nor throw tantrums at the paparazi.
Like Alex, Jo had gotten her start at stardom, thanks to a family sitcom called The Reluctant Stepmother. She played Heather Martin, a typical fictional teenager with a latino stepmother. The show was a hit and she was on the cover of every teen magazine in the world. She was the face of Clean & Clear, did Sketchers commercials, and she even became a prom date to a handsome teen pop star. After the end of the Reluctant Stepmother, Jo continued acting and she did everything in her power to stay away from the negative influence that downplayed every teen idol in Hollywood. They would go from instant stardom to fall from grace. However, with reality shows becoming more popular, it was a challenge to land acting roles, not just on TV, but in movies.
Then Jo auditioned for a cop drama that put her back on the map. It was L.A. Beat. Jo at the time she auditioned thought that this was a riskiest choice to make. How can anyone see a former Teen Sweetheart land a role in a upcoming gritty crime drama where she had to play a tough cop, which was a stretch from playing a little girl with a latino stepmother in a teen sitcom. But that was what happened to Jo. But she never thought L.A. Beat would become a hit primetime drama on Channel 7. She was back, older, wiser, and was now TV's hottest TV Detective.
Jo knew that her sister Alex would be back on Hollywood's radar, older, wiser, and compl

Chapter 5

Walking down the street on Hollywood and Vine on a warm day, Alex Morgan was heading to her agent's office as photographers snap shots of her. Her hair was in a messy ponytail. She had on an light blue silk tank top and denim shorts with light brown fringe ankle booties. She was also smoking a cigarette, hoping it would curb her drinking habit. Alex was much different than the characters she portrayed on TV. Some where wholesome, sweet and innocent. Alex, on the other hand, was not. She was just playing the sweet and innocent girl viewers loved watching.
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Chapter 20

News reporters and paparazzi hounded Alex, her mother, Freddie, and her lawyer, Victor Vasquez as they were climbing to the steps of the Metropolitian Courthouse in Downtown Los Angeles. Alex was on her way to court to plead her case. She had on her black moto jacket and lip print pants, looking like she was going out to lunch with friends and not to court for her DUI case.
Freddie had to take a break from her role on Our Secret Lives, to be with Alex while she hoped the judge can take pity on her and give her probation.
Before Alex's court appearance, Freddie's Our Secret Lives character, Esther Diamond was in a storyline where her son, Randy Diamond was in a custody battle with his ex-girlfriend over their son, Randy Jr. Now Freddie was in a real-life courtroom, involving her daughter's DUI charges.
"Couldn't you wear something a little more appropiate for court, Alex?" Freddie whispered, staring at her daughter's outfit.
"Mom, I'm not a lawyer. Why should I dress like one?" Alex replied, sarcastically.
The two continued walking to the courtroom as they discuss Alex's callousness over her DUI charges.
"Y'know, you're in this mess because, you couldn't keep booze out of her mouth. And worse of all, You got in your car, drunk. Where you could've gotten someone killed or yourself killed."
"Mom, I wasn't that drunk. It was just a little buzzed."
"Tell that to the judge!" Freddie snapped.
Back at home, Lizzie and Christie turned on the news to watch Alex's court appearance.
"Will the judge give her probation?" Christie asked.
Lizzie poured coca-cola in one glass and in the other for Christie.
"I don't know, sometimes court judges don't give celebrities special treatment."
Christie was hoping that the judge would give Alex a slap on the wrist and give her probation and a hundred hours of community service. Along with a revoked driver's license. At the same time, she would attend Alcoholic's Anonymous for Celebs.
As the girls tuned in for Alex's court appearance, Christie took notice of the script sitting on the kitchen counter.
"What's this?" she asked.
Lizzie picked up the script and began scanning her eyes at the pages.
"My agent asked me to read the script for a TV movie."
Lizzie explained to Christie that the script was for a TV movie and if she liked the script and accepts the movie, she would return to Canada to beginning filming. In the movie script, an married teacher discovers that his favorite student might be his long lost daughter from a past relationship.
By the time they finished reading the script, Christie encouraged Lizzie to do the movie. But Lizzie didn't major in musical theatre at a prestigous performing arts college to do TV movies. She wanted to do musical theatre where she can act and sing. Christie informed her sister that many musical theatre performers have acting on TV and movies.
It was a risky career move for musical theatre actress like Lizzie, but she like the script and believe it would be a great movie. She called her agent and told him she was going to do the move and play Mia Talbert. Lizzie looked young enough to play a teenager or a college student. She must have used her mother's anti-aging beauty products from the bathroom, maintaining a youthful appearance.
"You're going to play a teacher's pet who is the teacher's unknown daughter?"
"Hence the movie title, An Unknown Daughter."
With Alex getting in trouble with the law due to her irresponsible drinking habit, Lizzie and Christie decided to stay away from booze. But living in Hollywood, let alone working in Hollywood, it was hard to stay away from the temptations the shiny city had. Especially from a prominiet yet famous Hollywood family like the Morgans.
The girls thought that Alex was boozing herself because she was frusterated with her career. Each TV show she had booked since Summer Cove never survived their first season or the pilots were never picked up. And she had dated actors and hot-looking male models that failed to take a commited relationship seriously.
But with a gig on Lawyers, Alex seemed like her career was back on track. But now, her recent troubles with alcohol and now her visit to the courtroom for DUI may threaten her job on the show and her reputation in Hollywood may take a beating.
This was something Freddie and her late husband Ben had feared when Alex, who was thirteen at the time, had told them that she wanted to pursue acting. Fearing that their daughter would fall victim to the dangers of Hollywood, they never approve of her plan. Now, that she was in the courtroom, facing a judge for her DUI case, Alex had made her parents' worst nightmare come true.
Freddie felt that she had let her daughter down, for not keeping tabs on her. She was filming scenes of her soap opera, Our Secret Lives, while Alex was hitting the bottle after filming Lawyers.