This weekend I watched The Ugly Truth starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. Our Beta-Friend is Joy, played by Bree Turner. Joy is beta in every sense of the word – she is Abby’s (Heigl's) associate producer on a local morning news show and requisite bathroom buddy. Within the first 10 minutes of the film Joy is established as such when she says: “These [my breasts] have not been touched in quite some time, I have to live vicariously in your dating life and I really think this could be our next boyfriend!” She is funny, slightly more crass than Heigl's character, and is positively gleeful when watching a train wreck happen on air during the morning broadcast. She seems to take a more zen stance to the state of her singleness, and while we never really get to know her, I like her more than Abby.
