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True Blood party in Clinton, Louisiana (Bon Temp) - from Louisiana's The Advocate:
Advance tickets are available at Feliciana Bank, Topper’s and McKnight’s in Clinton and McDonald’s Drugstore in Jackson. Prices are $35 per person or $50 for a couple in advance. Food, door prizes, a silent auction and a cash bar will be featured, along with music from the 1950s to the present day. Photographs taken during the filming of HBO’s “True Blood” series will be displayed. Boadicea | 10/15/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
Music at the "True Blood & Gold Vampire Ball" - from PRWeb:Marc Gunn will play songs from his latest CD, "Happy Songs of Death," as well as other morbid favorites at the annual Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat Fan Club's Ball on October 30 at the Republic New Orleans, 828 South Peters Street.
(PRWEB) October 15, 2009 -- Marc Gunn will play songs from his latest CD, "Happy Songs of Death," as well as other morbid favorites at the annual Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat Fan Club's Ball on October 30 at the Republic New Orleans, 828 South Peters Street. The show starts at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:00).
"The theme of my latest CD is such a great match," commented Gunn. "I am tickled to be able to take part in such a great New Orleans event." Other guests include Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels that form the basis of the Louisiana-based HBO series, "True Blood." Tickets to the event are available only at www.vampirelestatfanclub.com/events.html. Marc Gunn is available for interviews concerning this project, Celtic music, podcasting and independent music in general. Contact Jamie Haeuser at (225) 266-3979. Find out more at www.marcgunn.com. Boadicea | 10/15/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Newser:Bloodsuckers of today just want to fit in | |||||
Where will you be going next year? From io9:
Convention season is just about over, but it's not too late to start planning your 2010 convention-going. (In fact, some stuff is already selling out.) So here's our guide to 2010's mega-conventions. Which offers the most zing for your money? San Diego Comic Con:
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Gotta love Meredith Woerner's commentaries - from io9:
Alan Ball revealed to TV Guide: "Somebody is going to bite the dust and it's going to be really good to see them get what they deserve," Ball says. The only clue the Blood boss would reveal is that "it's a person we'll be happy to see go." So who should it be, now that my blood lust has been quenched with the death of Eggs I have to admit, one good turn deserves another, can we kill him again? If not can his death be at the beginning of all the "last week on True Blood" recaps? It would be better than vampire dirt sex. But moving on, completely disregarding any book spoilers, let's wager who "gets it" next year.... Who should die in season three of True Blood?
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“After last season you would think things would sort of return to normal – but no, that’s not going to happen!” Ball told TV Guide Magazine. “No, there’s just as much weird stuff out there, and we’re going to meet some werewolves for the first time; we’re going to find out some roles vampires played in history, which is interesting and shocking and funny. It’s more of the same.” I am looking at pictures of locations and looking at models of new sets and stuff, so we’re back,” said Ball. “I have four scripts that I am going, four first drafts, and I’m going over them and making some revisions with the writing staff, and we’ve already cast a major role: the vampire king of Mississippi, who’s going to be played by Dennis O’Hare, which I’m very, very excited about.” O’Hare’s a Tony-, Obie- and Drama Desk Award-winning actor best known to television audiences for his recurring role as Travis March on Brothers & Sisters. While the rollercoaster relationship of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) remains front and center, Ball revealed that several supporting characters will be sharing even more of the spotlight. “Definitely Eric has broken out and is a big important character now. Jessica and Hoyt are still trying to deal with everything that happened to them, and Arlene and Terry are going to have a little bit more of a life and more of a presence on the show.” There’s also room for guest stars, like Evan Rachel Wood’s vampire queen of Louisiana. “She’ll be back,” promised Ball. “Maybe Zeljko Ivanek, who played the Magister in Season 1 – he might be back. And we do have a lot of fun new characters.” Sam Trammell, who plays the hapless but heroic bar owner/changeling Sam Merlotte, added that Season 3 is “going to explore my relatives and the sort of sketchy, shapeshifter-y people in my family, and that’s going to be more torture for Sam. I’m sure they’re not going to be good people.” But will Sam’s still-burning torch for Sookie also be a source of torment? “Well, I hope he still has a shot with Sookie, but who knows? Probably not.” Trammell said that the wildly enthusiastic response to Season 2 has left the actors “psyched” to return to work on Dec. 3. “We couldn’t believe the numbers that we got,” he said. “We were just sort of stunned. Yeah, we were kind of working in a bubble for most of last year and certainly year one, because it hadn’t come out. And now we know that people are really into it and on board, so we’re psyched to see they’ve written.” The creative team hasn’t been overly stressed out about topping the all-out mayhem of Season 2. “We have a great head start in that we have these fantastic books that Charlaine Harris wrote,” said Ball. “It’s not like we have a blank slate and say ‘Oh my God, what are we going to do?’ So we’re using book three as the model for Season 3. And there’s nine of them and she publishes one every year, so I feel like ‘Just keep ‘em comin’.’ And while Ball admits he felt a twinge of worry when he found out about the real-life romance between stars Paquin and Moyer, he’s thrilled that the couple is rock-solid now that they’re engaged. “When I first found out I was like ‘Uh-oh – no!’” he laughed. “But by now it’s very clear that it’s the real deal and they’re very, very happy. Anna said to me at a party, after I said ‘You look fantastic,’ she said ‘Well, I’m happy, and happier than I’ve ever been in my life and a lot of it is thanks to you.’ It’s great to know that. I just want everybody working on the show to be happy, and so far they are. Boadicea | 10/14/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
True Blood Season 3 - from SpoilerTV:[Read entire article] Text is hidden - highlight to reveal text >>> Marshall: Any word on True Blood? Boadicea | 10/14/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
Having a BallWritten by Richard Watts Wednesday, 14 October 2009 15:31
Based on the ‘Sookie Stackhouse’ books by American novelist Charlaine Harris, writer/producer Alan Ball’s True Blood is one of the most compelling and entertaining takes on the vampire legend around. But, as he tells MCV, the television program would never have been made had he not accidentally stumbled upon the first book in Harris’s series. “It was a total impulse buy for me, this book, and I started reading it and I could not put it down. It was like crack! It was like I was addicted to it. And somewhere around book three or four [in the series] I thought, this is so not the sort of stuff I usually read but I love this world and these characters, and I think this would make a great TV show.” Like much of Ball’s work, True Blood is gay inclusive: hardly a surprise given that he’s an openly and proudly gay man – which isn’t to say that his sexuality has never been an issue. “I came from New York, where almost everyone is gay and everyone is politically correct, so my first job in LA was working on a sit-com, and in a sit-com writers’ room everyone is fair game. Everyone. Women, straight men, white people, gays. And those writers can be a little shocking! Words that we’re not supposed to use get used, and I was briefly like, ‘Oh my god, what am I going to do? These people are telling *** jokes, what the fuck am I going to do?’ “But after I did come out, it’s never been an issue. I remember with American Beauty, they said ‘Are you okay doing interviews with the gay press?’ and I was like yeah, why wouldn’t I be? And from then I just don’t even think about it.” What Ball does have to think about it the sometimes difficult process of adapting Harris’s books for television.
“So what we did as a writing staff was to try to take all these peripheral characters in the books and give them their own story, so that instead of it being just one story it’s actually a world, you know, where you have five, or at this point six or seven major characters, each with their own story.” One such character is gay cook and construction worker Lafayette Reynolds, played by Nelsan Ellis, who was killed off relatively early in the Sookie Stackhouse series, but who is still very much alive in True Blood. “I knew the first day that we started shooting with Nelsan and he was improvising, I knew immediately this guy’s gold and I can’t kill him. He’s such a great character that we’ve got to figure out a way for him not to die.” So what are his plans for series three, which is currently in development? “We’ve worked out a general direction for the season, and we’ve sketched out the first four episodes and I’ve assigned writers and they’re off writing the scripts. As to what will happen, I can confirm the rumours you may have heard about werewolves and the gay vampire king of Mississippi. And Lafayette will get a boyfriend.” True Blood, Tuesdays at 8.30pm on Showcase. Pictured: (Top) Creator Alan Ball and, (beneath) with actors Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. Boadicea | 10/14/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From TVSquad:Do True Blood's Steve and Sarah Newlin seem like Joel and Victoria Osteen?Posted Oct 14th 2009
But really, just look at them. They're Steve and Sarah Newlin from True Blood (above, right). There's no mistaking it, and I have to wonder if Alan Ball had the Osteens in mind when he wrote the parts for the Newlins, played by Michael McMillian and Anna Camp. Somehow, I feel certain that Joel and Victoria Osteen aren't harboring a grudge against vampires (though I'm sure they work against evil in the world) or holding poor souls captive in their church basement, like the Newlins did at the Light of Day Institute. Still, it's hard not to see the similarities, isn't it? Both couples are based in Texas, too. Boadicea | 10/14/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From TV Guide:Mega Buzz: Scoop on NCIS, True Blood, Criminal Minds and MoreText is hidden - highlight to reveal text >>> How soon before we find out who took Bill on True Blood? — Dyan MICKEY: "We will discover who has Bill right off the bat in Season 3, but it's going to take the people on the show a little bit longer to find out," executive producer Alan Ball tells us. Sookie will even consider the possibility that he left of his own volition. "It's not easy for her," Ball says. "She feels really bad because she's not sure whether he just left because he was upset because she didn't say yes right off the bat. But in her heart she believes he was taken and she doesn't know who took him. She's going to fight to find him." Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Beauty Blogging Junkie:Interview With The Vampire... Makeup Artist. Lead Makeup Artist for True Blood Brigette Ellis Shares The Scoop.
Beauty Blogging Junkie: Brigette. I love True Blood. Let's start with that. Now: What's most exciting about working on True Blood?
BBJ: What inspires you? BE: My love for the craft! I absolutely adore making someone look gorgeous and then messing it all up/destroying it. BBJ: What is most challenging about your job? BE: Staying true-to-universe and making "executive" decisions about a character's makeup. For example, though Lafayette typically applies an entire face of drag queen makeup, I wanted his look for his dash to save Tara with Sookie [ed. note: Or, as vampire Bill says, SookAAYYY ] to be realistic. So I made sure to give him very minimal makeup that day to work in some of the backstory--that he didn't have time to touch up his makeup. Bill tends to get tan on the back of his neck and on his hands, so I make sure to bring his levels back with foundation.
BE: A lot of times, it comes down to eyebrows. We use a lot of eyebrow covers in order to stay true to the period we're covering. We'll use a prosthetic blender first, then paint on an eyebrow. BBJ: What's the aesthetic for the queen of the vampires, played by Evan Rachel Wood? BE: She's a very period-centric beauty, and I like that. Her red lips are always perfection, never bleeding. BBJ: What kind of eye makeup was used on Mary Ann? Her eyes looked fierce! BE: We used tarte Eye Couture Day-to-Night Eyeshadow Palette nearly the entire season.
BE: We color in the nail beds with ink and rim the eyes with a wine colored eye shadow. I use the FX Skin Illustrator Scrapes and Scabs palette for the actors' nail beds. It's an alcohol-based paint that we use to create an aged blood color. Alex Skaarsguard, who plays Eric, loves the sun and gets pink, so we load him up with a lot of heavy pale foundation. I especially like Kevyn Aucoin The Liquid Airbrush Foundation. I also love Stila, MAC, and Laura Mercier foundations. Revlon ColorStay Mineral Mousse Makeup is great for hands and neck as it stays on forever.
BE: We keep the humans very bronzed and sweaty (we spray them with water) to serve as a contrast to the vampires who are always cool and collected. On Anna Paquin, we use Dior Airflash Spray to get her natural pale brunette coloring into gear to play tan and blonde Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie is always in minimal clothing, so I try to keep her makeup simple. Everyday Sookie wears Cover FX Concealer, tarte Madame X Eye Liner NARS blush in GildaSmashbox Lip Treatment in Bean, Laura Mercier Lip Colour Sheer in Baby Lips. On Jessica (played by Deborah Ann Woll) we use a tinted moisturizer and lots of Lip Venom. and mascara in Bon Temps, but goes much more glam when she ventures outside of her hometown. Her waitress lip concept is DM: What are some of your all-time favorite products that you haven't mentioned above? BE: La Mer and Epicuren skin care Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler Leg/Body make up: Sally Hansen Air Brush Legs! Awesome for tattoo/bruise/vein cover-up Tarte Lash and Mascara Comb Stila Sun Bronzing Powder Shade 2 Tarte Lip Gloss Duo in Jake and Samantha Maybelline Lash Discovery Mascara Make up For Ever HD Invisible Cover Foundation BBJ: What's most challenging about your job? BE: Staying true-to-universe and making "executive" decisions about a character's makeup. For example, though Lafayette typically applies an entire face of drag queen makeup, I wanted his look for his dash to save Tara with Sookie to be realistic. So I made sure to give him very minimal makeup that day to work in some of the backstory--that he didn't have time to touch up his makeup. BBJ: How do you achieve the bloody tears on the show? BE: There are two ways the bloody tears are achieve: via practical effects and visual effects. Practical effects mean that I'll go in and literally place a tear next to the actor's tear duct and then will be edited out in the final cut. When you see a lot of tears or heavy, ongoing crying, that's visual effects. Here's how visual effects work: The actor will cry normally, and then the tears are colored graphically to be red after the fact. Examples: When Jessica finds out that she will cry blood tears for the rest of her life--or her existence, rather--she cries a single teardrop. That one, I went in and applied. When Eric was crying about the loss of Godric was also achieved practically. I put the first blood tear into his eyes using a theatrical makeup brand's product called My Blood. In the scene where Eric is completely devastated and Sookie finds him literally all cried out, we used three layers of blood: a tattoo-like ink, our fresh blood (again, My Blood), and dried blood as well. I'm aware that my job sounds so weird when I explain it like this! BBJ: What do you do in your spare time? BE: I have four kids, one I had during the first season of Buffy, one the last season of Buffy and two step children. Thanks, Brigette for taking the time to discuss all things TB with me! Season three shoots in December in L.A., we wish you luck! Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Denver/Boulder A.V. Club:by Josh Modell October 13, 2009
In the show, most vampires don’t seem to really like how Tru Blood tastes. They choke it down—most like it served warm—only because they want to live in peace with those pesky humans. So how does a company make a drink in the real world that mimics the taste of badly mimicked blood? Why, with blood oranges, of course! Here’s what the HBO Shop has to say about its exclusive, expensive product: “It’s official! The Tru Blood drink has now been ‘de-fictionalized’ and emerges into reality as a delicious blood orange carbonated drink. Meticulously crafted, the Tru Blood Drink is an exact replica of the bottle design as seen on True Blood. The 14 oz glass Tru Blood bottle is stained in a rich red, with raised Tru Blood English lettering and matching Japanese Kanji. This blood orange flavored soda is slightly tart, lightly sweet and subtly carbonated. Designed to taste great while matching the appearance of Bill’s favorite drink, the drink pours like a regular soda, but with the standing appearance in a glass is stormy and mysterious.” Yeah, that’s a little bit over the top, and the English gets fractured at the end, but it does make a good point: The bottle looks exactly like the one on the show, and it’s pretty hefty and impressive. Obviously this drink is aimed more at True Blood fanatics who want to keep it on a shelf than those who might want to drink it on a regular basis. That’s probably a good thing, because get this: A four-pack costs $16 plus “special shipping,” which pushes the cost of one bottle above $5. At least it tastes pretty decent. Better than Brawndo, in any case. The taste: Across the board, reactions to the taste of Tru Blood were pretty positive. It’s definitely not just some crappy orange soda squirted into a classy bottle. It’s made with cane sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup, and it’s not overly sweet, like most orange-flavored stuff. It looked deceptively thick when poured, but not insanely so. Several people mentioned its taste similarity to SweetTarts, which is apt. We wouldn’t be good Taste Testers if we didn’t find out how Tru Blood tastes as a mixer, so we grabbed the available alcohol in the office and made some drinks. Tequila (for some reason, Jun had a tiny airplane-serving bottle in his desk) was far and away the winner, making for a tasty margarita-like concoction with a pretty color and a great mix of sweet and tart. Because we still had the Bakon vodka sitting around (no surprise there) that was also mixed in, to terrible ends. (Brett suggested that we finally found the recipe for the drink we’ve been trying to create, The Bloody Band-Aid.) Three Olives brand grape vodka was a bit better. It tastes like liquid Dimetapp to begin with, so Tru Blood cut the sweetness. Overall, we liked Tru Blood, but nobody would even consider paying $5 for a bottle, unless it guaranteed immortality and a date with Sookie, Bill, Lafayette, or all three. Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Extra TV:'Twilight' and 'True Blood' in Vegas for Halloween!
The parties are not in competition, just in good fun! The "Twilight" superstars will host TAO Las Vegas' Yelloween party sponsored by Veuve Clicquot at The Venetian Hotel Casino on Saturday, Oct. 31. Next door, the "True Blood" actors will host a bash at LAVO at The Palazzo. Visit TaoLasVegas.com for more info. Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From The Simon:By Kevin Field, Oct 12, 2009
And what's not to love? We can all relate to creatures that just want to sleep through the day and suck the necks of attractive members of the opposite sex at night. (Or same sex, if that's your thing -- no homophobes allowed in the vampire kingdom.) What could possibly be better than being unable to go out in the sunlight, eat actual food, and losing all trace of your very humanity? Nothing! And you can bet our beloved media conglomerates know it. On the heels of a number of successful vampire-themed projects, they know that vampires are HAWT! You'll want to buy a ticket or grab a seat on the couch, because the undead are anything BUT dead, America. With that, here's a look at a number of vampire projects currently in development: THERE'S A VAMPIRE IN THE WHITE HOUSE*: The Vice President is bitten by a bat on the grounds of the Naval Observatory and slowly becomes a vampire. Soon the press is wondering why he only emerges from his bedroom at night. How does the third most powerful man on the planet (after the President and Oprah Winfrey) get through a state dinner -- heavy on the garlic! -- with the Italian prime minister? To be directed by Oliver Stone for a 2011 release. *Loosely based on the life of Dick Cheney, who despite his habit of feeding on human blood, was not technically a vampire. MORNING LIGHT: 14-year-old girls and overweight single women LOVE vampires, and they'll eat up this emotional novel about a human high school girl who falls in love with a brooding young vampire who, while devastatingly sexy, is also totally into commitment and hand-holding and listening. (This book has absolutely NOTHING to do with the "Twilight" series... but don't tell Stephenie Meyer about it, just in case.) BABY GOT DRAC: This hip BET series explores what happens when "Baby," a successful young African-American woman, meets a sexy, 800-year-old Transylvanian vampire and they start dating. How does she explain to her parents the shameful truth that her new boyfriend is white? SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BITE: An NBC "reality" show as you've never seen it! Attractive twenty-somethings from varied U.S. locations like Los Angeles, Anaheim, Burbank and Hollywood compete in a series of contests to see who will make the best vampire. Trials include: gnawing on the neck of a rat and drinking the blood in under 60 seconds; stalking attractive college co-eds late at night; and sleeping in. Contestants will be judged by a snarky celebrity panel including Keith Richards.A pack of surly and depressed Goth teenagers (is there any other kind?) dream of escaping their humdrum life of adolescence. When they turn to vampirism, they discover that despite their new found supernatural powers and thirst for blood... their lives are just as annoying and meaningless as before. PARENTS ARE TOTALLY LAME! (Features a powerful soundtrack by Morrissey.) THE MIRROR HAS NO FACES: After one of the world's most famous supermodels is attacked by a vampire, she struggles with the horrifying fact... that she can no longer stare longingly at her own reflection. How can she possibly survive? CROSS OF BLOOD: A hard-hitting CBS drama series about a team of FBI agents researching the supernatural -- think "X-Files" meets "CSI" -- who track an elderly foreign man with a thirst for blood, who dresses entirely in black and preys on young altar boys in the middle of the night. After a season-long investigation, they realize he's not a vampire at all but a Roman Catholic priest. Drink up, America! Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
| True Blood cast to attend SCREAM 2009 - from Reuters: Never-Before-Seen Content From 'Star Trek' To Be Featured  NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The stars are aligned for Spike TV's "SCREAM 2009!" The 4th annual event commemorating all things sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic book will feature the hottest films, TV shows, comics, actors,creators, and icons who have influenced and shaped these genres. "SCREAM 2009" will also feature World Premieres from some of the most anticipated theatrical and television releases. The show tapes on Saturday, October 17 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA and will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT). Continuing its tradition of presenting World Premiere footage, "SCREAM 2009" will feature "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner as he unveils exclusive footage from "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." The show will also feature never-before-seen content from the upcoming "Star Trek" DVD release. "SCREAM 2009" will debut exclusive content from Martin Scorsese's upcoming thriller "Shutter Island" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. "SCREAM 2009" will also show a sneak peek of the highly-anticipated new television series "V" with Elizabeth Mitchell. As previously announced, "SCREAM 2009" will honor the godfather of the modern horror film, George Romero with this year's Scream Mastermind Award. Quentin Tarantino has been tapped to present Romero with this prestigious honor. In addition, the cast of "The Big Bang Theory" including Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar will be on hand to present the "Battlestar Galactica" cast reunion farewell tribute.
JJ Abrams' sci-fi action-adventure "Star Trek" tops the "SCREAM 2009" list with 17 nominations including the categories of The Ultimate Scream, Best Science Fiction Movie, Best Director, Best Ensemble, Holy Sh*t Scene-of-the-Year and a nod in the all-new Fight-Scene-of-the-Year category. Comic book-inspired blockbusters "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Watchmen" each nabbed 13 nominations, big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best selling novel "Twilight" received 10 nominations, while HBO's vampire-themed television series "True Blood" garnered nine nominations. Fans can log onto scream.spike.com until Saturday, October 17 to vote for their favorites. The official sponsors of Spike TV's "SCREAM 2009" are Taco Bell, Subaru, Geico and Free Credit Report.com. Casey Patterson, Michael Levitt and Cindy Levitt serve as executive producers for "SCREAM 2009." Greg Sills is supervising producer, Gary Tellalian and Austin Reading are producers and Hamish Hamilton will direct. Spike TV is available in 98 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. A unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), MTV Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV's Internet address is www.spike.com and for up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit Spike TV's press site at http://www.spike.com/press. Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
True Blood Wii game? From Television Without Pity:by Zach Oat
Glee The Wiimote and balance board will be used simultaneously on the level where you have to re-enact Beyonce's choreography for "Single Ladies" and then kick a field goal. The Wiimote will also be used for throwing Slushees at Rachel. Fringe In the Fringe game, you're actually a shape-shifter from an alternate dimension, with mercury in your blood, and whenever you want to chug the contents of a handful of thermometers, you mime it with the Wiimote. The balance board can be used to simulate kicking Olivia in the stomach repeatedly. Mad Men We don't know what system it will be on yet, but if the planned Mad Men game turns up on the Wii, we hope we'll be able to use the Wand controller to pantomime smoking a cigar or drinking from a highball glass and the balance board to pretend we're riding around the office on a lawnmower. True Blood The staking of vampires is a logical use of the Wiimote for this in-the-works game, but the question is, what to do with the balance board? Let's see... besides killing, what do people do to each other on True Blood that could be simulated by a rhythmic rocking motion? This game may need to be rated VM for Very Mature. [Continue reading...] Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
Richard the plumber talks True Blood and Blu-ray - from Home Media Magazine:
Richard the Plumber came by the other day to fix a toilet that's not holding up too well under three growing boys. He spied a DVD of the hit HBO series "True Blood" on the coffee table in my family room and told me his whole family is a big fan. What he said next surprised me. "You should get the Blu-ray version," he said. "You won't believe how much better it looks than DVD, and you've got the kind of TV where you're really going to notice the difference." Two things about this exchange are worth noting: 1) Richard the Plumber has already invested in a Blu-ray Disc player, and 2) he just reaffirmed my belief that the picture quality, much more so than any novel special features or even BD Live application, should be the primary selling point in propagating Blu-ray to the masses. If Richard the Plumber notices the difference, and on a TV series, no less, then you can bet other people will, too. Of course I didn't let the conversation end with that. Now that I knew he had a Blu-ray machine, I had to follow up with the big question home entertainment executives are all thinking about these days. "Do you ever watch BD Live?" I asked. His response echoed the sentiments expressed two weeks ago by members of the Home Media Tastemakers Forum. "Nope," he said. "My Internet's in my office and my TV's in the living room, and I sure as heck don't want to string a cable halfway across the house. You'd think they'd figure out a way to connect via WiFi." You'd think, Richard. You'd think. I told him the first wireless players came on the market in July and they're gradually rolling them out now. Richard's response: "I wish I would've knowed before I bought my player. Why are they always doing stuff like that?" I didn't have an answer. Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From MTV's Hollywood Crush:Text is hidden - highlight to reveal text >>> 'True Blood' News! Mike McMillian (A.K.A. Rev. Steve Newlin) Says His Character Will Be Back
A series centered around sexy, blood-loving vampires is bound to have an ample body count, but the gallons of bloodshed in the sophomore season of "True Blood" could have made even a surgeon queazy. Some deaths were for the better (Michelle Forbes' maenad Maryann) while others left us weepy (Mehcad Brooks' Eggs and Allan Hyde's Godric). But two faces we haven't seen the last of are the Fellowship of the Sun's conniving first couple Steve and Sarah Newlin. "I've been told he'll be back," actor Mike McMillian, who plays Reverend Steve, told MTV News of his character. Though the actor doesn't know when he and costar Anna Camp (did you catch her cameo in the "The Office" wedding?) will return, he has a few theories about how things might go down. "I think like any good villain he's going to go away and lick his wounds for a while. But I think he suffered major humiliation toward the end of season two, and now I would imagine the Stackhouses are even higher on his list. If it was personal before with his father being killed, then it's really personal now with the Stackhouses humiliating him." "True Blood" writers take note: Mike even has a suggestion for the timing of he and Anna's return. "Hopefully, it'll happen at a time when the audience is least expecting it," Mike said. "That's always the best time to bring them back—when something horrible is already going on for our hero, and then they gotta deal with these a--holes too." Want more Mike? Check out his interview with our brother blog, Splash Page, about his foray into the world of comics with a four-issue miniseries called "Lucid." (Yup, there's a vampire connection there. Go figure!) Are you excited for the Newlins to return to "True Blood"? Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Tulsa World:By GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer
At least, that is how author Charlaine Harris explains simply in the dedication to this collection of five previously published short stories that feature Sookie Stackhouse: "For all those readers who want every last sip of Sookie." It's a literary beverage that a great many people have found quite tasty over the last couple of years, thanks in large part to the HBO series "True Blood," created by Alan Ball and based on Harris' series of novels about the adventures of a barmaid named Sookie Stackhouse who lives in a Louisiana that's rife with vampires, shape-shifters and other such creatures. However, the short stories in "A Touch of Dead" can only be fully understood if one already has a knowledge of Harris' "Southern Vampire" novels — from 2001's "Dead until Dark" to "Dead and Gone," which came out earlier this year. Arkansas native Harris brings humor and a straight-forward writing style to her unique twist on the paranormal romance genre, blending fantasy, science fiction and a healthy dash of sexual tension. She has a knack for moving her stories along quickly, but without sacrificing the complexity she gives her characters. And just when action gets serious, she brings in some levity to keep it from becoming completely morose or disturbing. The five stories here are arranged according to how they fit into the overall chronology of the series — interludes between the novels, so to speak. [Continue reading...] Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Moviehole:by Clint Morris (Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 12:57 am )
"True Blood" co-stars (and real-life quilt sharers!) Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer feature in the new thriller "Open House", according to Bloody Disgusting. And as far as we can tell, nobody will be donning plastic fangs, fantasizing another extremely tall and pale men named 'Eric', or wearing skin-tight barmaid attire. Written and directed by Andrew Paquin (Anna's bro!), the film tells the story of a wealthy couple in a strained marriage that hosts an open house in order to sell their palatial home. They are horrified to find out days later that one potential buyer never left their house. Rachel Blanchard ('Cher' from the "Clueless" TV spin-off), Tricia Helfer ('Six' from "Battlestar Galactica"), and Brian Geraghty ("The Hurt Locker"), are also onboard. Andrew Paquin gave an interview with The Stream a while back and mentioned the pic. Moyer and Paquin have been dating for quite a while. The former says they fell in love almost immediately (Nicholas Sparks weeps). "From the moment I met Anna we got on really well. There was an immediate sense of play, we starting working well together. She's a superb actress. After the pilot I went back to London, she went to New York but we missed each other," the Bill Compton of "True Blood" elaborates. "It seems really organic and natural, it feels like the most normal thing in the world." The duo are now engaged and are said to be considering making tiny, er, half-vampire babies. Boadicea | 10/13/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Australia's WAToday:
The first episode sets out to shock, featuring a couple getting amorous strung from a meat hook while watching vampire sex on video. But it has been a huge success in America, winning Paquin a 2009 Golden Globe for best actress in a television drama. It is now HBO's second most popular series, after The Sopranos. To add to the mix, and to the delight of the British tabloids, in August Paquin got engaged in real life to her vampire lover, the English actor Stephen Moyer. He is 40, she is 27, and they divide their time between his house near Hampstead and hers in Los Angeles. The "most serious 15-year-old ever" – her own description – has certainly grown up with a vengeance. "Oh, it's a really full-on, sexy show," Paquin agrees easily, taking a sip of latte and fixing me with brown boot-button eyes. We are at Cafe Rouge in Highgate, north London. "Lots of weird, kinky vampire sex and weird, kinky mortal sex! It never put me off. I guess either you read something and go, “Oh, my God, no!”, or you read something and you go, 'That's sort of cool!' I mean, the sex is very romantic, and at first it's very loving." Sookie isn't a vampire but she is psychic: "Sookie likes Bill because he's the first person she hasn't been able to listen in on the thoughts of, so it's quiet. You can read into that on deeper levels about intimacy and relationships and finding that person you can be yourself with. They're both outsiders. So when this potentially scary creature walks into her path, all she's thinking is, 'I want to go talk to him. I want to see what he's like!' " I'm sure this isn't an analogy for their off-screen romance – the younger, more innocent, rather cerebral girl engaged to the darkly good-looking divorcee with two children by different relationships. But True Blood clearly taps into the vogue for vampires. To Paquin its popular appeal is partly that vampires have a "dark, dangerous, brooding sexuality". But I say I found it scary watching Sookie hurtle towards this dangerous creature who was clearly going to . . . "Eat her?" Paquin suggests with some pleasure. "It is kind of disturbing but so is putting yourself out there as far as relationships or friendships go. It is scary and sometimes you are taking a risk. If you aren't prepared to do that you're going to have very safe options in your life but they won't be the most exciting ones." What's funny is that Paquin seems quite guarded, not the kind of girl you'd imagine wanting to go out on a limb. She is wearing a thick-ribbed blue cardigan and calf-length tan boots, is polite and amenable, and talks with precision using words like "neither" and "nor'. She is devastated about the fact that she failed to turn up to our first meeting because she was still on California time. "I'm so organised," she exclaims in dismay. "I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day." But maybe the role is Hyde to her Jekyll. The show is written by Alan Ball, the acclaimed screenwriter behind the multi-layered Six Feet Under. Or maybe she just looks one way and acts another. At 22, she went out with Logan Marshall-Green from 24 and The OC. Two years after that she was linked to Kieran Culkin, her co-star in an off-Broadway play. She finds it rather boring, however, that journalists are surprised she might have a love life and not be frozen in time on an Oscars podium in a beret and oversized blue dress, circa 1993. "Maybe I'm misjudging people but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old," she says. To play Sookie, Paquin has transformed herself, bleaching her brown hair and sporting a spray tan and sexy outfits. "She was written blonde in the books. There's a whole series," Paquin says, referring to the cult novels by Charlaine Harris. "And she's supposed to have blue eyes but contact lenses would be a nightmare. She was meant to be tanned, so they spray-tanned me, gave me a really good bra, some little, tiny outfits, and away we go! The blonde just feels normal now. And the spray tan I still kind of really love, having been one of the palest pale girls on the planet." She once remarked that she wanted to stop being "a transient figure in my own life", and with the engagement to Moyer she seems to have broken out of the work spiral that has dominated her existence since she tagged along after her sister to the open audition that Jane Campion was holding in New Zealand for The Piano. Since then she has made 25 films in an impeccably plotted career path, from Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre at 12 to Spike Lee's 25th Hour at 18, via the blockbusting X-Men movies to the 2005 critical smash The Squid and the Whale. She has attended Columbia University (she stayed only a year, because she kept going off to make films), lived in New York and bought her own house in Venice Beach, Los Angeles. [Continue reading...] Boadicea | 10/12/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From UK's inthenews:Monday, 12, Oct 2009
Did you know that vampires walk among us? Well they do in the universe of True Blood anyway, which has finally arrived on terrestrial television, after previously airing only on digital channel FX. Boadicea | 10/12/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From UK's Wired:ByCharlotte Duck |12 October 2009
Stephen Moyer has challenged America's sensibilities as a brooding vampire in Alan Ball's controversial new series True Blood. The show details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small Louisiana town. The series centres on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at a bar, who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (played by Meyor). As the show, dubbed "Twilight for adults", makes its debut on Channel 4, the British actor talks to Wired.co.uk: Wired: We loved Six Feet Under, which was also created by Alan Ball. What did you like about the way he used the material for True Blood? SM: Alan takes this idea of the outsider coming into the world and how everybody reacts to that outsider. The metaphor is about someone who is a pariah in society trying to prove he is not what people thinks he is and this can be a metaphor for homosexuality, the black and white civil rights movement, or any minority that you want to bring to the table. Has there been much backlash in America because of True Blood's sex and the supernatural themes? Certainly in the second season I think there are people who are very anti our show because we see a cultish church and we don't shy away from showing the hypocrisy within in. That doesn't mean that Alan believes that but it's a forum to be able to talk about it some more. Why do you think vampires are so popular at the moment? I have read a lot of interesting things about the fact that when society is in recession, people want to escape from their world and they don't want to escape to a world that they know; they want to go somewhere different and therefore supernatural stories take on a stronger meaning because we are looking for a reason of why things are going badly. Is there a pressure on the show now that you are HBO's "hit"? There is a pressure. You can't forget that the two shows that AMC make are the biggest Emmy winners this year [Mad Men, 30 Rock]. You can't pretend that that isn't the case but I think that Alan Ball thrives on that pressure. I think that our show can only get better. I don't worry at all. It's the only show I've ever worked on where every single member of the crew and the actors, 18 hours into a normal work day, on week 17, when the new episode comes in a brown envelope, everyone tears it open and reads it in-between their breaks. It's exciting to be part of it. What do you think it is about British actors that makes them so perfect for the vampire role? Traditionally American actors don't like playing baddies, because they are always thinking about how they will be perceived. Also I think that nearly everybody that has played a vampire has been to drama school and has trained and, because most of our characters that we are talking about are based in the 18th and 19th century, it's about holding yourself in a different way; it's about manners and a way of acting that is different to how we are today. True Blood: The complete first season: Thou Shall Not Crave Thy Neighbour, released on Blue-Ray and DVD by HBO 26 October 2009 Boadicea | 10/12/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
From Cinematical:by Dawn Taylor Oct 12th 2009
One of the silliest pleasures of revisiting older films is seeing actors in small roles, back before you had any idea who they were. Sometimes it's the only reason to watch something over again -- after all, why else would you rent 1990's Tales From the Darkside: The Movie if not to giggle at Julianne Moore being terrorized by a mummy controlled by Steve Buscemi, or pick up Leprechaun other than to mock the performance of the young Jennifer Aniston? Sometimes the now-familiar faces pop up in stuff that's still worth watching, as with Laurence Fishburne as Cowboy Curtis on TV's Pee-Wee's Playhouse, or Johnny Depp in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. That's a bonanza. And when the earlier role is vastly different from the sort of thing they've settled in to playing now, it's all the more delightful. Take, for example, Alexander Skarsgard, who sets hearts a-flutter on HBO's campy vampire series True Blood. As Eric, the 1,000 year old, once-Viking "sheriff" who bosses around the show's regional office of the undead, Skarsgard was called Vampire McSteamy and "TV's hottest set of fangs" by Newsweek. The son of actor Stellan Skarsgard, he'll also be seen in Rod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, and alongside Jason Statham, Ray Liotta and Mickey Rourke in 13, director Géla Babluani's reworking of his 2006 crime thriller 13 Tzameti. He also showed up the music video for Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi." After the cut: A surprising early performance by everyone's favorite Norse bloodsucker. Skarsgard, 33, started as a kid actor on Swedish television, and has appeared in over 20 films. Among them -- Zoolander, in which he played Meekus, one of the hilariously vapid models who share an apartment with Ben Stiller's title character. By way of comparison, below is a clip of Skarsgard on True Blood, followed by the always funny Orange Mocha Frappuccino scene from Zoolander. For those of us who have become addicted to the cheesy supernatural soap opera, seeing Eric prance around to "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" is a goofy pleasure. And let's face it, any reason to watch Zoolander again is a good one. Boadicea | 10/12/2009 | Post Comment | |||||
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Hey ya'll just wanted to say congrats to Alex, Steve and Anna and the rest of the this wonderful cast for your awards from Scream '09.
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