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Very nice, lengthy interview with Todd Lowe( Terry Bellefluer) from LaSplash. I would note that Terry is a Texas boy, his IMDb says he was born in Houston but grew up in Humble. Remember the "H " is silent !!! Do you think you've never been to Humble?? If you've ever landed at Intercontinental Airport in Houston ( IAH) you've been damn close !
By Jerod Williams
From hindsight, actor Todd Lowe could be categorized as a brooding, laidback guy with not a care in the world. As you get to know him, there’s something really alluring about him. There’s a sense of naiveté that clearly resonates in his demeanor and the way he carries himself. With an extensive theatre background from The University of Texas at Austin under his belt, Lowe has parlayed his craft into the world of television by landing guest starring roles on WALKER: TEXAS RANGER and WITHOUT A TRACE.
Texas native Todd Lowe (TRUE BLOOD) and (GILMORE GIRLS) is Hollywood's latest rising star He’s also not a stranger to film where he can be seen in movies such as: THE PRINCESS DIARIES, WHERE THE HEART IS and REDLINE.
In 2002, Lowe landed a part as a recurring character and a cult following on the WB hit series GILMORE GIRLS as Zack van Gerbig. He found himself acting opposite Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham. Eventually, due to the popularity of his character of Zach, he became a series regular. With the success of the show under his belt, he was able to pursue being a musician. He even got the chance to play guitar and sing on the show as well. Now, Lowe has created quite a buzz as sympathetic yet obscure war vet Terry Bellefleur on Alan Ball's HBO hit vampire series TRUE BLOOD acting opposite Anna Paquin. I had the pleasure of interviewing this charismatic individual who I’ve come to have known for a number of years. What makes Lowe really fascinating is that he is genuinely a great guy with an obscure and funny personality that is infectious. As w
e were setting up a meeting place for our personal interview, instead of sticking to the original plan of meeting at a local coffee shop in Hollywood, he phones at the last minute to change the meeting place to where he could have a drink. Needless to say, I felt like William Miller did when he chased the band Stillwater in the film ALMOST FAMOUS.
As we chatted over Irish coffee at a local dive bar/restaurant in Silverlake under heat lamps, we reminisced about the good times back in Austin, Texas and caught each other up on mutual friends who have migrated to Los Angeles. Needless to say, the evening was filled with laughs that range from talks about martial arts, to waxing rhetoric and (in true Texan-esque form) lighting cigarettes with space heaters only because there weren’t any available lighters around.
Read on HERE
More about Todd's band the Pillbilly Knights?
Lowe is also singer and guitarist for Pilbilly Knights, a country-rock band based in
Thursday, February 5, 2009
One-On-One Interview with Actor Todd Lowe of True Blood
True Blood: Will Eric Break Up Sookie and Bill?
Could True Blood's love triangle of Sookie Stackhouse, Bill and Eric be heating up?
The Golden Globe-winning HBO drama returns this summer for another round of bloody, bitey Louisiana sexcapades, and everyone is dying to know what's going down in Bon Temps.
How will Sookie cope with news about Bill's newly made and superannoying vampire tootsie Jessica?
What's up with Tara and Sam: Are they friends with benefits, genuine lovers or none of the above?
And most important of all: Is Lafayette dead—or undead?!
Want to know what's to come? We've got answers from the cast about all your burning Q's...
Michael Tran/Getty Images So will Eric break up Sookie and Bill? Stephen Moyer tells me, "I couldn't possibly say. I honestly don't know, but I think that there will be all the conflict that there needs to be to make it a great frisson."
What about that other third party, Bill's baby-vamp Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll)? Moyer teases, "She is nuts—and fantastic."
As for our other faves, Nelsan Ellis isn't sharing anything about Lafayette's fate, telling fans, "They have to wait and see," but he's definitely up for more Blood if it's offered. Says Nelsan, "Absolutely, yeah, I'll come back. I'll take the paycheck." Indeed, Nelsan's as invested as the rest of us in the question of whether or not Lafayette lives or dies, saying, "I love the fact that people are invested in this story. I like Lafayette, and I like that people like him."
Last but not least, Tara is still struggling to find her way in life. Michelle Forbes' slinky, sneaky maenad is certainly suspicious but Rutina Wesley says she may not be all bad, telling us, "She saved my life, basically." As for Tara's love life, the thing with Sam is not totally off the table: "[Sam and Tara have] a complicated relationship, and Sam still kind of has that little thing for Sookie. But Tara loves her some Sam—so we'll see."
Should Tara and Sam be together? Are you Team Eric or Team Bill? Could you live with a True Blood that didn't have any Lafayette? Post in the comments!
True Blood returns to HBO in June or July for season two.
—Reporting by Jennifer Godwin
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b81060__lt_i_gt_True_Blood_lt__i_gt___Will_Eric_Break_Up_Sookie_and_Bill_.html
Pre-order dvd or blu-ray of True Blood Season One with May 19th street date
I think we already know all this, but I think what the news is here is the Blu-ray date. I am most interested in what is in the extra/bonus materials . You can pre-order from Amazon ( that's what I did ) for $38 CLICK HERE LINK
This past December we reported that HBO's hot new vampire series was coming to DVD on May 12th with True Blood - The Complete 1st Season. A couple of weeks later we followed up with more info about that, and let you know that a high-definition Blu-ray Disc version was also in the works, possibly coming out on the same day as the DVD. A date that we mentioned was still subject to change...and it has, but only by a week!
HBO and distributor Warner Home Video have now officially announced True Blood - The Complete 1st Season for a May 19th street date on both DVD and Blu-ray. Each one will be a 5-disc set running 720 minutes, with Bonus Material yet to be details, but which will included a Documentary and Audio Commentary, plus other extras. Video will be widescreen, audio in English Dolby, but no further solid details are available yet on the specs. List prices are $59.99 SRP on the DVD, and $79.98 SRP on the Blu-ray, but both can be locked in at nice discounts using the Amazon links provided just above. Package art isn't final yet, but here is what Amazon is still showing:
Charlaine Harris will speak at Dragon.com in September 4-7 Atlanta
Charlaine will speak at Dragon.com in September 4-7 Atlanta
Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US.
Dragon*Con 2009 will be held Labor Day weekend (September 4 - September 7, 2009) in Atlanta, GA.
The Dragon*Con Office is now open. Click here for hours.Did you enjoy the Dragon*Con TV spots? Or maybe you missed them! In either case, you can now view them online at dragoncontv.com.
http://www.dragoncon.org/Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, DEAD UNTIL DARK broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who just enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, has drawn more readers. The southern vampire books are published in Japan, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia.
Anubis Airlines from Club Dead : Bill Compton's coffin is stolen
Bk 3
"As Russell Edgington's people tell it, .. The humans responsible for taking her coffin to the airport took Bill's identical coffin by mistake. When they delivered the coffin to the hangar Anubis Airlines leases, they left it unguarded for perhaps ten minutes while they were filling out paperwork.
During that time-they claim-someone wheeled the coffin, which was on a kind of gurney, out of the back of the hangar, loaded it onto a truck, and drove away."
"Someone who could penetrate Anubis security," I said, doubt heavy in my voice. Anubis Airlines had been established to transport vampires safely both day and night, and their guarantee of heavy security to guard the coffins of sleeping vampires was their big calling card. Of course, vampires don't have to sleep in coffins, but it sure is easy to ship them that way.
There had been unfortunate "accidents" when vampires had tried to fly Delta.
Some fanatic had gotten in the baggage hold and hacked open a couple of coffins with an ax. Northwest had suffered the same problem. Saving money suddenly didn't seem so attractive to 
the undead, who now flew Anubis almost exclusively.
"I'm thinking that someone could have mingled with Edgington's people, someone the Anubis employees thought was Edgington's, and Edgington's people thought belonged to Anubis. He could have wheeled Bill out as Edgington's people left, and the guards would be none the wiser."
"The Anubis people wouldn't ask to see papers? On a departing coffin?"
'They say they did see papers, Betty Jo Pickard's. She was on her way to Missouri to negotiate a trade agreement with the vampires of St. Louis."
."There was also extra confusion at the time," Pam was saying. "A fire started under the tail of another Anubis plane, and the guards were distracted."
Word Search episode 2
We have the Word Search version of the Episode 2 crossword puzzle up...
answer key found here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11722159/ep-2-word-search-answers
Episode 2 word Search puzzle
Two more Sookie book covers this time from Spain
Recently on Charlaine Harris's blog she said :
"Last year, my agent and I were delighted because we were near to reaching the “twenty” mark in foreign languages. This year, we’re at twenty-five, and we won’t stop there."
Make your own music videos using Animato
Make you own music video ! How about some new Eric and Bill videos ?
If you make one send it to me and I'll post it. Looks like they are only $3
Fortunately, Animoto has you covered. The site has put together a new Valentine’s Day card that allows you to submit a handful of photos of you and your loved one to automatically a generate a great looking video-slideshow set to the music of an appropriately sappy love song. It only takes a few minutes to put together, but to anyone who hasn’t been exposed to Animoto before it’s pretty impressive - at least, it’ll buy you enough time to run down to the store and grab something a bit more tangible.
Anna Paquin and others from Golden Globes help support new building for Children's hospital in LA
Entertainment Tonight takes great pride in presenting one-of-a-kind signed celebrity Wall-U’s. Each movable, life-sized, cutout image was presented on the 
Golden Globe® red carpet and personally signed by the celebrity.
Wall-U’s are durable vinyl cutout decals that easily affix and re-affix to any wall to personalize a room, without the hassle and potential damage of framing and mounting.
Proceeds from the sale will benefit the creation of a new hospital building at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles opening in 2010.
Check your local times for Entertainment Tonight at www.etonline.com
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Sookie Stackhouse book's dedications, acknowledgments and prologues ( bk 1 & 2)
Here are the dedications and prologues from Dead Until Dark and Living Dead in Dallas.
Dead Until Dark
My thanks and appreciation go to the people who thought this book was a good idea-Dean James, Toni L. P. Kelner and Gary and Susan Nowlin
Living Dead in Dallas
This book is dedicated to all the people who told me they enjoyed Dead Until Dark.
Thanks for the encouragement.
My thanks go to Patsy Asher of Remember the Alibi in San Antonio, Texas; Chloe Green of Dallas; and the helpful cyber-friends I've made on Dorothy L, who answered all my questions promptly and enthusiastically. I have the greatest job in the world.
Introducing the all-new Southern vampire mystery series.
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-time Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out . . .
Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea.
Sing us a song you're the piano man..
Bill Compton's Living Room: Episode 12
Bill's piano playing is interrupted when vampires Eric and Pam open his front door and walk into his living room with Jessica, the vampire he was forced to make (and who he subsequently gave to Eric because she was a nuisance).
Jessica: Hi, Daddy. (Sits on the couch)
Bill (to Eric): What is this?
Eric: There are favors. And there are... favors.
Pam: She is extremely annoying.
Bill: You can't do this. We had a deal.
Yeah, well now the terms have changed. She's yours. Unless you want to give me Sookie.
(Bill stands and bears fangs)
(Eric also bears fangs and laughs)
Eric: It's just a suggestion. Though, a few nights with this one might change your mind.
Pam: Good luck.
Eric: (In Swedish ) Åh, du ljuva frihet! (oops sorry , it means 'Ah, sweet(lovely) freedom !' in English )
(Eric and Pam leave)
Jessica: So... Who's good to eat around here? (laughs and bares fangs)
Does anyone know the song he plays ?
You know you've watched too much True Blood when...
You gave Shreveport, LA a place mark on Google Earth. ( map)
You prefer to watch TB alone because that way you can keep rewinding all the Bill and Sookie scenes and not feel like a total obsessive weirdo.
You find yourself desperately searching for any acting SM did previously, get excited because they are showing "The Starter Wife" on tv this weekend and then get your hopes dashed when you realize it's season 2, not season 1.
I have some "Sam heavy " episodes of Starter Wife here and here
You can recite some full scene dialogue to people including each characters lines complete with their individual accent, disposition, quirks and foibles, mannerisms, etc.
...in conversations, you do the the "Lafayette dip" when you say something sassy or are trying to make a point.
you dream of what TB season 4 might be like....
True Blood 's Mayor Norris: the quite amazing William Schallert.
I have been thinking about the actor who played Mayor Norris this past season in True Blood.
We see him most notably in episode 5 at the Descendants of the Glorious Dead meeting, the night that Bill Compton speaks to the group. I have been trying to remember in what movie that actor also played a mayor in another famous role.
Well, as you may know Mayor Norris is played by the amazing William Schallert who also played Mayor Webb Schubert in the 1967 movie, In the Heat of the Night. From his many famous film roles to an amazing television career it is just fascinating to look through Mr Schallert's body of work that has now spanned over 60 years.
From playing the young gas station attendant in 1947 in the film Mighty Joe Young, to starring in such television classics as: Commando Cody, Wonderful World of Disney, Wagon Train, Dobie Gillis, Gunsmoke, Patty Duke ,Get Smart and of course , he even was Nilz Baris in the Star Trek episode the Trouble with Tribbles.
How much fun it is to look through William Schallert's wonderful career, it's like strolling through the history of television.
You can see it here
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769974/
More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schallert
He is also the son of Edwin Schallert, drama editor of the "Los Angeles Times" and served as President of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1979-1981
You can see William in one of his True Blood scenes below :
Flesh and Blood : True Blood in Australia
Written by David Knox for SX News
Everything Alan Ball touches turn to gold: American Beauty, Six Feet Under and now True Blood - his television follow up. Produced for HBO, it's already got street cred and industry awards. This here is the hot new thang.
Set just a few years into the future there are vampires amongst us. But since the widespread availability of synthetic blood, they no longer need to devour humans. Instead they fight for respectability and advocate acceptance. Vampires suffer prejudice, simply for being different. Are you getting the metaphors here?
Based on the book The Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris, the setting is the small town of Bon Temps in deepest, darkest Louisiana. Visually, this small town is a southern sister to David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Small road diners, dilapidated shacks, savannah trees and night critters abound. The 'indie' opening credits feature everything from Baptist revival meetings to the Ku Klux Klan with a rockin' bluegrass theme. Ball's world is gothic working class - raw and steamy.
Front and centre of the story is Sookie (Anna Paquin), a cafe waitress who has telepathic abilities. Serving unfriendly customers who are always longing to grope her is a daily chore. Working alongside her are bartender Tara (Rutina Wesley) and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), a gay cook who turns tricks for money.
When Sookie meets Bill (Stephen Moyer), a handsome 173-year-old vampire, she is drawn to his magnetism and intrigued by the fact she cannot hear his thoughts. These two misfits are a match made outside heaven. "You can never find a human man you can be yourself with," he insists.
Australian Ryan Kwanten (Home & Away, Summerland) plays Sookie's brother Jason, a road worker and horny bad boy who finds himself as the number one suspect in a murder case. Someone is killing young women and they're usually his recent conquests. With a ripped bod and rabid naked scenes, Kwanten is sex on a stick.
Ball marks his territory slowly in True Blood. This is a grand melodrama built on character, concepts and tone. Bubbling beneath the surface is a sexual energy and an unsettling feeling that horror lurks around every corner. The performances are superb, with Paquin shifting from strong and sexy to vulnerable with consummate ease.
Previously, Alan Ball has proven he is prepared to defy conventions with his storytelling. Methinks he's just warming up here.
True Blood premieres 8:30pm Tuesday February 10 on Showcase
http://sxnews.e-p.net.au/television-guide/flesh-and-blood-4887.html
True Blood Season 2 : Chris Oliver Food Stylist
Another great True Blood blurb on her blog and yet another wonderful Cajun recipe from my favorite Food Stylist !
For those of you True Blood fans like me the filming of the first episode of the second season has begun. I'm so excited to be back on the show . To let you guys know I Chris Oliver have been the food stylist for the first season and to clear up any confusion there was a typo. Congratulations to Anna Paquin 2008 golden globe winner and Alan Ball creator/executive producer for bringing his adaption of the Stackhouse Novels written by Charlaine Harris to the small screen for yet another wonderful season of True blood on HBO. This supernatural series focuses on a small town in Louisiana where vampires now coexist with humans as fellow citizens. It follows Sookie Stackhouse a telepathic waitress and her open mindedness of vampire integration . Enjoy the new season and be sure to watch for plenty of southern flared cuisine.
LOUISIANA GUMBO
2 lbs chicken
2 lbs breakfast sausage (Hot)
3 lbs shrimp (peeled and deveined)
1 lb craw fish tail (peeled)
1 lb okra
8 ounces clam juice
4 bell peppers
2 chili peppers (Cayenne)
3 tablespoons ground sage
3 tablespoons chicken boulien
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon gumbo file
1/2 cup flour
Directions
In a large (I mean large) stockpot boil chicken (completely covered by 2 inches of water), chopped okra, sage, bouillon, oregano, black pepper until chicken is done. Remove chicken and set aside to cool, leave the stock in the pot. When cool debone the chicken and shred the meat. Set aside for now.
Crumble sausage and fry in a skillet. Remove sausage and set aside. Reserve 1/2 cup of the drippings. Add flour and make a very dark roux (dark brown). Add the sausage and roux to the chicken broth and let simmer 10 minutes.
Chop bell peppers and cayennes at this time. Add to pot and let simmer 10 minutes.
Add shrimp, clam juice, crawfish tails to the pot and let simmer 15 minutes.
Add the chicken and gumbo file to the pot and bring to a boil.
I like to let this gumbo rest for a few hours and then reheat it before serving. Serve over rice with crackers and Louisiana hot sauce.
This gumbo only gets better the next day. It freezes well to make a quick simple meal anytime.~
Check out her woderful blog : http://starfoodstylist.blogspot.com/2009/02/true-blood-season-2.html
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