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Item Number 112 Item Description
"Merlotte's" t-shirt, as worn by the hot waitresses on the HBO series, TRUE BLOOD. Size M. One of a kind. Signed by the cast of the 3rd searson, plus show creator, Alan Ball.
Signed by: Alan Ball, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Nelsan Ellis, Sam Trammell, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, Deborah Ann Woll, Alexander Skarsgard, Chris Bauer, Todd Lowe, Mariana Klaveno, James Frain, Theo Alexander, Brit Morgan, Kevin Alejandro, Marshall Allman, J. Smith Cameron, Dennis O'Hare, Tanya Wright
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Item will be available for pick-up at the Spring Benefit Auction on Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at PS 51. If winning bidder is NOT available to pick-up item on that date, please designate someone to pick-up for you. If you need to have the item shipped, winning bidder is responsible for all Shipping and Handling fees. This amount will be added to the winning bid if shipping is required. Items will be shipped from zip code 10036 via UPS or FedEx Ground (when available) unless overnight shipping (at Bidder's expense) is requested. All sales final: all items sold as is.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Priceless: You can bid on a cast autographed Merlotte's tshirt for charity
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Anne Rice talks Vampires and Jesus: I Am Second campaign is preaching Jesus, reaching millions
Author Anne Rice starts her testimony while sitting, hands folded, in a white chair.
Rice talks directly into the camera. She is a former atheist and well-known novelist who wrote Interview With the Vampire and other vampire-themed books. She explains how the vampire fantasy explores loss of faith and the struggle between good and evil and how people cope when cut off from God -- all once aspects of her life.
Rice has reconnected with Jesus Christ and recently began sharing her story through the increasingly popular I Am Second campaign.
Check out “Vamped Out,” a new Web and mobile video series
If you’re a vampire fan looking for some entertainment to sink your teeth into, you might want to check out “Vamped Out,” a Web and mobile video series debuting at www.babelgum.com/vampedout on April 12.
Babelgum, an integrated Web and mobile video content platform, has partnered with actor Kevin Pollak on the series. Pollak will be making his directorial debut with “Vamped Out,” which he also co-created and will star in, according to a press release.
Other cast members include Jason Antoon (“Kings,” “Minority Report”), Samm Levine (“Freaks & Geeks”, “Inglourious Basterds”) and Seana Kofoed (“Men in Trees”).
“Vamped Out” is a weekly series taken from a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Elliot Finke (Pollak). During the spring and summer of 2009, Elliot shot what he believed was the first documentary of an actual vampire. While in postproduction, he went missing.
The show follows a modern-day 35-year-old struggling actor/vampire (Antoon) trying to make a living in Los Angeles and getting continuously rejected for the role he was literally born to play.
Five new episodes will air consecutively each Monday after the April 12 premiere on the Web and will be accessible through Babelgum mobile platform’s Comedy Channel as well.
mPRm Public Relations release
Friday, April 9, 2010
Everyone auditioned for Bill Compton role on True Blood
Digital Spy says .....FYI Everyone at the Paley last year said they auditioned for Bill. I think even Nelsan and Anna ...ha!
Alexander Skarsgård originally auditioned for the role of Bill Compton on True Blood, creator Alan Ball has revealed.
The Swedish actor, who eventually won the role of Eric Northman on the HBO vampire drama, was keen to play Bill, but the part was later won by Stephen Moyer.
Ball told Details: "Alex wasn't quite right for Bill, but I remember that he was giant and also beautiful. So when it came time to cast Eric, I thought of him."
Skarsgård also told the magazine that his audition for Eric was done on tape from a hotel room.
"I thought, 'Oh, vampires - I don't know', but then they said Alan Ball was behind it, and I was a huge fan of Six Feet Under and American Beauty. I auditioned on tape from my hotel room in Mozambique."
Ethical Vampires, Part I by Emily Colette Wilkinson
Vampires figure the anxieties of their cultural moment. They come out at night—and during periods of social and political turmoil, and their habits and looks mutate to personify the fears of the age in which they appear. Bram Stoker’s Dracula dramatized Victorian fears of sex as morally corrupting and fears of English culture as threatened by invading foreigners. The vampires of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, published primarily in the 1980’s, shared a certain kinship with the ruthless, amoral financier characters of the age, Gordon Gekko of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and Patrick Batemen of Bret Easton Ellis‘ American Psycho, but their most striking feature was their homosexuality. Rice’s vampirism as blood-borne pathogen also came to seem a metaphor for AIDS—a taunting metaphor, since her beautiful men could not die.
So what about our vampires—the vampires of Charlaine Harris‘ Sookie Stackhouse novels or those of Stephenie Meyer’s ubiquitous Twilight? Our vampires seem a domesticated, morally evolved breed
. Meyer’s vampires have been defanged altogether (Meyer only agreed to sell the film rights with the caveat that the Cullens could not be depicted with fangs in any film version), while the vampires of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels (better known as HBO’s True Blood) have discretely retractable fangs. Both authors’ vampires are committed to humane, sustainable diets. Indeed, if Michael Pollan wrote for vampires, he might recommend the diet devised by the vampires of Meyer’s Twilight. The members of the Cullen household, the forward-thinking vampire “family” at the center of the series, forswear feeding on humans. “I don’t want to be a monster,” Edward Cullen, Meyer’s teenage vampire hero explains to his human beloved, Bella Swan, when she asks him about his diet.
read on
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie
Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie
Thanks, ToddMarty
Thursday, April 8, 2010
True Blood a Porn Parody
A porn parody of "True Blood": has there ever been a more amazing idea? The sexiest show on television...only with real sex. Fleshbot and io9 were both so excited for this release, we teamed up for a joint review.
Lux: Since I'm sure there are some of you who are just interested in hearing about the hot and steamy vampire sex, we'll get to that first (to skip to the io9 take, click here; and if you'd like to just look at hot naked vampire action, click here).
Given the stellar cast that New Sensations crammed into this porno parody, it's no surprise that the sex in this release is really, really hot. It's also beautifully shot: like "The Sex Files," "Tru" is a lush film that's beautiful to look at—and not just because of all the hot naked people getting hot and heavy on screen.
read on and watch videos here
True Blood Season 3 new photos : Lucky 13 ! Enjoy!
The New York Post has a slide show with comments on who and what is in each photo..
Read here
You can click on these and save them to your own computer!
What do you see ??
what are you most excited about ?
Alexander , Stephen and Ryan graces the cover of Details magazine!
Thanks Megan for sending the scans !
More to be found here- http://www.details.com/
Stephen Moyer and Ryan Kwanten also are on covers see them here
read the article, The Men of True Blood here
Gran ( Lois Smith) Stackhouse might make a comeback in True Blood Season 3
Digital spy is reporting that we might see Gran this season ...man, lot's of flashbacks with Gran and Godric, but bring it on! Imagine if he'd followed the books and killed Lafayette ?
Alan Ball has teased that Lois Smith may reprise her role as Sookie Stackhouse's grandmother on True Blood.
Smith's alter ego was last seen in season one when she was unexpectedly murdered by the town's serial killer, who was later unmasked as Rene Lenier.
"There's a chance [she may return]," Ball told Entertainment Weekly.
"I don’t think she’s gonna come back and go like, 'Oh, you know what? I'm not dead!' But she certainly can appear in flashbacks or in visions or perhaps there's a different reality that someone might go into."
http://www.digitalspy.com/cult/s59/true-blood/news/a213135/true-blood-character-to-make-comeback.html#article_continueBall reveals more about 'True Blood' Alcide role in Season 3
I know, I know ," alter ego named Alcide "?? I wish folks would just read Club Dead.
Joe Manganiello's True Blood character will become embroiled in the Bill Compton mystery plot, creator Alan Ball has revealed.
At the end of season two, vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) was kidnapped shortly after proposing to girlfriend Sookie (Anna Paquin). Manganiello's alter ego, a werewolf by the name of Alcide, will team up with Sookie to help find him.Ball told Entertainment Weekly that their search leads them to a werewolf bar in Mississippi, saying: "They're doing a little amateur sleuthing and they're sort of surprised by what they find."
It has previously been reported that the characters of Sookie and Alcide will gro
w close during season three, with a potential romance blossoming.
"Two hot people in some intense situations and, for whatever reasons, their significant others are not there... they're human," Ball noted.
True Blood returns for its third season Sunday, June 13 on HBO.
True Blood Music Video of the Day: He's a Dream ( From Flashdance )
He's a Dream ( From Flashdance )
Thanks, ToddMarty
HBO Executives Bitten By TrueBlood Trademark Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA – TI Beverage Group, owner of the www.truebloodwine.com website, sued retailer Hot Topic and HBO executives Sophia Chang and James Costas for trademark
infringement and unfair competition. TI makes both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and has used Vampire® as its trademark, in addition to other vampire related marks such as Vamp® and Dracola®. In 2009, TI purchased Trueblood Winery, LLC, which had been in business since 2002.
In 2008, HBO televised the True Blood television show in which the characters drink a fictional drink called Tru Blood. TI alleges that Omni Consumer Products entered into a licensing agreement with HBO to manufacture and sell a blood orange drink labeled Tru Blood in September of 2009. TI previously filed suit and notified the d
efendants of the alleged infringement and after not discovering the products on the shelves, believed that the product had been scrapped. TI alleges that it recently found the Tru Blood products at Hot Topic and filed the instant trademark infringement lawsuit. The case is TI Beverage Group, Ltd v. Hot Topin, Inc. et al., CV10-02089 RGK (C.D. Cal. 2010).
http://www.iptrademarkattorney.com/2010/04/trademark-attorney-lawsuit-trueblood-hbo-true-blood-vampire-infringement-hot-topic.html
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