Monday, July 4, 2011

All Hail the Mayor of Bon Temps -William Schallert is in demand — as always

They don't make the big money or get their names above the lights or their pictures on the covers of magazines. But character actors are the lifeblood of show business — and a versatile one can work for decades.

Case in point: William Schallert, who has been a working actor for more than 60 years, starting with his feature film debut in the 1947 period drama "The Foxes of the Harrow" through his current role as the mayor of Bon Temps on HBO's erotic vampire series, "True Blood."

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I posted on on him back in the day here The Quite Amazing Mayor Norris
http://www.lovingtruebloodindallas.com/2009/02/true-blood-s-mayor-norris-quite-amazing.html

Big changes for 'True Blood's' bad boy

Last night’s episode introduced us to the season’s number one storyline as we said goodbye to the Eric we know and love. Breath into a bag, y’all. We’ll get through the rain together.
The icy Swede’s latest real estate investment led Sookie to traipse across the cemetery to Bill’s place to air her grievances. Bill told her that she was S.O.L and alluded to Eric having friends in high places, whatever that means. He also suggested that because of the whole delicious fairy blood thing, Sookie should seek refuge at someone else’s home. I would seek it with Alcide. Just sayin’.

Sookie later discovered that Eric had taken the liberty to make himself completely at home at her place – even going so far as to build a pimped-out cubbyhole in her living room.

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Talk Blood Returns S4 Ep 1 and 2 podcast is up and it's a blast!

What a great time we had last night on Talk Blood Radio - sorry about my cold ! The new blogtalk sounded great !

Great thanks to my co hosts Brian and Andy from Camp Blood and Jef with one f from Houston Press.

You can listen here! Please join us next week live !
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** there is a 20 second lapse at the beginning not sure why - the sound is really so much better this year!
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Chat room transcript !

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Go Ask Dallas- True Blood Trivia: Wow , what groceries did Sookie buy ?

Q After being gone for a year, what are the first groceries Sookie shops for ?
A: Well ,the essential of course -


Mother's Iced Animal crackers and Dreyer's MAXX Cookie Dough Ice Cream!


You can see what she buy when they spill when Tara surprises her in the driveway and Tara holds up the ice cream here .

True Blood S4 Episode 2 "You smell like dinner " Inside the Episode (HBO )video


“True Blood” Sucker Punch: Season 4, Ep. 2 by Mark Blankenship

Mark will be my co-host on Talk Blood radio next week!

I’d like to begin the discussion of this week’s installment, “You Smell Like  Dinner,” with a word about nudity. And no, that word is not “delicious,” despite the physiques of the cast.
This week, I was struck that the show’s relationship to nudity is very complex. Sure, nakedness always comes with a sexual charge, but when characters are naked, they are more likely to drop the conditioning of human society and start spilling inner secrets or behaving like animals. That’s a fairly standard metaphor, I guess—frenzied liberation makes the characters in the musical Hair get naked, too—but True Blood complicates things by letting nakedness reveal different things in different folks. Not everyone is releasing the same kind of wild honesty.

Take Luna, one of the shifters in Sam’s new support group/Run Like A Pony club. Early in the episode, we see her finish a pony run with Sam. They’re both lying on the ground, panting and nude. and since they’re really into each other, there’s obviously frisson. However, they don’t get freaky in the dirt. Instead, they talk about their attraction to each other, about their desire to be honest with each other, and about the difficulty of opening up when you’ve got a lot of big secrets. And when Sam does goes in for a kiss, Luna runs away, in horse form. The suggestion is that Luna, at her naked and vulnerable core, is likely to bolt.

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True Blood: Jinx Titanic & Super 8 Cum Shot for Dinner by Jeff at Houston Press

Jef was brilliant on Talk Blood radio last night ....

The title of this week's column maybe one of the grossest things we've ever typed, and we work the word hymen-smashing into as many articles as we possibly can. Still, we can safely say that after some jerky starts in the series' fourth season, things are back on track in Bon Temps on HBO's True Blood.
We could recap last episode, but we'd rather dwell on the good than the bad. Here's the important bit of information. In addition to the vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, faeries, and demigods we've been introduced to throughout the series, we now can add witches to the mix (If they add a Loch Ness Monster we'll get a bingo). Lafayette and his boyfriend Jesus have begun meeting with a local coven of said witches led by a woman named Marnie.
By the by, Marnie is played by Fiona Shaw, who you may recognize as playing the magic-phobic Aunt Petunia from the Harry Potter films. Nice little bit of irony, there.

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Talk Blood Radio : True Blood Season 4 Eps 1 & 2 LIVE TONIGHT 9:30 pm !

Live TONIGHT: Come and 'Talk Blood' right after True Blood episodes airs.  We will be discussing True Blood Season 4 premier, Episode 1 “She’s not there” and Episode 2 “You smell like dinner "
My co-hosts tonight will be Brian Juergens & Andy Swist from Camp Blood and the vlog Blood Work and Jef with one f from the Houston Press.
Listen Live,  call-in with your opinions and join the amazing chat room!

Click here and here to get involved tonight chat room opens at 9:15pm cst and the radio show begins at 9:30 pm cst . ( 15 minutes after show airs in your time zone!)

You can call -in by dialing 1 (646) 929-0825 

Be sure to join us tonight because we're going to talk True Blood on Talk Blood Radio  live on Blog Talk Radio.  I love hearing you comments and suggestions you can ALWAYS email me: 'Dallas' at truebloodindallas@gmail

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Interview: Denis O’Hare Discusses Being The King of Mississippi to return Ep 1 Season 5

Russell Edgington is a prime example of a great villain. Not only was he smart and calculated, but he also had the power and strength to get things done on his own. And when Edgington got down and bloody, he looked cool doing it. The vampire king was one of the few vamps on True Blood that seemed interested in actually having fun. He always looked as if he was going to a party and simply looking for a good time, especially with the help of his slick 70s style wardrobe.
Sadly, Edgington isn’t around this season, but don’t fret. As actor Denis O’Hare says below, the plan is for him to return. Things didn’t end well for Edgington last season, but the King of Mississippi had persistence and ambition, so there was no real reason for us to be doubting his return.
While Denis O’Hare isn’t on this season, the actor was still kind enough to make the time to discuss his role on the show. Throughout my whole chat with O’Hare he wore his love for Edgington on his sleeve. From discussing the character’s past to his childlike wonder, the actor remained enthusiastic.

Here’s what Denis O’Hare had to say about Russell’s back-story, the tone and writing of True Blood, the curse of being a character actor, and what to expect from Clint Eastwood‘s J. Edgar.
And, although this bit didn’t make it into the piece, I told O’Hare I’d make sure to mention a great film he’s proud of that practically no one seems to have seen, A Mighty Heart.
To start off, it was disappointing  to hear that you’re not coming back this season.
I know, I know. It was up in the air. They were definitely bringing me back, it was just a matter of if they wanted to bring me back the last couple episodes or bring me back at the beginning. So they decided to do it at the beginning of season 5.

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Talk Blood Radio : True Blood Season 4 Eps 1 & 2 LIVE TONIGHT 9:30 pm !

Live TONIGHT: Come and 'Talk Blood' right after True Blood episodes airs.  We will be discussing True Blood Season 4 premier, Episode 1 “She’s not there” and Episode 2 “You smell like dinner "
My co-hosts tonight will be Brian Juergens & Andy Swist from Camp Blood and the vlog Blood Work and Jef with one f from the Houston Press.
Listen Live,  call-in with your opinions and join the amazing chat room! Click here and here to get involved tonight chat room opens at 9:15pm cst and the radio show begins at 9:30 pm cst . You can call -in by dialing 1 (646) 929-0825 

Be sure to join us tonight because we're going to talk True Blood on Talk Blood Radio  live on Blog Talk Radio.  I love hearing you comments and suggestions you can ALWAYS email me: 'Dallas' at truebloodindallas@gmail

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Dark Shadows set photos ..

I sure hope this is good 

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Brouchard. A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive.
Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman, to help with her family troubles

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Werepanther role in 'True Blood' requires a stretch

Ft Worth Star Telegram Yay!

It's easy to keep trade secrets when you're kept out of the loop.
Lindsay Pulsipher of True Blood, for example, couldn't spread spoilers about being a werepanther last year when she was cast as Crystal, because series creator/executive producer Alan Ball didn't tell her.
"I knew the tone of the show," says Pulsipher, whose swamp-country vixen returns in the second episode of the new season (8 p.m. Sunday on HBO). "I knew, given all of the creatures that exist in the world of True Blood [from vampires to werewolves to shapeshifters], that it would be fantastical and amazing.
"But Alan Ball gave me no details other than saying that Crystal had special powers."
Nevertheless, Pulsipher had good reason to believe that her character, who is involved in a star-crossed romance with human Jason Stackhouse (played by Ryan Kwanten), would be part feline.
For starters, fans of the show who were also familiar with Charlaine Harris' series of Southern vampire novels seemed convinced that this was the direction the story was taking.
"So I had an inkling," she says, "but I wasn't 100 percent positive until it was revealed to me in a script."

Saturday, July 2, 2011

True Blood Season 4 Episode 2 Transcript

True Blood Season 4 Episode 2                                                                                                   

Growing up with Paquin

Recently, on a soundstage representing a New Age shop in Louisiana, US, another sign warned ‘Live panthers on set,’ but those terrifying predators were nowhere to be seen.

Instead, Sookie Stackhouse, the mind-reading, vampire-attracting waitress portrayed by Anna Paquin, and her friends Tara (Rutina Wesley) and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) were cowering in fear of a sinister Wiccan, played by Fiona Shaw, who appeared to be carrying on a conversation with herself — or maybe with someone else inside her.

When Paquin visited behind the cameras during a shooting break and sprawled herself across a director’s chair, she playfully declined to explain what exactly had transpired in this scene from the next-to-last episode of the coming True Blood season. “Would you want to know what’s in store?” she asked. “There’s something about anticipation that makes it more exciting.”

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True Blood behind the scenes : the making of Jessica

I haven't looked at this in a long time ..I will try to post some of these little gems again this season.

True Blood behind the scenes; Bill's house, the new and improved ?

Well--- I love the old house and I have been to the house many, many times. I even had fans from all over the country fly to Dallas and we've taken driving tours of Louisiana and many of the locations used in the filming of True Blood.

Bill house is real and was in bad shape when Ball and True Blood first filmed in it 2007 - it has since undergone a massive renovation but it is not the house used this season  in the scene in the Season 4 when Sookie walks over to talk to King Bill.

You can see the new house in the photo it is obviously not the same old ( real house ) of Bills . I bet it's a facade that has been built on a back lot or maybe on the property where Sookie's house and cemetery are located.

This photo is from a recent visit - you can see all the construction and you can see how the left side of the house really looks. The big difference is the height of the new " fake" Bill's house,  its so low the actual house is very high off the ground. 


Awww .. everyone say awwww together. Here is the first peek we get of Bill's house from Season 1 episode 2.

The real Bill's house is called Roseneath Plantation and has been owned by the Means family since it was built in 1846. I have lots more about it here 


The Meet & Greet: Aaron Perilo, ‘True Blood’s’ Newest Vampire

Calling all fangbangers: there’s a new vampire in Bon Temps! Newcomer Aaron Perilo will be joining the cast of True Blood this season as Blackburn, an ancient vampire with an insatiable blood lust. In addition to his role on True Blood, this hunky actor will be lending his talent to the HBO series Luck, as well as the upcoming sci-fi thriller In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.

Aaron took time out of his busy schedule to chat with Celebuzz about his upcoming projects. and what it was like working out with the cast of True Blood – turns out Stephen Moyer is quite the jokester!



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