True Blood goes to the movies: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian starring Patrick (Chow ) Gallagher

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian starring Patrick (Chow) Gallagher opens May 22nd ( sneaks this week)

Patrick stars as Atilla the Hun and says he has to wear 40lbs of yak fur.

Here is his IMDb page
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0302466/

When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's (Jon Bernthal) rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers, Fonzie's jacket from Happy Days, the still from M*A*S*H and Archie Bunker's lounge chair from All in the Family.

With a forwarded resume, Larry (Ben Stiller) becomes another caretaker at the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah, an evil Pharaoh will come to life with the reestablishing of a tablet as a magical force in the museum bringing the old exhibits (Such as Theodore Roosevelt and Dexter) and new exhibits (like General Custer and Al Capone) back to life, and in conflict with each other. Larry enlists the help of Amelia Earheart, who he develops a romantic interest in, and together they try to put everything back in order.

You can see him at 1:35 and click on his image here
http://www.nightatthemuseummovie.com/

A little mistake here and there : Dead and Gone

Some mistakes and errors spotted in Dead and Gone

Claudette is mentioned as the third triplet of Sookie's cousin fairies, but in previous books and short stories Claude and Claudine's sister's name was Claudia not Claudette.

The Witch Hallow's messenger is killed by who ?
The witch messenger in Book 4 is killed and that activates Hallows spell which removes Eric’s memory, but who kills the messenger?

Hallows messenger is killed by Chow in book 4, Dead to the World

"You two did something, didn't you? You messed up. What did you do?" Both Eric's arms wrapped around my legs, so I was pinned in place. I suppressed a little ripple of panic. He was just insecure. "Chow lost his temper with the witch," Pam said, after a significant pause. I closed my eyes. Even Jason seemed to grasp what Pam was saying, because his eyes got bigger. Eric turned his face to rub his cheek along my thigh. I wondered what he was making of this."And the minute she was attacked, Eric vanished?" I asked. Pam nodded."So she was booby-trapped with a spell." "Apparently," Chow said. "Though I had never heard of such a thing, and I can't be held responsible."His glare dared me to say anything.


Eric tells Sookie about the spell in book 9, Dead and Gone

“The curse contained within the witch, the curse that activated when Clancy killed her . . . it was that I would be close to my heart’s desire without ever realizing it. A terrible curse and one that Hallow must have constructed with great subtlety. We found it dog-eared in her spell book.”

others ?

Saturday night in Hollywood with "Dallas"

We wonderful evening last night, thanks also to new friends we met up with Jen and Brenda. We had even more True Blood and vampire related activities.

We ate at a great Thai restaurant in West Hollywood - the idea came from the actor who plays Chow, Patrick Gallagher See his interview here

We then went to the theatre to see the play, Bram Stoker's DRACULA "Love Cannot Be Denied"

It was JUST wonderful with amazing acting and fantastic set design. You can read the L.A. Times review below.

Galanga Thai
Neighborhood: West Hollywood
7440 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Theatre: Bram Stoker's DRACULA "Love Cannot Be Denied"
11136 Magnolia Blvd.
The NoHo Arts Center

Review

True Blood Season 2 photos : Being all fanged up with Eric, Pam and Chow

Unless they are just having fun here being all fanged up..I have no idea.

I would think this is the famed Fangtasia basement and this is in episode 3 "Scratch my Back" and this the scene where Dr Ludwig is treating Sookie for the maenad scratch by having all the vampires partially drain her...

(from left to right) Kristin Bauer, Alexander Skarsgard and Patrick Gallagher in HBO's TRUE BLOOD(2009).

© HBO/ Jaimie Trueblood

[DR. LUDWIG]
A female LITTLE PERSON, she is a no-nonsense, take-charge medical healer who tends to a severely wounded Sookie (Anna Paquin). Clearly disdainful of Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Dr. Ludwig is "no fan of the fang," but tolerates vampires as their blood is of great value to her profession.sptv050769..4 speeches & 9 lines, 3 scenes (8)

Go ask Dallas: Why is the True Blood Chow so different from the one we see in the books ?

Dear Dallas-

Why do you think the HBO Chow is obviously not portrayed as Club Dead's Chow? So much attention is given to Chow's Yakuza tattoos and his mysterious history so I was surprised when we are introduced to a more Anglo Chow in the TV series. What are your thoughts on this?

-E

Hey E

Well-- we haven't seen whether Patrick's portrayal of Chow has the tattoos or not. I am not sure what Patrick's actual ethnicity is but he obviously has very interesting ethnic characteristics. We can see by his resume that hes been cast before as an Asian and as a "Hun"

He is a very talented actor and has quite a resume. He may be a little different from how some envision Chow from the book but what little we've seen of Patrick, he's has been very good. Watch the interview below with him, he does talk about being on True Blood and seems to enjoy the role a great deal.

Thanks and if anyone knows more about Patrick let us know ...

"Dallas"

** The scene " What's your game ?" where Bill and Chow talk about Wii golf score can be seen here

Patrick Gallagher
Date of Birth 21 February 1968, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada Birth Name

Patrick James Gallagher : Patrick Gallagher grew up in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, and in 1993 graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada. He began his career in Toronto working in the theater, in film and on television. In 2003 he gave a strong performance as Awkward Davies in Peter Weir's Oscar-nominated Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). His next role was Det. Joe Finn in the seventh season of the highly acclaimed Canadian television drama "Da Vinci's Inquest" (1998), carrying that character into the new series "Da Vinci's City Hall" (2005). He will also be remembered as Gary the Bartender in Alexander Payne's multi-award-winning Sideways (2004).

He is a big supporter of the independent film scene, and has played numerous roles in projects by emerging filmmakers. He currently resides in Los Angeles, and is a dual US/Canadian citizen.

Trivia: Graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1993, Dual Canadian/US citizen, First pro job as 'The Fishbreeder' in the world premier of "the Nightingale",In 1994 at Young Peoples Theatre in Toronto Created the 'gibberish' language used by Atilla the Hun in Night at the Museum.

His work can be seen in "Sideways," "Master and Commander," "Night at the Museum," and "Night at the Museum 2." He has also been on such shows as "True Blood," "Davinci's Inquest," and "Without a Trace."

Here is an interview with Patrick Gallagher for Musecast.





Maybe more than you want to know about Yakuza and the

Yakuza Tattoos

History HERE

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