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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Make This Happen, True Blood!!!
and of course, Perez has picked up on this .. Right now, our head is filled with sweet, HAWT images of True Blood vamps Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgård together…in bed!!! And guess what?! We're not the only ones. Stephen is TOTALLY game!!! Stephen was recently asked about his delish Swedish costar and how he felt about working with him. This is what he said: “Alex is a good friend of mine and a fantastic actor and I love working with Alex and I don’t get to do it as much as I would love to…You never know — whether they’ll stick Eric and Bill in bed together, I don’t know. But here’s hoping.” Hoping and wishing and praying and dreaming!!! Do it! Do it! Do it! Who wouldn't want to see this happen?
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer Inject True Blood into Open House
From Dread Central
Fans of HBO's "True Blood" are as rabid as they are because -- pardon the pun -- the show offers so very much to sink the old teeth into. Especially the relationship between Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Sookie (Anna Paquin), who incidentally are engaged to be married in real life. As if the couple couldn't get enough of each other already, it appears that they plan to share the screen once again in an upcoming thriller called Open House.
According to IMDB this new film directed by Andrew Paquin (brother of Anna) and starring Moyer and Paquin along with Tricia Helfer, Rachel Blanchard, Brian Geraghty, Jessica Collins, Larry Sullivan, Gabriel Olds, Gerald Downey and Mia Riverton, tells the tale 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 home.
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/33988/anna-paquin-and-stephen-moyer-inject-true-blood-open-houseNew Book: How to date a vampire by Sophie Collins
Anna Paquin swaps her bonnet for kinky vampire sex
ANNA PAQUIN was nine years old when she first became famous for her role as Flora in The Piano, and 11 as she stood smiling and gasping in silence for a full 20 seconds at the podium to receive her Oscar for it.
In True Blood, the new HBO hit (seen here on Showcase), Paquin, now 27, has morphed in
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.
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Apassionata by X-Ray Dog
Apassionata by X-Ray Dog
Thanks xxHistoryGirl23xx
Monday, October 12, 2009
True Blood: Interview with a vampire
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.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Let It Die by The Foo Fighters
Let It Die by The Foo Fighters
Thanks, Lawliettte
Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer's Romance Not True Secret at Work
They purposely played down their romance on set – even fooling their costars – but True Blood creator Alan Ball says he was on to Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer from the start.
"I know that they think that
nobody knew about it until the end of the season," Ball tells PEOPLE at the 5th annual GLSEN Respect Awards in Los Angeles, "but I knew about it by episode two."
Ball, 52, sensed a connection between the stars after filming the scene where their characters first meet. "Stephen comes into the bar, and takes [Anna's] hand, [and] I
thought, "Wow, they have chemistry!" But sometimes actors have
chemistry when they're acting together, but they cannot stand each
other while off set."
Not the case here, it turns out, of course.
"When I found out that they were dating," Ball says, "my reaction was, 'Uh-oh! I hope that this doesn't blow up in our face.' "
"But this has been happening long enough that it's very clear that it
is the real thing," he says of the engaged duo. "They're very, very happy, and I'm just
thrilled for them."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20311592,00.html
Vampires uncloaked, from ‘Nosferatu’ to ‘Twilight’
Great article with lists of vampires stuff ...
From Buffalo News
He was a tall, cadaverous old man with white hair and eyebrows so bushy they almost created a unibrow. His fingers and ears formed points; his palms were hairy. The breath, rank.
This Dracula, as immortalized by Bram Stoker in 1897, was not the handsome, romantic figure that vampires have become in modern film and literature. No, this evil creature is far removed from the face of the vampire today: actor Robert Pattinson's portrayal of the angst-ridden Edward Cullen in "Twilight," an impossibly beautiful, porcelain-skinned teen with a loving soul who refuses to drink human blood.
Stoker's "Dracula" wasn't the first book about vampires — John Polidori's "The Vampyre" from 1819 is given the credit for that — yet Stoker's book remains the definitive vampire novel even as hundreds of similar books continue to be released. The hunger for vampire stories is so intense today that these new books are quickly spawning film and television adaptations.
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Collected short stories fill gaps in Sookie Stackhouse vampire saga
I sure hope everyone bought this Sookie short story anthology ...it is such a pretty little book. It's not much bigger than a paperback and the moon on the cover is sparkledy. The book also has some really neat illustrations (see one below)- just because you've read the stories you still need to add this great little book to your Sookie collection.
From Tulsa World
Sookie, Sookie everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Until now.
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.
Readers familiar with the Sookie novels will enjoy the stories of her meeting the Vampire Queen of Louisiana for the first time in "One Word Answer," and her role in solving a murder at a strip club for fairies in "Fairy Dust."
The light-hearted "Dracula Night" shows a childlike enthusiasm from the usually ruthless and calculating vampire Eric. The story takes place during a time when Sookie and Eric, who is the sheriff over the regional vampire territory, are flirting with the idea of being a couple. In the vampire culture, Dracula's birthday is a holiday, and Eric views the iconic legend as Santa Claus, hoping for a visit. After the leotard-wearing, pudgy Prince of Darkness arrives, he finds Sookie irresistible, leading to a brouhaha.
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In Treatment and True Blood from Guardian UK
....Sorry British broadcasters, it's an HBO love-in this week, especially now that True Blood has made the leap from the outer limits of FX, where the first season aired in July to a terrestrial debut on C4. I ignored it in the summer partly because I was on holiday the week it kicked off but also because I think vampires suck. But I kept an eye on it… and of course it doesn't suck at all.
In a one-croc town somewhere in the deep south wherein bloodsuckers roam free-ish, surviving mostly on synthetic blood but sometimes the real thing, after dark, obviously, and on the fringes of society (where having sex with a vampire is apparently something "everybody should do once"). Here, among the southern squelch and steam, kooky 'n' cute waitress Sookie Stackhouse (li'l Anna Paquin, all growed-up) meets sexily undead Bill Compton, aka Stephen Moyer, who always looked like he could go the distance from Brentwood, Essex to Brentwood, LA (anybody remember Men Only or NY-LON a handful of years ago? No, fair enough) so it's good to see he's finally found a role he can get his tee… No, OK, I won't, I promise. In fact I believe it may be a sacking offence.
Anyway, this show not only has the coolest HBO title sequence since the Alabama 3's "Woke up this morning/ Got yourself a gun…" (Jace Everett singing "Before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you…") but the discovery that Moyer and Paquin are not only a couple in real life but actually engaged and therefore soon to be married (in which case – yippee! – till death they do part), may explain why their chemistry is hotter than a bowl of something Cajun with chillis, cooked by Jamie in a bit of a strop – while the dialogue is dark, the sex properly steamy and that whole trendy vampire shtick as gruesome and twisted and funny as you'd expect from Alan Ball. Who gave us Six Feet Under, for which are truly grateful, Amen. Now, let's see those plates licked clean – yup, blood and guts and gore, and spilt milk, and greens, and all…
The University of Virginia presents the Virginia Film Festival
Alainanoel tell us that Alan Ball will be a presenter at Virginia Film Festival
Festival Announces 2009 Line-Up
Special Guests To Include Actors Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick and Cherry Jones; Academy Award-Winning Director Norman Jewison, Legendary Cult Filmmaker and Author John Waters, Academy Award and Emmy Award-Winning Writer and Director Alan Ball, Noted CNN Political Commentator Candy Crowley and Others
http://www.vafilm.com/
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