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Wall StreeT Journal Best -Sellers -WOW!
FICTION
1. ''The Lost Symbol'' by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
2. ''A Touch of Dead'' by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
3. ''Where the Wild Things Are'' by Maurice Sendak (HarperTrophy)
4. ''The Van Alen Legacy'' by Melissa De La Cruz (Hyperion Press)
5. ''The Help'' by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)
Alex Skarsgard: I retired aged 13!
The actor, who plays True Blood's Eric Northman and Sgt Brad 'Iceman' Colbert in Generation Kill, claims he gave up acting back in 1989.
"I did my first movie when I was seven, and then I worked for about six years, doing movies and television in Sweden but then I quit and didn't work at all for seven years," he said.
He continued: "Back then in good old Sweden, we only had two TV channels so whatever was on, people would watch. I did a movie for television there, and it had a huge impact. Suddenly people recognised me wherever I went, and it just made me very uncomfortable."
With his famous father, Stellan Skarsgard, who has starred in films such as Mamma Mia! and Ronin, you might think Alexander would have been to get some tips on dealing with fame from his old man, but his celebrity preceded his dad's, who, back in the late Eighties, was a jobbing actor in Stockholm theatres.
"He wasn't that big a star when I grew up. The thing that took him to Hollywood was Breaking The Waves, the Lars von Trier movie, in 1996. I was already 20 years old by that point," said Alexander.
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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Tourniquet by Evanescence
Tourniquet by Evanescence
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Sookie Stackhouse breaks into even more markets
From Sfscope
Sookie Stackhouse books "are now selling in well over 30 languages." He reports recent sales in both new and continuing markets.
In new territories:
the first four books sold to Nha Nam in Viet Nam
the first five books sold to Lindhardt & Ringhof in Denmark "in a major five-figure deal"
the first two books sold to Forlagid in Iceland
the first two books sold to Gummerus in Finland
Dead Until Dark sold to Mettis Bukvarna in Slovenia
New sales in established markets:
books 3 and 4 sold to Baronet in the Czech Republic
books 7 and 8 sold to Leda in Romania
books 5 and 6, and the collection Touch of Dead, sold to Saraiva in Brazil
books 4 and 5 sold to Saida de Emergencia in Portugal
And, in a non-Sookie Harris sale, Santillana bought rights in Spain to the first two of the Lily Bard "Shakespeare" novels: Shakespeare's Landlord (first published by St. Martin's in 1996) and Shakespeare's Champion (1997)
To date, Ace Books has published the first nine Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire novels, and has contracted to publish books 10-13. The first nine in the series (upon which HBO's True Blood is based) are:
Dead Until Dark (first published in 2001)
Living Dead in Dallas (2002)
Club Dead (2003)
Dead to the World (2004)
Dead as a Doornail (2005)
Definitely Dead (2006)
All Together Dead (2007)
From Dead to Worse (2008)
Dead and Gone (published 5 May 2009)
Go Ask Dallas: Will Steve & Sarah Newlin return in True Blood Season 3?
Dallas
The actor who plays Steve Newlin is saying we'll see he and Sarah again in True Blood. I remember him being with the guy that attacks Sookie in Club Dead but do we ever see or hear from the Newlin's again after that in the books ?
Thanks, TBFAN
Hey Fan
We meet the Newlin's in bk 2 'Living Dead in Dallas' and he is the one who is in 'Club Dead' when Sookie is staked.
We don't see them again but Sookie does think of them and the Fellowship ( see quotes below). The threat and influence of the Fellowship of the Sun does reemerge in the later books but we have yet to see the Newlin's again. I bet we will !
Mike " Steve Newlin" McMillian did recently say to MTV
"I've been told he'll be back," actor Mike McMillian, who plays Reverend Steve, told MTV News of his character.
Though the actor doesn't know when he and costar Anna Camp will return, he has a few theories about how things might go down. This kind of fits the Steve ibn Club Dead storyline.
Bk 3 Club Dead
Somehow, in the melee, my eyes met those of the taller man, and we recognized each other. He was G. Steve Newlin, former leader of the Brotherhood of the Sun, a militant anti-vampire organization whose Dallas branch had more or less bit the dust after I'd paid it a visit. He was going to tell them who I was, I just knew it, but I had to pay attention to what the man with the stake was doing. I was staggering around on my heels, trying to keep my feet, when the assassin finally had a stroke of brilliance and transferred the stake from his pinned right hand to his free left. With a final punch to my back, Steve Newlin dashed for the exit, and I caught a flash of creatures bounding in pursuit. I heard lots of yowling and tweeting, and then the black-haired man threw back his left arm and plunged the stake into my waist on my right side
Book 5 Dead as a Doornail
Actually, the Fellowship had quite a bit against me. I'd been responsible for their huge Dallas church being raided and one of their main leaders going underground. The papers had been full of what the police had found in the Fellowship building in Texas. Arriving to find the members dashing in turmoil around their building, claiming vampires had attacked them, the police entered the building to search it and found a basement torture chamber, illegal arms adapted to shoot wooden stakes into vampires, and a corpse. The police failed to see a single vampire. Steve and Sarah Newlin, the leaders of the Fellowship church in Dallas, had been missing since that night. I'd seen Steve Newlin since then. He'd been at Club Dead in Jackson.
He and one of his cronies had been preparing to stake a vampire in the club when I'd prevented them. Newlin had escaped; his buddy hadn't. It appeared that the Newlins' followers had tracked me down. I hadn't foreseen such a thing, but then, I'd never foreseen anything that had happened to me in the past year. When Bill had been learning how to use his computer, he'd told me that with a little knowledge and money, anyone could be found through a computer.
Maybe the Fellowship had hired private detectives, like the couple who had been in my house yesterday. Maybe Jack and Lily Leeds had just been pretending to be hired by the Pelt family? Maybe the Newlins were their real employers? They hadn't struck me as politicized people, but the power of the color green is universal.
Bk 6 Definitely Dead
But one of Arlene's customers yelled for her, and she was definitely glad to walk away. My eyes met Sam's, and we looked equally troubled. The Fellowship of the Sun was an antivampire,antitolerance organization, and its influence was spreading. Some of the Fellowship enclaves were not militant, but many of them preached hatred and fear in its most e
xtreme form. If the Fellowship had asecret underground hit list, I was surely on it. The Fellowship founders, Steve and Sarah Newlin, had been driven out of their most lucrative church in Dallas because I'd interfered with their plans. I'd survived a couple of assassination attempts since then, but there was always the chance the Fellowship would track me down and ambush me. They'd seen me in Dallas, they'd seen me in Jackson, and sooner or later they'd figure out who I was and where I lived.I had plenty to worry about.Tv Squad also writes
Do True Blood's Steve and Sarah Newlin seem like Joel and Victoria Osteen?
How soon before we find out who took Bill ?
From TV Guide
How soon before we find out who took Bill on True Blood? — Dyan
MICKEY: "We will discover who has Bill right off the bat in Season 3, but it's going to take the people on the show a little bit longer to find out," executive producer Alan Ball tells us. Sookie will even consider the possibility that he left of his own volition. "It's not easy for her," Ball says. "She feels really bad because she's not sure whether he just left because he was upset because she didn't say yes right off the bat. But in her heart she believes he was taken and she doesn't know who took him. She's going to fight to find him."
http://www.tvguide.com/News/MegaBuzz-NCIS-TrueBlood-1010859.aspx
Vampire cupcakes from TV and movies
Here are some pretty awesome assorted Vampire cupcakes. We've got Eric & Bill from True Blood, Stefan & Damon from Vampire Diaries, Selene from Underworld, Angel & Spike from Buffy, Edward from Twilight, 30 Days of Night, and Nosferatu.
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Having a Ball
From SX
True Blood is one of the most gay inclusive shows currently on television. Not surprising, given that its creator, Alan Ball, is an out and proud gay man.
Based on the ‘Sookie Stackhouse’ books by American novelist Charlaine Harris, writer/producer Alan Ball’s True Blood is one of the most compelling and entertaining takes on the vampire legend around. But, as he tells MCV, the television program would never have been made had he not accidentally stumbled upon the first book in Harris’s series.
“It was a total impulse buy for me, this book, and I started reading it and I could not put it down. It was like crack! It was like I was addicted to it. And somewhere around book three or four [in the series] I thought, this is so not the sort of stuff I usually read but I love this world and these characters, and I think this would make a great TV show.”
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Borders: All Charlaine Harris Books & Audiobooks Buy1 Get1 50% Off (In-Store/Online)
Print this coupon to shop in the store
or use Promo Code: SOOKIE to shop online.
Valid in U.S. stores 10/13/09 through 10/19/09 at close of business. Valid at Borders.com 10/13/09 through 10/19/09 at 11:59 PM PT.
Valid with Borders Rewards membership only. Less expensive item is discounted. Certain exclusions apply.
The Halloween Costume Inspiration Board: Maryann Forrester From “True Blood”
Didn’t you just love to hate Maryann Forrester in season two of “True Blood”? Author Charlaine Harris has one helluva imagination, but it was creator/executive producer Alan Ball who brought Maryann to life. Even though she was a rather annoying villain (surprisingly, though, she was less annoying than Sookie Stackhouse), none of this season would have been possible without Maryann’s maenad craziness. So why not celebrate “He who comes” by dressing like his bride for Halloween? Just remember to periodically raise your arms and quiver? How to get the look, after the jump!
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'True Blood' News! Mike McMillian (A.K.A. Rev. Steve Newlin) Says His Character Will Be Back
A series centered around sexy, blood-loving vampires is bound to have an ample body count, but the gallons of bloodshed in the sophomore season of "True Blood" could have made even a surgeon queazy. Some deaths were for the better (Michelle Forbes' maenad Maryann) while others left us weepy (Mehcad Brooks' Eggs and Allan Hyde's Godric). But two faces we haven't seen the last of are the Fellowship of the Sun's conniving first couple Steve and Sarah Newlin.
"I've been told he'll be back," actor Mike McMillian, who plays Reverend Steve, told MTV News of his character.
Though the actor doesn't know when he and costar Anna Camp (did you catch her cameo in the "The Office" wedding?) will return, he has a few theories about how things might go down.
"I think like any good villain he's going to go away and lick his wounds for a while. But I think he suffered major humiliation toward the end of season two, and now I would imagine the Stackhouses are even higher on his list. If it was personal before with his father being killed, then it's really personal now with the Stackhouses humiliating him."
"True Blood" writers take note: Mike even has a suggestion for the timing of he and Anna's return. "Hopefully, it'll happen at a time when the audience is least expecting it," Mike said. "That's always the best time to bring them back—when something horrible is already going on for our hero, and then they gotta deal with these a--holes too."
http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2009/10/13/true-blood-news-mike-mcmillian-aka-rev-steve-newlin-says-his-character-will-be-back/
What's Really Going on With All These Vampires?
From Esquire
Forget everything you've read about vampires so far. The current bloodsucking trend, achieving maximum ferocity in November with the release of the sequel to Twilight, isn't about outsiders or immigrants or religion or even AIDS, as critics and bloggers have argued ad nauseam these past few months. There's a much better, simpler, more obvious explanation: Vampires have overwhelmed pop culture because young straight women want to have sex with gay men. Not all young straight women, of course, but many, if not most, of them. Neil Gaiman, sci-fi novelist and geek grandmaster, found out just how many during the shitstorm of pique that covered him from head to toe this past summer after he suggested in an interview that the vampire craze had run its course and should disappear for another twenty to twenty-five years. (Twilight fans took to Twitter in protest.) A foolish hope. The craving for vampire fiction is not a matter of taste but of urges; one does not read or watch it so much as inject it through the eyes, and like any epidemic, it's symptomatic of something much larger: a quiet but profound sexual revolution and a new acceptance of freakiness in mainstream American life.
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