'True Blood's' Sam Trammell talks 'the sock' and dreams of Bill Compton

 


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Famed author and Tunica native–Charlaine Harris joins county Sons, Daughters

New York Times best-selling author–and Tunica native–Charlaine Harris will be inducted into the Tunica Museum’s “Sons and Daughters of Tunica County” permanent exhibit on Sunday, July 11, in conjunction with a book signing and reading by Harris at the museum from 2-5 p.m. that day.
“The greatness of Tunica lies in her people,” commented museum director Dick Taylor. “There is something about this community that fosters in her people the desire to achieve.

True Blood - Allan Hyde Interview

Did you already know either the show of True Blood or the books by Charlaine Harris, at the time you were casted for the role as Godric?
ALLAN: When I got cast I did not know anything at all. I did do my research as soon as things were looking as if stuff might happen and was astounded of how huge the project and phenomenon was and still is.

Most of the cast members know each other since the beginning of the show. So how has your first day on set been with all the people, who are already such a well-rehearsed team?
ALLAN: Everyone is great. Really nice people and amazing actors. They made it very easy for me. Though it was nerveracking, borderline terrifying to play everything that calm and so small with the appropriate confidence when everyone around you is someone you admire and want to impress. It took a lot of me to stay true to my ideas and not over-compensate.

Allan or Godric... is there anything which you share with the character?
ALLAN: I have gone through the same stuff Godricv has gone through in my own life but on a much smaller scale. I have experienced having an epiphany if you may about stuff I had been doing that was not nice at all. This I applied in the character and intensified out of proportions.

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True Blood: We'll see more of Kevin "Jesus" Alejandro

Kevin Alejandro has revealed that his character Jesus will feature more heavily in upcoming episodes of True Blood.

The actor, who also stars in cop show Southland, confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that he will reappear in the fifth episode of the current season.

He explained: “I come back in the fifth episode, then you see me pretty regularly from there to the finale.”

Alejandro also revealed that his character's relationship with Lafayette Reynolds (played by Nelsan Ellis) will progress.

“I promise it gets racy,” he teased.

The third season of True Blood is currently airing on HBO.

"Let me in" new movie trailer

I was a big fan of the Swedish version "Let the right one in " and this looks great

Talk Blood Ep 3 " It hurts me too " podcast and chat room log and our first prize winner !

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Bela Lugosi's Dead: Vampire History, From Scary Monster to Sexy Beast

Love it or hate it, you can’t deny the sheer impact of the Twilight phenomenon.
But the evolution of the vampire from horror to hottie is a surprising development. Sure, mysterious and brooding is always sexy when you’re a teen (or at least that’s what Stephenie Meyer is banking on), but how did we ever get from the bloodthirsty Count Dracula and beastly Nosferatu-style freaks of nature to sexy vamps like Edward Cullen and Bill Compton? On the release of the third installment of the Twilight film series, Eclipse, we explore, in timeline form, how our perception of these creatures of the night went from terrifying to swoon-worthy.
To get your full, bloodlusty fix, check out our gallery below for a look at all the featured vampires in chronological order, brush up on your auxiliary vampire myths via our handy field guide or rock out with our vamp-centric playlist.
1456-1897:

Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) (1456)
Prince Vlad III, also known as Dracula (“son of the dragon” or “son of the devil”), comes to power in Wallachia (modern-day Romania). His cruelty earns him the nickname “Vlad the Impaler,” and his legend becomes the framework for the greatest vampire tale of them all, Dracula.

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A Field Guide to Vampire Myths

No matter how unbelievably sexy film and television vampires get, they can still be a dangerous breed.
Therefore, it’s important to know how to best defend yourself against these creatures of the night. But to understand the best methods of vampire slaying, one must understand where they came from. Check out our guide to where these auxiliary vamp myths came from, and if you think you’re ready, go peruse our exhaustive history of pop-culture vampires.
Garlic
Garlic as a protection against evil was a common folklore trope, though there are many theories about how the idea of vampires fearing garlic came about. Many ancient cultures thought garlic had supernatural healing powers, so the myth could have taken root in these traditions. Garlic-Central.com notes that garlic was used as a natural mosquito repellent and suggests that the idea of garlic blocking the bloodsuckers could have come from that.

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Some True Blood myths explored

Submit a question for Time magazine's Anna Paquin interview

At the age of 11, she became the second-youngest person to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress after her breakout role in the 1993 film The Piano. Following that early success, Paquin played several small roles in movies like She's All That, Hurlyburly and A Walk on the Moon before joining the cast of X-Men in 2000. After two more X-Men films, she switched to the small-screen in HBO's hit vampire show True Blood. Paquin reprised her role as waitress Sookie Stackhouse in the show's third season, which premiered on June 13. Submit your questions for Anna Paquin below, then read the interview in an upcoming issue of TIME magazine.

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Stephen Moyer Radio interview

MBruce Buffer returned to The Sherdog Radio Network Tuesday for "IT'S TIME!!!" Joining Buffer was HBO True Blood's Stephen Moyer as well as UFC welterweight Mike Swick.

While you're at it, check out Bruce Buffer's all new MMA blog.
Click Here to check out the podcast on iTunes.
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Stephen returns to "Regis and "Not Kathy Lee"  July 14th

As top-rated morning talk show “LIVE! with Regis and Kelly” heads north to Canada’s beautiful Prince Edward Island, a diverse and exciting line-up of guests will join them for four shows airing July 12-15, 2010.

“Sex and the City” star JOHN CORBETT, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” actor PETER FACINELLI, “True Blood” lead STEPHEN MOYER and Canada’s own CAROLINE RHEA all will make the trip to “The Gentle Island” to be part of LIVE’s PEI broadcasts. In addition, married actors LISA RINNA and HARRY HAMLIN, style guru CARSON KRESSLEY and lovely Canadian actress ELISHA CUTHBERT also will chat with the hosts at LIVE’s outdoor stage in Confederation Landing Park.

Wednesday, July 14: Stephen Moyer, Melanie Fiona

“LIVE” will originate from Confederation Landing Park in historic Charlottetown, capital city of Prince Edward Island. Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa will transplant LIVE’s own brand of entertainment-oriented talk to the island, with the natural beauty of the province providing a colorful backdrop to the show’s celebrity guests and musical performances. LIVE’s viewers will be able to join them in experiencing the wide range of activities that PEI has to offer, as they explore the island from end to end, and delve into the region’s history, food and culture.

True Blood Music Video of the Day: I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)

I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)

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“True Blood” Sucker Punch: Season 3, Ep. 3

Team Talk Blood member Mark Blankenship just posted his "Sucker Punch" you can listen to us discussing this episode Sunday night click on widget to right !

Before we dive into “It Hurts Me Too,” I need to talk about a recent review of True Blood by Entertainment Weekly‘s Ken Tucker. In his conclusion, he wrote:

What show creator Alan Ball has brought to True Blood‘s pulp-horror trappings is a unifying theme of power versus helplessness: an insistence that victims are capable of toughening, of overcoming their powerlessness to become smarter and stronger. It’s a positive message that Ball and his writers and directors smuggle into a show that only seems to revel in decadence, gore, and duplicity. True Blood‘s dirtiest little secret is that it may be among the most ethical, even righteous, shows on television.

Meanwhile, in his recap of the season premiere, Tucker said, “I like True Blood best when it’s fast, dirty, and funny.”

These statements clarify my own relationship to the show: Yes, it’s full of metaphor, and I certainly enjoy it on that level. However, I mostly like True Blood because it’s trashy, bloody, sexy, and funny. It’s more valuable to me as candy than as vitamins.

This isn’t always how I roll. I like Big Love‘s sweeping themes more than its individual plots, and as much as I love the campiness on RuPaul’s Drag Race, I love its subtle critique of American society even more.

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Why we love vampires

EVEN BOY WIZARD Harry Potter - whose movie franchise-based theme park opened in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month - has been drained of his powers by the vampires among us.
With apologies to radio personality Howard Stern , the undead clearly have claimed the title King of All Media this month. "True Blood," HBO's popular series set in current-day Louisiana, started its third season on June 13. "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer's latest book "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella" was released on June 5 and has already sold a million copies. And "Eclipse," the third movie in the multimillion-dollar franchise, opens today. (See Gary Thompson's review, Page 35.)
Justin Cronin's "The Passage," a new postapocalyptic novel featuring vampirelike creatures was published June 8 and is No. 4 on the New York Times best-sellers list. (Fox 2000 reportedly bought the rights to a film version of the book three years ago, before it was even written.)

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20100630_Why_we_love_vampires.html#ixzz0sL7kSBtt
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Meg Cabot shares her childhood love of vampires

By Meg Cabot

It happened at a friend's slumber party, circa 1979. Bored of talking about boys (it wasn't really our fault: we were 12), I turned on the TV.

A handsome dark-haired man was biting a pretty girl on the throat ... but she didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, her long golden hair was fanned out across the pillows as she threw her head back in obvious ecstasy. She was writhing around on this big canopy bed while scarlet rivulets of blood streamed very artistically down the front of her white lace nightgown, which was hiked up around her slim thighs.

Orchestral music swelled in the background. You could tell something amazing was about to happen. Such as sex!

Sadly, however, we didn't get to see it. My friend's mom walked in, saw what we were watching, and turned the TV off.

"Girls!" she cried, appalled. "This is much too ... scary for you! Stop watching it, right now!"

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Like A Whisper To The Dusk

True Blood- Like A Whisper To The Dusk

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Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette) Talks 'True Blood,' Gay Marriage, Tyler Perry

Part of True Blood’s appeal is that the cast portrays their characters so well that it’s hard to believe they aren’t real. Enter Lafayette, played by Nelsan Ellis. Lafayette is a gay man who is flamboyant and egregious but at the same time isn’t stereotypical. He’s masculine but also feminine and will knock any man out if he’s pushed that far.

However, the man behind the character is the opposite. Ellis is a Julliard trained, perfectly straight Alabama native who initially struggled with bringing Lafayette to life but now that he has it down, he’s hoping that other industry insiders will remember that the character he plays is fictional. In edition to True Blood, he recently rapped a feature film, has his own screenplay in the works and wouldn’t mind appearing in a Tyler Perry project. Here, he tells VIBE how he brought Lafayette to life, what the gay community thinks about the character and how he plans to transition beyond his True Blood role. ⎯Starrene Rhett

VIBE: Lafayette is dead in the book so how did you make the TV character your own?

Nelsan Ellis: I think by the second or third audition I got some bad notes from the casting director. They figured I was playing a stereotype or something like that so I got a friend of mine to come and work the audition with me and somehow I found the character inside of me versus putting on something that wasn’t real. Alan Ball wanted the character to be a myriad of things and at first I was skeptical but I somehow found it, maybe it was God helping me out.

So that stereotype you were playing must have been a Queenie type of gay guy, huh?

Yeah, at first because in the break down he was supposed to be almost drag queenish but I didn’t really play that right coming in, even when I got the job. I didn’t really find Lafayette until the third or fourth episode because I certainly didn’t have him in the pilot. There were takes where I was playing with who he was and takes that I was—they just happened to pick takes that were consistent with who Alan Ball thought the character should be.

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True Blood, Season 3, Episode 1: Beck Is Thicker Than Water

Episode 13.1: Bad Blood

Welcome back to Bon Temps, LA, where the men drink blood, the women hear your thoughts, and the children don't figure much into the R-rated happenings. When last we left True Blood, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) was rushing out of the bathroom of a very nice restaurant to tell Vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) that indeed she would be his until her death did they part when he was suddenly abducted. We pick up the vamp-napping in progress as three hillbillies take turns using Bill like a wine cooler in the backseat in order to get high off his blood.

Blood figures in any vampire series. It's kind of a big deal. But the impression Gothtopia gets is that the concept of tainted blood will play a big part in this season. Are we as people, even undead or shape shifting people, fated to become like those whose blood gave us life in the first place? Certainly nurture battles nature. The children of rock stars become accountants. Last we heard, none of the children adopted from the Manson family, including Charlie's own biological children, have become hypnotic murderers. And yet, 500 years after the death of Vlad the Impaler (Who served as the inspiration of Bram Stoker's Dracula), one of his direct descendants owned and operated a Turkish blood bank. Is a blood link to a bloody past an indicator of an inescapable fate?

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