For You True Blood Romantics

How he did this with a straight face I do not know but he looks so Cupidey McValentine.

The serious look

The Coy Look (lulz)

All I know is they are from an old Star Magazine, couldnt find the kinkier one where he looks to be getting choked(!?)

One more from Ryan's appearance on "New Girl" Valentine episode.

Tara Buck talked to Moxie Reviews about her career and make-up choices for products not tested on animals, she looks fabulous. More pics and in depth interview at the link.
Hailing from the US, Tara Buck’s first professional acting job was on the hit television show, Party of Five. Tara’s theatre roles have included A Gift from Heaven (2005), for which she was nominated for anOvation Award, Marisa Megrzyn’s West Coast Premiere, Ten Cent Night (2009), and the leading role in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, How I Learned to Drive (2010). She was Rhea Reynolds in the series, Nip/Tuck before appearing on True Blood.

Fans know that you do a lot of screaming on the set of True Blood; when did you scream for real recently?

I was gardening and I discovered a dead critter. It really caught me off guard. My fiancé came running out of the house at the same time my neighbor rushed over. Hysterical! Contrary to what people probably think I don’t usually vocalize my fear. That’s sort of a true blood exclusive.

More clips at RedeyeChicago.com
This video is from Janina's trip to DC last weekend, her sister stands in (the bit is over at about 5:50 in)-

This Andy Swist V-Day card is apropos of S5 with Bill and Eric on the run.

I forget to check Kristin's Facebook for updates, she pointed to her fan site for these new photos, they have many I've not seen before.

Janina tweeting from the Grammys, I think she went with Ahmir aka Questlove.
Zimbio has all the Grammy pics up this morning.

This morning I looked at the clock it was around 6am, I thought, gee I have time to get ready and go see Askars, then I rolled over and went back to sleep.  Skarsgardfans has piccies-

Sell those toys Hasbro and Askars is putting out a line of scarves soon, JK, or am I? NASDAQ

More pics at Wetpaint

From the Edun after party, Billy Farell's photo, more at link.

More pics promoting "Battleship" Poor tired Swede and teeny Taylor.

I remember when I thought Peter Berg was hot, time marches on. From MTV-

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Ryan doing an interview with Extra on Friday (for Monday's show?), more pics at SocialiteLife

Coming soon to France

Nelsan as Dionysus in "Gods Behaving Badly"   Photo by Bauer Griffin

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I can't think of better casting than Peter Mensah (Oenomaus from Spartacus) for any role on another show I watch.This actor can bring it, including tears as my Doctore. EXCLUSIVE from Deadline: Peter Mensah will join True Blood in a recurring role as Kibwe, Chancellor for the Authority. Originally from Africa, Kibwe works toward mainstreaming under Roman’s tenure. In addition to previous and current incarnations of Spartacus on Starz, Mensah has appeared in films including Zack Snyder’s 300, Antoine Fuqua’sTears Of The Sun, Touchstone Pictures’ Hidalgo and James Cameron’s Avatar. His television credits includeTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Witchblade, The Pretender and Star Trek: Enterprise.

This was the casting call for his character-Episode #502, "Authority Always Wins"

[KIBWE] Early 40s to early 60s. A slender African gentleman vampire, he's an Authority council member who believes rehabilitation for prisoners over stricter punishment...STRONG RECURRING PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT AUTHENTICALLY AFRICAN ACTORS FOR THIS ROLE.

More from NASDAQ yesterday, mostly the toys-

Blame It on the Hiatus Full Moon

The first werewolf movie ever, made 6 years before Lon Chaney Jr.'s Larry Talbot made his debut, was Werewolf of London. It had nothing to do with roaming the moors, the woods, or the Pacific northwest, but instead had Wilfred Glendon getting bit in Tibet. I would think he'd turn into a Yeti myself but that's just my Harry and the Hendersons infatuation talking. I haven't seen it since I was a child but always thought it was more Jack the Ripper than Werewolf. 

The great Jack Pierce designed the makeup for this movie as well as the more famous Wolfman, the star Henry Hull refused to wear it, he thought it hid his features too well. This was why it was more like Jekyl and Hyde/Jack the Ripper to me. The photo is the original make-up intended and you can see it was used to perfection in the later Lon Chaney Jr. movie.

Latex and Lubricants By Gianna Sobol , latest Inside True Blood Blog

We like to keep the crew busy and entertained when they’re working through the night. Set Costumer Sarah Basta’s job for this scene? Lubricating Pam’s latex costume. Just another day at the office...

Askars at the DeLeon Tequila party held at the Boom Boom Room on Thursday (February 9) in New York City.The 35-year-old actor attended the event as part of New York Fashion Week.

More photos at Just Jared and Skarsgardfans. 

Ted Gushue talked to Alexander at the Kills show-

Hold the phone, everyone just lost their shit. It’s Alexander Skarsgard. Let’s see if we can peel him away from the lunch line of twiggy models, shall we?

Here’s what went down:

So Alex, we’d like to ask you one question, would that be alright?”

“Of course my friend, anything!” he beams.

“How did Alexander Skarsgaard get here?”

“Oh man, I really like this question! It would be so easy for me to say “The elevator”"

We agreed.

“But look, I see that this is one of those really open ended questions, and I like that! So many things brought me here, but first it began with my mother and my father. I owe them everything. Oh, also I really like The Kills!”

We continued our chat on The Kills briefly till the nicest vampire we’ve ever met announced he had to pee, so we took the talk to the famed urinals of The Standard.

“So tell me this my friend from The Observer, how did you get here?” as we both unzip our jeans.

For the next few minutes Mr. Skarsgaard did the interviewing, and concluded (completely mistakenly) that we too would be able to be as lucky with the ladies as he is. We informed him, that while we were flattered, the two of us were definitely a few standard deviations apart…

It crossed our minds as we zipped our flies and washed our hands that if there was ever a guy you’d want as a life coach, this is that guy.

Oh that’s right, The Kills are playing.

Old interview with Janina from when she was on The Gates, more at Details.

Details: Do you have any memorable stories from the set?
Janina Gavankar: You mean, besides the fact that there are a lot of men who are naked all the time and I love it? [Laughs] Let me tell you, it's really hard to go to work every day.

Sounds like True Blood, I watched but I don't remember much nudity, damn!

Linda Purl posted on her Facebook page, must mean she is in scenes with the Sheriff inquiring about Debbie's disappearance.

Linda Purl

Chris Bauer is a knock-out actor and person. All the True Blood

 cast are so incredibly talented & hard working! Very inspiring to be around.

Anna is signed for a new movie:Source (the novel sounds like one I need to read)

EXCLUSIVE: Cargo Entertainment has taken on Black Wings Has My Angel, set to star Anna Paquin, Tom Hiddleston and Elijah Wood.
From Moviefone-
At least someone out there is going for some lesser-known lit instead of helming the umpteenth adaptation or a remake of a musical, which was a movie, and will be a new movie again. Elijah Wood, along with Indalo Productions, is planning to make the move to production and produce a feature adaptation of Black Wings Has My Angel, Elliott Chaze's noir novel from 1953 -- which was out of print for 50 years. The classic is about an anti-hero ex-con who picks up a call girl at a Mississippi motel and then stages a daring armed robbery with her in Colorado.

Skarsgardfans has pics of Joe at the Clare's Place Foundation Charity event, donate HERE.

Ryan talks awkward first dates with cast of "New Girl".

Blood Lust During Hiatus Support Meeting

Even this vamp is thinking, Oy, five and a half more months till I can watch True Blood!

Happy Birthday (Feb. 8) to Jim Parrack!

Jim's Demo reel, has some scenes with Mariana Kleveno/Lorena too.

From NY Mag's Vulture Blog-When Will Denis O'Hare Return to True Blood?

By Evan Mulvihill

Filming has resumed on the next season of True Blood, and while we've heard plenty about new additions to the cast like Christopher Meloni, what of Denis O'Hare's villainous vampire Russell Edgington, who appeared to have escaped his concrete prison in the last episode? "I don't know what they have planned for me, but I'll probably be in most of the season, starting about midway," O'Hare told us last night atSecond Stage Theater's All-Star Bowling Classic. But don't expect any spoilers on how Edgington got away: "If I told you that, they'd bury me again. All I can say is that he's got friends in unlikely places." Edgington brought his own bowling ball and bowling shoes to the event, but when it came to this week'sother big game — the Super Bowl — he was less enthused. "I don't hate football, I just don't care. I'd rather be at the opera," the out actor told us. "It's not about [being] gay or straight, it's a lot of hype. It's a lot of money, money that could be spent better somewhere else. I think we as a culture could do something better with our attention than worry about a bunch of men in tights running around hitting each other." Although when you put it that way, Denis ...

Interview with Denis from Queerty, after some political talk they asked about TB-

Anyway, that’s enough politics. You’re back on True Blood  this summer—how the hell did Russell survive?!? Well, if I told you that, they’d bury me again. All I can say is that he’s got friends in unlikely places.

How mysterious. You’re also doing some theater in New York, right? Are you allowed to tell us about that? I’m doing An Iliad right now.

As in The Iliad? Yeah, it’s a one-man show at the New York Theater Workshop. We start previews next week!

So it’s about the Trojan War. I’m playing Homer.

I missed this interview with Janina, and y'all know how I love me Maila Nurmi, Vampira! I had no idea she was at her gravesite.Complex Mag.

Tale of the Body Thief is coming to the big screen, loved the book but who will they cast?
According to THR, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has optioned the rights to Rice’s The Tale of the Body Thief. Imagine used its partnership with India's Reliance Big Entertainment to fund the acquisition, and it is using the Imagine Reliance Writers Lab to work on the script. Lee Patterson, who wrote a well-regarded screenplay titledSnatched, is working on Body Thief.

                                            Don't forget Andy Swist's V-Day cards to download.

Stupid question

Janina and Carrie more info on the project "I Am Afraid of Virginia Wolf at Shewired

Ryan talking about his New Girl appearance. From Eonline

I Saw a Werewolf Order a Pina Colada

When backpacking around Europe remember 2 things when you are in the UK, stay out of bars with Pentacles and stay away from the moors at night. Especially if it's a full moon.

Miss you Warren and the old Capitol Theatre.

The Nest turned me on to an interview with Mike McMillian, our newly fanged Steve Newlin. You can listen to it at the god hates fangs podcast blog and read more at the link.

Naturally he was tight-lipped about exactly what we can expect in season five, but he did give this intriguing insight: “It’s gonna be really, really good.  The whole season so far has been great.  It’s very vampire centred. I think season five is gonna start paying off the promises of the first four seasons.  It’s like, ok, now you know the way the world works, we’ve introduced these separate plotlines, these separate characters, and it’s really starting to come together this season in a big, big way.”
New Inside True Blood Blog-

TRUE BLOOD DICTIONARY 

go-to shift | gō-to͞o SHift |noun
The default animal into which a shifter turns, usually an animal the shifter feels most comfortable with. There’s no rhyme or reason to this; similar to being right handed, it’s a preference expressed subconsciously. Sam explains to Sookie that his go-to shift of a dog is because “people like dogs, and most other animals will leave you alone.”Entry by Benjamin Hayes, writer’s assistant. 

Season 4 is showing now in the UK and we're getting some news from the recent cast interviews, like this one from the Daily Record, (in full at the link).

Sookie and Bill have had an on-off relationship and in the new series she will grow closer to another vampire, Eric, played by Alexander Skarsgard. But Anna, 29, who is step mum to Stephen’s two children Billy, 11 and Lilac, nine, from two previous relationships, insisted there is no jealousy.

She said: “It would be too hard to imagine how I would feel if I walked in on him and he was with someone else for real.  “But in reality it’s not something that I actually feel, because it’s not real. It’s just the show.”

They met and fell in love on True Blood, which has been going since 2008. Anna and Stephen’s characters had been together, but during the last series that relationship fractured and now they are spending more time getting to know other people.

Anna isn’t as happy with that side of it. She said: “I really like spending as much time with him as possible.

“While the show isn’t our whole life, we have a life outside of the show, I certainly love getting to see my husband as opposed to being stuck in some random country in the middle of nowhere and not seeing him for five months.”

From the LA Times-Avid football fan Joe Manganiello suited up for GQ magazine's annual pre-party on Friday, the "True Blood" werewolf enjoying the company of big-name athletes, actors and personalities.

Source, 

Actor Joe Manganiello poses with UP2U Gum at DIRECTV Celebrity Beach Bowl 2012 at Victory Field on February 4, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana.(February 3, 2012 - Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images North America) Zimbio

True Blood Italia has the Italian movie poster for Battleship, featuring Askars.

Ryan from the G-Star Raw party last December. Photo by J.Everette Perry 

Jim Parrack on Alcatraz, he is good at ba-ba-bad to the bone.

Luvtheviking on tumblr has some great GIFs, you might want to take a gander.
True-Blood.net has a review of Definitely Dead, it has spoilers!
Remember this? TB as a sitcom, "At Merlotte's"

Joe at the Bacardi Bash via GoaG.

Some new photos from Deborah Ann's movie, "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You", aka "Un Giorno Questo Dolore Ti Sara Utile". I posted some way back last spring. Feb. 07 is Deborah's birthday so Happy Birthday to our lil Jessica!

Some of our ladies of True Blood made a hottest of horror list, no Pam makes it irrelevant.

Getting Closer to Season Five

Yes, even Eddie Murphy was a movie vamp, and he was better at it than he has been in most of his other movies (Norbit!).  "Vampire in Brooklyn" has him as Maximillian (pretty hot vampire name) from the Caribbean in this Wes Craven comedic film. He comes to New York in search of a Dhampire, a daughter (the fabulous Angela Bassett) of his hometown vampire. Max is also the last of his vampire lineage and must mate (never liked this kind of theme) to continue the race. Khadeem Hardison is pretty good as the Renfield type character in this telling of the Dracula tale.


New Inside True Blood Blog By Gianna Sobol

Sam Trammell has a cameo along with a slew of celebs you'll recognize in this trailer-

Stephen Moyer has dropped a hint about what is coming up for Sookie and Bill-

Stephen also revealed the couple missed working together so much in the last series when the relationship between his vampire Bill Compton and Anna's telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse came to an end. The 42-year-old said: "Anna and I love working together, it's all we've ever known, so we kind of miss it, but I think they realised halfway through season one that our show works best when there's conflict ."But the actor hinted that season five will see more changes for Bill and Sookie. "There is something that happens at the beginning of the season which changes their relationship again," he teased.

Digitalspy has this vid and more with Deborah at their link.

Joe on another mag cover, many more at DA Man, some new information from Joe's interview too. This is just the TB related bits, but it's much longer-
DA MAN: Have you read all or some of Charlaine Harris’s The Southern Vampire Mysteries—the literary inspiration behind True Blood?
Joe Manganiello: I read each coinciding book before each season in an effort to get inside the writers’ heads. I wear the books like a loose jacket.
DA MAN: Do you discuss things much with creator Alan Ball? And is he open to input from you or the rest of the cast?
Joe Manganiello: I don’t tell daddy how to f*#k … Alan is a genius. I trust his judgment implicitly and I give everything I have to my job, which is playing Alcide. Alan and the writers give me the situation and what I’m going to say and then I put my stink on it.

Kidarazzi and Ryan, he is the most comfortable with these kids.

More pics at TVLine of Ryan on "New Girl" at the link.

Don't forget Denis O'Hare's play is opening soon, ticket info is here.

Nothing new but a nice review of some spoilies.

What a waste it was to kill off Ed Quinn so fast, he is the hot in hotness-

Joe bringing some attention to a worthy cause, Claire's Place Foundation 

This seems so familiar, maybe I've seen it before but it is up now by AllStephenmoyer-