Warning: If you watch the Skarsgard clip that will pop up when you hover your cursor over the filmstrip graphic or click the link RIGHT HERE you will hear spoilers about the upcoming season of True Blood, returning in June to HBO.
If you don't click it, you'll never truly know how much Skarsgard sounds like those vaguely European guys that Seth MacFarlane uses occasionally on Family Guy, which are in the clip linked HERE.
Part of this blog's initiative to include more clips and less writing by me. Because the clips are what you really want.
To which Jon Hamm asks, "Griffith Park?"
No I'm not kidding, you can watch it for yourself, click this link.
Note to you, readers ... don't get high in Griffith Park in LA, kids play there. If there's a Merry Go Round someplace, you shouldn't be getting high there.
Not to worry, Ray isn't getting high in Griffith Park. He was talking about acting to the Hollywood Reporter with some other guys (Alex Skarsgard, Bryan Cranston, Matthew Fox, the very lovely -- and eyeglass-wearing -- Matt Bomer) who might be up for Emmys in the Outstanding Actor in a Drama category.
Romano? Yeah Romano, did you watch any of Men of a Certain Age? Because he tore it up and I didn't expect that, either. But he did.
Bomer? I love the guy but the role is a little too lightweight I think for the Emmy voters. Cranston, yes. Hamm, yes. Skarsgard? Lead actor? That's a bit of a stretch.
Finally from the group there's Fox, who I think might have harshed his chances at a nom earlier this year by making such a big deal about saying he was no longer gonna do TV. TV people don't like hearing that, makes them feel less than.
(Plus, I don't see Matthew Fox bringing anything to your local movie screen that isn't already being provided by other actors. If he gets roles I think it'll be because he comes in at a lower price point and those roles won't rise to the level of Oscar bait, certainly.)
For those of you who didn't partake, here's a clip of Ray from the show, click this. No embed code but the link will take you to the clip's YouTube page.
Modern Family's Sofia Vergara and our Joel McHale (yes, ours. Or at least mine in the sense that I have not missed one episode of The Soup, ever, even when it was called the WTF Awards) announce the nominees on the morning of July 8, Emmys handed out in Hollywood on August 29 hosted by Jimmy Fallon on NBC.
Here's the Emmy site link, have at it!
Thanks to MikeAlvear.com, where I stole this image above, a still from the clip.
Yes, he's licking blood off his fingers ... you know, just like KFC.
Tasty.
The clip's right here, click this link.
Previously, we wrote about Skarsgard's role in Zoolander and whether his "evil twin" would return for the sequel now being discussed. No word on that, yet. We can hope, right?
True Blood returns on June 13.
Hey, you guys do understand that about the hashtags in the headline and how Twitter uses them, right? Okay.
I've been clicking around the web this morning looking at Zoolander reviews and clips on the news from Nikki Finke that Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux are in the beginning stages of bringing the character back to movie screens in a sequel to the original, which opening just two and a half weeks after 9/11 and never made a lot of money at the box office despite being a big hit on DVD and cable and one of the most referenced films of the decade.
I mean, when was the last time you were checking yourself out in the mirror before heading outside and you did a little bit of this?
Right? I said, right?
Earth to you, Zoolander II will be huge! But it will be even bigger and huge-er (huh?) if they use Skarsgard as the villian. Nikki's post from the morning touts Jonah Hill as the baddie in this one, but I just don't see it.
What, you're trying to explain to me that Skarsgard's character, Meekus (seen top of post with catwalk cohort Brint before they get in their Jeep to get orange mocha Frapuccinos) dies in the movie in a ball of flame?
Two words ... twin brother.
Also, I want to see what became of The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
See Skarsgard in a deleted scene from the DVD at this link.
Earth to moviegoers, this will be a hit.
I had to post this pic because Alexander Skarsgard is looking at me like he wants me.
And he does, of course (yeah, he's way into TV bloggers that are timing out of the prime demographic, it's a fetish of his; he's into the gray hairs in my eyebrows that grow toward magnetic north, what's up with that anyway).
52 percent of TV.com readers chose HBO's sexy vampire drama for the win, beating out Glee at 30 percent and Mad Men at 17 percent. A pay cable drama taking the prize is a big deal, HBO doesn't reach anywhere near the homes of the other two.
One has to give it up to the Glee gang, though. It's their first season. For what it's worth, Glee did win the Coolest Cast on Campus award, beating out Gossip Girl and ABC Family's Greek (which is a show Craig Ferguson watched by accident 37 times in succession one afternoon -- you gotta be a Craig fan to get that joke).
Modern Family took the best new show prize from the TV.com readers and Olivia Dunham's explosion on Fringe out of the multiverse, through her windshield and onto a NYC street took the prize for Best Explosion.
See the complete list of winners at this link.
So, what are you doing? Still laughing at Marc Malkin's blog post at E! asking where he dares to write the names Ryan Kwanten and Jon Gosselin in the same sentence?
(Marc, it's like comparing bread dough to sculpture, off-label to top
shelf, Yugo to Maserati. Kwanten: UPGRADE! And of course Ryan, left, deserves
an underwear modeling campaign, or he and I could work something out privately without you and the rest of the world that just involves bedding and maybe those restraints.)
Are you watching the Lady Gaga video featuring Alexander Skarsgard (above) again?
Checking out the NY Times article on the upcoming series Durham County on ION that features Michelle Forbes starting episode seven as a whacked out forensic psychologist with murder on her mind?
The only thing I can tell you for sure is that if you click this link you'll find out more about Eggs' (Mehcad Brooks, right) destiny than you might want to, damned if I didn't just ruin another plot point writing this damn blog.
Recap and preview clips from HBO after the jump. The second season ends next Sunday at 9.
All the abs in this post? Well, it's almost Labor Day and all those crunches must be laborious.
I know, the video for Paparazzi is almost three months old, but I'm not part of the pop music zeitgeist, I'm a True Blood fan.
MTV:
The 1940s romantic-epic-style video, directed by controversial video auteur Jonas Äkerlund (Madonna, Prodigy), proves once and for all that Gaga is a true original with a unique vision. It opens with the camera focusing on what appears to be an elegant seaside estate surrounded by roses and Greek statues. Seagulls cry in the background amid tinkling piano notes.
And then things get really weird.
Really weird indeed. Skarsgard plays a lothario who seems intent on getting ingenue Gaga on the balcony and in front of the prying mechanical eyes of the paps, someone goes over the rail and then there's a lot of dancing around an ambulance, dancing on crutches, writhing around on lovely antique settees while singing ... and then?
Muhr-dehr!
After the jumperoo, watch the clip and tonight's True Blood preview.
In that clip, Tara starts making plans to retrieve her man Eggs from the clutches of Maryann, but I would bet you any amount of money that's not gonna go well.
And, though she's in the "next week on" trailer that ran last week after the episode, I betcha we see just enough of Queen Sophie-Ann (left, see the fangs?) to get us excited, but not much more.
Still, the way I see it, the residents of Bon Temps might just be exchanging the devil they know for the devil they don't.
I mean, Maryann has skills, but this one's a Queen. Queen beats Maenad, right? Anyone? Card Players? Bueller?
Only two episodes left, and no episode next week for the Labor Day holiday. Which means you have time to watch tonight's ep twice and prepare for the quiz tomorrow.
Tonight at 9, just before a new episode of Hung. HBO.
And there's so much more in this post, including this image above from the Fangtasia 2009 calendar that I know you're just drooling over.
Speaking of Eric, Mandi Bierly wrote her love/lurve/lust letter to the owner of Fangtasia and all around hottie Eric at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog Monday at this link.
Wipe up your computer keyboard before it craps out on you. We're still in a recession, take care of your stuff.
This image comes to my via the wonderful Liz in Albuquerque, who seems to love everything I love. Like Eric Northam. She got it from the True Blood wiki, and you can find more than the January page at this link.
The Alan Ball fan questions clip is at TV.com, at this link. Some nice insight by the creator of the series and no spoilers.
Next, I have a photo feature with interview with Ryan Kwanten, everyone's favorite Bon Temps boytoy Jason Stackhouse, at this link. It includes:
About those ratings ... when you read where last week's episode garnered an audience of 4.5 million viewers remember that HBO has only 30 million subscribers nationwide, so it starts behind the broadcast networks. Even at that it's a huge success for the pay cable channel, the biggest show they've had since The Sopranos went off the air.
And those numbers are climbing every week (LINK). Not only that but the season one DVD sets in standard and Blu-Ray continue to outperform all expectations.
Speaking of which ...
Click over the jump for the recap of Sunday's episode, a preview from this Sunday, and more of me kvelling over how much I love this show.
Continue reading "TV.com Readers Have Their Way With True Blood Creator Alan Ball" »
Sookie who?
Seriously, all of a sudden True Blood is all about Maryann, Jessica and Godric. Especially Maryann, and for me that's all Michelle Forbes.
More on her later, but first Godric. Relax, I'll get to Jessica in a bit, I love her too. And I put Maryann at the end on purpose. Because no one can follow Maryann.
There are more clips attached to this post than any post I've written in the three years I've been blogging. They're all great clips, all after the jump and have at it, gang.
GODRIC
Allan Hyde is all of 20 years old yet he brings a lot of gravitas to his portrayal of Eric's "maker." He's a Danish actor, this being his first gig in the US, and maybe it's a certain detachment that feeds the resignation he brings to the character.
(And maybe that has something to do with this being his first English-language role as well.)
The discussion with Eric about human-vampire relations said a lot about how the older vampire looks at the world after all these immortal years. There was a great sadness about him. And out of a 20-year-old? Remarkable.
And, this is certainly a much more adult role than he got in the Danish remake of Camp Rock. Yes, there's a Danish version of Camp Rock. Sad but true.
More about Hyde from TrueBlood-Online.com at this link. I don't know how much more we'll get of him on the show, what with Luke from the Fellowship about to set off his suicide vest inside "the nest," but I would hope we'll see him more. If not in this in other projects.
Now click over the jump for not only a bunch of clips, but more on the new women of Bon Temps.
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