Would you like to pay five figures to be an extra on “True Blood”? If so, then it’s your lucky day, because the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) Respect Awards have a charity auction raffling off just that.
Includes: a non-speaking, featured “extra” walk-on role on HBO’s hit series, TRUE BLOOD. Valid for one person however, the winner may bring a guest on set. Must be at least 18 years old. Availability is based on production schedule. Show tapes in LA. We can not guarentee that the scene the winner is in will make the final cut and be aired.
The next minimum bid you can make is $9,500, but this auction’s open for another week, so be prepared to go higher. And you’re gonna have to duel it out with me to be Anna Paquin’s fluffer, because I just sold my first edition hardcover Twilight books to get in the action. Finally, a chance for me to wear my vampire bite necklace!
(thanks to Woods for the tip)
In news that may possibly SHATTER THE EARTH, two actors who worked closely together on the set of a television show have begun dating. In this case, the rumored couple is “True Blood” vampires Alexander Skarsgard (Meekus!) and Evan Rachel Wood. From Lainey Gossip (via Socialite Life):
Evan Rachel Wood and Alexander Skarsgard are dating. Am told exclusively by an infallible source that it’s been several weeks now. And that she flew to Shreveport, Louisiana on Friday to visit him. Skarsgard is there working on Straw Dogs with Kate Bosworth…
[T]hey met, of course, on the set of True Blood, and were able to keep it low key, very underground while they were in LA, never venturing out to pap friendly locations, only sighted a few times discreetly, and so far the relationship is progressing well, they’re having fun together.
I don’t think this should come as a surprise, as Evan Rachel Wood is a sexy-ass redhead who’s been rumored to hump just about everyone she acts with. If you look at all the rumors about her over the years, she comes off as kind of a gigantic slut. But I don’t mean that in a bad way. Why do people always use “slut” as a pejorative? “Ooh, I hate sexually liberated women who put out!” Damn our Puritanical heritage, always making virtue a virtue.
Alexander Skarsgard is starting to generate buzz for being next in line for big-time Hollywood stardom, and it’s well-deserved for his back-to-back roles as two of the biggest badasses on cable TV in recent history: Sergeant Brad “Iceman” Colbert in the excellent “Generation Kill” and Eric Northman, the millennium-old viking vampire in “True Blood.” While Iceman and Eric are very different characters, Skarsgard brings a quiet authority to each, walking a menacing line between cool and deadly.
His biggest American role before that? Eight years ago, as Meekus in Zoolander, part of the trio of Ben Stiller’s dim-witted model friends who die in a freak gasoline fight accident. That kind of blows my mind. Apparently he spent the years in between focusing on a career in his native Sweden. It’s like, “Uh, Earth to Brint, you can be a star in other countries besides America.”
(thanks to bohemea and shortskirtlongjacket)
True Blood (HBO) — Evan Rachel Wood FINALLY makes an appearance. She’s the only vampire on the show who doesn’t need makeup to achieve the requisite paleness. Also pictured above: Deborah Ann Woll as my girlfriend.
Mad Men (AMC) — This episode promises some Jane versus Joan cattiness (yay!) plus some more issues with Grandpa living in the Drapers’ house. I can do without the Grandpa story line. Should’ve just sent him to the nursing home. My children are totally going to let me die alone, by the way.
Daytime Emmy Awards (CW) — These were headed for a cable broadcast until the CW “saved” them. Why, I don’t know. I don’t pretend to care, and neither should you.
Being Human (BBC America) — Season finale. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “A ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire live in a house…” No really, that’s the premise. Spoiler: they stop being polite and start getting real.
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (Comedy Central) — Two-hour special in which — **reads synopsis** — eh, the usual hijinks.
Tool Academy (VH1) — Season 2 premiere. Once again, narcissistic cheating douchebags have been tricked into personality rehab by their moronically faithful girlfriends. I prefer to pretend these people don’t exist.
Sunday Night Football: Bears at Broncos (NBC) — The ongoing implosion of the Broncos under new coach Josh McDaniels might be the single most delightful story of the offseason. Watch as new Bears QB Jay Cutler picks apart his former team, and cross your fingers in the hope that ex-Bear Kyle Orton can throw another left-handed interception in the end zone.
“So, I guess we’re no longer susceptible to daylight?”
Evan Rachel Wood finally makes her debut as the vampire queen Sophie-Anne on “True Blood” next Sunday, and there are two new photos of her looking super-hot and stylish as her character (high resolution here and here via bohemea).
That’s it. That’s the entire post. I’m not going to apologize for my odd fascination with Evan Rachel Wood. She’s a good actress and she’s a hot pale redhead. And she has a tattoo of an Edgar Allen Poe couplet. And she has a history of questionably appropriate relationships with men decades older than she is, starting when she was 17. Something about all that suggests that she’s into some kind of super-freaky kinky stuff. Stuff that I’ve never even heard about or imagined before. What I’m trying to say is, I’d let her electrocute my nipples.
Mad Men (AMC) — Tonight: Don and Betty have an awkward dinner with the new British boss; Roger begins planning for his wedding (read: we get to see Jane – yay!); Peggy actually gets a story line this time.
True Blood (HBO) — Evan Rachel Wood is supposed to be in three episodes this season. We haven’t seen her yet and there are only three episodes left, so I’m guessing she’s gonna show up just in time to F up that annoying Maryann.
Miss Universe Pageant (NBC) — It’s like the United Nations of hot chicks. Urdouche Billy Bush co-hosts the event with “Deal or No Deal” suitcase holder Claudia Jordan. Delightful gallery of the contestants here.
Patton Oswalt: My Weakness is Strong (Comedy Central) — New one-hour special from my third-favorite stand-up comedian working today (1. Chappelle 2. Louis CK. 3. Patton Oswalt 4. Jim Gaffigan). Damn, I’m gonna be up late watching a lotta DVR’d TV tonight.
Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami (E!) — The other day I challenged myself to watch as much of this show as I could tolerate. I made it through a minute and 23 seconds.
Merlin (NBC) — Oh hey, this show existed. It’s the season finale.
There Goes the Neighborhood (CBS) — This debuted without me noticing because I was on vacation and never watch CBS. Anyway, this is the show where an entire neighborhood block is walled in and the families can’t leave. It’s a big hit with prisoners and survivors of the Warsaw ghetto.
