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NEW - Marvel's 'THE AVENGER'S' Super Bowl Commercial #theavengers #superbowl #trailer

Marvel - The Avengers Super Bowl XLVI Commercial VIDEO:

Marvel's 'The Avengers' Super Bowl Commercial shows never-before-seen clips from the film, starring Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Evans (Captain America) and Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk).  

Joss Whedon: 'The Avengers' Will Be Told From The Eyes Of Captain America:

While the superhero-packed film "The Avengers" has every comic book lover's heart aflutter, a concern lingers on just how the coming blockbuster will rangle a story with so many characters and backstories.

"The Avengers" has the awesome and difficult task of combining Marvel's VIPs -- Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow -- into a single story line.

Tough, but movie vet (and clandestine Shakespearean daredevil) Joss Whedon has found a way around this too-many-cooks-spoil-the-pot thing. “I set out with a very simple problem," Whedon the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. "There is no reason for these people to be in the same movie. So that’s what my movie has to be about. So much of the movie takes place from Steve Rogers’ (Chris Evans) perspective, since he’s the guy who just woke up and sees this weird ass world. Everyone else has been living in it.” Clever, very clever!

The film also boasts some of Hollywood's biggest names: Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson.

"The Avengers" opens in 3D on May 4th. [EW via Collider]

[EW via Collider]

DEXTER & HOMELAND - Previews - Sneak Peeks - Interview! @SHO_Kareem @SHO_Dexter @SHO_Homeland

Michael C. Hall as 'Dexter' - Showtime Sunday nights @ 9 p.m.:

NEXT on DEXTER - Disturbing events cause Dexter to have a serious crisis of faith:

Dexter Episode 6.04 Sneak Peek: 'Imagination' - Dexter finds himself at a bizarre crime scene.

Homeland Sneak Peek: Smile for the Cameras - Carrie watches as Brody gets ready for a speech.

It's hard to believe but both DEXTER and HOMELAND are heading into their 4th episodes already!
The story-lines are well underway and things are heating up. To say tension is building, though a bit cliche-sounding is precisely what's going on in these two fine offerings from the Showtime network.
Here's a idea of what to look forward to on Dexter and Homeland this week:

HOMELAND - Episode 1.04: 'Semper I' Synopsis: 

The political powers that be make big plans for national hero Brody, but his increasingly erratic behavior threatens his media darling status; Carrie grows desperate for evidence linking Brody with Abu Nazir, as Saul directs her to focus on Nazir's money trail.

Episode 6.04: 'A Horse Of A Different Color' Synopsis:

Much to his own surprise, an emergency with Harrison and a new tableau from Gellar and Travis has Dexter leaning on Brother Sam and an unexpected winged messenger for support as he questions the idea of faith; with proof of a religiously motivated killer, Homicide hunts for a zealot, with Debra giving her first official press conference.

A lot is happening on both shows so don't forget to tune in this Sunday starting at 8C/9E for DEXTER and 9C/10E for HOMELAND!

I saw a fun tidbit in this week's EW magazine. Claire Danes, who stars as Carrie Mathison on Homeland was interviewed about her role and it was mentioned that some people have made the leap that Carrie is supposed to be Danes' previous television series incarnation going way back to 1994 as Anglea on the critically acclaimed "My So Called Life.'  Danes seemed truly incredulous: 'No, no! It's just my voice, it's just my face!', she says. It is sort of astonishing that though Danes was just 14 when she landed that role her appearance has not changed very much. She's got a very accessible, girl-next-door look, don't you think?

Dexter - Interview with Jennifer Carpenter (Oct 17)

Congratulations on the show's best season-premiere ratings yet.
Oh, wow, thanks. I don't really pay attention to that, but I'm glad it's doing well. I sort of enjoy the fact that we're in a bubble when we're shooting it. I feel like if I were imagining people really watching it, or the pressure of numbers, that maybe I wouldn't work as well [laughs].

What was your reaction to learning that Deb was going to be promoted?
It's pretty unbelievable. I mean, only on TV would I skip so many levels and shoot straight up to lieutenant. But my insecurities about the fictitious promotion were exactly where I needed to be with the character. So it all sort of worked. It's odd to be Batista's boss, when I feel like he really did earn it and has been a mentor; it's awkward. But she's really taken the lead on every major case that's come through the office.

Although she's missing the one obvious thing, which is that her brother's a serial killer.
Exactly. That is a very good point [laughs].

Source: Full interview @ Vulture

Official DEXTER Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/dexter

Official DEXTER Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/sho_dexter

 

Official DEXTER Series Site: http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.sho

 

Official HOMELAND Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/HomelandOnShowtime

 

Official HOMELAND Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/SHO_Homeland

 

Official HOMELAND Series Site: http://www.sho.com/site/homeland/home.sho

 

After the jump: More Previews and Sneak Peeks from DEXTER and HOMELAND!:

DEXTER & HOMELAND - Dexter Look Ahead - Meet the Characters of Homeland [VIDEO] @SHO_Kareem @SHO_Dexter @SHO_Homeland

 

Showtime has just released an intriguing Dexter 'look ahead' video which I've screencapped so you can better enjoy all the gory details:

...and there are quite a few of them. 

Though not all the scenes are 'looking ahead,' as hopefully you've now been able to enjoy episodes 1 & 2,  the video contains scenes through at least episode 4 which makes them all the more worthy of perusal.

I admit, the religious-based storyline with the iconic Edward James Olmos in the lead and Colin Hanks as his partner-in-crime has already gotten under my skin partly because I suspect that their 'sacrificial' acts will only grow more grandiose. Also, I feel pretty awful about what they are doing to poor, innocent folks randomly selected for sacrifice. Scary stuff.

Meanwhile, Dexter is mulling over whether "Brother Sam,' played by the surprisingly great Mos (I'd not seen his acting work before), is 'worthy' of going on Dexter's table. Is Brother Sam truly repentant for his murderous ways or as Dexter has reasoned, has he only gotten better at not getting caught? Seems like the conclusion that Dexter draws will quite literally be a matter of life or death (Brother Sam's).

Sneak Peeks for DEXTER & HOMELAND Episode 3! (Below) :

Dexter 

Tooth Fairy

 

Believe What You're Saying

 

Homeland

Scars

 

Welcoming Gift

 

I've also got  some links to some great new interviews with the Homeland cast [VIDEO]:

You simply must view each of these videos as the actors fill in some very interesting back-story on their characters that may--or may not be revealed in the show (they have not yet done so through episode 3).

One revelation in particular is going to have me watching two characters on Homeland with a completely different mindset and it has nothing to do with whether or not the character of ex-POW 'Brody' (Damian Lewis) has been turned(!)

Meet the Characters: David Estes

Meet the Characters: Saul Berenson

Meet the Characters: Carrie Mathison

Meet the Characters: Nicholas Brody

 

Official DEXTER Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/dexter

 

Official DEXTER Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/sho_dexter

 

Official DEXTER Series Site: http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.sho

 

Official HOMELAND Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/HomelandOnShowtime

 

Official HOMELAND Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/SHO_Homeland

 

Official HOMELAND Series Site: http://www.sho.com/site/homeland/home.sho

 

 

 

 

 

Watch Dexter then Homeland on Showtime Sunday Nights Starting Tonight at 9! @SHO_Kareem @SHO_Homeland #homeland #dexter

Every Fall TV season I get excited for returning shows like my favourite on Showtime, Dexter, as well as a choice couple of others on premium cable.

This year I was over-the-moon to be able to watch the first three episodes of Dexter before they aired and I looked forward to viewing the show that airs immediately after it, "Homeland", starring Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin and a new discovery for me, the British actor, Damian Lewis.

I'd seen promos for Homeland and it looked really good. I've loved Claire Danes forever and Mandy Patinkin can always be counted onto turn in a solid performance.

I wasn't prepared however, for the amount of emotional clout that the first episode would carry nor the level of anticipation for MORE that it would generate. I feel truly lucky that I can watch the next few episodes of Homeland ahead of time to better talk about it here. In the meantime, trust me, if you want a edge-of-you-seat, wonderfully executed, grounded in reality drama of our times, NOW is the time for you to stay put after viewing Dexter. I promise, you will be glad you did.

Here is a bit of background on Homeland followed by a few critical reactions from near and far from others who have started watching this new, after-Dexter offering from Showtime.

 

 Damian Lewis, Claire Danes & Mandy Patinkin star in Showtime's "Homeland', Sundays at 10 ET/PT

Claire Danes stars as CIA agent Carrie Mathison who is haunted by what she considers her personal failure to recognize clues that might have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks. Even now, Carrie’s failures continue.

When the show opens, she is in Baghdad, rushing to a unauthorized meeting with a condemned Iraqi prisoner. Just before Carrie is discovered in hushed conversation with him, he whispers a spine-chilling secret: An American POW has been"turned' -- converted into a terrorist. Carrie's cover is blown and she's got no proof whatsoever so she is demoted to desk work back at Langley in D.C., under the skeptical eye of a deputy director, David Harewood (David Estes), who doesn’t think Carrie has any business being part of the Agency.

Then comes the news that a U.S. Marine sergeant captured at the beginning of the second Iraq war has been rescued. After a raid, the man is found hidden away in deplorable conditions, disoriented and filthy. It’s Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) who is brought home to a hero’s yellow-ribbon welcome.

Even before his debriefing, Carrie is convinced Brody is the terrorist her source warned her about.

“Homeland” comes to us from Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa and Chip Johansson, all longtime writer-producers on “24.” It stars Claire Danes (“Terminator 3,” “Temple Grandin”), Morena Baccarin (“Firefly,” “V”), Damian Lewis (“Band of Brothers,” “Life”) and Mandy Patinkin (“Chicago Hope,” “Dead Like Me,” “Criminal Minds”).

Official DEXTER Twitter: http://twitter.com/SHO_dexter 
Official DEXTER Series Site: http://www.sho.com/dexter 

Official HOMELAND Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HomelandOnShowtime

 

After the jump - What the critics are saying:

Dexter - Episode 6.01 - 'Those Kinds of Things' - 2 Sneak Peeks [VIDEO] @SHO_Kareem @SHO_Dexter

Michael C. Hall as 'Dexter' and Jennifer Carpenter as 'Deb' in Dexter Season 6, Episode 1, 'Those Kind Of Things.':

Screencaps! - Dexter Episode 6.01 'Those Kinds of Things' - 2 Sneak Peeks VIDEO SCREENCAPS:

Promo 1 and Promo 2 Episode 6.01 - Dexter: 'Tragedy Strikes' - 'An injured Dexter calls for help.' and Dexter: 'Alpha Omega' - Miami Metro investigates a washed up body.

Dexter: 'Alpha Omega'

Published on Sep 23, 2011 by SHOWTIME

Miami Metro investigates a washed up body.

This is a toe-curling scenen that is SPOILERish--at least if you have an aversion to seeing _______ slithering out of a dead guy's abdominal cavity. In this sense the premiere of Dexter season 6, Episode 1 - 'Those Kind Of Things,' is classic Dexter (remember when Dexter had to fish body parts out of a 'gator he'd slit open)?

Check back soon for my advance review of Dexter season 5.

Season 6 Synopsis -

From: 'About Dexter' (Showtime)

'The explosively popular DEXTER® is back with a vengeance for a sixth season of startling suspense and unexpected twists. It's been a year since last season's shocking and heartbreaking conclusion, and mild mannered criminologist-cum-grisly serial killer Dexter Morgan has come to terms with who he is. But his existence is shattered when he crosses paths with an enemy unlike any he's faced before. A delusional religious zealot with unflinching convictions, this new adversary soon draws Dexter into a dangerous game that could well end in disaster."

Official DEXTER Twitter: http://twitter.com/SHO_dexter 
Official DEXTER Series Site: http://www.sho.com/dexter

'Tragedy Strikes'

An injured Dexter Calls for help.

In which Dexter plays the part of "Tragedy.' LOL.

Good one, Dexter!

DEXTER Season 6 Deb & Quinn SPOILER #dexter #spoiler #season6 @SHO_Dexter @SHO_Kareem

Here's this week's Tv Guide Dexter question-with-answer:

Its a pretty straightforward answer given that Deb & Quinn, based on Deb's track record should or could have broken up--voluntarily or through Quinn's death by now. My guess is based on Dexter Exec. Producer Sara Colleton's brief statement on the topic of Quinn and Deb: Season 6  is that they won't be much of a couple for very long.

Q: What's coming up for Deb and Quinn on Dexter this season? 
A: Deb and Quinn will come to an impasse very early on this season that will test the strength of their relationship. "Like all relationships, it's always a matter of timing and rhythm and who wants to commit when the other one doesn't," executive producer Sara Colleton says. "Her career takes off and it's a very interesting year for both of them." ...

SOURCE: MegaBuzz

 

Here's the answer to the query above--almost spelled out by Dexter showrunner Scott Buck:

Q: What’s going on with Quinn this season?
A: This is not going to be the happiest season for Quinn (Desmond Harrington). He’s going to hit some dark days, but we’re going to have a lot of fun with him. We’re going to be further exploring his relationship with Deborah (Jennifer Carpenter). When we come back, they will still be happily living together. But it may not always be that way.

(MORE on 'Dexter' after the jump)

SOURCE: 'Dexter': Exec producer Scott Buck reveals details about season 6  (June 22)

Official DEXTER Twitter: http://twitter.com/SHO_dexter 
Official DEXTER Series Site: http://www.sho.com/dexter

After the jump: What to Expect From Dexter Season 6 Characters NEW and Returning:

Watch Homeland: Series Premiere Full Episode - 'Dexter' SPOILER [VIDEO] @SHO_Dexter @SHO_Homeland #giveaway

Morena Baccarin in 'Homeland'

SHOWTIME - Sep 12, 2011

Claire Danes and Damian Lewis star in the suspenseful new SHOWTIME Original Series HOMELAND. New episodes Sundays at 10pm ET/PT beginning October 2nd, only on SHOWTIME.

 

Dexter Poster - Key Art Giveaway!:

Leave a comment saying you'd like a full size copy of the awesome season 6 key art poster featuring Michael C. Hall as Dexter. I'll announce the winner Thanksgiving week. More deets later!

Dexter - Season 6: Episode 1 - 2 Small Spoilers:

Q: Please give us scoop on the new season of Dexter!

A: The season premiere opens on a bleeding Dexter calling 911 to report that he has been stabbed.

 Has someone finally discovered his secret and exacted a poetic revenge? Did he slip in a pool of someone else's blood and fall on his own knife? Will he analyze his own spatter pattern while he waits for the ambulance to arrive? Nope, nope and nope.

 SOURCE:TVGUIDE (make sure you have you pop-up blocker actived!)

Dexter - Episode 6.01 - Those Kinds of Things - Short Synopsis:

Dexter Morgan attends his 20th high school reunion; Dexter considers his son's legacy; Debra becomes an unexpected hero.

Source: SpoilerTV

Homeland 

"Debriefed" http://youtu.be/jqmc44tI9uc

"Presumed Dead" http://youtu.be/_Yq2nncjqh0

Official DEXTER Twitter: http://twitter.com/SHO_dexter 
Official DEXTER Series Site: http://www.sho.com/dexter 

Official HOMELAND Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HomelandOnShowtime

Check out these behind-the-scenes videos for HOMELAND:

Meet the Characters: Homeland http://youtu.be/tvrWr4xbi7I

Hanging with Claire Danes http://youtu.be/Rje3xNCVDYE

On the subject of HOMELAND, Showtime is teaming up with GameSpot to give away 5000 beta keys to preview the newest version of the first-person shooter game Ghost Recon: http://www.gamespot.com/event/codes/ghostrecon/ Beta keys will be given out at random times over the coming weeks, so keep an eye out on Homeland's Facebook and Twitter pages to claim yours!

Also, all of the games at http://watchcareful.ly are live, and starting today, you can unlock the first episode of HOMELAND. Watchcareful.ly is the only place where HOMELAND will be shown unedited online. 

Published on Sep 7, 2011 by SHOWTIME

The CIA debriefs Sergeant Brody.

After the jump - Homeland - 'Presumed Dead' Sneak Peek (VIDEO)

True Blood - Season 4 Episode 11 (4.11) NEW Sneak Peeks (9.2.11) Promos Screencaps #trueblood

'How many times has Sookie saved your life, letting you drink from her like your own private soda fountain?' - Jason to Bill:

True Blood Season 4: Eric, Bill, Pam, Jessica, and Jason Clip (Effing Sookie Clip):

Bill (Stephen Moyer), Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Pam (Kristen Bauer van Straten) and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) are about to blow up the Moon Goddess Emporium when Jason (Ryan Kwanten) intercedes, informing them that (in addition to Tara) Sookie is now held hostage inside as well. So commences a chorus of exclamations from the vampires beginning with Eric, of 'Effing Sookie.' Jason takes great umbrage at this display of disrespect and ungratefulness and proceeds to stand up to them, ticking off a list of the many ways that Sookie has pulled the vampires' collectives butts out of the fire on multiple occasions.

'Fuck you chump, it's her home!' - Jason  to Eric

True Blood Season 4 - Sookie, Marnie, Lafayette, Jesus, and Tara Clip:

'Marnie just puked the bitch out.' Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) the medium, after witnessing Antonia leaving Marnie's (Fiona Shaw) body.

True Blood Season 4 Episode 11 (4x11) Promo - 'Soul of Fire' (HD)

True Blood - Season 4 - September 2011 - Episode #47 Synopsis:

Episode #47: “Soul of Fire”
Debut: SUNDAY, SEPT. 4 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)

As the Wiccan-vampire standoff reaches a critical juncture, Sookie (Anna Paquin) summons her faerie powers to prevent Marnie (Fiona Shaw) from bewitching Bill (Stephen Moyer), Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) and Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) into a suicide march, while Jesus (Kevin Alejandro) casts a secret spell designed to un-bind Marnie/Antonia and break the witch’s deadly defenses. Sam (Sam Trammell) settles a score with Marcus (Dan Buran); Alcide (Joe Manganiello) confronts Debbie (Brit Morgan) about her allegiances; Andy (Chris Bauer) finds unexpected passion in the forest; Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) is consumed by the past.
Written by Mark Hudis; directed by Michael Lehmann.

True Blood Season 4 - Sam and Alcide Clip:

After the jump: 'Blood Will Spill' Promo:

True Blood - Season 4 San Diego 2011 Comic Con VIDEO & Screencaps (UPDATE 7.26.11) #trueblood

Alexander Skarsgård ('Eric Northman') & Anna Paquin ('Sookie Stackhouse') True Blood Season 4

San Diego 2011 Comic Con True Blood VIDEO & Screencaps:

I think I snagged a few more intriguing screencaps that I've added to the Picasa album but bewarned--they look super-spoiler-ish.

I realize that some scenes (most?) have been rearranged to insinuate something. Even so, certain stuff is right in your face and clearly actual scenes, not dreams.  The rest of True Blood - Season 4, as rumoured, looks like  a very bumpy ride, particularly for the vampires of Louisiana.

True Blood Season 4: Comic-Con Trailer (HBO):

See what's to come in the upcoming episodes of True Blood Season 4.

  Jessica Tuck as 'Nan Flanagan' TreuBlood (HBO) Season 4 2011

SPOILERS Season 4 Comic Con 2011:

Jessica, with wrist's already showing deep silver chain burns, runs through Bill's mansion in the daylight and throws open the front double doors to the bright sunlight.

Also The Authority mouthpiece, Nan Flanagan, King William of Louisiana (Vampire Bill Compton) and Eric a/k/a Amnesia!Eric are, or have been in custody of captors bearing the same silver chain restraints.

Sookie and Eric get it on. I hope she fell this hard and fast on account of  his blood that he tricked her into ingesting. She got all moony-eyed over him pretty quickly, like he was a rescue puppy in Adonis form.

Were-bitch Debbie Pelt confesses to were-husband Alcide Herveaux her insecurities regarding Sookie.

She's shown at Sookie's door, being let in--and pulling out something that was clearly being held behind her back like "Surprise!"

I'm  thinking maybe sewing scissors?

The Shreveport pack leader harassing Alcide to join up...is Luna, Sam Merlotte's new girlfriend's, -ex.  He looks to be tangling with  both Sam and Alcide.

Sookie is shot in the gut. It is implied that Alcide carries her to get help as there is a very fuzzy screencaps with tiny Anna Paquin (Sookie) in Joe Manganiello's (Alcide) massive arms.

 
Deborah Ann Woll as 'Jessica Hamby' True Blood Season 4

 

True Blood - Episode 4.05 Preview - 'Me and The Devil' (HBO) [VIDEO] #Screencaps #trueblood

Eric's Maker, Godric - Devil on Amnesia!Eric's Shoulder?:

I'm fairly certain, based on the HBO promo for True Blood Season 4 Episode 5, 'Me & the Devil' that the 'devil' in question is Godric (Allan Hyde), Eric's (Alexander Skarsgård) maker,  who appears as a 'devil' on Eric's shoulder metaphorically, urging Amnesia!Eric to attack the sleeping Sookie. It makes sense that bits of Eric's memory are seeping into his semi-consciousness, first when speaking in his native tongue to Sookie, now when remembering his maker with whom he had a 1000-year relationship, until Godric's suicide near the end of season 2.

As with many True Blood episodes, there make be other devils (possibly literal ones --yikes!) in episode 5 but from we see so far, Godric is getting the starring title song credit by getting there first in the HBO official promo with this fun little scene.

All in good fun--until someone gets bitten.

True Blood Synopsis Episode #41 (4x05): “Me and the Devil”:

Sookie nurtures Eric; Bill gets involved personally in the necromancy crisis; Pam takes the veil; Sam becomes Tommy’s accomplice; Arlene and Terry look to religion to solve their problem; Jesus and Lafayette head to Mexico to harness a shaman’s power; Jason convalesces. (Written by Mark Hudis; directed by Daniel Minahan.) July 24, 26, 27 and 30 (Credit: HBO, Inc.)

True Blood - Episode 4.04 Tonite! Eric Swims Naked with the Alligators [VIDEO] SPOILERS #trueblood

Nude Amnesia!Eric To Sookie Come. Come Play With Me!:

 

 OOOh, cannot wait to see  what the pic-spam people come up with from this scene...and those that follow!

That man is such ...how many times does one need to repeat this? Ad infintium? He is just so super-appealing on a way more than just the physical level. Remember Eric Northman, season 1? Compare. Alexander Skarsgård is really doing GREAT things on True Blood this season! I'm having so. much. fun. watching the series this year with his and Sookie's storyline NOT disappointing! Cannot wait to see MOAR.

"In the episode "I'm Alive and On Fire," Sookie can't control Eric, who is drunk on SPOILER (Claudine's) fairy blood. She can't even stop the playful vamp from pinching her butt. She soon loses him in the woods. With Alcide (Joe Manganiello) in wolf form, she finds him, hours later, in the sunlight, enjoying a naked dip in gator-filled waters."

This 3-second True Blood Episode 4.04 clip is a tease in every sense of the word!

 

Source 1: bostonherald
Source 2: lovingtruebloodindallas

Found at/thanks to: Spoiler TV

Will True Blood Return for Season 5? True Blood Season 4 Ausiello & TV Guide SPOILERs (Update 6.30.11) #trueblood

Sorry Truebies, That Shower Scene Will NOT Be (cont.):

Just as the more intuitive True Blood fans suspected, telepath-part-faery 'Sookie Stackhouse' (played by Anna Paquin) and nice guy werewolf 'Alcide Herveaux' (Joe Manganiello) will not be involved in a romantic relationship in Season 4 True Blood (*pause here to digest this distressing news*), according to TV Guide (scroll down for link).

It seems, as in the books, Alcide gets back together with his werebitch V-junkie ex-girlfriend,  Debbie Pelt (have to love that name!). Truth be told, I'm unsure if Alcide will ever get involved with Sookie given that HBO both has not yet renewed True Blood for season 5 nor has Alan Ball inked a deal with the cabler, despite the sky-high season 4 debut ratings. Seems likely that the two situations probably go hand-in-hand. Ball has dropped hints in various places including Issue # 1113 of Rolling Stone magazine, in which he says:

From True Blood Season 4 Cast/Character Wallpapers Posters & Images HQ UPDATE/ 6.16.11

'I am negotiating for a season past this one...but I don't believe True Blood is 100% dependant on my participation. It has a very strong following and a really strong cast, and there could be future where I step back and the show would continue.' - Alan Ball, True Blood creator & showrunner

TV Guide SPOILERS:

Q: Loved the True Blood premiere, but where the heck is Alcide?
TVGuide: He'll show up in Episode 3, but he will be "spoken for," as they say, which will provoke an interesting reaction from Sookie. Nevertheless, Sookie will need his help. "The great thing about Sookie is that she drags him off on all these adventures," Joe Manganiello tells us. "She's the key in unlocking that reluctant hero inside of him and he recognizes that as a good thing."

Source: TVGuide

Ausiello Spoilers - 'The Eric & Sookie Shower Scene':

Q: I have to know — will this season of True Blood have the smokin’ hot Sookie/Eric shower scene featured in the book?

 
Ausiello: Yes… and No.

“There is a shower scene,” explains exec producer Alan Ball. “But it is not a direct re-enactment of the shower scene in the book. It goes to a slightly different place.” “Sookie and Eric are in the shower together,” confirms Ball, who assures me that, “Everybody who’s been waiting for Sookie and Eric to hook up, this will be a very good season for them.”

Q: Any more details on Scott Foley’s True Blood role?
Ausiello: “He was Terry’s platoon leader in Iraq,” says Ball of Foley’s character, Patrick. “So they [share] a military history.” ... Foley will debut in the Season 4 finale and then recur throughout Season 5. Ball, meanwhile, confirms that a deal is not yet in place for him to return as showrunner for a fifth season. “I’m negotiating,” he says. Of course, HBO hasn’t renewed the show itself — but Ball isn’t worried. “There are no plans for this show to end,” he assures. “I’m pretty sure there will be at least one more season, if not more. It seems like it has a lot of life in it still.”...

Source: Ask Ausiello - Spoilers on Castle, True Blood, Bones, SVU, The Office and More!

After the jump: Marshall Allman's 'Tommy' &  'Sam Merlotte' Spoilers:

True Blood - Season 4 Episodes 1, 2 & 3 - Sneak Peeks & Recaps - Jessica 'Home' [VIDEO] #trueblood SPOILERS

 
Vampire 'Jessica' (Deborah Ann Woll) and human roomie, 'Hoyt Fortenberry' (Jim Parrack) in a scene early in season 4 True Blood:
   
Sam Merlotte's (Sam Trammell) new shapeshifting honey, 'Luna,' (Janina Gavankar).He told her he'd enjoyed the view and would try to take her from behind--when they next shift into horses and race wild together.

Plus! Episode Three True Blood Preview - 'If You Love Me,Why Am I Dyin?':

True Blood Season 4 Episode 3 "If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin?" Promo:

Having just watched episodes one and two of Season 4 True Blood on HBO and HBOGo, I think the character that surprised me most was the generally self-composed, very self assured vampire sherrif Eric Northman, with his frequent displays of emotion. And this is before the big 'thing' happens near the end of episode 2! (cont.)

 

Warning True Blood Episode 2 Spoilers:

Is it the vampire backlash in the wake of Russell Edgington killing the news guy on live TV killing Fangtasia business 'cos Pam seems very snarky as well?

Could Bill's !SPOILER! assendence to being the King of Louisiana be chaffing Eric just a bit or has Eric truly missed Sookie?

Not only is Erik more sentimental- sounding in eppy 1 but he's sort of mood-swingy as well. This sets the stage for the SPOILER totally new Eric not being such a jarring change from the bad boy Eric of (in Sookie's mind/time-frame) just a week ago.

She needed a plausible way to segue into bedding this guy and as of episode one we have him buying and refurbishing her house whilst she was "away"...to control her he says, but we know he means (too), protect her. He's made it clear to his second in command, vampire Pam, that he has significant feelings for Sookie-- feelings of the almost human kind. And Pam makes Sookie aware of this, causing eyebrows to be raised.

 
Episode 1 of True Blood went fast and was very amusing. Episode 2 has a different pace. I want to watch it  again not on my HBOGo before I have a real comment on it.

  

True Blood Season 4 - Recap s04e01 (#37) - 'She's Not There'

Jessica - A House Is Not a Home [VIDEO]:

Babyvamp Jessica Soliciting Homemaker Tips?!

After the jump: Synopses for True Blood Episodes 1-6:

True Blood Season 4: 2, 3, 4 ... 'More Days' Promos Screencaps & SPOILERS #trueblood

NEW! True Blood Season 4 Scene - Sookie's screams awaken memory-impared Eric from vampire sleep--during the daytime:

Sam Trammell '(Sam Merlotte') and Janina Gavankar ('Luna') look as if they just got back from the hunt.

True Blood Season 4: 2 Days Promo

Sam Trammell (shapeshifter/ Bon Temps barowner, 'Sam 

Merlotte')

From True Blood Season 4 - 'In 'X' Days' NEW Screencaps - Season 3 Cliffhanger(s) NEW Narration, Details

True Blood Season 4: 3 Days Promo

Stephen Moyer,'s True Blood Season 4 'In 3 Days Promo: Here are the some screencaps (new scenes/angles):

Check out the screencap albums for lots more:

True Blood Season 4: 3 Days Promo Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton) 'Vampire Bill', 'Sookie Stackhouse's' former paramour.

True Blood Season 4: 4 Days Promo Rutina Wesley ('Tara Thorton')

OK. One question. Did Pam (Kristen Bauer van Straten) just throw Lafayette across the Fangtasia dungeon floor and if so, is he now putting the whammy on her? Her fierce look is getting sort of unsure--bewitched?

We've seen her dispatch with Lafayette previously in this scene and she looked very confident.:

From Update! True Blood 'Digging Up Season 3' Season 4 True Blood Tease & Witches vs. Vampires Screencaps

From Update! True Blood 'Digging Up Season 3' Season 4 True Blood Tease & Witches vs. Vampires Screencaps

But what happens after this?:

From Update! True Blood 'Digging Up Season 3' Season 4 True Blood Tease & Witches vs. Vampires Screencaps

Can Lafayette defend himself against the much-stronger vampire or will his bf Jesus, come to his rescue? Or ???

From: Update! True Blood 'Digging Up Season 3' Season 4 True Blood Tease & Witches vs. Vampires Screencaps

True Blood TRUE Season 4 Spoilers (6.25.11 Update!) Full EW Magazine Scans - Cast Interviews #trueblood

 
Courtesy of 'darq' @ SpoilerTV. Scroll down after the jump for rest of article:

 

From True Blood Season 4 (6.25.11) Updates, Interviews [SPOILERS] Galore!

Hey Truebies!

I can't even believe how fast the season 4 premiere of True Blood has come! (pause) Kidding!

True Blood Fans have endured the sucking, waiting since August 2010 for a fresh full-length episode of True Blood to savour. But here we are, teetering on the very brink of the Sunday, June 26 9pm E HBO offering of a brand new episode and (if you signed up for HBOGo) the second episode shortly thereafter! It should pack one helluva one-two punch in the space of 24-hours or so and with any luck, the sky-high ratings will shake up 'talks' between the most brilliant Alan Ball and the 'one true premium cable network,' HBO, so that our man remains on board with the show for season 5.

I'll have more on that later--in the next couple of days--but if you have not read it before be aware this could be Alan Ball's last season at the helm of True Blood! (again, quote attribution from the source--Ball himself) a bit later. I have both a spousal birthday and other deadlines that must be attended to ASAP!

OK. Here we go with  the fishing contest in the pool full of Spoiler-ish/ True Spoilers material that Source: TVGuide has unleashed upon us! 'EDIT's are MINE!

"True Blood has brought witches, werewolves and vampires to life over the last three seasons, but everything you think you know about the supernatural beings will be upended this season.

"Everything you thought you can count on, you can't," executive producer Alan Ball says. "Vampires are not stronger than certain humans, shapeshifters can do things other than shift and there are ghosts."

Here are 10 things we TVGuide knows do know about what's coming up, straight from the cast of True Blood:

1. It's all about the witches (EDIT: Duh!): A band of witches tap into a new form of power, causing Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) to lose his memory. At the head of the coven is Marnie (Fiona Shaw), a (formerly mild-mannered, now possessed by a 1700's) vengeful witch coming into her powers and out for revenge. Unfortunately Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) will be dragged into the increasing vampire vs. witch tension. "Lafayette loves his boyfriend, [Jesus, a practicing brujo], so he's trying to deal with [magic] in stride, but it keeps sucking him in and he doesn't know what's going on," Ellis says.

"He discovers who he is in the middle of all this stuff."

SPOILER: You knew already that Lafayette is a witch, right? There have been no clues or anything. (snicker)

2. Sookie, independent woman: After discovering that Bill (Stephen Moyer) was working for (his) Queen Sophie-Anne, to gain information on her, Sookie is "learning to stand on her own," Anna Paquin says. "At the end of last season, she was at a point where she was willing to walk away from everyone and everything, particularly those troublesome boys. It's not that she doesn't want or need anyone, she just isn't dependant anymore." That's OK for Bill, though. "Bachelorhood kind of turns out all right for Bill," Moyer says. "He's decided to enjoy it while he can."

3. Vampires in trouble: Eric's unfortunate run-in with the witches will send his lieutenant, Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten), into a downward spiral, which is bad timing in the current vampire climate. "The post-Russell Edginton world is hard for Pam," Bauer says. "It's a political environment this year, so she's supposed to be doing what the other vampires are doing — holding babies and shaking hands — but she's incapable. So we see her cause some trouble."

Pam in a downward spiral? Our vicious, beautiful, font-of-sarcastic quips Pam?! Progeny of Eric Northman, Pam? I have not been privileged as the Almighty (j/k) TVGuide to get the first three episodes of season 3 to watch but if Pammy wasn't 'downward spiralling last season when she thought Eric Dead for Sure (I suggest this as the final title in the Sookie Stackhouse series) and after she'd been horribly tortured by the Magister, I don't believe she's gonna 'spiral downward' in the human sense. She may act out. And when vampires act out...look out!

4. Tara returns as a new woman (EDIT/ Sorry: snooze): After getting out of Dodge in the season finale, Tara (Rutina Wesley) will return to Bon Temps hoping to turn over a new leaf, but will immediately find herself in a mess of trouble. "She gets swept back into the world of vampires so quickly," Rutina says. "She doesn't want it, but she has no choice." Fortunately, there may be hope for her yet. "If there was to be love for Tara, I think she's ready for it because I think she's learned to love herself and has opened up in a way."

Holy double-entendre, Batman! As my favourite source, "Spoiler TV" put it, (a character) is 'turning gay.'  True Blood could step on a landmine with this one but I'm going to assume, given the open-mindedness in portrayal on the show of the sexual preference spectrum that this will not feel forced or cliche.

My one concern as far as I can care about the character of Tara and TBH, I don't really (but I do care about the True Blood narrative) is that in three seasons she has shown no hint at all in being attracted to women. Also, she's not particularly at an age (late 20's) where one discovers this. On top of all that she's been written as having a not-so-secret crush on Sookie's brother, Jason for most of her life. Maybe 'turning gay' is the right term but oh, they'd best be careful in making this seem, as they like to say, 'organic.'

 

5. Shifty shapeshifters: The days of Sam (Sam Trammell) turning into a dog or bird are child's play compared to what he'll do this season. "My character explains the full-range of capabilities that shapeshifters have, and a lot of people that she's talking to at the time don't even know some of that," says Janina Gavankar, who'll be a love interest, 'Luna,' for Sam this season. "There's a really dark side to shapeshifters as well and that's something we'll explore this year. There's potential wrongdoings that can happen."

6. Jessica, domesticated? Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) and Hoyt (Jim Parrack) will make a go of living together, but a human and a vampire cohabitating isn't going to be easy. "Jessica is a vampire and I'm not quite sure that domestic life is really what she's in for or what she desires," Woll says. "She's still gotta figure that out because they moved into this very quickly." Helping her navigate this life is Pam, who acts as a "big bad" older sister, says Bauer. "Pam is a very different kind of mentor for Jess than Bill is," Woll adds. "The things you might not want to tell your dad, you may tell your cool aunt."

7. Jason's growing up: Once the older slacker brother of Sookie, Jason (Ryan Kwanten) has now stepped into a role of responsibility that will get him into even more trouble. "This is the season of the biggest growth for Jason, where the young boy turns into a man," Kwanten says. "He's forced to try and raise a tribe of people and eventually fight for his life."

8. PD's into V: The end of last season teased impending trouble for Andy (Chris Bauer) when it comes to V, otherwise known as vampire blood, an addictive drug that can ruin your life (See: Jason Stakchouse, Debbie Pelt and the rest of the werewolves from Season 3). "It's like old demons, new problems," Bauer says of Season 4 for Andy.

"At first V does a lot of good. He had that cast on forever, but after a couple of drops, all of a sudden he's ready to box. He's a guy who we know has issues with substance, and he keeps saying he's done, but he's not done."

 
I love Chris Bauer so I'm hoping that the 'V' that he gets into (he's a semi-recovering alcoholic) gives him many juicy scenes in S4! (Get the pun? Wasn't even on purpose!)

Arlene and Terry tackle parenthood: As if Arlene (Carrie Preston) could ever be the voice of reason, she's especially on edge this season. "I wouldn't be playing Arlene correctly if I wasn't playing her fully, fully stressed out," Preston says. "When you're talking about a child or potential child, and you're talking about it having a father that was a serial killer, in Arlene's mind, she's absolutely justified in freaking out. Luckily, Arlene has found Terry [Todd Lowe], who will put up with all her insecurities." On a possibility related note, Preston adds, "Arlene is going to come face-to-face with something that we haven't even seen on the show yet." (EDIT/ Common-sense?)

10. Debbie's back, baby: Alcide's psychopathic, V-addicted ex-girlfriend, Debbie Pelt (Brit Morgan), will return this season with a new prerogative. "You're going to get to see a different side of Debbie," Morgan says, adding that Debbie will attempt to make amends with Sookie and find some normalcy. But the werewolf in her isn't gone. "You're going to get to see cool things with some of the wolves that you didn't get to see last season," she says."

Taken from/thanks to: SpoilerTV

Iconic Sitcom Actress Katherine Helmond, 'Grey's' Scott Foley Join TRUE BLOOD - CASTING NEWS [SPOILERS] #trueblood

 

 




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Season 4 Role of  'Caroline Bellefleur', the grande dame of Bon Temps Cast and Terry's Army Buddy is in Town!:

The first thing that sprang to mind when I read that the luminous Katherine Helmond was set to appear in two episodes of True Blood in Season 4 was, 'She's still alive? Yay!'

Though folks who are not in my age demographic may not recall her as far back as 1977, one of the best television roles she had (that I've watched from start to finish) was as 'Jessica Tate' in the 30-minute TV series soap opera spoof, 'Soap" which ran from 1977-1981.

Katherine Helmond's most memorable scene in Soap--one that not only was sidesplittingly funny, but was truly a useful piece of 'life' or  perhaps 'love' advice, was when Jessica coached her slightly-younger, albeit into-her-forties sister, 'Mary Campbell' (Catherine Damon), on what lovemaking position to use after you become a woman of a certain age so as not to not appear of a certain age.

After completely sincerely trying to describe it to her sister and failing, Helmond's Jessica hopped atop the kitchen table to demonstrate her point. I will not ever not be able to picture that scene in my mind, it was so funny and done so well. And dare I say, it's actually crossed my mind during, well, you know. (The gist is assume a position that allows for less 'hang' or droop of the lady's sagging parts--'nuff said?)

BOOK SPOILERS AHEAD - PROCEED WITH CAUTION:

Now the ginger-haired Ms. Helmond is set to take on a role which, though alluded to fairly often in some of the Sookie Stackhouse novels was more of a bullet point-type character--not fleshed out.  (Old Mrs. Bellefleur, Andy & Portia's grandmother, was 'famous throughout Bon Temps' for her 'award-winning chocolate cakes', for being from old money-old Bon Temps, and for being  short on humour.)

Helmond will guest star as Caroline Bellefleur on HBO's True Blood as grandmother to Bon Temps sheriff Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) and his sister, Portia (season 4 role cast, Courtney Ford). The actress is set to appear in two episodes of Season 4, which premieres Sunday.

In the Charlaine Harris novels, Caroline Bellefleur isn't a fan of Sookie at first* and it's later revealed that Bill is Caroline's great-grandfather.

Ms. Helmond was most recently part of the voice cast for the character of Lizzie for Disney/Pixar’s Cars and it's sequel so I'm really hoping that her voice lives on forever as part of the gargantuan 'Cars' attraction going up next to Disneyland.

It should be fun to see what the True Blood writers give Caroline Bellefleur to do. I believe she was infirm in the novels, too--at least wheelchair-bound(?). The character in the book series is quite old. I want to say in her 90's(?)

*Note: Ms. Bellefleur isn't a fan of most everyone not family in the books.

 SOURCE: Hollywood Reporter

And in other recent True Blood Season 4 casting news:

It was recently announced that Grey's Anatomy actor Scott Foley will appear as military veteran Patrick in the new season of True Blood.

 SOURCE #2: Digital Spy

In Response to True Blood Casting Call, Scott Foley Cast As Terry’s Army Buddy Patrick:

Description of character:

[PATRICK DEVINS] 35 to 45, tough and ruggedly attractive, he served in the military with Terry Bellefleur, and they share a serious history: Terry saved Patrick’s life twice. 7 out of 13 episodes next season.

 

WEEDS Sneak Peek - Nancy's Jailhouse Lesbian KISS - Cast Behind the Scenes Extras [VIDEO] #screencaps (6.22.11) #weeds

Weeds Season 7  - Let's Give 'em Something To Talk About! Nancy's Jailhouse Lesbian Scene:

With the premiere of  Weed's on Showtime soon upon us, media clips from the show are sprouting up like well, weeds!

Of course, Nancy Botwin hooks up with her cellmate! In the face of the seductive power of Mary-Louise Parker, we are all helpless. Showtime's ever-excellent Weeds returns for season seven on June 27, and we learn that when Nancy went to prison to escape Esteban (Demián Bichir), she settled in just fine, thank you very much, as evidenced by her romance with Russian-born "roommate" Zoya (Olga Sosnovska).

Scroll down and press play on the E! video to see Nancy and Zoya make out, and find out why Nancy is less than overjoyed that she's being released from the big house. SOURCE: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b248483_weeds_exclusive_sneak_peek_nancys.html#ixzz1PzbGaQhw

Pot-selling single mom turned Mexican mafia princess turned escape artist:

Nancy Botwin turned herself in to the FBI rather than face certain death at the hands of her vengeful ex Esteban and his goon squad. It's now three years later and Nancy is sprung from the joint and making a fresh start in New York City. Will Nancy be able to successfully reunite her far-flung family and keep her hands clean? Don't miss a minute of Season 7 of the hit Showtime Original Series. New episodes beginning Monday June 27th at 10PM ET/PT.

Nancy's Jailhouse Lesbian Love Affair Behind the Scenes Video:

Published on Jun 20, 2011 by SHOWTIME

Weeds is back for a whole new season, get a behind the scenes look at what's to come.

BONUS: After the jump - Nancy's Jailhouse Lesbian Love Affair Behind the Scenes Screencaps:

Dexter News & Spoilers (6.17.11) #dexter #spoilers @SHO_Dexter @SHO_Kareem

 Has Dexter Found A New Kill Room?:

 
 Dexter is currently in production (see photo) with the Showtime series about a serial killer promising that the upcoming sixth season (premiering this fall) will bring the character, played  Michael C. Hall, 'back to his roots'.

This week Dexter is filming at an auto repair shop around Cherry Ave & E Burnett St in Signal Hill, CA.

OLV reader Charlotte stopped by the set yesterday and spotted Michael C. Hall shooting a scene at the location which will be used throughout the season.

 SPOILER: For this particular scene, it appeared that Dexter had gotten into a car accident and that’s why he was there. He was also spotted running out of shop with someone chasing him during the shoot.

Source: OLV - 'Michael C. Hall filming ‘Dexter’ on location in Signal Hill, CA'

 

New cast members announced thus far include Edward James Olmos, Colin Hanks, and the recently cast Molly Parker (Deadwood). New information about the season 6 guest actors seems to trickle out several times per week so I'll take a stab (pun entirely intentional) at tying it all together.

According to TV Line, Molly Parker, the esteemed Canadian actress who many know from her memorable turn in Deadwood, will play the sister to Colin Hanks’ character, Travis. (He’s “a brilliant expert on ancient artifacts who somehow becomes linked to a series of grisly murders in Miami.”).

Though Dexter showrunners have stated that there will be no 'one' big bad in Season 6, with Edward James Olmos on board it is hard to fathom him in a passive role and really satisfying to envision him as a scary son-of-a-gun.

TV Line alluded to this when they chatted with CS Lee, who plays Masuka, who says that the character played by EJO is almost certainly a villain, and may be the villain.

“It seems to be that way… The guy is such a wonderful actor and such a presence that you would probably shoot yourself in the foot if you didn’t do that. He’s going to be great.”

And this makes me even more curious:

In episode four of season six, called 'A Horse of a Different Color,' Dex faces off a preacher, a pastor and a "bit of a religious fanatic."

Anyone wondering if Olmos will be one of these  guys?

 Source: Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Castle, True Blood, Glee, Dexter, 90210 and More!

TVLine has exclusively learned that Parker will appear in several Season 6 episodes of the Showtime drama as 'Lisa Marshall', the sister of Colin Hanks’ mysterious new character, Travis. Sounds innocent enough, but details surrounding Parker’s role are scarce — which piques our interest even more.

As TVLine first reported, Hanks will appear in all 12 episodes of Dexter‘s sixth season as a brilliant expert on ancient artifacts who somehow becomes linked to a series of grisly murders in Miami. It remains unclear if Travis will turn out to be a friend or foe of a certain Dark Passenger. Either way, as Showtime president David Nevins recently told TVLine, this year’s installment “ is not [about] one big bad.”

Read more:  -Deadwood heroine Molly Parker is headed to Dexter as — drumroll please — someone’s sibling!

So the 'not about one big bad' statements, combined with one of the the season's taglines: 'going back to (Dexter's) roots,'  sounds like it means that as in the early seasons, Dexter will take on multiple bad guys.

I have to wonder though if the writers are not responding to the mixed reaction to season 5, which featured Julia Stiles as 'Lumen,' a torture and rape victim that Dexter stumbled upon, then helped in her recovery by teaching her how to exact revenge on the men responsible. Lumen knows Dexter's secret as well as how to wield a knife, though after the last of her abusers was 'put down,' Lumen seemed repulsed at the notion of any more killing and made a hasty exit.

Here’s Showtime’s blurb about Dexter season six:

This season, Dexter goes from happily married husband to guilt-ridden single dad. How will it affect his ability to maintain an average-guy facade while satisfying his need to kill? Dexter Morgan spent Season 5 atoning for the death of his wife Rita. He committed to being a part of her children’s lives, and entered into a deep, passionate relationship with Lumen, unlike anything he’d ever had before. But Dexter’s need to kill overpowers his desire for human connection. And now that one person knows the truth about him, and a few others are close, how much longer will America’s favorite serial killer be able to keep his dark side a secret?

 Official DEXTER Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dexter

 

 
Official DEXTER Twitter: http://twitter.com/SHO_dexter

 

 
Official DEXTER Series Site: http://www.sho.com/dexter

 

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II' Final Trailer & Large HQ Screencaps #HarryPotter #trailer #screencaps

 
Even though I thought this was it... the trailer below, released June 16, 2011, is in fact, "the very last" preview TRAILER you shall get of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II prior to it's July 16 premiere:

I just finished watching this trailer approximately 47 times in order to secure some gasp-inducing screenshots which after you too find yourself pressing 'play again' again, you can take a leisurely look through. 

Don't forget to enlarge them to full size in order to appreciate what is positively going to be the Harry Potter film that packs both the most emotional wallop as well as every other permutation of wallop imaginable. Oi, the soundtrack itself it just mind-bending! The soundtrack in a 2 minute clip! 

Once again *ahem* Warner Bros. has released the latest spot for their epic wizard finale, which features the final face off between the absolute good of Harry Potter and the pure evil of Voldemort.

Directed by David Yates, the film strikes a tone of bleak darkness, yet contains the thread of hope that The Boy Who Lived can save the world, once and for all, from the Dark Arts uprising.

Update! Harry Potter Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - NEW Action Posters - Gringotts' Dragon Banner [PHOTO] #deathlyhallows #part2 #harry potter #posterart

Bonus - All the New HP7 Images In One Post!:

 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 new poster art, this time featuring the dragon from Gringotts that our heroes escape on.

This dragon guards the Gringotts Wizarding Bank, and when Harry Potter, Ron Weesly, and Hermione Granger go there in Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in their horcrux quest, they encounter the Gringott's dragon. As you might guess from the nifty banner, hilarity does not ensue.

I found this a very edge-of-your-seat book (title, same as film w/out 'Part 2') sequence for the young wizard trio, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it played out, outside of my imagination.

 Found by: The Daily Blam

Make sure that you click through so you can enjoy dozens of Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 poster art in all it's super-big, full glory.

Thanks to: Original Source: The Leaky News

 

Found at: FirstShowing.net

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Synopsis:

The end begins when Harry goes back to Hogwarts to destroy the final horcruxes, but when Voldemort finds out about the mission, the biggest battle begins and life as they know it will never be the same again.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is again directed by British filmmaker David Yates, of Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince previously. The script was also written again by Steve Kloves, of Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, and also Half-Blood Prince, but not Order of the Phoenix. This is based on J.K. Rowling's phenominallypopular series of books which have already concluded. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 arrives in theaters in 2 and 3D starting on July 15th 2011.

For Your Viewing Pleasure - 24 NEW HQ Images of The Cast of True Blood Season 4!

In anticipation of the June 26 HBO Season 4 debut, HBO has released 24 NEW HQ character and cast images!:

 

If you click through you can enlarge them fully and do with them as you wish. I spy quite a few that would make great wallpapers!

(Pictured above: Left to right - Alexander Skarsgård, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer)

Here are some really cool cast and character True Blood HQ season 4 photos:

I like that most seem not overly Photoshopped. There are imperfections here and there--stray hairs, some bloodshot eyes, a bit of lint showing  up on dark fabric. Just like real people--except yes, prettier than many of us!
Rutina Wesley (Tara) has such an awesome smile--lights up her whole face.

For the few bloggers that seem out of sorts about Anna, Steve and Kristen wearing their real-life wedding bands/rings, these are a mix of cast and character photos. I mean c'mon, other than the big night at the end of season 2 when Bill rented out an entire fancy restaurant in order to propose to Sookie, have you ever seen Sookie Stackhouse as fancied-up as she is in  the photos here? Non.

IDK, if given a redo, if the photographer would have asked the cast to take off their personal effects as well as gotten crazy with a lint brush and eye-drops (poor Kristen Bauer van Straten appears to have injured her right eye in one shot-- it is terribly bloodshot--made me wince in sympathy).

Bottom line? I have no knowledge of the circumstances of this wonderful set of shots of our heroes (and anti-heroes) but I think like much of the barrage of True Blood-related publicity it may have been done on the fly--which is cool with me. I like the  way  the little imperfections make  them seem  (ironically, in some cases) more human.

After the jump: Official True Blood Season 4 Press Release!

True Blood Fans - Bid for Paquin & Moyer Collectibles - Help 'Facing the Atlantic' in Brave Quest for Kid's Medical Team

Golden Globe HBO afterparty (2010) Credit: HBO inc.

Be Part of Something BIG - Facing the Atlantic - Face The World - Helping Disfigured Children Worldwide:

It's been said before but it bears repeating, the True Blood cast is among the most generous bunch of 'creatives'  in show business. Despite their many commitments including shooting their hit HBO supernatural vampire melodrama True Blood, thespian husband Stephen Moyer ('Bill Compton') and wife, Anna Paquin ('Sookie Stackhouse') are working to raise funds for a cause you may be familiar with and if not, once you hear about it I'm sure you'll agree is extremely worthwhile.

Below are the formal details  but suffice to say this cause can't be construed as anything but  hugely important and all the folks making it possible from the adventurers to the bidders on the auctions to the following websites who reach out and do their best to serve the cause are to be commended and sincerely appreciated:

 

The Vault - TrueBlood-Online.com

 and

AllStephenMoyer.com

Questions: thevault@trueblood-online.com

Above: CLICK to enlarge!

Here is what is happening and why you should care about it: On behalf of Facing The World, a humanitarian organisation, the exciting and challenging project Facing The Atlantic will participate in a non-stop-row from the Canary Islands to Barbados.

 More info after the jump:

Season 6 Casting NEWS: Brea Grant Joins DEXTER, Showtime's Bloody Jewel [VIDEO] #dexter #casting

Dexter - Latest New Casting Updates: (6.01.11)

 

 

 Brea Grant Photo Credit: Screened.com (Click to enlarge)

Showtime are certainly going to be cutting some paychecks this season for the upcoming season 6 of fantastic serial killer series 'Dexter'. Yet another new cast member Brea Grant, has joined the line-up which already includes Mos Def, Colin Hanks and Edward James Olmos. This time it's the turn of the cute 'Heroes' and 'Halloween II' star  to join Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter and company. According to her brief statement on the subject (also below) she appears to be hinting that'll she be joining as one of the lab guys. From a recent release from the casting agency Masuka (played by C.S Lee) should be expecting a new intern to join him in the lab. Could this be Brea? She certainly seems like Masuka, the horndog's type - but then who isn't?

Brea had the following to say:

"No spoilers but I'm pretty sure you'll be seeing me in a white lab coat."

'Dexter' season 6 is now shooting.

Source: Horror Asylum

(Photo Credit: BreaGrant.com)

I really liked Brea Grant in Heroes. She was one of the few things I did like.

I missed a few important casting choices made by the Dexter showrunners over the Memorial Day/May 24 holidays for Season 6 so I'm posting them now. Since Dexter production is now underway there will be more casting news to come, I'm sure

Ausiello Spoiler(?) - Dexter Time Jump:

We may be looking at a time jump between Seasons 5 and 6. Examine the evidence: Producers are casting the recurring role of an elementary school teacher. When Season 5 ended, Dex and Rita’s son Harrison wasn’t even close to pre-school age. See where I’m going with this?

Source: THR

I think a time jump is smart, story-wise, and possibly rewarding in that they can use the same little guy to play Dex's son Harrison unlesss they jump ahead well, it sounds like about 4 years (?). Could be (maybe?) the casting call is slightly off and they were after a nursery-school teacher? Daycare for little Harrison sounds more 'natural' to me than a massive jump  into kindergarten...if that is where they are going...but who knows, right? Speculate, speculate. Half the fun.

Previously:

Thank goodness Showtime (Tweet @SHO_Dexter) used the superlatives precisely as I would have in it's official press announcement that Eddie Olmos is gonna be on Dexter!:

Mary McDonnell (Pres. 'Laura Roslin' on Battlestar Galactica and Edward James Omos ('Admiral William Adama'). They had some really great scenes together on BSG.Would have loved more.

I love this pic of the pair of them. Was (am) such a BSG fangirl!

(Image Credit:  TVGuide)

Edward James Olmos Joins 'Dexter' in Season 6!:

LOS ANGELES, CA – May 24, 2011 –Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award winning actor Edward James Olmos joins recently announced special guest stars, Colin Hanks and Mos (formerly Mos Def) in the cast of the Emmy-nominated SHOWTIME® drama series DEXTER™ for Season 6. Olmos will play a brilliant, charismatic professor of religious studies. Olmos joins a distinguished list of seasonal guest cast that has included Jimmy Smits, John Lithgow and Julia Stiles. Production on DEXTER (began) May 25 in Los Angeles and will premiere on SHOWTIME this fall.

Edward James Olmos is an acclaimed actor, director and activist. Among his most memorable roles are 'William Adama' in the re-imagined “Battlestar Galactica,” Lt. Martin Castillo in “Miami Vice,” teacher Jaime Escalante in “Stand and Deliver,” patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film “Selena,” Detective Gaff in “Blade Runner,” and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of “Zoot Suit.” His first big break was a starring role in Luis Valdez’s play, “Zoot Suit”, in 1978. The play moved to Broadway and led to a Tony® nomination. He received a Best Actor Academy Award® nomination for his starring role in Stand and Deliver. Other credits include “American Me” (his directing debut), “The Green Hornet” and appearances on “The West Wing” and “American Family”.

 

(Above) Dexter Season 6 Tease Screencaps  

Dexter Story Description:

One of the most acclaimed series on television, DEXTER stars Michael C. Hall (Golden Globe and SAG Award® winner) as a complicated and conflicted blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department who moonlights as a serial killer.

The show has received multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for best television drama series, as well as a prestigious Peabody Award in 2008 and was twice named one of AFI’s top ten television series. The show also stars Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, Lauren Vélez, David Zayas, and James Remar.

Source: Showtime

             Found at: SpoilerTV

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True Blood Season 4 News & Spoilers (June 3 Update) #trueblood #season5 #castingnews

Casting Call for True Blood Season 5:

 
Joe Manganiello as 'Alcide Herveaux' - Pretty much a safe bet for romance with Sookie in the next season:

Casting for season 5 has already begun though the premiere of season 4 True Blood doesn't even get underway until June 26.  Most interesting in this June 1 casting call is the mention of a 13th episode in season 5 which will add a bit of breathing space for the additional season 5 characters.

The fact that a casting call is going out for Alcide's construction foreman is indicative to me that Joe Manganiello who plays Alcide, will perhaps get more screen time and a better shot at a romance with Sookie in season 5, something that seemed inevitable if he were to get any at all as thus far, the season 4 episodes don't seem to be promising much Alcide-Sookie 'togetherness.'

If you are a 'bookie' I would expect this to be a good sign that showrunner Alan Ball is weaving in more of Alcide Herveaux, has been a sympathetic book character for much of the book series, into season 5 of the TV series. Personally, I like the vibe Joe Manganiello brings to Alcide. His warm, nurturing sweetheart of a guy wrapped in a growling, 6'5" package of eye-candy is quite compelling.

 

Expanding (presumably) upon Terry Bellefluer's (Todd Lowe) character's screen time is a good idea IMO, because he been brought ahead in True Blood as an Iraqi war veteran which grounds this fantasy show farther into in present day (versus the nearly 60-year-old Vietnam war vet that Terry is in the books). War veterans have long been 'outsiders' to mainstream society and  bringing out Terry's 'uniqueness' a bit more instead of just the odd (no pun) one-liner is a good way for Alan Ball to continue to show empathy for the misunderstood and sometimes mistreated in modern society.

Finally, I must confess a real appreciation for the talents of Todd Lowe as Merlotte's short-order cook, Terry. When first I saw Lowe out of character I did not even recognize him. He transforms himself through sheer talent into our beloved shell-shocked vet so I'm looking forward to a bit more expansion (sounds like it includes backstory) in his role.

A Taste of Terry:

 

Here's a casting notice for episode #412, 'And When I Die,' as well as some news about season 5. Though unofficial at this point it appears that season 5 TrueBlood will feature a 'lucky' 13 episodes instead of 12!

TRUE BLOOD, Episode 412, "And When I Die"
Writer: Raelle Tucker
Director: Scott Winant
Start Date: Approx. 6/15/11
Location: L.A.

THIS IS THE FINAL EPISODE OF THE SEASON.

[PATRICK DEVINS] 35 to 45, tough, and ruggedly attractive, he served in the military with Terry, and they share a serious history: Terry saved Patrick's life twice. 7 out of 13 episodes next season.

[DOUG] This schlubby guy in a hard hat is Alcide's construction foreman. 2 lines, 1 scene.

Source: Rhoswen7 IMDb

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2' - NEW TV Spot - May 13 (VIDEO) #harrypotter #deathlyhallows2

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2' NEW TV Spot:

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2," is the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series. The much-anticipated motion picture event is the second of two full-length parts. In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here. WarnerBrosPictures  May 13, 2011

Here's the official Warner Bros. clip of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" NEW TV Spot (5.13.11). I could have sworn that we'd already had a 'TV spot No. 1' but perhaps with all the hash-tagging something got lost in the translation. This does have some new dialogue. It's hard for me to tell sometimes just what part of the endless battle that is Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, our heroes as well as the big bads, are engaged in.

It's time for Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) to grow up and embrace his destiny. The Chosen One is done hiding behind his friends and mentors and in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, his fate meets his future. He's learned everything there is to know, and Harry Potter is now ready to do what he was born to do -- destroy Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes)! In this new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 TV spot, Potter isn't the only one getting in on the action. Wizards are hopping on brooms and armies are marching to the beat of their own drums. The world is falling apart! The Dark Lord and his Death Eaters have gained more power than we could have ever imagined and Harry's in a serious race against time.

"Harry’s only hope is to find the Horcruxes before Voldemort finds him. But as he searches for clues, he uncovers an old and almost forgotten tale -- the legend of the Deathly Hallows. And if the legend turns out to be true, it could give Voldemort the ultimate power he seeks." Oh, the drama! It looks like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 might be the finale to end all finales. The movie co-stars Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman. The film is directed by David Yates and will be released in 2D and 3D on July 15.

SOURCE: SheKnows.com - 'Deathly Hallows Part 2 New TV Spot'

Nurse Jackie Episode 8: 'The Astonishing' (VIDEO) Sneak Peeks @SHO_Kareem @SHO_Jackie #Screencaps #nursejackie

These two, Eve Best as ER 'Chief O'Hara' and Paul Schulze as 'Eddie' are an unlikely pairing yet they have in common a deep attachment with/to Jackie (Edie Falco). Which sort of seems a starting point.

What 'role' does Jackie fill so well that both these characters chose to protect Jackie from the consequences of facing her painkiller addiction or in Eddie's case, enable Jackie's addiction?

Looks as if O'Hara may soon step into that role. We'll see. It just seems Eddie is still hurt enough by Jackie now refusing to be intimate with him that he's not going to dispense free drugs for Jackie, like he used to.

O'Hara OTOH,  is best friends with Jackie as well as a close colleagues. She desperately want to help Jackie to sobriety...but what will be the cost to their friendship?

Nurse Jackie - Episode 8: 'The Astonishing' Promo

I thought this episode was so awesome that I couldn't wait to watch Episode 9 (so I did. I have a screener--but I'd been watching along with the televised schedule, mostly). Truly, the ending is going to keep you wondering all week what is next for Jackie.

Small Nurse Jackie Spoiler Ahead:

When Episode 9 airs you will not be disappointed. It is every bit as mind-blowing as this episode leads you to anticipate.

So much seems different this year on Nurse Jackie because a lot has changed for the Edie Falco character, Jackie Peyton.

There have been times when watching the pardon me, crazy shit that Jackie does, that I've wondered if she's truly lost it and won't get it back. But so far these 3 seasons she has kept going, if only by the skin of her teeth.

It seems now more than ever that the end is closing in on Jackie, the end of her charade of not believing herself an addict.

I think it is going to get more intense, then the last episodes of the season will just go 'boom'. I'm pretty sure I've guessed part of the end. There are ominous hints about it in episode 8. At this point I'm wondering how the hell it is gonna happen and seem believable. It is that off-the wall-sounding!

We shall see!

Do not forget to tune in to Nurse Jackie on Monday nights on Showtime and, check out this stuff:

 

http://www.sho.com/nursejackie
http://twitter.com/sho_jackie
http://getglue.com/tv_shows/nurse_jackie

 

 

Nurse Jackie Sneak Peek : 'Only Once'  

Akalitus gives Coop support after learning about his parent's divorce.

 

Nurse Jackie Seak Peek: 'Doctors and Nurses'

While out to lunch Zoey tries to get dirt from Jackie and O'Hara for her blog.

 

Nurse Jackie Episode 8: 'The Astonishing'

Synopsis:

Jackie accuses Kelly of being inappropriate with two flirty high school girls; Coop begins to let go of childish things; Thor counsels Akalitus on her new phone system and some deeper matters; Jackie is unexpectedly delayed getting to Grace's pageant.

VIDEO: True Blood: Season 4 Screen Test (HBO) #waitingsucks #trueblood #trouble #screencaps

 

Both the heroes and anti-heroes of True Blood are going to have TROUBLE when they return to our screens on June 26, 2011 and that TROUBLE will carry them through season 4:

(Song: 'Trouble Blues' by Lightnin' Hopkins)

Catch an all new season of True Blood which premieres on June 26th only on HBO. For more information on True Blood, go to http://itsh.bo/ibzU7X or jump in on the Twitter conversations http://twitter.com/truebloodhbo #waitingsucks

Make what you will of this 'Screen Test,' first aired after Sunday night's 'Game of Thrones' (really getting into GoT, BTW. Helps a great deal to watch it with someone who has read the book series).

What I see is who I believe will be the core cast for season 4, barring surprises and the featured guest actors like Fiona Shaw as powerful witch Marnie/Hallow Stonebrook.

Maybe the folks who we will probably won't see in season 5 will get their own 'screen test' video?

Anyway, the only characters in this video showing a hint of happiness are Eric (Alexander Skarsgård), Pam played by Kristen Bauer van Straten, who in comparison to the others looks down right jolly, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) and maybe Sookie (Anna Paquin). Bill (Stephen Moyer), Tara (Rutina Wesley), Alcide (Joe Manganiello), Sam (Sam Trammell) and Jason (Ryan Kwanten) look perfectly miserable or completely blank (Tara & vampire Jessica played by Deborah Ann Woll).

Is this a hint of what is to come for their characters? Not necessarily. Layfayette's personality is such that there's a built-in levity to his interactions, same for vampires Eric and Pam, despite their amusement often coming at the expense of human folly. I think Sookie is trying to look enigmatic or contemplative in her expressions--not particularly somber, certainly not joyous.

There is no doubt based both on this video and backed up by now-revealed character storylines  that Jason is again in a world of trouble. Tara will be OK for a while, then things get crappy for her again (according to the actress that portrays her, Rutina Wesley). According to actor Joe Manganiello, his character werewolf Alcide Herveaux, has things go bad and stay that way for much of the season. It's hard to say what is up for Jessica. My guess? A mix of bliss and despair, much like she's experienced as a vamp--maybe a bit more mature Jessica, as well)

And poor Sam Merlotte! I've been re-watching True Blood season 1 and despite being over-simply characterized as a 'good guy,' Sam Merlotte has been dark since day 1 of the series. He a tortured and scarred soul. I love Sam Trammell and his great smile but he is really good at playing tormented!

After the jump: Screencaps!

PHOTOS: Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 - EW Scans SPOILERS #deathlyhallows #EW

Above:

I LOVED this part of 'Deathly Hallows.' IMO, it was one of the high points of the book, 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows.'

Maybe I'll re-read it at Maple Lake  this summer in my first two-week stint. My guess it will be playing somewhere up in the woods of Haliburton.

Hey. I just read that even though the Canadian Loonie has been  kicking the American dollar exchange-wise for 4 years going now, the Canadians have to pay 20% more on most everyday and other stuff they buy, than their American counterparts. Not fair or justified, right?

This also means that vacationing in Canada has been no bargain for some time now--nothing is. (The article forgot to mention though that the Ontarians at least pay themselves better salaries than one would get in the U.S.).

An example of this occurs nas you are not even fully into Canada, as you cross the border into Canada on the Ambassador Bridge going from Detroit, Michigan, USA to Windsor, Ontario, CA. There's always been around a 20% more fee to get into the U.S. from Canada. (But Canada to the U.S. the same, I think?)

 

Final Harry Potter Film Gets Big Spread in EW Mag Summer Preview Edition:

 

Image Credit: Jaap Buitendijk

Remainder of article and more scanned photos after the jump!

(I would have scanned all the phot0s but the paper is so thin that the 'B' side of the page bleeds through. Credit to EW.com is in the link.)

Pretty freaking exciting, huh? This cool pic of Neville (after jump) brought back the memory of reading the passage in the book. Neville shows what he's really made of (hint: strong stuff) and it actually gave me a bit of a lump in my throat. This was I'm certain in part due to coming to know the character through the actor Matthew Lewis, who has been portraying him throughout the film series. It's a feel-good moment coloured with a great deal of sadness...can't wait to see it!

 

EW.com Harry Potter scans

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: TV Spot #3 (4.3.11) 6 Posters #PotC4 #Trailer3

'Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides: After crossing paths with a woman from his past (Cruz), Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) is swept aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (McShane), on an unexpected mission to find the elusive fountain of youth.

Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it, too.

 

Californication: Season 4.12 Finale 'And Justice For All' - Season 5 Time Jump? @SHO_Californication @SHO_Kareem

                                                        (L to R) Carla Gugino, David Duchovny, Addison Timlin
Californication:  Season Finale Episode 12: 'And Justice For All':

'Passion Project'  'Commence Sentencing' Sneak Peeks, Preview, Showtime Promo Photos, Synopsis:

Californication:  Season 4 Finale: Promo Photos:

Californication Season 4.12 'Commence Sentencing'

Hank awaits sentencing and visits the set of his movie. Hank receives his sentence.

Californication: Passion Project

Stu invites everyone over for a celebratory dinner party.

Spoilers On Showtime - @SHO_ Californication

 

Californication Season 4.12 'Commence Sentencing'

Hank receives his sentence.

After the jump: Music List from Season Finale episode 12, Season 5 casting/time jump spoiler -

Californication - Episode 4.10 'TheTrial' - Sneak Peeks - Promo Photos @SHO_Californication @SHO_Kareem #giveaway

 

  Natascha McElhone as Hank's ex, 'Karen':

Californication: My Best Friend  

Charlie takes the stand at Hank's trial.

With best friends like Charlie Runkle testifying on the stand in your defense who needs...friends?

 Hank's trial turns into a disastrous character assassination:

From Californication - Episode 4.10 - Promo Photos http://foreverafangirl.com * IMAGES Showtime copyright

With best friends like Charlie Runkle testifying on the stand in your defense who needs...friends?:

Californication: Relationship Conversation  

Hank and Abby discuss their relationship.

I don't know if it is because this little clip is (of necessity) out of context, but it seems an awkward scene to me. It could be that it is meant to be awkward as does Hank, besides having a relationship with his daughter and his ex (and  bf, Charlie), even have real relationships?

Specifically with women he's 'dating,' Hank doesn't get that serious, does he? (I ask, as 1. it doesn't seem that he does and 2. this is my 1st season watching Californication.)

The thing that is throwing me a bit about Hank and Abby is that neither seem particularly in need of anything deeper than what they have, which let's face it (excluding the attorney-client thing), is that they are f**k buddies. Should be interesting to find out where they end up.

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Dexter - Reflecting on Season 5: Julia Stiles - Atonement: Chip Johannessen (Showtime)

Some of the points made by new-this-year executive producer Chip Johanneson include that through the Lumen arc, 'we've put to bed the Rita question.'

I took this to mean that the Rita storyline is tied up as much as it can be. I wouldn't be surprised if a few loose ends show in the future but for Dexter himself, Lumen has fulfilled that function. Johanneson continued, pointing out that the events of season 5 allow the writers to 'pick up anywhere in season 6.'

SHOWTIME | December 13, 2010

Julia Stiles discusses the end of her character's relationship with Dexter.

Though Julia Stiles 'kind of assumed that Lumen would end up dead,' it probably dawned on her as they got deeper into season 5, with the Dexter-Lumen dynamic proving ever-more appealing that perhaps there was another possible ending.  Regardless, season 5 ended on a typical Dexter note--the 'big bad' was on Dexter (and Lumen's) table, taking a knife to the heart.

Sadly, Dexter too, took a (metaphorical) knife to his own heart when Lumen suddenly announced that relieved of her darkness (dark passenger), she would be skipping town the following day. Dexter was cool enough to tell her that he was happy for her that her darkness had gone. He continued, assuring her that he would 'carry (her) darkness' for her. Aww. Poor Dex.

SHOWTIME | December 13, 2010

Atonement: Chip Johannessen

 Chip Johannessen discusses the season five finale of Dexter.

Executive Producer Sara Colleton weighs in via E!

Q:..What did Deb mean during her final conversation with Dexter at the party: "You must be [happy] too, now that this is all over.".... What would Deb be referring to?...s
A: Sara Colleton: "Deb is referring to the barrel-girls case. It was meant to be purposely vague, and it should make Dexter wonder exactly what it is she means as he can't be sure."

Q: Are we to believe that Quinn did not figure out that Dexter is a killer?
A: per Colleton: "Quinn may suspect Dexter has been somehow involved in Liddy's death, but don't think his world view is large enough yet to imagine who Dexter really is." 

Q: So bummed to see Lumen leave last night on Dexter! Any chance Julia Stiles will return?
Colleton: "That has not been discussed. But she is out there..."

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Update! Dexter Full Set Promo Photos - 5.12 - 'The Big One' - #Spoilers via IMDb, E! #dexter

 
Tomorrow (Sunday) night marks the end of another spectacular season of Dexter on Showtime.

I still marvel at what an unexpectedly satisfying season this has been. I've loved seeing Dexter discover emotional depths to himself that he'd previously dismissed as not even remotely possible to feel.

For the first time ever, as an audience member, I'm wondering if Harry Morgan eff'ed up big time in diagnosing Dexter as broken and impossible to repair (Dexter, fleetingly, has asked the same question).

(Photo collage via tumblr.com)

It was very savvy of Dexter's writers to have Rita's death expose layers to Dexter that we may not have ever seen. Not that I felt this way, but Dexter the serial killer otherwise might have begun feeling a bit "been there, done that." That was not even on the table (no pun intended) this season as Dex had very little time to attempt to go back to his pre-Rita life, back to the old Dexter, before Lumen came into it.

And all the better. "Lumen" has been my favourite Julia Stiles' characterization, ever.  Stiles was pitch perfect in a very demanding range of her character, rape-club-victim-that-survived turned

avenging angel, Lumen.

I don't know if Lumen is Dexter's soulmate. I know that they both came along when the other was in desperate need and they filled those empty spaces. Whether they are fated to continue...I just don't know. My observation was that Dexter seemed more natural and relaxed with Lumen than anyone he has ever been with, including Rita. Lumen 'gets' Dexter. That has been profoudly healing for him.

Dexter first literally saved Lumen, then helped rehabilitate her in the way she requested as well as tenderly tending to her physical wounds.

When Deb tells Dexter that he is 'a good person,' she's right, he is. It makes no sense but that is what keeps us wanting more. 'Dexter' makes us question what, exactly, it means to be a 'good person'? Do any of us really know?

 

Some short excerpts from Dexter Exec. Producer Sara Colleton in an interview with E! Read it in it's entirety here.

In answer to a plea that the Dexter season 5 ending won't be as emotionally devastating as season 4's murder of Rita, Colleton replied:

You won't need therapy this time. The finale is actually quite therapeutic. It's like therapy in and of itself.

Colleton continued:

This season Dexter's journey was atonement. So the big question is, will he/(is it possible for Dex to) be at peace with himself?...Is it possible he has found a soul mate?

Colleton went on to explain that the many questions of this season are like coins tossed in the air and they will all come down (be answered?) on Sunday night.

When asked about whether Julia Stiles (Lumen) and the rest of the cast will return next season, Colleton turned cagey saying:

'...there a lot of fates that are still possibilities.'

I believe Colleton did a mild deflection of the question by next bringing up Det. Joey Quinn (Desmond Harrington) and stating that his fate was now in Dexter's hands. It's my opinion that Dexter has no reason to take down Quinn now.

Quinn has professed to be in love with Dexter's sis Deb (and she with him). Dex knows this, he knows that Quinn stopped investigating Dex, the guy that was doing the spying (Liddy) is dead and most importantly, his sister loves Quinn even if Dexter dislikes him intensely. As long as Quinn and Dexter have 'an understanding,' I beleive Dex will not sell Quinn down the river and I'm 99% positive Dex will not kill Quinn.

In answer to a query about the place that "Lumen' has had in Dexter's life Colleton responded:

...in the course of trying to help her, the thing has happened that Dexter never thought would. He's contemplating for the first time...Is it possible that there is such a thing as a soul mate? Is it possible that I, Dexter Morgan, could have a soul mate?

Dexter 5.12 Sneak Peek #3

 

oilery | December 12, 2010

Dexter 5x12 Sneak Peek

Colleton elaborated further on her take on the mechanics of Dexter's thinking:

(Dexter's father Harry) ended up killing himself because he couldn't deal with the guilt of what he had created. And so Dexter carries that guilt in shame... I've always thought (one thing that) binds Dexter to the audience is that we all have this feeling of wanting to be known and we all are terrified that if someone actually saw the real, true us, they might just run in the opposite direction. So he's been forced because of his need of atonement to to expose himself and to atone himself to Lumen.

For the Deb n' Quinn as a couple fans, Colleton had this bone to toss out:

In the last episode you see his character as being a redeemable man and a man worthy of Deb's love, in a way that is really satisfying. Desmond has done such a terrific job with his character and you've really seen him stepping up and becoming Deb-worthy.

...and then take back:

 But you know, fate often intervenes...

Reported quotes from the final episode (via anonymous IMDb source) :

HARRY TO DEXTER:

“It’s right in front of you. Remember your target. Where he came from. Who he was.”

QUINN: “I don’t think I should say anything else. Not until I speak to a lawyer.”

LAGUERTA: “We have an officer down. Stan Liddy”*** NOT a spoiler. It is in the sneak peek promo.

BATTISTA: “Am I the only one interested in this goddamn murder?”

LUMEN: “First I wondered what was happening to me, then I was wondering how I could possibly tell you.”

MASUKA: “Is it weird to bring a date to a first birthday party?”

DEB: “I’m happy. You must be too. Now that this is all over, I mean.”

DEXTER: “Wishes, of course, are for children.”

JORDAN TO LUMEN:“You’ve transformed. You’re beautiful. If you hadn’t met me, you’d never know you had it in you.”

via: SpoilerTV

I'm really hoping that that final delusional quote by 'Jordan' is just before Lumen plunges the knife into Jordan Chase's black little heart.

Sadly, the Dexter voiceover sonds like it comes after the resolution -- at baby Harrison's birthday party.

Guessing that Deb is speaking to Quinn after Dexter has proven Quinn (via blood analysis) not guilty of having anything to do with Liddy's murder. Dexter is after all a monster with morals.

I truly hope that the Lumen quote is directed at Jordan as a way to buy time prior to him killing her. In her time with Dexter she's been a quick study. It may be what saves her long enough for Dexter to get to her.

 

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Michael C. Hall on Jimmy Fallon, Dec. 7 2010. Part 2

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Michael C. Hall on Jimmy Fallon, Dec. 7 2010. Part 2

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 Wondering what is to become of Batista's and LaGuerta's marriage? Read on:

Sgt. Batista’s on-the-rocks marriage with LaGuerta won’t get any better before the end of the season — but that doesn’t mean the marriage is hopeless, either. David Zayas told me this week at a LAByrinth Theater Company’s annual celebrity charades fundraiser in New York that the couple’s season-long troubles aren’t necessarily a sign of a breakup. “It never gets resolved. Marriages don’t get resolved. It’s a journey,” he said. “There probably won’t be a definite answer to that question in the season finale, but we’ll be back.”

Everyone has been tight-lipped regarding the Dexter finale — but luckily, the same can’t be said for star Michael C. Hall. While presenting a “Dexter-esque” playlist on New York’s 101.0 RXP, the actor seemingly spilled a huge spoiler by saying fans should pay “special attention” to one of his picks, Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It With Mine,” before watching the finale. Among the lyrics to this song that so-perfectly describes Dexter and Lumen: “The train leaves at half past 10/ But it’ll be back tomorrow same time again./ The conductor, he’s weary, still stuck on the line./ But if I can save you any time/ Come on, give it to me. I’ll keep it with mine.”
 

Source: EW

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Dexter - 5.12 Preview 'The Big One' Sneak Peeks Promo Photos - RIP Stan Liddy - Stiles On Lumen

From Dexter - 5.09 - 'Teenage Wasteland' Screen Caps SPOILERS - Lumen & Dexter *Showtime Copyright*

Dexter Season 5 Finale ' The Big One' 5.12

Promo photos, screen caps

Above: Sorry  Screen caps I made are crap; promo photos issued by Showtime are OK.

 So you're digging Julia Stiles as Lumen? Especially she and Michael C. Hall together? Hmph. About time! I said it once before but it bears repeating: the Lumen character worked.

We've seen a Dexter that had never been exposed before because he'd not yet met Lumen. She has forever changed him. I hope against hope for a not-sad ending for these two.

I never thought, even for a second, that season 5 directly on the heels of the season 4 murder of Dexter's wife Rita, funeral and all, turned out out the way it has. Another cool thing is the show feels fresh--much as it did with last year's balls-out effort with John  Lithgow as the 'Trinity Killer', who killed or was responsible for most of Dexter's family getting either shot or killed (Deb in the mid-section to the side area, next to her, together on the ground of the motel parking lot a dying former Agent and current paramour Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine) by Trinity's adult daughter/ Joey Quinn's squeeze.  Then  there was Rita of course, by Trinity).

I hope Lumen (Julia Stiles) survives because I :heart: Lumen, as she's been such a nice 'partner' for Dexter. Certainly, each was the other's after-horrible-life-trauma savior.

          

'Terrible Curse' Dexter Tries To Bargain w/ Jordan Chase - JC, with Lumen in his trunk, tries to 'eff with Dexter's head while Dexter, driving frantically, desperately tries to find and save Lumen before Chase kills her.

                    

 Dexter - 5.12 "The Big One" Season Finale

''Surprise'

In the season finale, Dexter's situation grows more desperate when he discovers that Lumen's been set up. Despite knowing he's being baited into a trap, Dexter risks everything to make sure he doesn't fall into the same mistake again. In the Barrel Girls case, Debra lets her personal feelings lead her instincts once she concludes that vigilantes are more than just a theory. Quinn finds himself in a troublesome situation in which only Dexter can help him.

 

Julia Stiles' TV Guide Interviews:

Dexter's 'Lumen,' - Julia Stiles on her character

"Lumen is the only person alive who sees Dexter's true self and accepts him. There's something oddly romantic about that, and also very intimate," Stiles tells TVGuide.com. "The reverse is true for Lumen. The experience she had before was so traumatic, and had an element of shame, where she couldn't go back and see her family. There's something very isolating about that, and the fact that Dexter knows about it and also embraces her is very sweet amidst all this weirdness."

'Life has been twisted, dark and miserable lately for Lumen Pierce (Julia Stiles), which makes her an absolutely perfect fit for Dexter this season. She's been raped, exploited and whipped so badly even Stiles felt the pain. As the actress known for her work in the Bourne movies says, "I forgot to take off my prosthetic slash marks one night and I suddenly went, 'Wait. What happened to me?'" The bigger question is what's happening to Lumen? Ever since Dexter (Michael C. Hall) rescued her from that serial killer's creepy lockup, Lumen's been a bit of a Dexter wannabe. She wants to kill the people who've brutalized her, which in turn puts Dexter in the odd position of trying to stop murders.

"Lumen walks that fine line that's so cool on this show, between doing the right thing and doing the right thing that's sorta the wrong thing," says Stiles, who adds she feels the thrall of the Dexter "community" after only a few guest appearances. "My friends who are crazy about the show are really crazy about the show," she laughs.

 

Here's what's really crazy: how much we've enjoyed watching Stiles play a pawn in a human-trafficking scheme. Which side wins? The actress isn't telling: "I think we'll see a dramatic ending." Dexter airs Sundays at 9/8c on Showtime. -Julia Stiles' TV Guide Interview

 

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From Dexter - Episode 5.08 - 'Take It' *Showtime Copyright*

Dexter Death Spoiler - Episode 5.12 - Season Finale 'The Big One' Promo Photos #dexter #spoiler

Dexter Death Spoiler:

  Not sure if this spoils tonight's previous Dexter spoiler about 'two deaths' occurring in episode 11, (renamed 'Hialeah and Fourth').

I'd guessed that Liddy (Peter Weller) would buy it in the December 5 eppy (tonight). He may still do so but this photo still is from the season finale on 12.12.10, (re)titled 'The Big One.' It is quite possible that Liddy's body is found in episode 12 after him being offed in episode 11, IDK. Here are a few more photos being circulated from the finale. At least one is a behind-the-scene shot.

Source: SpoilerTV

 

Update: Dexter - Episode 11 - 'Hialeah & Fourth' - 2 Sneak Peeks: 'A Blindspot' 'A Twin' - Promo Photos

Update: Title change for the episode. Dexter: Episode 11 is now titled 'Hialeah and Fourth.'

My first impulse is to say that Season 5 of 'Dexter' is getting really good but that falls short of what I really think about this season.

Season 5 'Dexter' has been outstanding throughout.

Keep in mind, last season was the season of the Trinity Killer with John Lithgow turning in a bravura performance as the psycho whack-job counterpoint to Dexter (Michael C. Hall) who seemed wholly balanced and stable in comparison.

Then there was the fine, though too-short return guest appearance by Keith Carradine as Deb's doomed lover, Frank Lundy.

Oh yeah. Dexter's wife, Rita was murdered.

Season four was engrossing and riveting, shocking and sad.

How were the Dexter showrunners going to follow up such a great season? As it turns out, with an equally great, but absolutely different season 5.

After they killed off Julie Benz's 'Rita' character the Dexter showrunners explained that they wanted to turn Dex's world upside down (and inside out). And they certainly did. We the audience had no idea what they had planned for Dex in season 5 but who could have guessed that he'd find his soulmate?

OK. Maybe that's a bit of a stretch because it is very early in their romance. But consider this: Julia Stiles' 'Lumen' is absolutely unique. She is the first person involved in a positive way with Dexter who knows exactly who he is and accepts him for it. It seemed a foregone conclusion that no woman would knowingly get involved with a serial killer but involved they are--on several levels.

And to top it off, seemingly Lumen is sane--at least when measured on the Dexter sanity scale.

Dexter's audience is among the most loyal there is so it was understandable that they were a bit apprehensive about Lumen and how she'd affect the still-grieving Dexter. But as season 5 progressed and the great episodes kept coming, Lumen and Dexter seemed to fit together like puzzle pieces.

As corny as the phrase 'You complete me' sounds, this is exactly what one does for the other. Both Dexter and Lumen had gaping holes in their psyches and hearts that they desperately needed healed and each has facilitated the healing of the other. They have been good for one another.

When Jennifer Carpenter, never better as 'Deb,' said to Dexter in episode 10 that there would be no recovery for the women that went through Jordan Chase and Co's. house of horrors, that a women would be better off dead than to survive and have to live with memories of the horrific acts perpetrated upon her, Deb was wrong--at least in part. Of course, she never considered that a victim could kick-start the healing process by killing the men responsible for her kidnapping, torture, and rape, but it seems to be working for Lumen.

Julia Stiles has put forth a very solid effort in crafting the Lumen character. She was totally convincing as the shell of a human being that Dexter accidentally rescued. Her evolution into a seemingly normal woman has been plausible and I think cathartic for the audience, too.

Where this is going is the big question. I see a lot of comments on the 'net that viewers do not want Lumen killed. I don't either but the Dexter-Lumen relationship is in a honeymoon period, so to speak. It cannot stay as it is because Dexter isn't going to have the luxury of this partnership lasting. At least he knows that someone understood him on a deeper level then perhaps even Harry ever did. And so Dexter has gained positive insights into himself that may have never happened if it were not for Lumen coming into his life.

I feel a mixture of excitement and dread about the last few episodes of season 5. What are your thoughts? What are you feeling?

A Blindspot

SHOWTIME | Season 5 Ep. 11 | Added: November 30, 2010

Dexter realizes someone is watching Lumen and himself.

A Twin

SHOWTIME | November 30, 2010

Masuka presents new evidence in the barrel murder case.

Dexter: Episode 11 'Hop A Freighter'

Synopsis: Dexter and Lumen's plans are momentarily thwarted when Dexter's forced to do damage control after he concedes that someone, outside of Miami Metro, has taken an interest in them. Debra's speculation on the missing Barrel Girl suspects begins to take shape. Quinn finds himself more involved in a homicide than he'd like to be.

More photo stills frorm "Hop A Freighter' after the jump:

Dexter - Season 5 Episode 10 - 'In The Beginning' - Showtime Promo - 2 Sneak Peeks - Screen Caps

From Dexter - Season 5 Episode 10 - 'In The Beginning' - *Showtime* Promo & Sneak Peeks Screen Caps

Dexter 5x10, 'In The Beginning':

Screen Cap from Sneak Peek (above)

This is a very bad thing--and not just what is on the screen. That guy watching the DVD is not Dexter. (Click through to enlarge.) Dexter only wears suit jackets to funerals and weddings. Who is watching a torture tape in Dex's house? Jordan Chase, perhaps? It would seem likely.

In re: the synopsis (below)

Have to figure based on the episode title, that sometime after the exposition between Lumen and Dexter about talking to who may have been the surviving first victim of Jordan Chase & Co. (see sneak peek #2) that we'll actually get some more information about how Chase & his childhood buddies started abducting, torturing & killing pretty blonds.

Dexter Season 5 Episode 10 - 'In The Beginning' - Showtime Promo

Dexter 5x10 - 'In the beginning' - Sneak Peek #1

''The First Victim'

SHOWTIME | Season 5 Ep. 10 | Added: November 23, 2010

Dexter and Lumen decide to find Emily Birch.

Official Showtime Synopsis Dexter 5x10 'In The Beginning':

Just as Dexter discovers a possible ally in the pursuit of Lumen's former captors, he and Lumen are forced to step down as Homicide uncovers some key evidence linked to one of their prior victims. Debra, who's been reassigned to the Barrel Girls murders, positively identifies two more suspects in the case.

SHOWTIME | Season 5 Ep. 10 | Added: November 23, 2010 | 54 likes, 0 dislikes

Dexter 5x10 - 'In the beginning' - Sneak Peek #2

'Internal Matter'

Debra and Quinn pay a visit to Jordan Chase.

Love Debra! 'Are you effing kidding me?'

 

 

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Dexter Season 5 - Episode 10 - In the Beginning - Promo

dexterinomorgan | November 22, 2010 | Promo for episode 5.10

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1 - 4 NEW Character Posters - Bellatrix is Badass!

 

My second* favourite Harry Potter cinematic baddie: Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter)

* second only to Snape (Alan Rickman) who we do not yet know, at this point in the films, is only pretending to be bad.

Bonham-Carter on Bellatrix

How would you describe Bellatrix?
She's obviously as bonkers as they come. There's a bit of a child-like madness there. I did regress a bit as her. It sort of happened naturally. It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.

And that describes Bellatrix for you?
Oh yes. She's a sadist. She's very sick. She's got problems. I think she's been in prison a bit too long. But I suspect even before prison she had problems. She's a racist, obsessed with blood purity. Like Adolf. And she's in love with Voldemort, really.

In a lot of Phoenix promos, Warner has been playing up that image of Bellatrix threatening Neville Longbottom (played by Matthew Lewis) with her wand.
I did something terrible. By mistake, I poked him in his ear. I thought I could brandish the wand like a sort of Q-tip, and clean out his ear. Sort of torture it. But unfortunately he moved toward the wand as I was prodding it. And it actually perforated his eardrum. Isn't that horrific? I damaged him! He's such a nice young man, he didn't admit to me that he actually had some internal bleeding about three days later.

So you didn't even know you'd injured him at the time?
No. And it wasn't permanent. But there was pain, and blood. Well, torture happens. Sorry! Oops! I think I took my sadism a bit too literally.

Wow — that's an interesting bit of improv.
Stupid, though! Dangerous! I did feel awful when they told me.

Did you get a chance to apologize to Matthew later, once you found out what had happened?
Oh yeah. But he was deaf, so he couldn't hear me. [Laughs wildly]

 

 

(Scabior and Fenrir Greyback)

  The mind boggles thinking about how much they are spending on the avalanche of this stuff...but you just know they'll be selling them and you simply must collect each one.

(snitchseeker via ohnotheydidnt)

Reblog: I would tell @kateesackhoff about my "one huge reason" but that would be pervy. And creepy. Also a lie. - Top 25 Coolest Cylons Ever - You should follow @actingoutlaws !

 

"At the #BMW dealer in Longbeach getting fit for the motorbikes!!"

Photo credit: @kateesackoff and @trutriciahelfer get ready for a 2500 miles cross-country trip to raise awareness and $ for the devastated Gulf area.

You should follow @actingoutlaws on Twitter: Katee Sackhoff is luring Tricia Helfer into the desert, ostensibly "to raise money for the Gulf Coast Relief Fund." I'm sure that isn't code for anything, but I'm also pretty sure Thunderdome is somewhere between LA and Louisiana.

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mokwella | February 13, 2009

Top 25 Coolest Cylons Ever.

"Top 25 Coolest Cylons Ever"

I disagree with some of the picks and would debate on a few others but this video has cool music and a nice montage of featured Cylons from the original series through the Ronald G.Moore-era Cylons.

 

Below: Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff @kateesackhoff and Tricia Helfer @trutriciahelfer

Interview LA.Times 2009

All About Why They Ride

 

losangelestimes | September 01, 2009

Susan Carpenter, motorcycle columnist for the Los Angeles Times rides with Battlestar Galactica stars Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff on Angeles Crest Highway.

 

John & Yoko's Peace Tower Video - Better Dayz by 2Pac/ Marvin Gaye FREE Download

Y0K0ON0 | September 12, 2009

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon. It is situated on Viðey Island in Reykjavík, Iceland. The artwork was dedicated to John by Yoko at its unveiling on October 9th 2007, John Lennons 67th birthday.

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER symbolizes Lennons and Onos continuing campaign for world peace - which began in the sixties, was sealed by their marriage in 1969 and will continue forever.

The words IMAGINE PEACE are inscribed on the Well in 24 different languages.

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is composed of a tall shimmering tower of light that will appear every year and be visible from October 9th (Johns birthday) until December 8th (the anniversary of his passing).

In addition, the Tower will illuminate from Winter Solstice (December 21st 28th), on New Years Eve (December 31st) and the first week of spring (March 21st -28th). It is lit from 2 hours after sunset until midnight, and until dawn on New Years Day.

On 9th October, John Lennons birthday, Yoko Ono asks the people of Iceland to join her and many others across the rest of the world in praying for peace and stability.

At 8pm, as IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is illuminated on the island of Viðey, in Reykjavik, Iceland, she asks everyone to join together and let the power of light and prayer become a collective expression of the desire for peace and harmony on our planet.

Dear Friends,

Please join me not only in remembering John on October 9th but also in spreading the message of peace. This is something that was so important to John - the fact that we could all work together for the positive good of our planet. He would have loved how we are all mobilizing ourselves in thought and in action.

It's time for Action and the Action is PEACE!

with love, yoko

Thirty years later, I still can't get through listening to "Imagine" w/out crying. I couldn't get through Yoko's message tear-free either, but it is a critical one sp please listen. Its not about "just" ending war against one another, its about ending our destruction of planet Earth in every way. I cannot phrase it any better than Yoko does when she says, "we (can) all work together for the positive good of our planet." We must.

I made this blend of Tupac's "Better Dayz" with Marvin Gaye's jam "Inner City Blues" after a request from Afeni Shakur (Tupac's mom!). It's supposed to be a conversation between the two artists... Hope you enjoy it... credits released 13 September 2010

Perfect timing on this FREE download. I think Tupac & John Lennon could have made some amazing music together. This song just gets better upon repeat listening, in no small part due to the seamless mixing of the legendary Marvin Gaye's contribution of "Inner City Blues." Enjoy it and hare!

johnlennon | October 06, 2010

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Join us in celebrating John Lennon's 70th birthday!

Give peace a chance.

 

 

 Please join Yoko in dedicating this light tower in honor of John Lennon. In 1967, he conveyed his wishes to Yoko for a light tower to be constructed in his garden. In Yoko's words, it just came together in the past few years. Watch the video and you will see why she chose this place for the light tower. John's 70th birthday would have been tomorrow, October 9. Thanks.

"http://imaginepeacetower.com/"

Dexter - Sneak Peeks 5x02 "Bandit" Preview/Synopsis - 'Welcome Home,' 'Creature of the Night' Eulogy for Rita (9.26.10)

 
This Deb and Quinn hookup evokes too much of the Quinn -Trinity Killer's daughter hook-up of last season. We know he's after her brother. She's got to know the same. Will it then be a matter of them using one another for separate agendas? I hate the Quinn character as well as his big-ass gold chain, spray-tan, showy pinky ring and possible cheek implants (actor, not character). I was discussing this and the quick and dirty way of taking care of Quinn would be for Dexter to do a Doakes on him but I don't think so. I'd like to see Quinn gone--but gone to prison maybe--because the mystery of his checkered past has not been fleshed out--and Dexter is gonna need ammunition.

 

So Dexter premiered to record high ratings. Super! With a total audience of 2.34 million on Sunday Sept 26 Dexter's premiere was the highest since (gulp) The Outer Limits--which sounds sort of lame, doesn't it? Not lame-sounding at all is the fact that Dexter Season 5, Episode 1 the most watched Showtime broadcast of 2010!

There’s no denying that Michael C. Hall has a certain Dex appeal.

Case in point: ‘Dexter’s Season 5 opener carved out an audience of 2.34 million total viewers on Sunday night, making it Showtime’s most watched season premiere in 15 years (since ‘The Outer Limits‘).

The episode’s initial 9 pm airing drew 1.77 million viewers, while an 11 o’clock encore added another 575K.

The killer outing also represents a 22 percent increase from ‘Dexter’s previous season premiere night, and the most watched Showtime broadcast of 2010.

Source: Fancast

SHOWTIME | Season 5 Ep. 2 | Added: September 28, 2010

Dexter investigates a blood stain he discovers in his rented moving van.

So the consensus is that Dexter is back with a vengeance ratings-wise but at least one "fan" describes the Season 5 premiere as "depressing." (see just below) To this person I recommend switching off the TV and getting some real-life experience because you obviously have not got one frakkin' clue. Guy's wife gets murdered = sad episode. Seriously. You cannot be old enough to watch Dexter and have such a stunted viewpoint. But maybe I spoke too fast. E!Online also describes episode 2 as "a bit slow -paced." Wow. Yeah? Everyone doesn't just go straight back to "normal?! Make you a bet. Dexter will be the first to get back to business as usual.

Q:  Dexter going to be moping the whole season? The premiere was depressing.
A: No! Dexter follows a blood trail (literally) to a fellow serial killer, and you know nothing puts a spring in Dexter's step like a good ol' hunting party. Episode two is also a bit slow-paced, but episode three starts to feel like the Dexter of yesterseason. The table, the plastic wrap and the knives are back in no time.

via SpoilerTV

 

Dexter - Season 5, episode 2 preview

AntitheistNY | September 27, 2010

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SHOWTIME | Season 5 Ep. 2 | Added: September 28, 2010

Dexter moves Astor and Cody into Debra's apartment.

Dexter Season 5, Episode 2: 'Bandit'

In his new role as single father, an anxious Dexter tries to get his family's routine back on track, to begin the process of moving on from Rita's death. Dexter attempts to focus all his attention on the kids while curbing his dark urges. But when evidence of foul play falls into his lap, Dexter makes a horrific discovery, setting Dexter on the trail of his next victim. Debra, trying to be the good sister, shares her apartment with Dexter and the kids only to find there's no room for her. She unhappily finds herself on Quinn's doorstep. Miami Metro has their work cut out when a grisly scene is found in a Venezuelan neighborhood.

 

Dexter - Things to come in season 5

AntitheistNY | September 27, 2010

Eulogy for Rita (9.26.10)

AntitheistNY | September 27, 2010

Dexter: The Serial Killer People Love To Love - 'History Repeating': Lauren Velez

SHOWTIME | September 21, 2010

Lauren Velez describes her character, Laguerta's reaction to Rita's death, and Quinn's suspicion of Dexter.

The New York Times did an interview with Michael C.Hall this week and enjoyable as it was I was really taken aback that the interviewer apparently is completely unfamiliar with the Dexter character and the show's audience:

It’s hard to imagine that even the show’s most hard-core fans could protest too much if Dexter’s fate were a grim one, in keeping with the punishments he has handed out himself. In the meantime Mr. Hall continues to see how human he can make a character who doesn’t believe in his own humanity.

I vehemently disagree that the show's "most hard-core fans" would have little to disagree about if/when Dexter meets a violent end. One only has to look at how sympathetic the responses have been to (Dexter's  wife) Rita's horrific death and the inevitable impact it will have on Dexter.

Dexter is the serial killer people love to love.

And, I believe Dex is exactly as the show's writers wish him to be. Why else would they repeatedly show us that he was so severely damaged as a child that who and what he is now is a direct result? What was the purpose of an entire season where we saw Dexter's slightly older serial killer brother kill without a conscience illuminating what a true serial killer behaves like if not to see the absolute contrast between a "good" serial killer and a bad one?

Nope. Absolutely not. The fans will be up in arms every bit as much as the LOST fans who were promised a satisfying ending and got instead the Island's glowing asshole.

The article was worthwhile when it stuck to the insights of both Hall and show runner Chip Johannessen:

Chip Johannessen (“24”), who joined “Dexter” as this season’s show runner, pointed to two things that continue to close in on the writers: the growing likelihood that Debra, a crack police detective, will discover her brother’s secret life, and Dexter’s gradual normalization, his progress toward “some recognizable human place.” When either happens, the show will be over.“I think it’s going to be up to Michael,” Mr. Johannessen said.

Mr. Hall, who is an executive producer of the show, will also have a say in the nature of Dexter’s fate. “With the way the fourth season ended, the suggestion seems to be that there are consequences. And it’s hard to imagine it ultimately ending well for him.”

“When I first encountered the character, my first question was: Is this a person who could ever be? Really?” Mr. Hall said. “And I’m still not sure. I think I’m coming closer and closer to believing that he’s real. And I think Dexter’s coming closer and closer to believing that he’s real too.”

NYTIMES.com short excerpt

Update! Sneak Peek Dexter Scene - 'Rita was their only hope' - Michael C Hall - Jennifer Carpenter 'Deb' - Getting Rid of the Ghosts

It's really hard not to observe the marital dynamic between Michael C Hall (Dexter) and wife Jennifer Carpenter (Deb). He looks good at Comic Con, though his hair is kind of wavy. Wondering if that a result of the chemo. I've noticed in the Season 5 promos that he is bewigged. For the start of Season 5 and for promotion of it it seems needed but according to Jennifer Carpenter, they are filming Episode 4 currently so I wonder if sharp eyes are going to notice Dexter getting a haircut after the first couple of episodes? Hall looks great though. Much perseverance on Hall's part to work right through his treatments and to return to work barely as he finished them. Strong guy.

'Rita was their only hope.'

SHOWTIME | July 26, 2010

Dexter copes with the idea of raising Astor and Cody. Bonus sneak peek scene from the 5th season of Dexter.

What Deb Knows

SHOWTIME | July 26, 2010

Jennifer Carpenter discusses Deb's love interest and her character's suspicions about Dexter.

Comic-Con: Killer Satisfaction

SHOWTIME | July 26, 2010

Michael C Hall discusses his favorite kill as Dexter and addresses a question from the audience on how to deal with being an amateur serial killer.

Comic-Con: Working with John Lithgow

SHOWTIME | July 26, 2010

Michael C. Hall discusses what it was like working with John Lithgow in season four.

Toy Story 3 - Theatrical Trailer (6.14) - Security Cam - Ken's Dating Tips #31 #48 (6.14) - 17 Toy Story Character Posters

UPDATE

I did not know this about Toy Story or hadn't really thought it through. This Disney-Pixar collaboration is non-3D? That it is offered in 2 dimensions is good regardless but also...  if it is only in 2-D I congratulate Disney-Pixar for realizing a certain type of film is best-suited to being rendered in the 3D medium as well as a certain type that isn't. If Toy Story had radically changed--going to 3D is pretty radical at this point in the resurrection of 3D--then it wouldn't be Toy Story.

Toystory — June 14, 2010 —

The creators of the beloved Toy Story films re-open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters in TOY STORY 3. Woody and Buzz had accepted that their owner Andy would grow up someday, but what happens when that day arrives?

Link: Roger Ebert: Why I Hate 3D Movies - Newsweek

Toy Story 3: Security Cam Footage

DisneyPixar — April 14, 2010

Toystory — June 14, 2010 —

Ken's Dating Tips: Tip # 48

Toystory — June 14, 2010

ON THIS DAY On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as...

ON THIS DAY

On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.

 link I like: TwainQuotes.com

Some Twain utterances (below)

Be good or you will be lonesome . Mark Twain

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain, a Biography

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. - Notebook, 1894

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base metal; she will not even bite it to see if it is good; all she notices is the size of it, not the quality.
- "Hellfire Hotchkiss," reprinted in Satires and Burlesques

LOST - True Blood - Jacob? HOLY CRAP, THAT’S THE SAME GUY?

via www.fakelocke.com

Revelation of the day: Mark Pellegrino, who’s most recognizable these days as Jacob on “Lost,” also played the Blond Treehorn Thug in The Big Lebowski. So if you’re a Hollywood casting agent and you need an actor who can forcibly dunk a guy in water, Pellegrino’s your man. Up next for him: a role as a superhuman Southern Baptist preacher on “True Blood” who baptizes vampires by force.

via warmingglow.uproxx.com and Jake

I've been wanting to find a way to tie two of the shows that I'm most invested in, LOST and True Blood together and I think Mark Pellegrino may be my ticket. Can someone call True Blood casting and make this happen? This guy has perfected forced dunking! (links go to  my WordPress-hosted blogs)

Disney Says No Fake Boobies In Next 'Pirates' Film?

 

I wonder if Johnny Depp's partner Vannessa Paradis, had any say in this? The goss just last week was that Depp, who is currently working on,"TheTourist" with Angelina Jolie (described as 'eating' her male co-stars for lunch) is trying to get out of a steamy love scene with Jolie if not the entire film--at Paradis's behest. I applaud her if she's got that much sway with JD.There's no doubt that Depp has that much pull with Disney. He cemented that with his appearance three times on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. That and all the moola that the Pirates film franchise is pulling in almost completely due to Depp's performance as pirate Jack Sparrow, a character who he based in large part on Rolling Stone, Keith Richards.

Report: Disney Bans Fake Breasts in Next Pirates Movie

Disney may be going au naturale for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

The movie studio has banned actresses with artificial enhancements for the fourth Pirates installment, the New York Post reports.

Filmmakers sent out a casting call last week, according to the paper, seeking "beautiful female fit models. Must be 5 feet 7 inches-5 feet 8 inches, size 4 or 6, no bigger or smaller. Age 18-25. Must have a lean dancer body. Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants." The potential ladies will also have to undergo a test involving jiggling and jogging to determine their breasts' authenticity, the Post says.

The movie, which is set for a May 2011 release, will star Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, Ian McShane as Blackbeard, and Penelope Cruz as Sparrow's love interest, replacing Keira Knightley as the female lead.

Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis

Now if Disney (or Vanessa) could have a word about this requirement of the 'Pirates' 4 film:

Must be 5 feet 7 inches-5 feet 8 inches, size 4 or 6, no bigger or smaller. 

The 'no smaller' part is OK but no bigger than a size 4 or 6? So a size 7/8 on a 5'8" woman is considered too big? Has Disney taken a look recently at the animatronic ladies that Johnny is cavorting with in Disneyland? (j/k He doesn't cavort--only hides--then gleefully sits upon a huge pile of gold coins.)

I realize I'm being unrealistic in pointing this out but Disney started it when it took a stand on ladies with fake boobies.Why not go a step further and bump up the range of sizes a bit?

Johnny Depp back for new Pirates of the Caribbean movie

Dexter - The Dark Passenger is Definitely Back - Season 5 Spoilers from Ausiello/ Paley '10/ Kristen

I'm pretty shocked at how open both the showrunners and cast of Dexter are being about what is in store for season 5. There are plenty of spoilers ahead in the excerpts from three major sources that put their own brand of spin on Dexter: Season 5--as well as Michael C. Hall's battle with cancer and his working relationship with wife, Jennifer Carpenter his co-star (Debra) on Dexter.

One of the big questions running through the minds of Dexter watchers was: Will the story pick up right after Rita's murder--or will they (take the cheesy way out and) time-jump? Question answered:

There will be no time-jumping, as some fans have speculated. In fact, executive producer Sara Colleton promises we'll "be able to grieve" the tragic loss of Rita and see how Dexter responds to his world being turned upside-down. “I think the death of Rita is so awesome that it needs to be honored,” she said. “We’re not going to jump ahead; we’ll actually process that.”

Season 5 will pick up right where season 4 left off.
“We have ...really debated how best to deal with the aftermath of [Rita's death]. We ...decided that we don’t want to jump ahead. We need to see Dexter go through the process that we’d all have to go through if such a horrible thing had happened to us. We need to see him doing everything from the big emotional things like grieving the loss, to the mundane things like arranging a funeral, getting the kids dressed, and all the other things that are usually done for men because their wives or mothers do them. They have no idea how to handle all of these things. As we saw, Rita was really the caretaker of their baby.

"It would be cheating the audience of their catharsis to not see Dexter go through that mourning period and see how it affects him or to not see him dealing with the blowback of what he essentially caused. So we will not jump to Harrison as a 5 year old yet.”

"I look forward to the comedy that will come along with that, because Dexter has never been pitied before," said Michael C. Hall. ...he said that some of his favorite moments are comedic scenes he has shared with C.S. Lee’s Vince Masuka and the richness that adds to the drama.

“Dexter’s cluelessness sets things up for comedy and hopefully now that this traumatic thing has happened to him, he’ll find himself in situations that are inherently comedic because he’s going to have to learn about what it means to be someone who everyone’s treating as if he’s … been through something traumatic,” Hall said.

“Grief is a thing he’s never felt before,” “So I think it’ll be, uh, funny,” he joked. “He’s in hot water. I think there’s a way out of it, but that’s what we’d like to see. He’ll figure his way out. His capacity for stress management rivals his capacity for straight-up killing.”

Knowing how tortuous a road it has been for Dexter to acknowledge having any emotion other than the ones provoked by his Dark Passenger I'm wagering that Dexter will be in no mood for pity.

We'll "discover that it changes things" between Dex and Deb now that she knows the Ice Truck Killer (Brian Moser) was his real brother. "That's a lot for her to take in," Michael explains. "It's a lot for her to deny."

Michael, who announced his battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma in January, looked healthy and happy and told the audience that he's doing well.

"I'm great on the health front." In fact, he says he just had a treatment 'last night" ... and only has one treatment left, but says he is already cancer-free. Huge round of applause for that. Michael also received a standing ovation—of every single person in the audience—when he came out on stage..., Earlier, wife Jennifer (said), MCH's Golden Globe win (amid all the frightening news in January) was "the best night of [her] life."

Addressing a fan’s question about the elephant in the room -- Hall and Carpenter’s marriage and if it was “weird” to play brother and sister -- Hall was ever the gentleman: “To us it doesn’t actually seem weird.” He then paused and looked at Carpenter, who warned him to “Keep this short.” Colleton then interjected that Deb is Dexter’s foster sister and that fans “have to remember that. Dexter said (in the pilot) that ‘If I could love anyone it’d be Deb.’ "Executive producer Sara Colleton took the focus off the awkward Michael-Jennifer real-life couple Q by pronouncing that Deb and Dex aren't blood related, so a coupling isn't out of the question...(lol)

According to departing show runner Clyde Phillips, the writers had Trinity kill Rita in the bathtub (instead of having her jump off the building, which seemed to better fit his pattern of kills) to bring the season full circle. "We wanted to end the season in Dexter's house, where it started," Clyde said, adding that they also wanted to return to the iconic image of (the baby covered in his mother's blood), as Dexter was as a child.

That last bit is part of the reason I love Dexter (the show) so much.They are willing to do the most outrageous things for the benefit of the story. Though those with less intestinal fortitude might contemplate the crazy train that is often Dexter's life they wouldn't act on it (no pun). Dexter's show runners do. (And yeah, it is hugely disturbing).

Dexter won't automatically be cleared of all wrongdoing in Rita's death. How will he explain all that blood and that Rita's missing when he can't tell the force that he knew Arthur Mitchell? Will Batista remember Mitchell being at the station visiting Dexter?

Wait.What? Rita is going to be missing? As in cut up into chunks are tossed in the ocean?! See, even that I wouldn't put past the show runners. Dexter's primary concern--always--is self preservation.

The showrunners wouldn't give a definitive answer on whether there would be a new Big Bad in Season 5, but executive producer Sara Colleton did hint toward a no, saying the focus will really be turned back on to Dexter and his internal struggle with everything going on—something the series has never done before.

“John Lithgow is a tough act to follow. If there was ever a year that we could take a step back from the Big Bad formula and go deeper into Dexter and his psychology, this would be it."

That said, Dexter has a dark passenger that won’t go away no matter how much he yearns to be normal.

That rears up and needs to be dealt with. He may even dive deeper after this traumatic loss of Rita. We are working on a way that feels original and fresh and unique to what he has just gone through. It cannot be the way it has been before. In [Season 1], he was terrified of any kind of intimacy because intimacy equaled being discovered. Then he slowly realized he had a need to be known and he set up a family and tried the best he could to balance it all. And now, he sees what being known brings him and he had it ripped out from underneath him suddenly and that will have some affect on him.”

Hall -- who noted that Tuesday marked his second-to-last round of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma and that his final round will be March 17 -- said that filming scenes opposite fellow Golden Globe winner Lithgow’s frighteningly creepy Trinity was actually the most fun he’s had acting with anyone.

“The darker it was, the more hysterical it was (to film),” Hall said. “John is infectious. It really became about finding reasons to keep him alive. But yeah, he (Dexter) should have killed him sooner.”

Executive producer John Goldwyn perhaps summed up Rita’s death best: “(Fans) felt punched in the gut.” Added executive producer Sara Colleton: “After they processed their surprise, (Rita’s death) felt right,” she said. “If it’s possible that a death can be earned, it was. It wasn’t a plot device or a cliffhanger.”

Colleton, meanwhile, addressed a fan’s question about what happens to Rita’s kids, Cody and Astor.

“Cody and Astor are somewhat insulated from Dexter’s world, but it is something that is going to haunt Dexter,” she said. “That’s a very provocative issue that we are going to explore.”

With such a shocking season finale what every fan of the show is clamoring to find out is what happens to Dexter now? Tune in this September to find out.

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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan - 'Caprica is burning' Hybrid Video - Photos - Screen Caps

"Caprica is burning." --the Hybrid 

This is one of two or three scenes in the Battlestar Galactica telefilm, 'The Plan' (1st aired 01.10.10 ) that I really liked. The Hybrid remains strange and intriguing. Not human, not cylon but the heart and brain of each basestar.

A Hybrid summarizes the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and notes all but the colony of Sagittaron.

"Progress reports arriving. The farms of Aerilon are burning. The beaches of Canceron are burning. The plains of Leonis are burning. The jungles of Scorpia are burning. The pastures of Tauron are burning. The harbours of Picon are burning. The cities of Caprica are burning. The oceans of Aquaria are burning. The courthouses of Libran are burning. The forests of Virgon are burning. The temples of Gemenon are burning. The Colonies of Man lie trampled at our feet."

More from the Hybrid's lips: 

Seized by God they cry for succor in the dark of the light. Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. Jump.

Counting down. All functions nominal. All functions optimal. Counting down. The center holds. The falcon hears the falconer. Infrastructure, check. Wetware, check. Everyone hang on to the lap bar, please.

Apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning. Devices on alert. Observe the procedures of a general alert. The base and the pinnacle. The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal in that which passes.

Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time is an illusion we created. Free will, twelve battles, three stars, and yet we are countless as the bodies in which we dwell, are both parent and infinite children in perfect copies. No degradation.

The makers of the makers fall before the child. Accessing defense system: Handshake, handshake. Second level clear.

Accepting scan. Love outlasts death.

Their ships fail, skittering like skipped stones, and movement is meaningless in the absence of time. What never was is never again.

One has to wonder where she gets some of her material but she's cool just the same. Crazy cool.

Next favourite scene (that I made caps of-- there are a few more scenes that I didn't cap).

Tough-Six and Galactica-Cavil drunkenly lament on the failure of the Cylons to destroy the Fleet:

Six: You want a progress report? I'll give you a frakkin' progress report.

Cavil: Oh, no. Please don't. Please don't.

Six: Oh, come on, it is spectacular. Doral blew himself up, causing minor damage to a minor hallway. And Boomer jettisoned the water, and then, she personally found loads more water. (Laughing) And then she shot Adama, but not very accurately, since she loved him. And then, Leoben, he got obsessed with Kara Thrace, and then was captured and airlocked.

And my sister Six utterly failed to discredit Baltar and his dreamy hair and destroyed our frakkin' cover in the process.

And now Simon...Simon killed himself, really killed himself, out of resurrection range, without blowing up the ship that he lived on because he couldn't imagine life without his little human wife and his little human daughter because he loves them...

Cavil: Stop, stop, stop.

Six: Guess I'd better.

Cavil: Yes. They're all letting me down.

Six: Why are they letting you down, One? What's the x-factor? (She takes the bottle) You can't declare war on love. (She leaves)

Cavil: I think I already did. Hey, where'd the bottle go?

Source: Battlestar Wiki

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