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‘True Blood’ Truly Getting Bloodier

3:59PM Seth | “Now you listen here, mister. You get your teeth out of my Sookie this instant, or there will be Hell to pay! OK then, don’t say I didnt warn you!” Eater LA has a list of all the local restaurants and businesses offering Election Night specials to anyone wearing a “I Voted!” sticker Here’s a gallery of spooks and ghouls spotted around town on Halloween. Next year we’re definitely going as Shirtless Food Grilling Hunk! EW.com reports one half of Grey’s Anatomy’s only gay couple, Dr. Erica Hahn (aka actress Brooke Smith), has been ordered removed from the series by ABC, who “‘had issues’ with…the explicit direction” her relationship was taking. Assault and battery claims leveled against Keanu Reeves by an allegedly squished paparazzo have been tossed, but the photographer can still pursue a negligence claim. More »

This Wasn’t The Steamy ‘True Blood’ Guy-On-Guy Kiss We Were Hoping For

8:10AM Seth | An All Gays edition: We were kind of hoping Alan Ball would throw us a bone by way of some hot all-man, V-juiced action, but instead we got Lafayette getting busy with Milton from Office Space. [True Blood] Sam Jackson wants these motherfucking civil rights abusers off his motherfucking gay marriage legislation! 90210 hunk Dustin Milligan wrote a very thoughful and sweet apology on his blog in reference to an internet sketch in which he called Elvis the “King of Homos.” (”No one should be made to feel like they or their sexuality/lifestyle is synonymous with ’stupid,’ and no one should be made to feel like they are less than anyone else because of who they love.”) We also learned from his website bio that he hails from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. 9021O Canada! Here they are, boys: Cosmopolitan’s 25 Sexiest Men list! We didn’t make it again. And finally: the new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer. Gay wizards galore! More »

4:30AM Seth | The Vampires Give Back. An operative deep undercover in Tampa writes us: “I am stymied as to why Sam Trammell and Rutina Wesley (”Sam” and “Tara”) from HBO’s True Blood are in my office’s conference room giving out autographs and pictures with all 500 of the employees in my Tampa, FL cable company’s office. Is it normal for a show to bring its actors on a tour of Florida suburbs to shake hands with call centre employees, tech staff, etc.? Is this kind of grassroots PR work a good sign for the show, or a bad one?” Gee, we don’t really know, though when we stop to think about it, the Austin Nichols and Luke Perry John From Cincinnati Visits A Surf Shop Near You! tour did come just weeks before its cancellation. Take from that what you will. [Defamer] More »