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Vampires: Immortal, and Recession Proof

Janet Ginsburg | Posted 12.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Werewolves, New Moon, Ginsburg, Vampires, Powers, Financial Crisis, Twilight, Duncan, The New Vampire's Handbook, Recession, Comedy News
Janet Ginsburg

Vampires would fare significantly better than most in our current crisis, because they have a few things most citizens do not: old fashion common sense, a fiscally prudent nature -- and a very long memory.

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Twilight: Fact, Fiction & Fantasy

Sara Taney Humphreys | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Twilight, Films, Film, Vampires, Fantasy, Entertainment News
Sara Taney Humphreys

What's most fascinating is that the media acts like the "vampire phenomenon" is a new thing. That couldn't be further from the truth. Hello? Buffy, Angel, The Lost Boys, Interview with a Vampire and of course Dracula.

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UPDATED: Erin Westrate LIED About Being Bitten At "New Moon" Showing By Stranger (VIDEO)

Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Girl Bitten at New Moon Movie, Video, Erin Westrate, Vampires, New Moon, Erin Westrate Bitten New Moon, Twilight, Erin Westrate Bitten, Erin Westrate Video, Movies, Entertainment News

***UPDATE*** Erin Westrate has admitted that she made up the story about being bitten on the neck by a stranger while seeing a showing of the new Twi...

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Anne Rice On Her Switch To Angels

wowOwow | Joni Evans | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: New Anne Rice, Anne Rice, Vampires, Angel Time, Writing, Anne Rice Angel Time, Authors, Author Interviews, Books, Angels, Interview With the Vampire, Books News

"Just write. That's what makes us a writer, is we write. I mean, if we don't do that we're not writers. And it's so important not to be discouraged, b...

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Is the Twilight Saga Heralding the Reincarnation of the B-Movie?

Annie Stamell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Twilight Saga, Robert Pattinson, New Moon, Hot Topic, Vampires, Movies, B-Movies, Entertainment News
Annie Stamell

The Twilight series has bad writing, ridiculous characters, and is excessive and unrealistic, but most importantly: it's fun. It's a lot of fun. Both the books and the film are so bad they're good.

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Enough With the Whiny Vampires Already

Mark Morford | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Fleshlight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dracula, Sex Toys, Movies, Vampires, Succu-Dry, Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, Entertainment News
Mark Morford

How much more can an exhausted pop culture take, after the Twilight phenom and its never-ending cavalcade of Walmart-ready tchotkes?

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Wussferatu

Laurence Hughes | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Classics, Vampires, Dracula, Bram Stoker, Halloween, Books, Gothic Horror, Horror Novels, Books News
Laurence Hughes

Dracula has turned into many things in his time -- a bat, a wolf, a mist. Exactly when did he turn into a wuss?

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'The Vampire's Assistant' and 10 other reasons why we really dig vampires in 2009

Greg Archer | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kristen Stewart, True Blood, Anna Paquin, Twilight, Robert Pattinson, Vampires, Entertainment News
Greg Archer

Vampire shows, vampire films -- they're all around. The nation loves them and the love affair doesn't show any signs of fading.

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Halloween Parties and the Latest in Gruesome Candy

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Candy, Marty Feldman, Stephen Moyer, Zombies, Will Durst, Vampires, Balloon Boy, Bela Lugosi, Vomit, Spiders, Halloween, Hannibal Lecter, Goldman Sachs, Candy Corn, Douchebags, John Belushi, Filippa Hamilton, Alex O'Loughlin, True Blood, Billy Mays, Activia Yogurt, Jeffrey Dahmer, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Halloween Party, Jack Nicholson, Leatherface, Living News
Maggie Van Ostrand

Where once the King of Halloween confection was Candy Corn -- selling 8.3 billion kernels a year -- planners of today's Halloween parties lobby their new faves: the latest in gross and disgusting party food.

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What's Halloween Without a Little Vampire?

Reyne Haines | Posted 10.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Auction, Halloween, Dracula, Vampires, Collecting, Style News
Reyne Haines

I'm talking about collecting, upcoming auctions, and an authentic piece of vampire history you can acquire this Halloween.

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Museum of Vampyric Artifacts Opens Haunted House

The New York Observer | Emily Geminder | Posted 11.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Halloween, Real Estate, New York, Museum of Vampyric Artifacts, Vampires, Haunted House, New York News

By day, the newest museum in town offers everything a New Yorker might expect guided tours, worldly artifacts, meticulously curated exhibits. But by n...

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 12

Mark Blankenship | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Anna Paquin, Television, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Vampire, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Seasons can't go on forever, and "Beyond Here Lies' Nothin'" sends True Blood out in style.

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Vampires: Why Here, Why Now?

Tom Alderman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Count Chocula, The Vampire Diaries, Dark Shadows, Bela Lugosi, Syracuse University, Random House, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Charlaine Harris, Hammer Films, Colin Farrell, Sesame Steet, Nicolas Cage. Con Air, Interview With a Vampire, Wheaties Breakfast of Champions, Lord Byron, Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice, Lady Caroline Lamb, The CW Network, Tracey Bateman, Bram Stoker, The Vampyre, Twilight, Charlie Huston, General Mills, Drew Silver, The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampires, WaterBrook Publishers, Rosemary Laurey, Robert Thompson, True Blood, Tanya Huff, John Polidori, Bill Compton, Nosferatu, Sookie, Entertainment News
Tom Alderman

If fiction often reflects a nation's culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 11

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Vampire, True Blood Sucker Punch, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

I can forgive my favorite shows when they have a bad episode or two. And I'll definitely have to forgive True Blood for this week's installment, "Frenzy." It's pretty much a disaster.

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Reselling Things That Already Exist

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 09.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: P Diddy, P. Diddy, Cheese, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Toothpaste, Time Travel, Deodorant, Gold's Gym, Dolly Parton, Grapes, Soap, Ancient Egypt, Vampires, Dog Food, Ancient Greece, Vegetables, Sunblock, Ancient Rome, Cowboys, New York Times, Philosophers, Law and Order, Advertising, Ponies, Magic, Oats, Floss, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

For a hot minute, I couldn't decide if this strategy is the dumbest thing since "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" or if it's pure genius. I was stuck with an uncomfortable in-between feeling.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 9

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Cable, Sucker Punch, Emmys, Hbo, Vampires, Drama, Racism, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

What can I say? I wasn't feeling it tonight. "I Will Rise Up" has a few Sucker Punches, but it mostly functions as a placeholder.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Have You Hugged Your Cadaver Today? Glenn McQuaid on I Sell the Dead

Dan Persons | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Zombies, Horror, Sex, Exclusive, Vampires, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ireland, Dominic Monaghan, New York City, Movies, Comedy, Ron Perlman, Gore, Interview, Great Britain, Larry Fessenden, Staten Island, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

I Sell the Dead has pretty much nothing going for it except a neat cast, plus the visual inventiveness and sheer, audacious wit of its director, Mr. McQuaid. Fortunately, that's more than enough.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 8

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Religion, Television, Anna Paquin, Sucker Punch, Hbo, Vampires, Catfight, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Iximng ti pu. See what I did there? I took the phrase "mixing it up," and I mixed it up. That's because True Blood episode 2.8, "Timebomb," mixes up the meaning of two central metaphors. (I know, right? I'm so clever!)

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Why America Bares Its Neck for Alexander Skarsgard

Mike Alvear | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alexander Skarsgard Dating, Alexander SkarsgåRd Naked, Alexander SkarsgåRd, Barnabas Collins, Vampires, Alexander Skarsgard Shirtless, Dark Shadows, Alexander Skarsgard Naked, Alexander Skarsgard Sex, Alexander SkarsgåRd Shirtless, Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood Theme Song, True Blood, Alex Skarsgard, Vampire-Con, Lestat, Entertainment News
Mike Alvear

There's a rash of plunging necklines across the country as women (and men) try to bait the dark eroticism they see in Alexander Skarsgard, the vampire Eric Northman on HBO's True Blood.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 7

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Church, Sucker Punch, Humor, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Mark Blankenship, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Are you serious, True Blood? Are you really going to spring Godric on me in the last moment of Episode 7 ("Release Me") and then cut to the credits? D

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 6

Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Entertainment, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

There are so many sucker-punchy scenes in this installment that I could get carpal tunnel syndrome writing about them all.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 5

Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Religion, Anna Paquin, Television, Alan Ball, Vampires, Hbo, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Welcome to Sucker Punch, the only blog post that ranks the gaudiest moments on this week's episode of True Blood.

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Jason Linkins

Glenn Beck Radio Freakout Remixed Into Heavy Metal Song About Vampires

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Twilight, Glenn Beck, On Air Freakouts, Meltdown, Vampires, Media News

So, did you read about that time that Glenn Beck got a TEENSY BIT PIQUED at a lady who called in to his radio show, forcing him to go to his screechy ...

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 4

Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Anna Paquin, Television, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Almost all the characters are weakened in some way, which creates a queasily exciting energy: We can sense a bomb's about to drop, but we can't quite tell where it's going to fall.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode Three

Mark Blankenship | Posted 07.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Welcome to Sucker Punch, the only blog post that ranks the gaudiest moments on this week's episode of True Blood.

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