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So as we say goodbye to summer and re-runs of our favorite shows, you say hello to them again after reeling in from those crazy cliffhangers and new shows to pack into our TV time. I believe if I counted it right, there are 37 new shows this year including Cable. As for new shows, I can't wait for The Vampire Diaries and NCIS: Los Angeles. For continuing shows, it's Gossip Girl, 90210 and NCIS for their crazy cliffhanger endings. For Cable, I'm a big Dexter fan so I can't wait to see him being a dad now. LOL.

One show that I hear on syndicated entertainment shows are talking about Melrose Place. There is a lot of buzz going around this show, so I'm guessing that it will much more hotter due to the whole new generation and technology. Familiar faces to me are Katie Cassidy ( When a Stranger Calls), Ashlee Simpson- Wentz, Jesscia Lucas ( Cloverfield, The Covenant) and Michael Rady ( Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) are the new residents of the complex. Also veterans Daphne Zuniga, Laura Leighton, and Thomas Calabro are returning as their orignial characters.

So pick wisely out of the new bunch of shows to add to ever long list of favorites if you do have any. Pretty much of those may or may not be picked up after the season numbers kicks in.

Since I'm on the topic of vampires, I had a interesting weekend with my friend, Miriam. We went to our very first Twilight Convention. We meet some of the cast members and the new add members ( Chaske Spencer, Kiowa Gordon and Alex Meraz.) To add on the vampire themed weekend, last night was the second to last episode of season 2 of "True Blood".

Evan Rachel Wood guest starred as the Louisiana Queen, which I thought she did an amazing job of playing that role. I was amazed at how different she has become as an actress and in appearance. ( I mean that in a positive way.) I hope that she will continue that role in future seasons. So for those have no clue what's going-- you are missing by far the best season of the show. The small town of Bon Temps has been taken over by Maryanne, a maenad which is a mythical creature. She is basically has the whole town under her influence and is gunning for Sam ( Sam Trammell) to be her sacrifice. Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Bill (Stephen Moyer) on Eric's (Alexander Skarsgard) request went to Dallas to look for the missing Godric, which happens to Eric's maker.

I'm going to give only that brief overview of the season because I don't want to ruin it for the those who want to catch up on the season. All I can say is that every episode is juicier than the last. September 13th is the finale of the season, so if you have on demand you can definitely get up to date for the finale. Also, a little extra note. On September 10th, an official "True Blood" drink is coming out just in time for the finale. It's a red- orange soda so you can have a bottle as you watch the episode.

Fashion will soon hit our local movie theatres on September 11th when The September Issue comes out. For all you fashion forward people know that September is the month where fashion magazines, especially Vogue is gearing for their most important issue of the year. The movie is specifically about Vogue and their process to get the issue on the right track. I personally am excited because casually read that magazine. I'm an active reader for their Teen Vogue magazine and I took part in their Fashion University in 2007 and 2008.

I learned a lot about the fashion industry and the aspects that goes into running a business. I met some fashion designers like Phillip Lim and Kira Plastinina. I was very fortunate to have that opportunity to experience something like that. With the movie, it's going to give people a look at the magazine and editor Anna Wintour. I think that will be most interesting part besides the clothes. Wintour is known by some to be quite scary and difficlut. I say you can't judge a book by it's cover.

A couple of weeks ago, there was controversy over the fact that Rachelle Lefevre who played Victoria with Bryce Dallas Howard in the upcoming Eclipse movie. My friend Miriam told me about it and the uproar between fans on Twilight dedicated web sites. Many fans, which I found distrubing and childish said that they were going to boycott the movies.

I wasn't too surprised because things happen when it comes to shooting a movie. People get re casted, money is low, etc. Miriam actually responded on one of the sites we follow and spoke her mind. Boy, did she get a response from what her husband, Gus had told me. I personally did not want to read any of these posts because it would have upset badly due to the fact that some these people don't consider that things are not personal and its business.

To boycott a movie just because of that is unfair. They don't realize that could hurt future productions to the saga. The little girls, most of them don't understand. Miriam, which I adore explained that these things happen in Hollywood and that they don't understand that's a factor. One of the response she got was from a girl boasted that she was an actress and blah, blah, blah. That doesn't mean you have to make this idea of boycotting. People just need to be informed about the business side of the industry. It's just not all about the glamour that we see in magazines and television shows. I just feel the business aspect of this is not really quite known and it should be so people can be informed more about it.

As of September 1st, it's pretty much the officially countdown for New Moon being released on November 20th. So, it's going to be a lot of vampire coverage and posts about that until then. There has been a lot of controversy about certain things that revolved around this movie and the future productions for the next two books. Changing of actors, scheduling, etc. you know the deal. On entertainment shows are showing more and more exclusive trailers for the movie. My sister doesn't really want to hype for herself in that due to her anticipation of all behind the scenes exclusive of Twilight.

We was talking about how the second book is portraying Bella and Jacob's friendship as more of an intimate type of thing, which is not really true. There is some type of feelings, but Bella is strongly in love with Edward. The book really focuses on Bella and Jacob's friendship as it begins to be stronger and Bella is sort of "getting over" Edward. Overall, I think it's going to be a decent movie that the fans will enjoy. I can't wait to see it. I might get to pre screen the movie before it comes out.

As you know it's almost pretty much the end of the summer blockbuster season in the film world. All magazines are already gearing up their fall movie preview issues to get us prepared for that. The last movie of the summer is the very much anticipated Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. ( Fans mostly.) I am huge fan of Tarantino so I am foaming at the mouth waiting for this movie to come out this weekend.

He has done some awesome movies that will forever be on my favorite list of films. ( Kill Bill Vol. 1, Reservoir Dogs.) This is going to be an interesting movie... Number 1, it's touching on a topic that is very sensitive to a lot of people-- the Holocaust and Hitler and number 2, it's going to be super crazy. I'm personally interested in Brad Pitt's performance in this movie.

From the commercials on TV that I'm seeing Brad looks pretty funny ( in a good way). I don't think I have seen him in a role like that so I can't wait. Hopefully I get to see this movie this weekend. I think Inglourious Basterds is going to be at the number one spot for Monday's numbers. We will see if it comes true. ( I know it will.)