Penn Badgley, star of Gossip Girl and the upcoming film The Stepfather, opens up to about relationship advice and romance in the October 2009 issue of Women’s Health magazine. Here are the highlights:

The best piece of relationship advice he’s received: “Passion is number one and trust is number two. You need to start with a passionate connection, and if you can maintain it and cultivate it, that’s most important. Then trust can develop. I have both now, and it’s been an incredible thing.”

The most romantic meal he’s cooked for a woman: “Earlier this year I went to Thailand and took some cooking classes. I learned how to make classic Thai dishes, which are exotic, spicy and quick and easy to make—and a rare thing to cook for a woman. I made a yellow curry with pineapple. I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach.”

The Gossip Girl character he’s most like in real life: “Nate is too normal, and Chuck is too bad. I understand Dan, even though he’s too nice sometimes. He’s just so earnest that he can’t help but mess up. But in our third season, he’s going to have more fun acting out of character.”

Catch this interview in the October 2009 issue of Woman’s Health magazine, the cover features Christina Applegate on the cover.

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We all know that this season of True Blood is almost over. And what are you going to do then? You might want to watch both seasons all over again. But still you want to see more of Sookie and Bill together. (And not to just recreate that mind blowing scene everyone saw last week either.) So now when you get a case of withdrawal you can dress up your own Sookie and Bill paper dolls up.

You can go over here to get your set of four characters. And there will be new characters and clothes added every week. You can thank me later.

After seeing the other characters that are on tap for Tim Burton’s Wonderland I was excited to see what Alice looked like. I didn’t have to wait for long since these new pictures were released of her. Mia Wasikowska plays Alice. I think that she is perfect for that role.

Celebuzz said the release date for the movie was March 5, 2010, so I guess we will have to wait to find out closer to that day.

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Somehow I got sucked into the Twilight madness!! I got sent today a lot of new character sketches and banners from Twilight so I thought I might share them. (I have some super hot stills I’ll share in another post!) And I’ll even add the HQ version of the trailer.

Here is a quick, proper run-down of the movie…

TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn’t have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella’s soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) – come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?

Also remember it’s out on November 21st and is rated PG-13.

The character sketches this way…

There are so many spoilers coming from Comic Con…and here are some from Lost that I haven’t heard yet. And yes, I actually had to read them. So SPOILERS ahead…

The producers guaranteed that viewers will finally see Danielle Rousseau’s story in season 5, despite the fact that the character recently died.  They also delivered some minor scoop about next season, revealing that Kate will see Sawyer again, Vincent will be back, and that we’ll find out if Richard Alpert has four or five toes.  However, the most exciting thing about the new season is that the writers are once again shaking up their storytelling techniques.  They plan to tell stories on the island, off the island, in the past and in the future.  When the season premiere begins viewers will have no clue when or where they are, which is just how the Lost masterminds like it.

So I guess the one the thing that I wanted clarity on…whether its a flashforward or a flashback…will not get any easier…It will be a crazy confusing season it sounds like. But that’s they way they like it!

By now you have probably heard that it has been confirmed that Jensen Ackles is 100% returning to Supernatural (he is the star of the show)! So now we can get the lowdown on the new season, from creator, Eric Kripke…

Spoilers after the jump…..

TVGuide.com: You weren’t lying when you said you were hoping to make your fans really angry and full of anxiety all summer!
Eric Kripke: [Laughs] It was a fun way to end the season. Dean meat-hooked in the center of what looks like a thousand mile spiderweb of rusty chains. Sort of M.C.Escher meets Hellraiser.

TVGuide.com: Why did you send Dean to hell?
Kripke: Everyone expected Dean to be safe! That’s reason enough to send him to hell. But also, in ways I can’t reveal, it’s a turning point for Dean. You need huge moves to happen that can cause radical shifts in the characters, that set them off in a new direction. So what happens to Dean in hell and how Dean gets out become primary concerns of Season 4.

TVGuide.com: So you’ll have scene set in hell?
Kripke: I can give this away. Dean spends a lot more time in hell than anyone’s probably thinking. Dean could spend — in human time — six months, maybe more. In hell time, who knows how many years or decades that might be. [Laughs] I won’t tell you how he gets out, but he will emerge to a different landscape. A lot has changed since he’s been away, and he has to readjust to his loved ones after being gone for so long.

TVGuide.com: Is he still human or… part demon?
Kripke: It takes hundreds of years to be burned away into a demon. Dean won’t be a demon, but there will be an ongoing mystery. When he gets out of hell, he’ll have little recollection of what happened to him down there. That’s one of the mysteries of the season.

TVGuide.com: Speaking of demons, will Ruby be back? And any new characters?
Kripke: Ruby will be back, and we’re introducing a new supernatural species. We intend to bring back Steve Williams, the old embittered hermit hunter Rufus.

TVGuide.com: Let’s get to the heart and soul of the show. How will Dean’s hellish sojourn affect the relationship between the brothers?
Kripke: It will affect it massively. We’ll slowly unfold Dean remembering what happened in hell, and that will drastically affect their relationship. Dean is basically a POW coming home from the worst hellhole — literally — ever. How do you reconnect with your life when you’ve been through something that horrific? That becomes one of his issues. But don’t worry, he’s still the same smart ass he always was.

TVGuide.com: What’s grieving little brother Sam been up to? In the finale, we saw some of his power in his fight with über demon Lilith.
Kripke: We presented him as immune to her powers. We have some twists and turns in store with that. Sam promised Dean right before Dean died that he wasn’t going to pursue any of his powers in terms of discovering his potential. Upon Dean’s return, Sam tells him “I promised I wouldn’t head down that road because you made me promise,” but we begin to wonder if indeed that is the truth. For whatever it’s worth, the writers have never been this excited about a season. We have some really exciting plot twists.

TVGuide.com: Maybe they’ll be exciting enough that this won’t be your last season?
Kripke: Maybe. But you write every season like it’s your last and hope for the best.

It sounds super super exciting…weeee….

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