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Laura Saltman: October 2009 Archives
Just one week until Halloween and I'm sure most of us haven't gotten together our costumes yet. Well, your resident TV expert is here to help. I have scoured the channels up and down from reality TV to dramas and sitcoms to find the ten best TV-themed Halloween costumes of 2009. Happy haunting.
Its a tie for No. 10 as it's all about the suit for this spiffy Halloween look. For Barney you'll be the most legendary person at the party and all you need to do is 'suit-up' to play the "How I Met Your Mother" womanizer. For Don just look for a vintage 1960s suit and slick some dark hair back to play the suave "Mad Men" ad man. Some scotch in a glass and a lit cigarette complete the look. Just don't take a puff because unlike the ' 60s, we now know smoking is bad for you!
Sure "The Real Housewives Of Atlanta's" Nene is a trip and fun to watch but Kim's signature looks screams Halloween. Just grab a Barbie doll blonde wig, some trashy looking (but designer, of course) duds and a huge fake diamond for your ring finger to show everyone how you are now engaged to Big Poppa. Walk around all night singing "Don't Be Tardy For The Party" and getting into cat fights and you are officially a Real Housewife!
#8 Adam Lambert
The "American Idol" runner-up's signature look has Halloween written all over it from the jet black dark hair to the guyliner. Throw a streak of blue in the hair, find your best sexy rock and roll duds, add some KISS style boots and you're all set.
Well, you need only to have been at the Greek Theater in LA on Saturday night to know that vampires are Hollywood's hottest commodity. The Spike TV "Scream 2009" awards brought together bloodsuckers and mortals from every hot vamp property in one venue. Various cast members from CW's "The Vampire Diaries", HBO's "True Blood" and the highly anticipated "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," as well as the upcoming "Vampire Assistant," all came together for one night to celebrate all things horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic book. Let me tell you it was a bloody good time!
This was my first time ever covering the Scream Awards and it was certainly an experience. When I arrived to the Greek Theater it was like Halloween had come early. Fans were lined up waiting to head into their seats dressed in the most elaborate costumes I've seen since Comic Con - everything from sexy vampires to undead pirates and mutilated corpses.
The celebrities on the red carpet of course kept it more tame in typical designer duds (while I tried rocking a faux leather, spiked mini). Stars from all the good gory shows, as well as other fan boy favorites were on hand. Julie Benz from "Dexter" was the first to arrive. Both she and her co-star Jennifer Carpenter informed me that the season finale is going to be unbelievable, and according to Jennifer, "will change Dexter forever." The script was missing the last five pages and Jennifer was so curious to see what was going to happen, that she headed down to the set to watch even though she wasn't in the scene. You'll have to wait until December though for it.
"Hot Dork" - remember that term. I'm going to take credit for coining it to best describe Jake Pavelka, who has officially been chosen as ABC's new "Bachelor." I'm not sure what it is about this guy that rubs me the wrong way. Oh wait. Yes I do. He's got Eddie Haskell syndrome -- a phrase my brothers used to describe my boyfriend the year I graduated college.
Remember how on "Leave It To Beaver" every time that troublemaker Eddie would come over to the Cleavers' house, he would totally kiss a** to Ward and June and make it look like he was mister goody two shoes. "Golly gee Mrs. Cleaver, you look quite lovely today and those cookies you are baking sure do smell delicious."
I don't know if that was actual dialogue from the show, but that's about how it went. Jake is the goody two shoes without the trouble. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he was a quiet, shy dorky kid in high school who never got the girl. Then all of sudden, he woke up in his late twenties and turned out to be a pretty good looking dude. Unfortunately, it was too late to morph out of the dorky guy he always was and into a confident, suave player. OK, OK, I know someone is reading this and thinking how mean it sounds. I'd bet my favorite pair of Manolo Blahniks I'm right on the money though... hence why I will forever refer to Jake as a "Hot Dork." This is not to be confused with a "Hot Nerd," a much better breed of hot guy.
Today I learned my lesson in 'Don't sit on a good idea' - courtesy of Donald Trump. You see, about a year ago, a couple of months after I had broken up with my last boyfriend, I was talking to young Billy Bush here about how I wanted to do a dating reality show. I said to him, "Maybe I should enlist the help of Donald Trump?" Trump has had some luck in reality TV finding good employees with "The Apprentice" so maybe he would have some luck finding me a good man. Perhaps I could pitch him a reality show where I use his money and influence to find my future husband? I recall Billy thinking it was a pretty good idea, but after I walked away from him I did nothing. I sat on the idea and went on with my life. Well, this morning (as I sit here still single) I was perusing the reality casting sites and find this casting notice looking for bachelors 21 and over.
'THE ULTIMATE MERGER'
'THE ULTIMATE MERGER' Donald Trump Productions (NBC's The Apprentice) and Juma Entertainment (ABC's The Superstars) are casting a new reality dating show, The Ultimate Merger, in which Donald Trump takes on the role of matchmaker to help a well known bachelorette achieve the "ultimate merger," a successful relationship. Donald Trump, prod. Bachelors will stay at Trump International Hotel and Tower in Las Vegas for the filming.
I love when cute boys come visit me in the Access Hollywood offices - especially when I'm feeling under the weather! This morning "Glee's" Cory Monteith, who plays jock-turned-lead-male-glee-club-singer Finn, cheered me up by swinging by for a chat after he hit Billy Bush's radio show studio.
"Glee" is the first of this fall's crop of new shows to get a full season pick-up but they won't go back into production until January as they have already finished shooting the first 13 episodes. So, the cast has some time on their hands, which is how I got so lucky to have a visit from Cory.
Rather than chat about a show he's not currently taping I decided to put his skills to the test and see if he has learned anything about his co-stars while filming and promoting the show. Take the quiz along with Cory and then watch the interview to see if you knew the answers. Good luck!
THE CORY MONTEITH "HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR 'GLEE' CO-STARS" QUIZ:
1. WHAT HIGH SCHOOL DID CHRIS COLFER ATTEND?
"High School Musical" star Ashley Tisdale pays a visit to a deserving family in this Sunday's episode of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." The teen (and tween) favorite is the next celebrity to take part in the show's "Get On The Bus" program, for which stars volunteer to take part in the home building process.
Ashley traveled to Green County, Missouri to help the Hampton family move out of their 800 square foot cramped cottage, where eight of them had been living together after the parents graciously agreed to take in their four nieces and nephews rather than let them go to foster care.
"When I saw the family and the reaction to the house I just, like, started tearing up," she admitted. "It's like this really great deserving family and then also you see like all these volunteers and their family members and their friends just all getting together helping them. It's just such a great feeling to be part of that."