Alan Ball

...the Vampire Slayer - I've seen them all, at least in parts, and I love me some True Blood (in no small part because of my devotion to Alan Ball). I even loved the vampire puppet musical in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. (Speaking of, why do the...

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...divide True Blood fans as this will push Sookie right into the arms of Eric, and while series creator Alan Ball hasn't really followed the novels to the letter, he isn't completely shutting out the idea either. "It's certainly something...

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...the series, and we're talking about something in the realm of a $50 million-a-year take for creator Alan Ball's second morbidly obsessed series. (His first was Six Feet Under.) While True Blood's sex and violence make it R-rated, The CW's...

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VAMPIRE IN TOWN: Now that television is screening Alan Ball's True Blood, the vampires in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga seem more anaemic than ever. GIRL OF THE HOUR: Kristen Stewart signs autographs as she arrives at The Twilight Saga:...

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...New Moon. Robert Pattinson and the rest of the Twilight cast hit the red carpet. NOW that television is screening Alan Ball's True Blood, the vampires in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga seem more anaemic than ever. True Blood's...

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...'60s TV show... 'Towelhead's' Alan Ball makes 'em squirm - and maybe learn It's a big month for Alan Ball. The Oscar-winning... Alan Ball bites into Southern gothic vampires for HBO Since disbanding Six Feet Under, it was just a...

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PLENTY OF BITE: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alan Ball on teh set of True Blood. Alan Ball, creator of hit series True Blood and Six Feet Under, tells Gabriel Wilder he has plenty of other projects to get his teeth into. Alan Ball's...

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...November 8, 2009 ALBANY -- Once you understand the premise, the title makes perfect sense. "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball's 1993 play "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" concerns a group of bridesmaids gathered in a second floor...

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...Twilight - which I also liked - is that beneath the glamour, the sex, the blood and all the fangs, there's some real depth. Alan Ball, series creator - who also made the quite exceptional undertaker drama Six Feet Under - says he sees the...

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Naturally, it has been assumed that the vampires in True Blood are a metaphor for the gay community. However, series creator Alan Ball says vampires can represent whatever minority you care to think of -- "pretty much any group that wasn't...

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