Tanya rumors

If this article is true - which I don't even begin to believe it is, because we all know how fickle the interwebs are - that would mean that David Slade would be directing Breaking Dawn. Because - correct me if I'm wrong - but I don't remember Tanya being IN Eclipse. Other than a mention of her and "all those females".

Fun with Facebook. And Twitter. And Taylor.

You can now follow My Twilight Purgatory on Facebook and on Twitter!

David Slade posts updates on Twitter all the time - with photos. It's the BEST place to get cool Eclipse updates straight from the set. He's got a photo of Taylor Lautner doing a back flip in mid air - from a standing position. Makes me feel inadequate since I can't even do "crow" pose in yoga for more than a microsecond.

Tonight Peter Facinelli had a post on his Twitter page that was actually from Nikki Reed. It said:
Hi Nikki Reed here... Sitting with Fach. Just searched and found dozens of posers. I don't have Twitter. Please don't follow them!!! Scary!

And Gil Birmingham has a Facebook page where people have been thanking him for coming to the convention this weekend. That's where I found this photo of him posing with Alex, Chaske and Kiowa.

Five words: Bring on the wolf pack!

Back from Parsippany

I cannot tell you how cool it was to listen to the Twilight and New Moon stars - and Director Catherine Hardwicke over the past two days. Check out my photos from the convention. (<---Like Fake Rob from "The Twilighters"?) And there were lots of stories from Catherine and the actors about things that happened on set. Here are a few: - Edi Gathegi would walk toward Taylor Lautner in full costume with the "eyes" in and just go "Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. Taylor. Taylor." and Taylor would flip out and say "Stop doing that, you're freaking me out!"

- In New Moon, when they were filming the scene where Sam finds Bella in the woods, someone yelled "Sam found her!" and everyone turns and runs into the woods... and Gil Birmingham is just sitting there in the wheelchair like "uh.. guys?"

- Ever notice how Gil drives the truck in Twilight? It was the lesser of two evils. He was in a wheelchair, but Jacob was supposed to be underage, so they said, "You gotta drive!"

- A well known actor was offered a role in Twilight and turned it down because the film was so small and low budget. The same well-known actor has accepted a role now that the franchise is huge. Wonder - Bryce - who - Dallas - that - Howard - could be? (I am speculating here, but if you have a better idea, by all means, please comment!)

- Edi called Jackson and used this ridiculous, high-pitched, girly voice and said he was an assistant to Catherine.. and that Catherine didn't like his new dye-job and that he needed to get it dyed back to the original color. Jackson was on the other line with his manager who told him she was thrilled and she hated the blond. Edi then called Jackson back and said he was kidding and his manager did mucho back-peddling. And ALL of this happened because PFach told him to do it. That guy is a prankster. You can just tell.

- Rob picked up a shirt off his buddy's floor and wore it to the Teen Choice Awards. And if that isn't icky enough, his buddy had worn it the night before to play in a band in some bar. And Rob was WITH HIM while he was wearing it. Ew, ew and more ew.

- Edi only signed up for Twitter to make his mom happy. She told him that way, he wouldn't have to call her all the time to let her know where he was. He just types "Just got off the plane in NJ" and she knows he's OK. Awwww. Isn't that adorable?!

- Graham Greene is the only guy to ever have kissed Gil Birmingham on the lips. (Have I mentioned I LOVE LOVE LOVE Graham Greene who is playing Harry Clearwater? Well I do.)

OK that's it for me for now. I am exhausted because we spent a wild-and-crazy night with my niece, Caitlin, at the Rattlesnake - the restaurant/bar where she works. Great band. It was a little crazy. My hand is bruised from all the tambourine playing I did. We'll just leave it at that!

Catherine loves us

Check out this article (printed below) about Catherine Hardwicke's appearance yesterday in Parsippany. Jenn M. and I asked the questions they mentioned first! My question was "What would you do differently if you could film Twilight again?" and it's the very first question addressed in this article. Jenn asked if it was true that Catherine wanted Edward to have long hair. I am loving this. My question is in RED and Jenn M's is in PURPLE.

Aug 28 2009 5:32 PM EDT

'Twilight' Director Catherine Hardwicke Tells Behind-The-Scenes Secrets

'We had to do a lot of things with little money,' the director tells the 'Twilight' convention crowd about making the first film in the franchise.

Many "Twilight" fans may think the first film in Stephenie Meyer's four-part saga is darn near perfect, but there are a few things director Catherine Hardwicke would go back and change if she could. "I would have a giant, plastic dome built over the state of Oregon," Hardwicke joked during a one-hour Q&A session at the official "Twilight" convention in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Joking aside, Hardwicke did say she wishes she could have delved deeper into Bella's vivid dreams. "I loved in the book when Stephenie would describe some of the dreams and things, so I really wanted to film some of the dream sequences," Hardwicke said. "And we had a whole plan for this beautiful, underwater dream sequence. [But we had] no money. They said, 'We can't afford it.' We had to do a lot of things with little money because Summit didn't know if anyone was going to see the movie."

Obviously fans came out in droves for the vampire romance, but there were a few other scenes fans didn't get to see. For one, the beloved "blood test" scene from the novel was cut to add variety to the filming locations — and to abate Hardwicke's bloody fears. "I was actually that person that fainted in my seventh-grade biology class," she said. Another thing fans didn't see was a hairy Robert Pattinson. Hardwicke originally envisioned Bella's bloodsucking boyfriend Edward with long hair. "I thought it would be cool if Rob had long, romantic hair," she said. "So we put extensions on Rob and he just hated it. He sat there in the chair for eight hours and was like, 'No.' "

Hardwicke also had Pattinson style secrets to share from off the set. According to the director, Pattinson was sporting a not-so-fresh shirt at the Teen Choice Awards. "I was sitting on the couch next to Rob and he was telling me, 'I didn't know what to wear. I didn't have anything clean, so my friend wore this shirt last night and did a performance.' So his buddy did a whole performance in this shirt and Rob found it on the floor and thought it was the cleanest shirt he had, so he wore it to the awards."

But it wasn't all Rob, Rob, Rob during the Q&A session — Hardwicke offered particular kudos to actress Kristen Stewart. When one fan asked if Stewart could pull of the emotional intensity needed in "New Moon," Hardwicke wholeheartedly replied yes. "She has depth deeper than any actress I've ever known."

Though the session revolved mainly around "Twilight," Hardwicke alluded to her upcoming projects including "If I Stay," "Hamlet," "Maximum Ride" and the recently announced "The Girl With the Red Riding Hood," noting that they are all in the development stages and that she is not sure which she'll work on first. "Any fortune tellers out there?" she asked.

Hi from Parsippany

This... is what's known... as a "Fangirl Reaction Video". Only the fangirls... are reacting... TO OURSELVES... on the NEWS!!!!!!

PS - Never wear white on the bottom. ;)

We're famous!

OK so they showed us on the news - and they showed Shannon speaking - it was great! They didn't show our mytwlightpurgatory plug though... BUMMER. We tried! We are wearing our blog shirts... and we were on the news. What more can a bunch of Twihard bloggers do to plug their website? OK - off to dinner - more tomorrow from Parsippany!

Twilight Convention - Parsippany NJ

Hi All! Just checking in for a minute between the convention and dinner! Jenn M, Shannon and were interviewed by Fox 5 NY today... and are watching to see if we'll be on. Catherine Hardwicke was great - what a sweetheart she is. She told some funny stories about filming Twilight - and about the actors in general. And she answered questions that Jenn M and I asked, which was cool. We asked if she would cast anyone differently if she could do it over again. She said she loves everyone she cast... but she offered an interesting tidbit. Apparently a well-known actor turned down Twilight - but has NOW taken a role. Could that be Bryce Dallas Howard, perhaps?! Jenn asked if it was true Catherine wanted Edward to have long hair and she said "Yes" and that Rob sat for 8 hours and got extensions... and HATED THEM. And I asked if Catherine would do anything differently and she expressed disdain at having such a small budget. She said she wasn't able to do things she wanted - like have Edward sparkle longer - and have the CGI look a little better. She also said she made Bella confess to Edward that she knew he was a vampire in the meadow - rather than in the car ride home from Port Angeles - because there aren't many good angles to film people in a car, which makes sense. She also said La Push was a really tough scene because it had been SNOWING that day - and everyone was freezing in addition to being soaking wet from horizontal rain.

OK Fox 5 just said the Twilight convention is coming up soon - so I'm going to sign off and go watch. And if we're on - I'm going to cringe! But it was fun, so I can't complain.

Later I'll blog about Gil Birmingham. HILARIOUS guy!

Jane, you ignorant ____!

Go to this MTV page to check out their full gallery of Vulturi goodness!!! I cannot IMAGINE what it is going to be like, watching Jane reduce Edward to a lump on the floor. Fangirl, party of 1?!

Creepy Caius

Love this. Ganked it from a Harry Potter site, no less. Bring on the Volturi, baby. I just started re-following Jamie Campbell Bower on twitter because he just cracks me up. Check this out:

JamiebowerThis part of the plane smells like my old dorm at boarding school. X

NICE!!!

1st shot of Edward in Eclipse! Squeee!

Hmmm. Double hmmm. Once I got finished fangirling over the first shot of Rob Pattinson made up as "Edward Cullen" on the Eclipse set, I took a good, hard look at the emsem. AND the makeup. And three words came to mind: The. Village. People. Did they fly RPattz's sisters in to make him up like they used to when he was 12? Cuz he's looking pretty feminine in these pictures. Now don't get me wrong here. I mean him ZERO disrespect. It's a movie - and they have to use makeup. I get that. But between the hair color, the red lips, the white face and the stellar jean jacket (Edward Cullen in a jean jacket?! yikes) I'm getting "Macy's catalog girls section" instead of "vampire who single-handedly snuffs the life out of Victoria". But hey... that's just me. *Thanks to socialiteslife for the photo.

Lots and lots of Volturi goodness!

Totally ganked this from Zap2it. (Love ya! Mean it!)

Did I not CALL this???

Death Cab for Cutie is the first band on my New Moon playlist. And they've written a new song for the New Moon soundtrack. Which makes me squeeeee with delight. Their sound is soooo perfect for this movie. The song I wanted was Summer Skin. When you listen to it, you just feel the end of the summer approaching... and that pain you feel when you're a kid and all the fun is ending. Just like the pain you could feel when you knew Edward was leaving Bella; you just didn't know how much time you, whoops, I mean SHE had left with him. Sigh.

I read that Death Cab for Cutie was on the soundtrack and almost fell off my chair. Wonder if any of my other bands/singers will make it?! Give a listen to Summer Skin.

Dear Gil, You rock. Love, Carol

If you check out Gil Birmingham's Twitter page, you'll see he had to do some rearranging of his schedule to get to Parsippany for the convention this weekend. Is it me or is that VERY cool of him? Yeah. Thought so. Gotta love Billy Black. Just keepin' it real. ;) Check out his IMDB page, too.

Bait and Switch in NJ

The first ever "Official Twilight Convention" has had a lot of recent celebrity appearance changes and I have to say... I'm none too happy.

Appearances by the celebs who play "Carlisle", "Emmett", "Alice", "Jasper", "Charlie" and "Mike" have slowly but surely been canceled over the last few months.

The celebs who play these characters have been replaced by the celebs who play "Billy Black", "Sam", "Paul", "Embry", "Laurent", "Angela" and "Eric". And add to that list Twilight's Director - Catherine Hardwicke.

Don't get me wrong - I am thrilled to hang with anyone affiliated with the Twilight saga. I'm looking forward to hearing what the wolf pack has to say. And I love Gil Birmingham. And who wouldn't want to hear Catherine Hardwicke speak? But the entire original appearance list has been changed.

Not a Cullen in the house.

That is really NOT cool. Especially when we've all purchased tickets months in advance - and we've all rescheduled our lives to be at this convention.

Official Twilight Convention THIS weekend in NJ!

So I'm not sure I mentioned it but I'll be attending an Official Twilight Convention in Parsippany, NJ this weekend. We are going to see "Emmett", "Alice", "Sam", "Embry" (Um, Hello? YUM!), "Angela" (Oh. My. God.) , "Eric" (La Push, baby, LA PUSH!) and the person I am STOKED to see: Catherine Hardwicke.

Jenn M., Shannon, Tracey and I will be Twittering Friday and Saturday from the event. I am setting up a Twitter account for the occasion: MyTwiPurgatory. I'll keep you posted!

"Victoria" and "Riley" on the Eclipse set

Seeing as I am a curly girl, I love this new photo of BDH and her new curly Victoria 'do. And Xavier Samuel isn't looking so bad, himself.

Check out all the photos over at Lainey Gossip.

Bella's Wedding Dress

OK so THIS is pretty cool. Apparently In Style mag asked a bunch of designers to try their hand at designing Bella's wedding dress. It's cool to see their interpretations, although it's clear some of them must have been Twittering when they should have been paying attention to the instructions for the design. Anyway... I l loved Lela Rose's and Max Azaria's - but neither are "the dress" in my mind. OK so here is where I get my inner Twi-goober going. Pay attention.

Bella's ring is Victorian - because Edward's father gave it to her mother in the Victorian era. BUT - Edward was born into the Edwardian era (hence his glorious name that I now hear at playgrounds thanks to Mrs. Stephenie Meyer). And because the dress was designed for his taste - I believe Bella's dress should be Edwardian - NOT Victorian.

COMMA HOWEVER - Bella's mother did say that she looked like she was right out of a Jane Austen novel.. so I have to assume the dress was more Victorian than Edwardian.

At any rate, I have posted this photo before (while I was reading the books) but I love it sooooo friggin much that I'm going to post it again. I would love it if this is what Bella's dress looked like. It's just so understated and pretty. *Thanks to housegallery.ca for the photo.

I. Love. THIS!

This.... is....AWESOME! It's simple and yet it gets the point across beautifully. Thanks to Melissaisatwilightlover on Twifans!

Boo Boo made a boo boo

Gee... didn't see THIS one coming. Oh wait... yes I did. But it doesn't change anything. His rep confirmed it. Retract...Deny...blah blah blah. Something is coming down the pike after Eclipse... we'll just have to wait for Mr. Summit to tell us what.

Wuthering Heights

OK so I've never read Wuthering Heights. In New Moon, it was easy to compare it to Romeo and Juliet. Been there - read that - AND watched that. But in Eclipse - I didn't understand the conversations between Edward and Bella about Wuthering Heights. And I've been trying to get it from my local library for months - and it's never available. So I finally gave in and rented a very recent and fabulous adaptation. But frankly, I'm still trying to decide if Edward considered himself Heathcliff or Edgar. Edgar is married to Cathy - so you'd think he'd be Edward. But she had this overwhelming love for Heathcliff - so you'd think HE'd be Edward. But I have to suppose Edward considered himself Edgar because Cathy's unbelievable pull to Heathcliff was like Bella's unexplainable pull to Jacob? Oh somebody shut me up already...