Video of Charlie Bewley at Horror Con

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Alex Meraz Shopping at Armani Exchange

Alex Meraz and his beautiful wife Kim spent the day shopping Armani Exchange in LA. They have to be one of the most gorgeous couples ever.

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More videos of Rob on Bel Ami set

Here are even MORE videos of Rob on the Bel Ami set. For some reason, I don’t think these will be the last, LOL

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E! News Now coverage of Eclipse Stills

Looks like E! wanted to get in on the Eclipse action…

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Exclusive Recap of 100 Monkeys Radio Interview

100 Monkeys Take to the Airwaves

Written by Crys (drummergrl1310)

Just a few minute ago 100 Monkeys were live on streaming radio at http://bullsradio.org/. I made sure to catch the hour long show so that I could bring you, our loyal EGE readers, an exclusive recap. I know, I know, it was difficult for me to listen to those silly, amazing, talented monkeys for an hour, but I did it. For you. It was a sacrifice, but one I feel was worth it. See how much I love you guys?

Let’s just get one thing out of the way right now, so I can move on with an unbiased account of the show: There was, as usual, not nearly enough Ben Johnson. Dearest Ben, I love your sweet, stoic demeanor, but I love your intelligence and eloquence even more, so please start speaking up more often! We really do care what you have to say.

Moving on. The one hour show streamed live, and was a mix of recorded tracks, live interviews, and live performances. One of the key themes of the interview was the upcoming Spencer Bell Legacy show in Dallas on April 24^th. For those of you who don’t know, Spencer Bell was a friend of the guys’ who passed away suddenly from adrenal cancer a few years ago. Since then the Monkeys have taken it upon themselves to keep Spencer’s music and art, his legacy, alive. The latest way they’re doing this is with the release of a 3^rd posthumous Spencer Bell album, “Brain”, which will debut at the legacy shows. Ben J produced this album and Scott the Scientist mixed it.

If at all possible I highly suggest you try to attend the SBL show. It will feature amazing music, amazing people, and will be contributing to a great cause. Plus, you can meet me, which I know you’re absolutely DYING to do, right? Right??? In all seriousness, please do visit www.spencerbellmemorial.com to find out more about what you can do to help further adrenal cancer research. If you absolutely cannot attend the show, then be sure to buy “Brain” when it comes out April 24^th.

Another chunk of time was spent pimping out Marty the Bananager. Literally. He’s single ladies, and apparently lonely, since Jackson mentioned this fact several times. So if your turn-ons include thick, yellow skin, hanging from trees in bunches, and being a monkey’s best friend, then the Bananager just might be the guy for you! On a side note, Scott the Scientist is not single. He does, however, have an awesome dog named Gus.

The Monkeys also mentioned two very interesting pieces of news. As you may know, they are currently in the middle of a 100 city tour. What you probably don’t know is that Scott the Scientist has been touring with them and recording each live show, so that at the end of the tour they can release a 2 disc compilation set of the tour. How cool is that? Well, almost as cool as the 100 Monkeys Swimsuit Calendar being released tonight at midnight, that’s how cool! Yes, you read that right. Monkeys. And bananas. Lounging on the beach. Compiled into a calendar to be enjoyed daily for an entire year. If you have to have one for yourself (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t have to have one?) then you can order it at www.100monkeysmusic.com

During the show fans from all over the country called in to ask the band questions. During these conversations they tried their hardest to solicit candy from the callers, encouraging them to attempt to push candy through the phone lines to them. As far as I know, this never worked. Surprising, I know.

One young lady called in to ask about the improv  songs the band is famous for doing at each show. What was their favorite one, how do they come up with the ideas, etc. Everyone basically agreed that “Jello” had turned out very cool, as well as “Flying Squirrels” and “Apple Juice”.  “Apple Juice” came about when the guys couldn’t resist a sweet, innocent young child in the front of the audience who yelled out “WHISKEY!” when asked by the band for improve ideas. “Apple juice it is!” Jerad Anderson declared. It was also generally agreed upon that “Armadillos vs. Unicorns” had turned out nicely. Apparently the audience couldn’t agree on one theme, so they went with both. Jackson, being a realist, pointed out that a unicorn would only win in a mythical fight, since it wouldn’t show up to a fight in reality so the armadillo would win by default. Excellent logic, J.

Another fan called in to ask how the guys balance music with their other careers. (Jackson, Jerad, and Ben G are all actors when not traversing the country making music.) The answer is that the careers go hand in hand. Jackson and Jerad recently produced and acted in a movie called “Girlfriend”, for which 100 Monkeys is writing the score. Be on the lookout for that.

The story of how they came to be was discussed. Ben G and Jackson went to high school together. Ben J eventually came out to Hollywood. Jerad met Jackson through an acting class, and Uncle Larry was added on through the acting circle as well.

Bowling came up during one phone call. Did you know that bowling isn’t the same everywhere? Neither did I! Apparently you can find 5 pin bowling in Canada, while Massachusetts has candlestick bowling, which uses super-skinny, hard-to-hit pins. Huh. Who knew? During this call plans were tentatively made for a California “Rock-a-bowl-a-thon”. Hmm, sounds fun!

Besides just candy, the Monkeys also tried to get a California caller to send coffee beans through the phone, since California apparently has incredible coffee. Again, to the best of my knowledge this experiment never worked. “A” for effort though!

One caller wanted to know what their favorite thing about being on tour was. The answer is meeting new people, especially the bands and musicians they have been able to work with. 100 Monkeys is currently touring with The Kissing Club, which features Jake Miller from The Stevedores. The Stevedores, for those of you unfamiliar with Monkey lore, is a band that Ben J used to play in with Spencer. The band continues to play together in one form or another. Really, everyone around these guys create one sort of giant, evolving, musical family, which is pretty darn cool if you ask me. If you want to check out The Kissing Club you can do so at www.myspace.com/thekissingclub

Finally, the Monkeys ended the show with a short acoustic set featuring Clippity Clop, The Monkey Song, and Junkie.

Overall this was an hour well spent! (Ok, come on, by now you guys know me. And you know that I’d happily spend an entire day listening to these guys.) If you haven’t jumped on board the 100 Monkeys train yet, now would be an excellent time to do so! It’s hard not to fall in love with the passion and dedication these gentleman have for their craft. As Jackson so eloquently put it at the end of the show, “Music is only kept alive nowadays by the listeners, so thanks so much to ya’ll for listenin.”

If you would like to listen to the entire show, you can find it at http://bullsradio.org/station/archives/3467

Alex Meraz featured in new Op Advertising Campaign

Iconix Brand Group, Inc. unveiled its spring 2010 multimedia marketing campaign for its Op brand, which is titled “Rock Your Shine.” The campaign stars actress Jessica Szohr of the CW’s Gossip Girl, R&B singer Cassie, actors Dianna Agron and Cory Monteith of the Fox hit show Glee, actor Alex Meraz of The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Eclipse and actor Trevor Donovan of the CW’s 90210. The national campaign will debut this spring in fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazines such as Elle, Teen Vogue, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan, outdoor and online at www.op.com.

The Op campaign was photographed at Universal Studios in California by lifestyle photographer Larry Bartholomew. The campaign creative features the cast of Op celebrities at a block party, hanging out in a hammock, barbequing and getting ready to go surfing. An element of shine is integrated into the print campaign with metallic paper and gold foil on the ads.

The Op celebrities are wearing the shine-inspired spring Op collection in the campaign, which is exclusively available at Walmart in the United States and online to www.walmart.com. In addition, the celebrities will host an Op party in Los Angeles in late April and make personal appearances on behalf of the brand.

See the entire HQ picture gallery after the jump, as well as several more videos…

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Q & A With Cameron Bright

Could you tell me a bit about your role in Eclipse?

My role in Eclipse? I can’t really tell you what I do or anything like that. I mean, as far as who I am, you guys know that. I play Alec. He’s one of the Volturi from New Moon and all that kind of stuff. But you know, it’s pretty secretive, so I’m not going to be telling you exactly what I do, ‘cause I want you guys to go and watch the movie.

Well, I’ll ask you something else then. Twilight actors often talk about feeling like you’re all part of one big family. Could you speak to that?

I wouldn’t say one big family. I’d say more like partners in crime, friends, you know. Oh, we are great buds. I’d say I’m friends with a lot of them and I’m glad I’ve met a lot of the people from this movie, but you know, technically they’re just colleagues, right? They’re doing the same thing as me, and that’s what I like about them.

I understand that your character has some special powers, and it seems to me like it might be a challenge to portray something that no one can see. I wonder how do you act something that isn’t visually obvious?

If anything I cut people’s senses off, so you know, I’m the kind of guy that you don’t want to make pissed off because you won’t know what’s coming to you. But you know, it’s also a cool power when you think about it. You know, it’s a different one. I’m not the normal, like, read minds or anything like that. I cut off people’s senses. You want to be able to hear? No, no you can’t. You know, that kind of stuff.

Was it challenging to get into that, into portraying that power?

Well, so far I’ve never had to use my power, so I can’t say it was hard. I can’t say it was easy, because I haven’t had to do it. But, as in portraying the character? It wasn’t hard at all, it was fun, you know, because you get to do whatever you want with it. You know, a book’s a book. You can picture the person in your head, but as soon as you turn it into a movie, it’s a totally different world, because you’re seeing it come to life. As far as my character goes, the books never really bar him down to a certain person, you know? Like they never said ‘This is how he acts, this is what he does, yadda yadda yadda’. But it was when I got to film in the movie they said ‘Fave fun! You’re a vampire now. Be a vampire.’ And, nobody knows how to play a vampire, because, has anybody met a vampire before? No. But, you know, that’s what I like about it, [that] I can do whatever I want with it.

So how did you prepare?

I didn’t. I just showed up and did whatever I wanted.

Did you have any inspiration?

No. Preparation for me on set is fairly easy. I don’t really go through a lot of things, and I don’t do a lot of exercises with my lines or anything. I show up and I just get it done. I don’t know, it’s hard to explain. You know, I’ve been doing it for two thirds of my life, and it’s just what I do now. I know when I, I know how to, what’s the word? I know how to analyze a character and just…it’s one of those things that you just do. Hard to explain.

Okay. Fair enough. So…

But, everybody does it differently, and I just, I just show up on set and you know, the director will say, ‘This is how I want you to see it, this is how…’ You know, it’s a process. Like, you don’t just step into the room and automatically do it. There’s so many things that go into it and you’re playing off people and luckily in this movie, I’m playing off people like Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen…[and] they just make it so much more easier. And the people on set are so nice, and a lot of them are friends. Like Daniel I knew before, and Chris is great. All they do is joke around on set. I mean you’re joking around, it’s a job. It’s not the set of this huge movie, it’s just another set. You show up, you have fun, you do what you do, and that’s how I see it.

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Charlie Bewley at The Darker Side Of Green Climate Change Debate

Charlie Bewley recently attended The Darker Side Of Green Climate Change Debate in New York City.

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April 2010 issue of Eva Magazine

“Kristen is on the front cover/inside Slovakian Eva Magazine’s April 2010.”

She is looking as gorgeous as ever!

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Reality Ad for CK

“GQ magazine starting in April is running these new Calvin Klein augmented reality ads. Consumers with webcams will be able to view the AR films by visiting the brands’ dedicated microsite at xmarkyourspot.com. Once in the Augmented ‘X’ section of the site, visitors can either hold up the ad from the magazine or a print-out of the AR code in front of their webcam. A 3D box will then appear which allows visitors to select from four short films created exclusively for the GQ AR program. ”

The video below is a quick demo of what it might look like.

[Source TEN Gossip]