Archives for 2009

In case anyone was wondering, it was not our shop. We do have a variety of Team Taylor products designed by the lovely Ambereyes, but underwear featuring real people is not/was not an offering.

We have a small site update to help pass the time if you are home from school snowed in!  First, we’ve started updating the bios to be compatible with Breaking Dawn.  Edward’s bio is the first that we’ve finished and we should have Bella and Jacob for you next week.  (There is a LOT that happens in Breaking Dawn!) 

We also have another chapter summary for you today.  Breaking Dawn Chapter 4: Gesture can be found in our summary section.  Visit our message boards for the discussion.  A special thank you to Una for providing us with this so quickly!

MTV has a look at what Kristen and Rob will be up to in 2009.  Also check Jackson lists as a male Pop Rookie.  There is also a new interview with Edi Gathegi discussing his new movie My Bloody Valentine.

Necco, the company that makes the conversational hearts, will be creating some very special ones for November.

According to the Press Telegram in Long Beach Jackson Rathbone will be performing this Sunday. 

In the most recent issue of Hollywood Life there is a photoshoot with Ashley Greene. The magazine can be found on news stands in Southern California.

Gather.com has a great Twilight Tidbit roundup for the week. 

E! Online has a preview of the films hitting Sundance including Kristen Stewart’s new film Adventureland.

/Film.com has the backstory of Adventureland, Kristen’s new film.  There is also a clip available of Kristen and co-star Ryan Reynolds.

People’s Celebrity Baby Blog has an interveiw with Jennie Garth where she discusses life with Peter and the kids.

Just Jared. Kellan Lutz is working hard on the set of The Warrior. Ashley Greene co-stars.

 Jackson Rathbone talks to MTV about his upcoming M. Knight Shyamalan flick. They also talk about what Rob and other pop icons are up to in 2009.

Robert Pattinson talks inspiration.

According to Fox, the Twilight stars will be participating in a charity auction, "other bags from Mariah Carey, Tyrese and the casts of both "Desperate Housewives" and "Twilight," will be auctioned off this spring to help start new Beading Cancer teams in LA, Nashville and New York City." TY to Elizabella

The whole Twilight cast has won an unusual award. (My pale Irish heritage side is proud!). Ty to Tomomi

USA Today featured the success of the Twilight Saga and Stephenie Meyer in two articles. TY to TwiCrackAddict

According to USA Today,"Stephenie Meyer sold more books in 2008 than any other author (22 million, according to her publisher) and did what no else — not even J.K. Rowling — has done in the 15 years of USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list."

Who: Lyndzie Taylor, Mallory Trunnell, Lauren Harding and Kris Angelis
When: January 26th, 2009 at 10pm
Where: The Cat Club 8911 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA
 How much: $7

Why: People have expressed interest in hearing some of our other music outside of the Twilight Music Girls so here is a chance! We will also join each other for some Twilight-inspired songs. This is how it all started and still continues. We’d love to share it with you! We will have copies of our solo EP’s available at the show as well as TMG stickers! And don’t forget you can get the TMG album on itunes!

Also be sure to check out the girls myspace pages

www.myspace.com/lyndzietaylormusic      www.myspace.com/mallorytrunnell    www.myspace.com/laharding 

www.myspace.com/krisangelis

Making the rounds today on the Internet is a story about a pending lawsuit by Nina Ricci over the Twilight perfume that is currently being by sold by several vendors.  The story is hitting wider today because it just made a celebrity blogger’s radar.

We’d like to preface this by saying that we have no knowledge of who signed what contract, and what exactly the contract stated. We also have no knowledge as to the exact status of the lawsuit: Are papers actually filed with the courts? Are the affected parties trying to reach an out-of-court settlement? We just don’t know. Here’s our sidelines, non-lawyer analysis.

1. As far as we understand it, the two scents are entirely different, so this isn’t a suit over the scents.
2. The bottle itself is highly similar to the Nina Ricci bottle. It varies slightly in color and in the engraving on the leaves.
3.  The outer packaging container is entirely different, so this isn’t about the outer packaging.

Question:  OK, so what does that mean?

Answer:  It depends what was in the original Nina Ricci contract. Did they contract for an original exclusive design and then patent that design (note we are not lawyers and the correct term here may be trademark/copyright/etc.)? It seems like a firm such as Nina Ricci would do this, but we just don’t know as they sure as heck aren’t putting the fine print of their contract out there.

It is not uncommon for a generic container to be used by any number of products. That container is then modified based on the company and product (Think of it as how some bottled waters are in very similar containers and only the label is different.) The same is true, to use a book related example, with the cover art of novels. Oftentimes you will see recycled cover art photshopped into a new design because the images were not a contracted exclusive.

Question: Who exactly is being sued?

Answer: We don’t know. We would assume it is whatever vendor supplied the bottle, as most likely they would be the party responsible for guaranteeing that they had the rights to supply the merchants that particular bottle. Nonetheless, we just don’t know.

Question: Could other companies/people be sued?

Answer: Anything is possible. For all we know this might go down several chains of subcontractors. In our opinion, what it is going to come down to in its most basic terms is this:  Did the supplier have the rights to supply a similar item to multiple companies, or did Nina Ricci have an iron-clad exclusive?

Just a reminder MuteMath will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight!!  In honor of their performance we are having a MuteMath give away.  All you have to do to enter is send an email to [email protected]  A winner will be chosen from the email entries.  The winner will receive the limited edition vinyl that includes Spotlight.  All entries must be received by 12AM EST 1/16/09.

Rob has won a Z100’s Hottie of The Year!

Make sure to vote for Rob in Hello Magazine’s Most Attractive Man poll. 

The Hollywood Reporter has an interview with Summit Executives Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger.  The first question:  How has "Twilight" changed the company?

Check out the Glam Slam: The Suite Life!  See what your fav werewolf was checking out.

The LA Times has an update about the SAG Strike.

The Stars of Ring*Con will be held in Germany has guest Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and Edi Gathegi.