True Rolling. Does anything grasp our notice more effectively in the grocery stone line? Well, yes -- that would be nudity and spattered blood on a journal cover. International news.

Ah, nudity on a ammunition cover. Does anything nab our regard more effectively in the grocery stone line? Well, yes -- that would be nudity and spattered blood on a periodical cover. Enter , which has placed a plasma-covered Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer from "True Blood" on its Sept. 2 issue, on newstands Wednesday. (Could that purposely be timed to trouble America from its visible preoccupation with "," which releases in theaters tomorrow? No? Not so much?) As the folks at Rolling Stone themselves instant out, nudity or semi-nudity is a habitual apparatus on show magazines.

Most of us can quite in a wink nullification the fleshy covers -- a , a topless (foreshadowing, anyone?) on Rolling Stone, the unconcealed and pseudo-tattooed -- that succeeded in generating some buzz. But they don't by definition elucidate into significant newstand sales. "True Blood" fans, does the monstrosity of the icon above forge you want to fly out and get that copy of Rolling Stone? Or would you sense the same technique even if the vampire three were, say, clothed and bloody? And, in a semi-related question, how annoyed will "Twilight" fans be when they interpret "Blood" architect Alan Ball's comments in the RS story, in which he says, "I don't get a vampire falsehood about abstinence. I'm 53.

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