He plays a 1,000-year-old vampire on True Blood, so it’s nice to see 33-year-old Alexander Skarsgård looking less pasty than usual. The 6’4” Swedish hottie is on the cover of LA Times Magazine’s March issue, and he looks even more dashing than his onscreen character Eric.

Photographed by Chat Pitman and styled by Jessica de Ruiter, Alexander’s GQ-ish fashion shoot is all about suits, sleek hair, and guyliner. Don’t worry; it’s subtle and not the Adam Lambert kind.

In his interview with Leslie Gornstein, Alexander talks about working on projects simultaneously in the US and Sweden, being born with the acting bug, and of course, vampires.

“What makes vampires a platform for good drama is they’re also lethal,” he said about his True Blood character. “Eric is an animal. He’s on that edge where you don’t know if he will turn and kill you in a second.”

The humble actor also revealed what makes him different from other celebrities hounded down by paparazzi. “I’m not a ‘Hollywood’ actor. I am a social guy, but I’m not one of those actors who will show up to a shoot with 15 agents and managers and publicists. An entourage like that just makes me uncomfortable.”

Click on the LA Times website or grab a copy of the magazine to see the rest of the interview.

The 31-year-old actress goes for a big change in her look. She emerged early this week with darker locks as she returned to the Grey’s Anatomy set.

She tried staying incognito as she had lunch with her mom Nancy last week at Figaro in Los Feliz. I wonder if she was hiding her newly colored locks under that fedora.

On Monday, the brunette went out and about in LA with her mom and sister. Oh, check out her hot suede boots, too!

She topped my list as one of Hollywood’s best blonde bombshells, but she looks hot as a brunette, too! What do you think of Katherine’s darker locks?

Ever since Conan O’Brien started his own Twitter account, the world of tweeting has never been the same. Conan has gained almost 600,000 followers since he started on February 24. And he didn’t even have to over-tweet his life’s daily routines.

His deliciously sarcastic humor and unpredictable tweets feed Coco fans as they wait for the comedian’s next TV project. He’s tweeted only about a dozen posts, and yet his followers are hanging on to every word.

His latest antic is this:

“I’ve decided to follow someone at random. She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change.”

True enough, Sarah Killen’s life has changed. She’s drummed up a lot of attention, being the first and only person that Conan “follows.” The 19-year-old now has over 18,000 followers and a wider network of connections.

She’s getting married on September and a lot of Conan’s “friends” are covering the expenses.

Coco, you can follow me anytime!

Now that Avatar has bagged a few Oscars, we can finally move on and focus on the original blue-skinned creatures—The Smurfs.

Sony has bagged the rights to produce Smurfs: The Movie, which will be a blend of animation and live action, according to Moviefone. A roster of Hollywood stars will lend their voices to the little blue creatures.

NPH: “Gargamel’s Coming!”

The fantastic Neil Patrick Harris is giving life to the “lead Smurf,” although insiders have yet to reveal which Smurf exactly. I’m betting on Brainy Smurf or Vanity Smurf. Other celebrity voices are: Katy Perry as Smurfette, Alan Cumming as Gusty Smurf, George Lopez as Grouchy Smurf, and Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf.

Directed by Raja Gosnell (Beverly Hills Chihuahua), Smurfs will begin filming next month and will be out in July 2011.

Sing with me now: La-la, la-la la-la, la la-la la-la…

“I read that you are not a fan of the Kardashian look,” Joy Behar asked fashion guru Tim Gunn on CNN’s The Joy Behar Show.

“Oh, Joy. Who is?” Tim responded. “I find that it’s—while it may have some sexiness to it—I find it’s largely vulgar. It has a cheapness and tawdriness.”

“Now I’m going to worry about the Kardashian sisters attacking me!” he added. Better yet, watch out for an angry mob of Kardashian fans dashing (pun intended) towards Tim with pitchforks!

Tim later narrowed his focus on one particular Kardashian—Kim. “She’s pretty, but she’s a poser. I find that when she’s moving, it all goes away for me.”

According to Yahoo! TV blogger Mike Ryan, Tim Gunn began his battle with everything Kardashian back in February during New York Fashion Week when he commented: “I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty snob, but it bothers me.”

Last week she was a bleached blonde; this week Kelly Osbourne dyed her hair lavender. She had her locks colored as homage to Dame Edna Everage, the drag queen played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries, according to The Huffington Post.

“i know its lavender but having my hair this color makes me feel like me again!” she Tweeted last Tuesday.

Here she is, freshly dyed, at DJ Night hosted by Vanity Fair and Hudson Jeans held at Palihouse Holloway, Los Angeles.

What do you think about her new ’do? Love it or leave it?

Of course he’d make the perfect March 5 cover. Alice in Wonderland is coming out tomorrow! Johnny Depp, in his Mad Hatter character, graces this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly and it’s all about Wonderland—well, almost.

There’s the music review of the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack—yes, the one with Avril Lavigne’s new track. There’s the cover story on Johnny Depp and Tim Burton—one of the best tandems in the entertainment world.

If you’re not so hot about all the Alice hullaballoo, you can always turn the page to the Oscar predictions, the Jason Derulo spotlight, and your usual dose of EW book reviews.

Go grab your copy now! I hear there are limited bulks left. Must be the Mad Hatter’s enticing wardrobe.

Photo by Luis Monteiro for Grazia

Her photo shoot for the latest issue of UK’s Grazia magazine shows how she went from a size 14 to 10. Leona Lewis underwent a major detox, eating mostly vegetables while avoiding all processed food and drinking nothing but water, for a whole month.

She admitted to becoming more conscious about her figure when she became a celebrity. “Now I sometimes feel like I can’t wear certain things, so I’ve stopped looking at photos of myself,” said the 24-year-old singer. “You become more self-conscious.”

A curvier Leona Lewis in December 2008.

To see more photos of Leona’s more toned figure, grab your copy of Grazia’s March issue, out this week.

How fitting that she sang her new song “Starting Over” at last weekend’s SNL stint. Jennifer Lopez recently severed her ties with Sony Records, the record label that represented her music for the past 10 years.

“[J.Lo] insisted it was a mutual decision, but record executives were rumored to be unhappy with the commercial response to her latest singles ‘Louboutins’ and ‘Fresh Out Of The Oven’,” reports Daily Mail.

I don’t blame them; I just listened to the three tracks and I’m not buying them on iTunes. She needs something that parallels the success of her album This Is Me… Then in 2002. If a new record label can help her with that, then go do it, J.Lo!