She had her bright spots, her brief infidelities and her nagging wife moments, but through it all Rita never gave up the guy she loved. That’s why Dexter will be a lot darker for her passing.

In his relationship with Rita, Dexter learned to love, to become a parent, and to form the human bonds that he claimed only to mimic when the series began. Her death gives new license for him to unleash his Dark Passenger. Watch out!

Today, we pause and remember Rita Morgan in her last season on the show. Thanks, Julie Benz, for making Rita a character who displayed a fragility beneath her beauty and balanced the show’s violence with a calming, enduring faith in humanity. You will be missed.

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Just like any other celebrities who can afford to buy designer bags, Jessica Alba is holding her own to be part of that list. I’ve seen her carrying different bags every week. So I guess it’s safe to assume that she loves her handbags just like any other women, celebs or not. I’ve seen different pictures of her carrying around a Salvatore Ferragamo Blue Ostrich Tote.

Jessica carries this oversized tote around proudly. As well she should because it’s definitely a beauty.

The attention-grabbing color of blue combined with the ostrich texture and the size of this Salvatore Ferragamo Ostrich Tote makes a casual get up, well, not so casual. It definitely perks up any outfit as illustrated by Jessica Alba in the pictures above.

I would tell you where to purchase it but it doesn’t seem to be available online. As usual, celebs get the perks, heh. Lucky Jessica, no?

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Edie Falco won two SAG awards for the Sopranos in 2008. Will she score again with Nurse Jackie in 2010?

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Showtime stars Michael C. Hall, Edie Falco and Toni Collette continued to rack up awards nominations this week, with each scoring one today from the Screen Actors Guild.

SAG gave Hall a nod for best actor in a TV drama for his performance as Dexter Morgan on Dexter. Falco and Collette are both up for best actress in a TV comedy for their work: Falco as Jackie Peyton on Nurse Jackie and Collette as Tara Gregson on United States of Tara.

The cast of Dexter also earned recognition from the guild, with a nom for best ensemble in a TV drama and a nod for best stunt work.

Check out the full list of SAG nominees here. The awards ceremony airs live on TBS and TNT on Jan. 23, 2010.

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Love her or hate her (and we know some of you out there hated her by Season 4), the late Rita Morgan will no longer grace the set of Dexter. After Sunday’s whopper of a finale, which pulverized ratings records for Showtime, Julie Benz is sharing her reaction to the killing off of the character she made her own for four years. Here’s some of the best from her recent interview with E!’s Kristin Dos Santos.

Will Rita come back as a ghost, the way Harry does?
“There has been no talk of me coming back to the series in any way. A lot of people have been begging me to tell them that I’m going to come back, and I’m like, ‘Rita’s dead!’ Rita is dead and Trinity killed her. There’s all these theories that Dexter did it, or Deb snuck in and did it, but I don’t think it could get any more obvious that Trinity killed Rita. Rita is dead. And there has been no talk of Rita being a ghost. No one’s approached me about coming back.”

Why Rita? And why did her death have to be so horrifying?
It is tough, and my first reaction was, ‘You’re killing the mother of the show! You’re killing the woman who’s suffered more violence than anybody!’ She suffered more violence than Dexter ever suffered. Dexter witnessed the death of his mother, but he didn’t suffer any physical violence. Rita was beaten and raped by an ex-husband on a regular basis, and yet she still has this innocence and sweetness about her.

… When they first told me I was dying, they didn’t tell me how I was dying, and I thought I was going to be the jumper off the building, which for some reason isn’t as graphic. I did feel anger about them taking this innocent, sweet woman in such a violent and terrifying way—which we know from the woman in the bathtub in the first episode.

How did the cast react?
There were a lot of tears the whole last week. When I found out, I called Jennifer (Carpenter, who plays Debra Morgan) right as I was leaving the offices, and she thought I was playing a joke. She couldn’t believe it. She was shocked. And then the producers told the rest of the cast because after telling Jennifer I just said I can’t do it. It’s too hard. I get really emotional thinking about it. It was my family and my favorite place to go every day.

How do you feel about Rita’s death now?
When you make a bold move to kill off a main character, and a bold move to kill off the mother of a newborn, it’s a fifty-fifty shot, and kudos to them for taking that risk. So many other shows, so many other networks would have shied away from it. I really hope that it pays off, because I would really hate to see Rita’s death be in vain and to lose viewers. I hope it catapults the show to a whole other level. I hope it opens the story up to so much more drama. I hope it opens Dexter up to finally releasing the Dark Passenger within him—let’s see the monster that he really is.

Final thoughts? And what will happen to Harrison?
I assume Astor and Cody will go with their grandparents, but what about Harrison? I know that one option is to have them jump ahead in time. They have the option of taking the story creatively wherever they want. But of course I worry about Harrison. The first thing I said when they told me about Rita’s death was, ‘What about the children?!’ I felt like a real mother, and I will be tuning in to make sure that Harrison is taken care of.

Stay tuned, Dexter fans. We’ll have a photo gallery of Rita from Season 4 and an update on Benz’ plans for the future.

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