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NEWS ABOUT: Twilight

Twilight stories: 35 news summaries

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THE NEXT BESTSELLER?

 Lampoon Lampoons 
 Twilight With Nightlight 

Edwart's no vamp, he just has nosebleeds, but don't tell Belle

(Newser) - She's a klutzy transplant to the Oregon town of Switchblade who falls for a computer geek with nosebleeds named Edwart. “Looking into his eyes I felt waves of electricity, currents of electrons charging towards me. Was this how it felt to be in love ... for robots?” Yes, it's Belle,... More »

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 Kristen Stewart: 
 Fame Makes Life  
 'Desolate' 

Twilight star continues to complain about celebrity life

(Newser) - Kristen Stewart seems to enjoy bitching about acting more than she actually enjoys acting. Most recently on the Poor, Poor Kristen Stewart Tour, she tells BlackBook that Twilight vampire Edward is a metaphor for her oh-so-difficult life: “As a vampire, he has a sad, desolate life—fame is the... More »

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GLOSSIES

 Twilight's Pattinson: 
 'I Look Like an Idiot' 

Twilight star tells mag he looks 'like an idiot,' denies romancing Stewart

(Newser) - Robert Pattinson, Twilight star and current tween obsession, talks to Evgenia Peretz about his discomfort with fame (“I’m unbearably self-conscious”), how attractive he thinks he is (he looks like “a cartoon character”), and—of course—his rumored relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart. “It... More »

MOVIE REVIEW

 Cirque du Freak 
 a Bloodless Bore 

Vampire's Assistant has an identity crisis

(Newser) - Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant isn't particularly freaky, and it sure could use some assistance. Some critics' takes:
  • Peter Travers doesn't deign to explain the film's loose ends. "All you need to know is that the movie is a setup for sequels that I hope never come,
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GLOSSIES

Point of Vampire Craze:
No Sex Is Deviant Anymore

Bloodsuckers of today just want to fit in

(Newser) - A cultural obsession with vampires usually coincides with changing sexuality, writes Stephen Marche. The vampire is a realized sexual other—whether an aristocratic libertine or an AIDS victim—with the human characters representing the mainstream. Usually, the normals have killed the other, but our current vampire moment is different: Whether... More »

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(Newser) - Author Stephenie Meyer had never even been to Forks, Wash., when she chose it, with a little help from Google, as the setting for her wildly popular Twilight books. But that hasn’t stopped fans of the series and the movies it has spawned from flocking to the town,... More »

TV review

 Vampire Diaries  
 
Bloody Good Fun 

CW series knows the teen mind

(Newser) - The Vampire Diaries, which premieres tonight on the CW, has its finger on the pulse of American youth, delivering a teen-vampire love story that gives Twilight a run for its money:
  • “Let the other franchises sniff with disdain at moldy old genre conventions,” writes Mary McNamara
... More »

(Newser) - The latest tween obsession to find herself embroiled in a nude photo scandal: Ashley Greene of Twilight fame. She apparently snapped herself in the buff, and the photos found their way to Perez Hilton's site. That was before her lawyers found their way to Perez Hilton, who then took... More »

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 Twilight Scribe Accused 
 of Plagiarism 

Dueling vampire novels bear similarities, author says

(Newser) - Twilight author Stephenie Meyer is being accused of ripping off another vampire book, TMZ reports. Jordan Scott claims the series’ fourth installment, Breaking Dawn, bears a “striking and substantial similarity” to her 2006 book The Nocturne, with both including a post-wedding sex scene, a doomed pregnancy, and the death... More »

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Clothier: Gisele Is Preggers 

Plus, more babies and more drama

(Newser) - The latest entity to weigh in on the Gisele Bundchen: pregnancy debate: London Fog, the Boston Globe reports. In a statement regarding recent—retouched—ads featuring Bundchen, an exec says, “Nobody is sexier or more beautiful than Gisele Bundchen in nothing but a London Fog trench coat, even... More »

(Newser) - Vampires have always been sexy, from Bram Stoker’s original smooth operator to Brad Pitt in Interview With a Vampire. But why have True Blood and Twilight sunk their fangs so thoroughly into today’s erotic zeitgeist? For starters, they're modern-day Romeos for angsty Juliets, Newsweek reports, a hypersexualized update... More »

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OPINION

 Harry Potter Is 
 Neutering America 

At the box office, the chaste rule, writer says

(Newser) - Remember the old teen sex comedies, where hormones ruled and no one talked about their feelings? Hollywood doesn't, ST VanAirsdale writes in Esquire. Today's sexless blockbusters—think the Harry Potter flicks and Twilight—reflect how "our PG-13 imperative has scrubbed mass culture of its libido." The new leading... More »

 Intern in the Twilight Zone: Pattinson's Stalking Me!

She pretends to be 'so over it,' but dreams of their eventual romance

(Newser) - When Robert Pattinson, heartthrob of the tween set, just happens to pop up everywhere a certain BlackBook intern goes, there’s only one conclusion: “There is nothing blasé about it, but Robert Pattinson is stalking me,” writes the unnamed intern, herself a Pattinson stalker. And with his latest... More »

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(Newser) - Dangerous work, this teenage heartthrob business. Twilight star Robert Pattinson got clipped by a cab outside a New York City bookstore while fleeing a horde of fans, reports People. Pattinson is fine: He walked away from the mishap, in which the cabbie reportedly grazed his hip before slamming on the... More »

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GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 LiLo Could Bring 
 Down Fashion House 

Plus, Speidi quits reality show, for real this time

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan’s acting career is on the rocks, so she wants to try out fashion. But the head designer at House of Emanuel Ungaro—in talks with Lohan—threatened to quit if she comes aboard, the New York Post reports. Elsewhere:
  • Reality couple Spencer and Heidi Pratt has
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SLIDESHOW

 Teens Rule the MTV Awards 

Twilight, High School Musical steal the show

(Newser) - Heath Ledger won Best Villain last night at the MTV Movie Awards, but he was in the minority: Most of the awards went to tween fare, with Twilight snagging three, High School Musical 3 grabbing two, and Miley Cyrus winning one, E! reports. Jim Carrey and Amy Poehler were... More »

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 Twilight Sweeps MTV Awards 

Eminen and "Bruno" tangle at pop culture fete

(Newser) - Teen fave Twilight swept the MTV Movie Awards last night with five wins—including Best Fight, Best Kiss, and Best Movie—reports Entertainment Weekly. Heath Ledger scored a posthumous Best Villain for Dark Knight, and former Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler nabbed the inaugural Best WTF Moment for Baby ... More »

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ANALYSIS

Zombies Have Come to Save the Day

Move over, vampires: The undead are monsters for our times

(Newser) - In the echelon of monsters, zombies can’t get no respect. They’re not hip like werewolves or suave like vampires. Yet the undead are staging a comeback, Lev Grosman writes in Time. Woody Harrelson is starring in a zom-com, Juno’s screenwriter is producing a new zombie flick, and... More »

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Miley Not Crazy About Twilight's Robert Pattinson

Star talks boys with Teen Vogue

(Newser) - Teen girls everywhere are still swooning over Twilight star Robert Pattinson—but not Miley Cyrus, she tells Teen Vogue. The Disney star prefers “adorable” Jude Law or Javier Bardem, who’s “so sexy." As for Pattinson? “I’m not a huge Rob Pattinson fan. Girls aren’... More »

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(Newser) - Jamie Kennedy and Jennifer Love Hewitt are dating, despite previous denials, Us reports. “She’s my Bella,” Kennedy said in an odd Twilight reference. “I don’t want to bite her neck, but I want her to live.” The two were rumored together since Hewitt called... More »

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