Salon.com > The Twilight Saga: Eclipse http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Vampires reign supreme at Teen Choice Awards http://www.salon.com/2010/08/09/teen_choice_awards_vampires/ http://www.salon.com/2010/08/09/teen_choice_awards_vampires/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:50:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/trending/2010/08/09/teen_choice_awards_vampires OK, it's official: Teenagers really, really like vampires. The film series "The Twilight Saga" and  television show "The Vampire Diaries" won 12 and seven awards, respectively, at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, which airs tonight at 8 p.m. EDT on Fox. "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson alone won four awards, including one for a non-bloodsucking role: choice drama movie actor for “Remember Me.” 

“It’s great to win something outside of ‘Twilight,’” said Pattinson. 

Aside from the pale undead, other winners include Taylor Swift, "Wizards of Waverly Place" star Selena Gomez, and Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian. The awards are hosted by singer Katy Perry and the male stars of "Glee": Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Cory Monteith and Mark Salling. Even the newly non-engaged Levi Johnston shows up. 

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/08/09/teen_choice_awards_vampires/feed/ 0 “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”: Edward, Jacob and Bella’s hot three-way http://www.salon.com/2010/06/30/twilight_eclipse/ http://www.salon.com/2010/06/30/twilight_eclipse/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/06/29/twilight_eclipse Amid the impenetrable forest of marketing and fan culture that comprises the "Twilight" universe, ranging from official merchandise to pornographic knockoffs, it's gotten a little difficult to tell what role the actual stories play. Are Stephenie Meyer's quartet of novels, and their even more ultra-popular Hollywood adaptations -- now reaching the third of what will reportedly be five movies -- just a mangy little poodle being wagged by an enormous tail?

OK, the release of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," an action-packed middle chapter supervised by little-known English director David Slade ("30 Days of Night") is a necessary hook, as we used to say in the news business, to which the series' fans can attach their lustful ravings. But does it matter whether the movie is good or bad? Or is it sufficient for Keds-wearing, faintly tomboyish Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), disaffected high school doyenne of Forks, Wash., to be permanently, swooningly suspended between her two competing versions of Elvis? In case you actually need some elaboration, I refer to the fey, courtly and slightly feminine Elvis in the guise of undead Edward (Robert Pattinson) and the manly, muscular, swaggering Elvis in the guise of American Indian werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner).

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