Salon.com > Twilight http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Majoring in Potterology http://www.salon.com/2012/05/25/majoring_in_potterology/ http://www.salon.com/2012/05/25/majoring_in_potterology/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12925540 Last week in Scotland, 60 scholars gathered over two days for the U.K.'s first scholarly conference on the Harry Potter series. The Guardian newspaper quoted John Mullan, a professor of English at University College London, questioning the wisdom of organizing such an event. Concluding that the host college, the University of St. Andrews, was primarily after "publicity," Mullan suggested the attendees would be better off forgetting kids' books and cultivating their gravitas. "They should be reading Milton and 'Tristram Shandy,'" he told the Guardian. "That's what they're paid to do."

The criticism brought to mind a lengthy discussion on Reddit last year, inspired by an anecdote from a bookstore clerk who sold copies of all four "Twilight" novels to a sheepish professor. The professor's explanation: "Every time I reference low forms of literature, I always use 'Twilight' as the example. Today a student asked if I’ve actually read them, and I had to say no. They demanded that I do."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/05/25/majoring_in_potterology/feed/ 59 Why is Hollywood still terrified of abortion? http://www.salon.com/2011/11/30/why_is_hollywood_still_terrified_of_abortion/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/30/why_is_hollywood_still_terrified_of_abortion/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10275506 Of course Bella would keep Edward's baby. Dammit, she loves her sparkly vampire husband. She doesn't care about the concerns of her family and friends, their pleas that she consider the risks of carrying a hellspawn to term. Like Julia Roberts' saintly, ill-fated Shelby in "Steel Magnolias," who pursues a pregnancy because she "would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special" (and subsequently dies for it), Bella knows it's her body, her choice. And a "Twilight" franchise dreamed up by a nice Mormon lady isn't going to include a scene of newlywed, saved-herself-for-the-wedding night Bella trotting down to Planned Parenthood for a quickie D&C. No, her devotion to life is so great that it extends to life that isn't even quite human.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/11/30/why_is_hollywood_still_terrified_of_abortion/feed/ 55 “Breaking Dawn Part 1″: Bella Swan, demon mama or Christ figure? http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/breaking_dawn_part_1_bella_swan_demon_mama_or_christ_figure/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/breaking_dawn_part_1_bella_swan_demon_mama_or_christ_figure/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:23:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10231129 "How badly are you hurt?" murmurs studly but ethereal vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) to his human bride, née Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), on the morning after their wedding night. No no no no -- it's not what you're thinking. Edward's superhuman and indeed inhuman strength has left Bella's arms and torso covered with bruises (and, infamously, has shattered the headboard above their bed). Devotee of the union of Eros and Thanatos that she is, Bella digs it, and wants more. Being a man, albeit an undead one, Edward has second thoughts about the whole thing now that he's gotten what he came for, and spends the rest of their honeymoon on a Brazilian tropical island shying away from Bella, or playing chess with her. Which is a metaphor for, you know, sex or war or something. Or maybe not a metaphor at all but just chess, played by two people who self-evidently don't know how to play, with a strangely large and silly set of chessmen.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/breaking_dawn_part_1_bella_swan_demon_mama_or_christ_figure/feed/ 18 “Abduction”: Taylor Lautner's chest gets a movie http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/abduction/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/abduction/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/09/23/abduction Writing a review of "Abduction," the new thriller designed as a star vehicle for "Twilight" hunk Taylor Lautner, is pretty much a free-fire zone. Lautner's fan base -- which I would presume to be young and female and interested in viewing his hairless and monumental chest -- isn't super-likely to read reviews before rushing out to see the movie. On the other hand, if you're here reading this, the likelihood that you're actually going to pay to watch "Abduction" is exceptionally low. So I can pretty much make up any damn thing without fear of contradiction: The sequence where aliens destroy the earth was pretty cool, but the B&D sex scene between Lautner and Sigourney Weaver was somewhat disturbing. Unless it was the other way around.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/abduction/feed/ 7 The emasculation of the modern vampire? http://www.salon.com/2011/07/29/emasculation_of_the_modern_vampire/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/29/emasculation_of_the_modern_vampire/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/07/29/emasculation_of_the_modern_vampire Screenwriter Brian McGreevy did a guest stint on Vulture today with a diatribe on the emasculation of vampires in modern media, specifically in "True Blood" and "Twilight." "True Blood," at least, began with McGreevy's ideal sexy/dangerous vampire -- if not in Bill Compton, than in Eric Northman. Of course, now that Eric has lost his memory and Bill is playing at being a prissy little king, it's totally reasonable for McGreevy to assert that these characters "have taken the Romantic vampire and cut off his balls, leaving a pallid emo pansy with the gaseous pretentiousness of a perfume commercial. We are now left with the Castrati vampire."

Unfortunately, this argument smacks of chauvinism. McGreevy (currently adapting Bram Stoker's "Dracula" for the big screen) blames this on a new, dangerous "female gaze" -- as opposed to the misogynistic "male gaze" as defined by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey in her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." The female gaze, he suggests, makes these non-threatening vampires "pornography for tweens." When he asserts that "Mad Men's" Don Draper is actually more of a vampire than any of the "True Blood" or "Twilight" characters, what he's saying is that Draper is more of a man.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/29/emasculation_of_the_modern_vampire/feed/ 25 Today’s must-see viral videos http://www.salon.com/2011/07/06/viral_videos_jay_leno_bombs/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/06/viral_videos_jay_leno_bombs/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:07:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/07/06/viral_videos_jay_leno_bombs 1. "Independence Day" on Independence Day

While most of us spent July 4th blowing up fireworks to celebrate our emancipation from the Brits, comedian Sean Kleier made us remember the true meaning of Independence Day by reciting Bill Pullman's speech from the movie all over New York City.

 

2. "Glee" goes viral

The stars of the Fox musical stopped by Internet star Keenan Cahill's to cover Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night."

 

3. Field of "NFL" Dreams

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/06/viral_videos_jay_leno_bombs/feed/ 5 Edward Cullen is killing Robert Pattinson http://www.salon.com/2011/04/21/robert_pattinson_water_for_elephants/ http://www.salon.com/2011/04/21/robert_pattinson_water_for_elephants/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/2011/04/21/robert_pattinson_water_for_elephants Robert Pattinson has a lot riding on the new romantic drama "Water for Elephants," which opens Friday. Namely, can the young actor, who has made his name in the "Twilight" sagas, transition from broody teen heartthrob to broody adult actor?

The 25-year-old British actor faces a career conundrum that many other young, frenzy-inciting men have faced in the past: Can you make the ladies still love you even when they're past adolescence? Can you prove your marquee value in fare that has grown-up -- and dude -- appeal? Johnny Depp did it. Will Smith did it. Even Justin Timberlake did it. And they did it following much the same path Pattinson now does: by choosing projects that took them just far enough outside of their comfort zone that the work seemed somehow new, all while keeping their loyal fan bases reassured. But there's one big difference: the charm factor.

Pattinson's been testing the waters of career expansion for some time, in smaller films like "Little Ashes," where he played Salvador Dalí, and "How to Be," a comedy in which he played a Gus so gloomy Edward Cullen would beg to lighten up. Now, as Jacob, the narrator of "Water for Elephants," Pattinson cuts yet another bleak figure.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/04/21/robert_pattinson_water_for_elephants/feed/ 18 When did movie monsters get so sexy? http://www.salon.com/2011/03/11/horror_sexy_monsters_vampire_twilight/ http://www.salon.com/2011/03/11/horror_sexy_monsters_vampire_twilight/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/03/11/horror_sexy_monsters_vampire_twilight It may have started with King Kong: the image of that giant beast holding Fay Wray in his oversize mitt as he swatted off planes on top of the Empire State Building. To be fair, the ape hit upon the idea of using the iconic tower as a romantic getaway nearly 25 years before Cary Grant in "An Affair to Remember."

Or maybe it was Max Schreck in 1922's "Nosferatu": With his sunken eyes and shy demeanor, the biggest difference between the Transylvanian bat-creature and the kids from "Twilight" is personal grooming choices.

Or maybe it was Bela Legosi as Dracula. Or Frank Langella as Dracula. Or Gary Oldman as Dracula.

Wherever the original seed was planted, its effects are widespread today. Monsters are among us. And they are super sexy, romantic and just want you to love them.

We probably have Anne Rice to blame for this: The writer's gothic "Interview With the Vampire" book and subsequent series made neck-biting sexy and spawned a whole generation of goth kids thinking that heavy petting always involved a blood transfusion.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/03/11/horror_sexy_monsters_vampire_twilight/feed/ 17 “Red Riding Hood”: The “Showgirls” of fairy-tale movies http://www.salon.com/2011/03/10/red_riding_hood/ http://www.salon.com/2011/03/10/red_riding_hood/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/03/10/red_riding_hood Warner Bros. has kept "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke's new film of "Red Riding Hood" tightly under wraps until this week, and now that I've seen it, I can understand why. It's not quite because "Red Riding Hood" is a monumental disaster, although I'm sure some reviews will make it sound that way. It's more that it's strange and stupid and half-compelling and sometimes beautiful, with its big, bad talking wolf and Amanda Seyfried's big, blue, startled eyes and a Christmas-card medieval village inhabited by escapees from a mid-'90s prime-time soap. I can imagine people liking "Red Riding Hood" -- indeed, some people will love it, in that highly contemporary half-ironic spirit -- but its WTF factor is off the charts, beginning with Hardwicke's all-too-obvious attempt to avenge herself upon the "Twilight" franchise.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/03/10/red_riding_hood/feed/ 19 “I am Number Four” — and I am awful http://www.salon.com/2011/02/17/i_am_number_four/ http://www.salon.com/2011/02/17/i_am_number_four/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/02/16/i_am_number_four If you feel like a substandard knockoff "Twilight" movie is far better than no "Twilight" movie at all -- well, first of all, there is no mockery or judgment here. This is a safe space. You can share with us. The disease is much, much bigger than you are. We get it. Yes, I think a Higher Power could help you, but that choice is yours. You understand, or at least your rational mind does, that "I Am Number Four" is an ultra-expedited movie-type product adapted from the first volume of "Lorien Legacies," the utterly cynical young-adult alien franchise created by James Frey, he of the not-entirely-truthful memoir. The distance between this movie and anybody who actually cares -- about it or anything else, frankly -- is measured in light-years and filled with dark matter, like the distance between galaxies.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/02/17/i_am_number_four/feed/ 22 The lame duck wins are adding up for Obama http://www.salon.com/2010/12/21/lame_duck_congress_obama/ http://www.salon.com/2010/12/21/lame_duck_congress_obama/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:43:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//war_room/2010/12/21/lame_duck_congress_obama Despite their leaders' bluster, Senate Republicans do not have the votes to block ratification of the New START treaty. When a vote to end the GOP's filibuster was called on Wednesday afternoon, 11 Republican senators broke with their party. With a total of 67 senators voting to kill the filibuster, the path now seems clear for the chamber to formally ratify the treaty, which calls for the U.S. and Russia to pare back their nuclear arsenals over the next seven years, on Wednesday.

Needless to say, this represents a significant political victory for Barack Obama -- and not his first one this lame duck session. The White House worked intently to win over Republican support, which was more crucial than usual on START because of the two-thirds requirement for treaty ratification, and overcame a series of increasingly creative objections from some GOP senators who were intent on denying Obama a key item on his December wish list.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/12/21/lame_duck_congress_obama/feed/ 93 Is “Grown Ups” really 2010′s worst film? http://www.salon.com/2010/12/21/the_movie_list_defended/ http://www.salon.com/2010/12/21/the_movie_list_defended/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/about/inside_salon/2010/12/21/the_movie_list_defended Salon film critic Andrew O'Hehir recently put the finishing touches on his year-end, first-ever, all-encompassing movie ranking list. Salon's editor in chief Kerry Lauerman wanted to challenge him on his rationale. Their IM exchange is reproduced below:

Lauerman: Let's do this!

O'Hehir: Sure.

Lauerman: Actually, that's the sort of enthusiastically clichéd line that might appear in "Grown Ups"! I must ask -- with your year of moviegoing over and your full ranking of everything you've seen completed -- do you really, really think "Grown Ups" was the worst movie you saw in all of 2010?

O'Hehir: Ha! Well, "worst" is always a tough thing to define. I think it appalled me more than anything else I saw all year, in that talented people were involved, and in some sense the intentions could be called good -- by all accounts, Adam Sandler is a great guy -- and the results were teeth-grindingly juvenile and stupid.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/12/21/the_movie_list_defended/feed/ 9 The rise of “True Blood’s” nihilistic vampire http://www.salon.com/2010/09/11/true_blood_nihilism/ http://www.salon.com/2010/09/11/true_blood_nihilism/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2010/09/11/true_blood_nihilism During this season of "True Blood," Bill Compton, the show's "good-guy" vampire love interest, has done some very bad things. It all began during the third episode of the season. Bill had been kidnapped by the Vampire King of Mississippi and forced to live in a mansion with Lorena, his maker and ex-lover. By the end of the episode, Bill had attacked her and initiated a bloody sexual encounter that made the carnage of a Rob Zombie horror film seem like a jaunt in fairyland. In the following episode, Bill ate a stripper. Four episodes later, Bill almost killed Sookie, the very woman he has gone to extra-vampire lengths to protect.

Surely there must be an excuse for all this misbehavior. Bill was confused; he was surrounded by evil vampires, separated from his sweetheart and convinced that he could never truly be "good." But, Freudian issues aside, Bill's behavior is testament to the ways in which "True Blood's" politics diverge dramatically from those two other juggernauts of vampire pop culture: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Twilight." While these two were, respectively, liberal and conservative in their overall message, "True Blood" (whose season finale airs tonight on HBO) is a new species of vampire saga: A nihilistic pop culture phenomenon.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/09/11/true_blood_nihilism/feed/ 47 “The Hunger Games” vs. “Twilight” http://www.salon.com/2010/09/05/hunger_games_twilight/ http://www.salon.com/2010/09/05/hunger_games_twilight/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/09/05/hunger_games_twilight Is Katniss Everdeen the antidote to Bella Swan? That's a question guaranteed to irk fans of "The Hunger Games," Suzanne Collins' trilogy of dystopian young-adult novels, the latest of which, "Mockingjay," has currently captured the No. 1 spot on the nation's bestseller lists. "Hunger Games" fans don't appreciate seeing Collins' far more sober and ambitious books likened to "Twilight," Stephenie Meyer's swoony vampire romances. Too bad, because so much about "The Hunger Games," from its crossover success with adults to the crowds who packed bookstores when "Mockingjay" went on sale at midnight on Aug. 24 to its teenage narrator with her tangled love life, prompts the comparison.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/09/05/hunger_games_twilight/feed/ 26 Best of “Twilight” fan fiction http://www.salon.com/2010/07/03/twilight_fan_fiction/ http://www.salon.com/2010/07/03/twilight_fan_fiction/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:02:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2010/07/03/twilight_fan_fiction "Eclipse" continues to break box office records, but the ballad of Bella Swan, Edward Cullen and the six-pack abs isn't confined to the screen or the page. Thanks to the proliferation of fan fiction (and its erotic sibling, slash fiction), Twihards can rip open the corseted bodice of Stephenie Meyers' coy gothic romance to create their own stories of chance encounters, alternate universes and, of course, smut. And boy, have they ever.

We offer a taxonomy of popular "Twilight" fan fiction below, with excerpts of the most fascinating and raunchy entrants (much of it culled from the fan fic site Twilighted, which requires registration). Be warned: Some of these tales are not for virgin eyes. But they do offer a clue about the enduring mega-success  of "Twilight": These characters inspire the imagination.

Mindsexing Edward Cullen

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/07/03/twilight_fan_fiction/feed/ 11 Meet the “Twilight” dildo designer http://www.salon.com/2010/07/02/the_real_twilight_dildo_inventor/ http://www.salon.com/2010/07/02/the_real_twilight_dildo_inventor/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/07/02/the_real_twilight_dildo_inventor On Monday, when Salon's Christine Mathias highlighted the 10 most baffling "Twilight" products in honor of the release of "Eclipse," we had no idea that we were feeding into a controversy in the world of Twilight-related sex toys. But, indeed, Jon Condit, the designer of "The Vamp" (NSFW, as are all of the following links) -- the original "Twilight" dildo -- wrote in to correct us.  The Tantus Niagra Vibrator -- Twilight has apparently often been mistaken for the vampire-inspired version -- by media and consumers alike -- but "twilight" is merely a particular shade of purple that the company uses in many of its products. Now, the toy that Condit designed? It has "a deathly pale flesh tone reminiscent of the moon's soft glow" complete with sparkles that glint in sunlight.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/07/02/the_real_twilight_dildo_inventor/feed/ 18 Better than “Twilight”: 10 must-see vampire films http://www.salon.com/2010/07/02/vampire_movies_twilight_fans_should_see/ http://www.salon.com/2010/07/02/vampire_movies_twilight_fans_should_see/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/07/02/vampire_movies_twilight_fans_should_see This list is aimed at a hypothetical viewer -- maybe young, maybe not -- who became immersed in vampire lore after having seen "Twilight," but who has yet to really sink his or her fangs into the genre's rich cinematic legacy, and who might be surprised to discover how elastic and surprising it can be. (In truth, it's probably aimed at my adolescent daughter, whose favorite movies include "The Graduate," "Election" and "Jaws" but fell asleep during "The Godfather" because the plot was too hard to follow.)

You'll notice I've avoided most of the better-known recent vampire films, and that many of my picks were created outside the United States, made on indie film budgets, or released before the cutoff point after which the current crop of teen and preteen viewers seem inclined to label a movie "old." (Based on a depressing recent conversation with a college student who offhandedly called "Fight Club" "a pivotal film of my childhood," the cutoff point is somewhere around the time that the Tom Cruise suck-fest "Interview with the Vampire" came out.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/07/02/vampire_movies_twilight_fans_should_see/feed/ 78 “Twilight” eclipses record with $68.5M debut http://www.salon.com/2010/07/01/twilight_eclipse_box_office_record/ http://www.salon.com/2010/07/01/twilight_eclipse_box_office_record/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:52:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2010/07/01/twilight_eclipse_box_office_record Fans are over the moon for "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," which pulled in $68.5 million in its first day to set a new record for a movie debuting on Wednesday.

The third installment in the vampire romance surpassed the previous Wednesday record of $62 million set last year by "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

But "Eclipse" fell short of the all-time best opening day, a record held by its predecessor, last November's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," which took in $72.7 million. "New Moon" opened on a Friday, typically a busier day at theaters than weekdays.

"Eclipse" opened in a record 4,416 theaters and expands to 4,468 cinemas Friday for the Fourth of July weekend, one of the biggest box-office weekends of the year.

With so much money already in the bank and a long holiday weekend ahead, distributor Summit Entertainment hopes "Eclipse" can top the $200 million haul for "Revenge of the Fallen" in its first five days, a record for a movie opening on Wednesday.

"It certainly is a target for us," said Richie Fay, head of distribution for Summit. "I'd be real hesitant to say that we will break that. We would love to and are striving to. We have the location and screen count that could get us there. But if the weather isn't in our favor, if people are out barbecuing and looking at fireworks Sunday night, we may not get there."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/07/01/twilight_eclipse_box_office_record/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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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/06/30/twilight_eclipse/feed/ 15 In defense of “Twihards” http://www.salon.com/2010/06/29/twilight_female_fandom/ http://www.salon.com/2010/06/29/twilight_female_fandom/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/06/29/twilight_female_fandom Whether your awareness of the "Twilight" zeitgeist comes from casually perusing Sunday Styles or you've already staked your place in line to see "Eclipse" when it opens tomorrow, chances are you've got a pretty good mental picture of the insanely popular teen vampire saga's quintessential fan. She's definitely female, she's a little bit giddy, and she's either a teenager or she's not.

The fact that grown women -- some of them so grown they were introduced to "Twilight" by their daughters -- make up a sizable portion of the franchise's fan base is well documented. As of this writing, a Google News search for "adult Twilight fans" yielded 131 results from the past month. So far this week, there are articles charting the territory of "Intervention"-caliber "Twilight" addicts and the "Twi-mom" phenomenon -- and it's only Tuesday.

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