TwilightMania

From StephenieMeyer.com

It has been a while since the last time I posted anything—I hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to bring your attention to a couple of things.

First, in case you didn’t see it, New Moon: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion is already available for pre-order (even though the cover art has not been released). For those of you who haven’t seen the Twilight Companion, it is filled with high-quality images and behind-the-scenes information. Please note that Stephenie does not write these books, but I really enjoyed the first one.

Also, Random House (the company who produces the Twilight audiobooks) is hosting another contest through their subsidiary suvudu.com. They will be giving away the entire Twilight series on audio books (you must be a resident of the United States and 18 years of age or older to enter). Please note that this contest is not at all affiliated with StephenieMeyer.com, although I do enjoy listening to the audio books.
Good luck!

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Talk about blood red! LunaTwilight lipstick. Photo courtesy of Twilight Beauty

What Robert Pattinson is to Hollywood, “Twilight Beauty” will be to the makeup world.

In other words, brace yourself for mass hysteria.

Stephenie Meyer’s book series and the “Twilight” film saga have inspired a range of beauty products.

You were probably as enraptured as I was by the vampires’ sparkly skin, flushed cheeks and juicy lips (especially Edward Cullen’s).

So it’s beyond fitting — and frankly, brilliant — that the phenomenon has spawned Twilight Beauty, which consists of two collections.

Creating the movie-tied makeup is Cristina Bartolucci, famous for her innovative beauty brand, DuWop. (Lip Venom ring a bell?)

Word is there will be a special “Twilight” edition of the cult-favorite lip plumper with one half of the tube’s vial’s contents resembling blood.

Better yet, the cast apparently wears the makeup in the second movie installment: “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” out November 20.

I got a sneak peek at both collections, LunaTwilight and Volturi, and while I’m still barely able to catch my breath (major “Twilight” fan here), I’ll hit you with the highlights.

LunaTwilight is the more luxurious of the two offerings — the packaging is heartbreakingly gorgeous and the formulas are more sophisticated than the alternate collection.

I hate to tease you with some of the the product names before they’re available, but let’s be honest, I can’t help myself and you can’t wait: “First Light Body Glow,” “Mortal Glow Blushing Creme” and Color Palettes in “Bella,” “Rosalie,” “Alice” and “Victoria.” (I can’t wait to see “Alice” — she was my favorite.)

Feast your eyes on Volturi's Crown Mascara. Photo courtesy of Twilight Beauty

Volturi, the other Twilight Beauty collection, will strike a chord with those who’ve read the book.

The Volturi is the most feared and powerful coven of vampires, and that same dark, exciting sensibility can be felt in its products.

The Volturi family crest appears on the packaging and some standouts include “Deity Body Lotion,” “Immortal Body Shimmer” and “Crown Mascara” (shown left).

Everything I’ve seen can only be described as elegant and wicked.

Twilight Beauty will be available on its own site: TwilightBeauty.com, which isn’t live yet and an official launch date for the products has not been announced (though, it looks like it will be timed around the movie’s release), so stay tuned.

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“Twilight” mania took a bite out of East Hampton this weekend when two of its highly sought-after stars, Jackson Rathbone and Edi Gathegi, performed at WordTheatre’s Pushcart Prize Benefit at Guild Hall on Saturday.

Gathegi said “This is my first real time” being in the Hamptons. Though, he does admit he stopped by for “a hot minute” on New Year’s Eve in 2004, but doesn’t count it as a real Hamptons experience. “It’s gorgeous here! I love it!” said Gathegi.

Gathegi flew that day from Italy and was leaving at 6 a.m. Sunday morning to head back to New York City, but called his stop in the Hamptons “a nice buffer. It’s beautiful here!”

His co-star and fellow vampire Rathbone drove five and a half hours from Philadelphia, where he is filming “The Last Airbender,” the highly anticipated M. Night Shyamalan action/fantasy film based on the Nickelodeon cartoon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in order to read one of the Pushcart Prize winning stories.

Rathbone provided the after-party’s entertainment by performing a six-song set with his 100 Monkeys bandmate, Ben Graupner. Rathbone joked during the intimate performance that they were “down three monkeys”. The fan girls didn’t seem to mind as they took pictures and video of his performance.

Ania Perrin, a teenage “Twilight” fan, said she made her mother buy two $100 tickets for the event just to see Rathbone because “he’s just like really hot. And he’s a good actor.”

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Summer School in the small Washington town features ‘Twilight’ classes, field trips and prom.
If you’re like many “Twilight” fans, you cherish every word of Stephenie Meyer’s novels, gush each time Robert Pattinson runs his fingers through his hair and celebrate the birthdays of the Cullens as if you’re part of the family. But if you haven’t been to Forks, you’re missing out on a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience.
After all the time that I’ve spent covering the “Twilight” beat for MTV, I was extremely honored to be asked to attend Summer School in Forks: A “Twilight” Symposium, a real-life fan event that allowed Twilighters to attend classes, go to a prom and enjoy field trips around the real-life town that Meyer immortalized by making it home to her beloved characters.
 

 
“We’re having Summer School in Forks right now,” beamed Kaleb Nation, a.k.a. the “Twilight” Guy, a popular blogger/author. “We have all these bands up here for the ‘Twilight’ prom. I gave a speech earlier, and we have all these speakers that have been talking about the series. We have the woman who [voices] the audio books here. It’s been an amazing event for a bunch of Twilighters to get together in Forks.”
Driving into the small town (population 3,000), the first things you see are the enormous trees, the gorgeous beaches — and the pouring rain and overcast skies that make it such a perfect place for sexy vampires to call home. Then, when you pull into town, you see a quaint Disneyland for Twilighters: A motel sign screams “Edward Cullen Slept Here,” a local Chinese restaurant features a “Twilight Dinner” and every third storefront sells Robert Pattinson cardboard cutouts, custom-made T-shirts and other “Twilight” trappings.
“I’ve had the flower shop for about 14 years — my mom owned it before me,” explained Charlene Cross, owner of Lepell’s Twilight Central (where an employee dressed as Alice sells lollipops that read “Bite Me” and bumper stickers that say “Warning: I Drive Like a Cullen”). “Business is three times what it normally would be. [Before the novels became popular], when I sold flowers strictly, holidays, funerals, weddings would be a good time. Now it’s a daily thing, and I think it’s only going to get bigger.”
“The town was having some major economic issues, because their major export was logging — and then ‘Twilight’ came along,” Kaleb explained. “And if you look at Forks now, Stephenie has transformed this town into a ‘Twilight’ tourism economy. It’s crazy.”
“None of our students are vampires — at least, not that we’re aware of,” grinned Kevin Rupprecht, the real-life principal of Forks High School, who promised me that he resists the daily temptation to call Edward Cullen to his office over the loudspeaker. “Thousands and thousands of people come through this town, just to see the ‘Twilight’ setting, every month. We do have a couple of lockers, for the fans, that are designated for Edward and Bella. People like that. And we do know which parking spot the almost-accident occurred in. So we direct fans to that; they eat it up.”
Forks High was the site of the Symposium. And although it was fun to see all the fans wearing T-shirts that read “Jasper Says Relax” or fathers dressed up like Carlisle (complete with brown contact lenses), they were here for some serious business.
“We got to listen to a lecture by John Granger, who is the author of many [books about] Harry Potter,” explained Maddi of “Bloodsuckers,” a “Twilight” podcast, who attended Granger’s class on religious themes within the pages of the popular novels. “Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon, and we didn’t realize how much her religion played into the ‘Twilight’ series. … He told us about how Bella and Edward, in the series, represent the relationship between man and God. Edward is God, Bella is man, and when he leaves she feels an absence in her heart. That was really interesting.”
Another interesting part of the weekend was Saturday night’s “prom” in the Forks High gymnasium. With attendees of all ages dressed in their best evening gowns and suits, popular “Twilight” acts the Bella Cullen Project, Bella Rocks and the Mitch Hansen Band sang odes to the Cullen clan. The YouTube sensation Hillywood Players walked amongst them dressed as Bella, Jasper, Alice and Edward — the latter had his shirt open to reveal his chest, naturally. After sniffing a few potential mates, “Edward” chose his dancing partner from among the blushing fans.
“It’s been totally inspirational,” Mitch Hansen said of his first time in Forks, saying that he was moved enough to write some new lyrics. “It’s mind-blowing.”
On Sunday, yours truly got to deliver the keynote speech to the “graduates” during a ceremony that saw them all receiving diplomas. As we stood in the real-deal Forks cafeteria, it was hard to deny the feeling that Edward could come strolling in at any moment, grab a tray of food that he would only poke at and stare longingly at Bella from across the room. As the line between fiction and fact continued to blur, the Twilighters exchanged hugs and phone numbers, taking home the memories of a lifetime along with their diplomas.
“We ended up taking the same flight Bella took to get to Forks in ‘Twilight,’ ” explained Maddi, remembering the journey that she and her friends had taken to get to the tiny town Meyer selected for her novels despite the fact that she had never actually set foot here. “We went from Phoenix to the Seattle airport, then took a puddle-jumper from Seattle to Port Angeles and got to see all the beautiful scenery.
“We ate at Bella Italia, which is where Edward and Bella had their first date. It was pouring — just like it should be — when we got here,” she continued, saying that even when there isn’t a scheduled fan event, Forks is still a Disneyland for Twilighters. “Everywhere you go, you can just imagine Bella and Edward walking down the street in this cozy little town. It really is like being in the home of ‘Twilight.’ ”
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With Kristen Stewart starring as Joan Jett in the upcoming biopic The Runaways, many have wondered if she has the singing chops to pull off the role.

Perhaps some clues might be provided in this clip from the 2007 biographical drama Into the Wild, in which she plays aspiring warbler Tracy Tatro. Though the mellow acoustic number that K-Stew performs is a long way off from “I Love Rock N Roll,” it does give some indication of Stewart’s vocal prowess.

Check out the video and have your say in the comments section: Based on the evidence, do you think Stewart can pull off Joan Jett’s voice?

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Most of the time—assuming that the subjects are still alive—they get no binding say in who plays them. Then again, most producers aren’t stupid, at least in this area. They’ll often seek out a “blessing” from the subject, along with a bunch of meetings between the actor and the subject that can later be used for cutesy talking points.

Producers hate to give up creative control of a project, but they really, really don’t want to piss off the subject of a biopic. Otherwise the icon might take to the Internets and crack off about how non-iconic that rotten young punk of an actor was.

Not that Joan Jett seems to have a problem with Kristen Stewart wearing her hair and leather in The Runaways. In fact…

…she seems somewhere between indifferent and pleased.

“While Joan is not involved with the casting decisions, she is eager to see Kristen’s work and meet with her about the upcoming role,” her official Web site said after the casting was announced. And that’s how it usually works.

For Walk the Line, director James Mangold did run the idea of Joaquin Phoenix by Johnny Cash before officially casting him. June Carter Cash was said to have expressed her satisfaction in Mangold’s decision to hire Reese Witherspoon. And of course Ray Charles wouldn’t have had those meetings with Jamie Foxx if he didn’t like the actor portraying him in Ray. But that’s not necessarily the same as legally binding approval, which is extremely rare, I am told.

“Usually, biopics are movies produced about public figures, which means they can be portrayed anyway the filmmaker wishes to portray them,” producer Jerry Tokofsky tells me. “Most biopics are made about people that are no longer living, but in the event that the film is about a living individual, normally the individual would not have final say or right of approval.”

As for whether Bella Swan can effectively channel Joan Jett in the biopic, which is currently shooting, we’ll soon see.

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