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...budget (less than $40 million) and an artless indie vibe. But just as J.K. Rowling cannily fed tween readers' innocent lust for adventure, so Meyer smites their slightly older sisters with the adventure of innocent lust. And when the teen witches and wizards of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the series, vacated the prime slot of the weekend before Thanksgiving for a July 2009 opening, the vampires of Twilight moved in. It sounds like kismet, Hollywood-style. (See 90 years of vampires onscreen...
...creating the laws, folkways and architecture of the alternative universe that its more fanciful characters inhabit. The Cullens are a fastidious family of vampires; in their tennis whites, with their regal airs, they resemble the aristocratic Flyte brood in Brideshead Revisited. They call themselves vegetarians because they drink the blood of animals, not people. They can fly, move with lightning speed, scale trees in a trice. They also play baseball, which in the Cullen clan is a lot like Rowling's Quidditch. Their ball-playing, and the scent of human snack food, will attract the notice of a trio...
...There will be no apprehension about potential injuries tomorrow, no looking ahead towards the next, more important opponent. There will only be a single, 60-minute football game which will end with hopes and dreams strewn alongside blood and sweat, and the satisfaction that, win or lose, each team brought everything it had left out on to the field and took nothing back with it into the locker room...
...finalists include Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Peter Matthiessen's controversial Shadow Country, which came under fire for being a re-written compilation of three novels that he wrote in the 90s and Patricia Smith's collection of poems Blood Dazzler, which describe New Orleans before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. With 1,258 books submitted from more than 200 publishers (nonfiction leading the submission pack with 540 entries), the allure of the golden seal doesn't seem to be tarnishing anytime soon...
...from Leverett Tower H. They’ll be wearing patterned scarves instead of solid colors and talking about how they study esoteric subjects like “economics” and “government.” Oh, and they’ll be drinking INFANT blood...