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...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...
...aged as Edward, who was initiated into the realm of the undead in 1918. Defiantly old-fashioned, the film wants viewers to believe not so much in vampires as in the existence of an anachronistic movie notion: a love that is convulsive and ennobling. Bella could be any Hollywood heroine in love with a good boy whom society callously misunderstands. She's Natalie Wood to Edward's James Dean (in Rebel Without a Cause) or Richard Beymer (in West Side Story). Cathy, meet Heathcliff. Juliet, Romeo...
...Twilight isn't a masterpiece - no matter. It rekindles the warmth of great Hollywood romances, where foreplay was the climax and a kiss was never just a kiss...
...many, the most visible association Tommy Lee Jones ’69 has had with his alma mater was his cameo in the movie “Love Story.” But for the 20 members of the Harvard Polo Club, he is more than just a Hollywood A-lister—as well as their coach and mentor, they consider him their biggest...
...While trips to the estate of a movie star may seem glamorous, Crocker Snow said the experience is far from the idyllic Hollywood stereotype...