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...years late on arrival. But none could have predicted that the A380 would fly into the most turbulent economy in the history of aviation. Air France ordered a dozen of the $300 million aircraft in 2000, when the economic forecast called for steady growth. By the time Air France took delivery nine years later, the industry was on its knees and the big-spending investment bankers whose business- and first-class tickets make up the bulk of airline profits had largely evaporated...
...wasn't." Lori Joffs, a stay-at-home mom in Nashville, read it three months later. Like Meyer, she's a Mormon, but she'd put off starting the book because she didn't think a Mormon writer could do vampires. "I read all night, closed the book, took a deep breath and opened it back up to reread several chapters," she says. Joffs went looking online for other people who felt the same way, but she didn't find many. So she put up her own website, the Twilight Lexicon, which now attracts more than 50,000 visitors...
Idols of the Twilight In retrospect, it's surprising how long it took the sound of hundreds of thousands of teenage girls hysterically keening to reach Hollywood. The first glimpse that director Catherine Hardwicke had of Twilight came at Sundance in 2007, where the founders of the newly independent Summit Entertainment showed her a script. It had been worked over so thoroughly at Paramount that it was practically unrecognizable. "It had Bella as a track star," Hardwicke remembers. "Then there were FBI agents - the vampires would migrate south into Mexico every year, and FBI agents in Utah were tracking them...
...that easy. "The bar is so high," Hardwicke says. "Every two pages there's a comment about how gorgeous he is ... I met all of these guys I felt were quite good, but they didn't have that special other quality that they were alive for 105 years." She took Robert Pattinson and three other actors to her house in Venice, Calif., to run lines with Kristen. They played the biology-class scene in the dining room. They moved the cars out of the garage and did the "How long have you been 17?" scene there. Then they...
...subplot of the Twilight story. "I didn't have a camera in the hotel room. I cannot say," Hardwicke says. "But in terms of what Kristen told me directly, it didn't happen on the first movie. Nothing crossed the line while on the first film. I think it took a long time for Kristen to realize, O.K., I've got to give this a go and really try to be with this person...