I love him (but wow, what’s with the hair!), can’t stand her!

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If the droolingly awaited big-screen version ofTwilight is any indication, sanpaku eyes are the new cheekbones. Marilyn Monroe and JFK both had sexy sanpakus (in which the white of the orb is strikingly visible below the iris), and so does Robert Pattinson, the young British heartthrob who plays Edward Cullen, Twilight’s dreamy, sculpted hunk of a teenage vampire. With pasty skin, red lips, and those peepers that pop open wide with a touch of madness, Pattinson has a look so broodingly unearthly it’s no wonder he doesn’t sprout fangs. His creepy bedroom stare is a special effect all its own.Here, as in Stephenie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Edward is Romeo, Heathcliff, James Dean, and Brad Pitt all rolled into one: a scruffy-gorgeous bloodsucker pinup who is really an angelic protector. When Bella (Kristen Stewart), who has come to Forks, Wash., to live with her police-chief dad, sits next to Edward in biology class, he acts like he’s suffering a seizure (or an attack of bad Mexican food). But it’s only because he can barely control himself around her. It’s no surprise that Bella tunes out the other kids, even as they try to befriend her. They don’t make her tingle with the fear of her own desire. Edward, like any good vampire, has a predatory glamour. As Bella gets to know him, what’s irresistible to her is that he promises not a blood consummation but its very opposite: a refusal to give in to the hunger that tempts him most.

For girls, the intense, ego-stroking appeal of Meyer’s novel was the way that Bella becomes this undead Byronic stud’s soul mate without quite knowing why she’s worthy. She’s a Kewl Generation damsel waiting to be rescued from her jaded heart. Stewart is an ideal casting choice — she conveys Bella’s detachment, as well as her need to bust through it. And getting Catherine Hardwicke to direct Twilight was a shrewd move, because the youthquake specialist of Thirteen treats teen confusion without a trace of condescension: She gets their grand passions and prickly defense mechanisms. She has reconjured Meyer’s novel as a cloudburst mood piece filled with stormy skies, rippling hormones, and understated visual effects. What Hardwicke can’t quite triumph over is the book’s lackluster plot. On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer. B

With advance tickets selling out and millions of fans causing near-riots at public cast appearances, the vampire drama Twilight is shaping up to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. But the real reason the movie — based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling book — looks like such a success is the intense romantic chemistry between co-stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Kristen, 18, plays Bella Swan, a mortal teenage girl who falls for handsome vampire Edward Cullen, played by Robert, 22. “Kristen and Rob bonded from the moment they met,” an insider tells Life & Style. “They got along so well that people were convinced they were secretly in love.”

Sparks certainly flew from the start. “She and Rob had a lot in common, and it didn’t take long for them to develop a very close relationship,” reveals the insider. “They were very touchy-feely around each other and they seemed to share a lot of inside jokes.” In fact, Robert was overheard proposing to Kristen on set on several occasions — apparently he was trying to stay in character — and he constantly recommended books to her, even buying her a copy of Doomed Love by Virgil. “I felt like an idiot just following her around,” Robert recently admitted.

Though Kristen is currently dating actor Michael Angarano, with three more Twilight sequels reportedly in development, Robert may have plenty of time to work his charm on Kristen!

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Twilight’s Robert Pattinson doesn’t get why people care about his hair so much.

“I do not understand that at all. At all,” he says on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (airing Friday).

“My friends from London who were here the other day were just thinking, ‘Why is everyone going on about your hair?’” says the star, who has said he’s gone six weeks without washing it. “It’s completely insane!”

Vampire lovers, rejoice: Pattinson also tells DeGeneres he is single.

“I am, but no one else seems to get into a relationship with me,” he says. “It’s really strange.”

“I think you’re wrong,” DeGeneres tells him.

“People like screaming at me,” he jokes. “Actually, they like screaming at me in relationships as well. No one wants to commit.”

Replies DeGeneres, “I think someone will commit. Don’t you worry about that.”

The London-born actor also tells DeGeneres that he is driving during his time in the United States.

“Well, theoretically,” he says. “Technically, I am driving, but I don’t know how to drive.”

When DeGeneres informs him that Americans drive on the other side of the road here, he quips, “Yeah, I figured that out after a few weeks.”

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The cast walk the red carpet at the world premiere of Summit Entertainment’s ‘Twilight‘

Hundreds of shrieking fans turned out Monday for the Los Angeles premiere of Twilight.

Robert Pattinson, who plays sexy vampire Edward, told Usmagazine.com he was used to all the hoopla by now, “but this week it feels like it’s grown so much bigger.

“They all just scream at me and now it just kind of feel like my job,” said Pattinson, who joked with MTV News that he’d gone “completely deaf” at the premiere.

Just the other day, Pattinson realized, “there were some girls who had scratched … the side of their necks so [they were] freshly bleeding when they came up to get a signature.

“They were like, ‘We did this for you.’ I didn’t know what to say. ‘Um, thanks guys?’”

Some fans who turned out for Monday’s premiere of the popular vampire literary series-turned-movie even camped out overnight to secure a place in line. More than 600 people were allowed inside special holding areas along both sides of the premiere’s red carpet.

“The only thing I can compare it to is, I was in a Star Trek movie when I was like 11 and that was a big deal for a 11-year-old kid,” star Mike Welch told Us. “But this is unlike anything I’ve seen before or been apart of.”

Added star Justin Chon, “I can’t even wrap my head around this right now. It’s so crazy. It was nothing I was expecting.”

But actress Kristin Stewart, who plays Bella Swan, told Us she gets why fans are so obsessed.

“The book is pretty hard core and the fans are passionate, so I understand it,” she said. “I’m looking forward to seeing the movie. Everyone is talking about it but nobody has seen it. It’s hard to talk until you see it.”

Can viewers expect another Twilight installment?

“No word yet,” Cam Gigandet said. “It all depends on how the movie does when it comes out. But we’re signed on for three if it happens.”

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Methinks this movie is going to do juuuuuuuuuuust fine.

I have lots of cast pictures for you – and I’ll write down who they play in the movie for ya.

IN ORDER: Robert Pattinson (Edward) and Kristen Stewart (Bella),  Peter Facinelli (Carlisle) and wife Jennie Garth, Cam Gigandet (James), Elizabeth Reaser (Esme), Taylor Lautner (Jacob), Nikki Reed (Rosalie), Ashley Greene (Alice), Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria), Sarah Clarke (Renee) & Kellan Lutz (Emmet).

Then these two are not in the movie, but were at the premiere: AnnaLynne McCord & Camilla Belle

Robert Pattinson walking to his limo, LA. The actor is in town to promote his latest film ‘Twilight’. Pattinson arrived at LAX International airport and was escorted to his waiting limo.

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So hot.