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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is at the top of the box office, but as teenage heroine Bella Swan moves inevitably toward marriage with a vampire, some wonder if she’s such an exemplary
role model for the girls who follow her adventures in the hugely popular
books and movies.

It’s a rerun of an old debate: Can pop culture — books, movies, music — influence the behavior of impressionable teenagers, and in the case of Bella, is that a good thing or a bad
thing?

REVIEW: ‘Eclipse’ is fairly anemic.

And, for that matter, are teens really all that impressionable? After all, they’ve been reading Romeo and Juliet for 400 years.

Bella, for the few who have avoided the Twilight tidal wave, is a teenager who’s so in love with an undead guy that she’s ready to give up everything to be turned into a vampire so they
can spend eternity together. Adding some urgency to the situation is the
fact that Edward Cullen, her vampire love, is reluctant to have sex
outside the bonds of matrimony.

Christine Seifert, a communications professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City who has studied Twilight online message boards and fan fiction sites, says that the saga is strongly
Mormon in tone and that a subset of Mormon culture prefers that girls
marry young and start families. She says the abstinence message is so
strong it could be labeled “abstinence porn,” designed to convince teens
that sexual self-denial is actually sexy. Will it work?

The author of the Twilight books, Stephenie Meyer, is a devout Mormon who says about Bella on her website: “I never meant for her fictional choices to be a model for anyone else’s real-life
choices.”

Nevertheless, the three movies so far and the four books in print make some parents nervous about whether the saga is appropriate for younger teens, even aside from the vampires. Twilight,
it should be noted, was No. 5 on the 2009 list of books challenged or
banned from schools and libraries, according to the American
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With “Eclipse” raking in piles of cash this past weekend, Twi-Hards are already asking how the next installment of the Twilight Saga will be adapted onto the big screen — and filming hasn’t even started yet!

As the faithful already know, Stephanie Meyers’s final book, “Breaking Dawn” — which, at 756 pages, is by far the longest of the series — will be filmed in two parts, Harry Potter-style. What really has them sharpening their fangs, though, is just how closely the movies will draw from the books. Splitting “Breaking Dawn” into a pair of movies will certainly allow it to be truer to the book, but just how much of the — SPOILER ALERT — sex, gory birth scene and a half-vampire baby will really be depicted on the big screen?

Summit reps recently told Entertainment Weekly both “BD” films will be PG-13, making fans wonder just how graphic the film could get. But Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter for all the “Twilight” films, told fans via her Facebook page that she’d ensure plenty of blood and sex and feathers in the films.

As for where the films will actually be split apart, she anticipates it’ll probably have to do with Bella’s transformation into one of the undead. Director Bill Condon will helm the final two movies, and Taylor Lautner has called the director “ridiculously talented” and is excited to see what Condon will bring to “Breaking Dawn.”

It also looks like everyone’s favorite vampires and werewolves will be back for more. Besides Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart reprising the most dramatic vampire/werewolf/human love triangle in cinematic history, Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser, and Nikki Reed will all be back to fight baddie vampires another day. And after a salary dispute that nearly turned ugly, Ashley Green and hottie Kellan Lutz will also be reprising their roles in “Breaking Dawn.”

The first part of “Breaking Dawn” is slated to be released on November 18, 2011.

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There can’t be many actresses who are as unassuming as Kristen Stewart. She may be a household name, thanks to her portrayal of Bella Swan — a girl whose affections are being fought over by a vampire and werewolf in the Twilight franchise — but Kristen isn’t one to play the fame game. In fact, she just seems embarrassed by it.

Fiercely private, her reticence to reveal all about her personal life has earned her a reputation for being sullen and uncooperative in interviews. But, it turns out, this has more to do with plain old nerves than a difficult disposition.

“I’m comforted by knowing what my next few days are going to bring me and that’s what has initially scared me about press because you never know what you’re walking into,” says Kristen.

“Like right now, I have no idea where the conversation is going to go. I’ve always been like so, so terrified of that, it’s completely rendered me incapable of even doing it.”

The small and slight 20-year-old is dressed in a red-checked shirt and skinny jeans; the sunglasses propped on top of her head revealing striking green eyes (in Twilight she wears brown contacts). The only trace of cosmetics is her black nail varnish, but then there’s no need for a face full of foundation when you boast perfect, pale skin. She’s like a real-life advertisement for the bottle of Fiji water from which she swigs throughout the interview.

“I love making movies and I want people to know about them,” she continues. “So I might be shy and that might make me seem weird to people, but it’s not going to stop me from doing what I love to do.”

The faintest of smiles crosses her lips, but she continues to shake one of her legs up and down, suggesting just how uncomfortable she’s feeling. It’s an improvement on press junkets of past when she was rendered near mute.
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