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"Twilight"Movie Review By Scene

Stephanie Meyer's teen vampire romance book "Twilight" makes it to the big screen this weekend starring Robert pattinson as Edward and Kristen Stewart as Bella. There's no doubt that "Twilight" will make tons of cash, but will it satisfy fans an non-fans of the book alike? Eric Melin of www.scene-stealers.com and guest co-host Whitney Mathews (www.whitneymathews.com) review "Twilight" from the perspective of someone who has and someone who hasn't read the book. Is the Catherine Hardwicke-directed vampire romance fantasy just for teenagers? Find out in this on-camera movie review of "Twilight."

Twilight Stars Sing Miley Cyrus

Three of the stars from the new movie, "Twilight", Rachelle Lefe'vre, Edi Gathegi and Taylor Lautner were at Mall of America in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Click the link for video of the cast performing Miley Cyrus for Lena Svenson from KDWB's Dave Ryan in the Morning show.

Madonna & Guy Granted Preliminary Divorce

Just one month after announcing their split, Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary "quickie divorce" Friday in the High Court of London.

According to a document released by the court, 50-year-old Madonna – the petitioner – said in a sworn statement that she is divorcing Ritchie for his "unreasonable behavior."

In a court proceeding that took all of one minute, the judge issued a decree nisi – the first step in the U.K.'s two-stage divorce process – to "Ciccone ML" and "Ritchie GS" and 16 other (non-celebrity) couples.

Neither Madonna or her director ex attended the hearing. In fact, even their attorneys skipped the courtroom.

It's known as "quickie divorce" because if there are no disputes in the next six weeks and one day, the couple's split will become decree absolute.

Guy Speaks Out

Ritchie, 40, who has been working in London on the set of his new movie Sherlock Holmes, seemed relieved by the speedy resolution.

He reportedly told the Daily Mirror late on Thursday, "It was never about money – never about her bloody art collection. I just wanted to settle it and move on."

He added to the paper, "I didn't raise any objections at any stage until she insisted the children lived permanently in New York." (According to British press reports, the settlement calls for sons Rocco, 8, and David, 3, to split time between the U.S. and London. Madonna's 12-year-old daughter Lourdes – whose father is the New York-based Carlos Leon – will live with her mother.)

"Twilight" Interview on the today show

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Thoughts on "TWILIGHT" the movie version!

The movie version of "Twilight" is a considerable improvement over the windy bestseller on which it's based. The first half of Stephenie Meyer's vampire romance is a heaving sea of puppy-love gush. After a couple hundred pages of plucky Bella Swan and her super-cute bloodsucker boyfriend, Edward Cullen, endlessly expressing their mutual adoration ("His beauty lit up the kitchen," "Just give me a minute to restart my heart"), I was sure I felt a coma coming on. Fortunately, Meyer does get down to narrative action in the second half, and it's not bad, as these things go. But it's a long book, and a long slog.

To convert this woozy tale into a movie, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (who also works on the excellent "Dexter" TV series) wisely approached the novel with a machete, whacking out several acres of god-awful lovebird jabber and moving the cool stuff -- mainly a trio of vicious Canadian vampire interlopers -- to the fore. This allowed the director, Catherine Hardwicke ("Thirteen"), and her editor, Nancy Richardson, to step in and give the story a desperately needed kick in its saggy pants. Unfortunately, all the snappy pacing and swooping camera movement in the world can't finesse the novel's sillier conceits; and bringing some of them into the light only makes them seem a lot sillier.

The movie, like the book, has the approximate structure of a 1950s rock-a-teen B-movie, the kind in which a good girl falls for the leader of a bad motorcycle gang to the horror of her family and friends, who just don't understand how sweet he really is. Here, the good girl is Bella (Kristen Stewart), who's moved to the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, to live with her divorced dad, Charlie (Billy Burke), the local police chief. In the cafeteria at her new high school one day, she sees a table full of weird siblings who all look like they've had their faces pushed into a flour bin. These are the Cullens, and one of them, the strange-but-yummy Edward (Robert Pattinson), is staring at Bella from beneath his big, gel-stiffened pompadour with a look of wild alarm. What is his problem?

Bella and Edward butt heads for about a minute before he saves her life a few times with some very mysterious abilities; then she starts looking at him in a new way. Adding up his endearing oddities -- extreme goth-guy pallor, serious hypothermia -- she realizes that he's a vampire. But she doesn't care. "I'm not afraid of you," she tells him. "I'm only afraid of losing you." Before long, they're off to the woods, where they coo in the trees and nuzzle in the grass amid fat, dewy mushrooms and dreamy acoustic-guitar noodlings on the soundtrack. Edward takes Bella home, out in the middle of nowhere, to meet the family. His dad (Peter Facinelli) has a sort of dead-Liberace vibe, but he's real nice, and with the exception of one sister, Rosalie (Nikki Reed), who has an obvious anger-management problem, the whole clan is very ... well, warm isn't the word, but they like Bella a lot. Her dad isn't quite so enthusiastic, but hey -- kids: what're you gonna do? He gives his okay for Edward to take Bella to the prom. They have a swell time. But then the Canadian vampires swoop back in and try to wreck everything. They're still trying at the movie's fadeout, which is the producers' gentle way of saying "sequel."

The phenomenal popularity of "Twilight," the novel, is no mystery. It doesn't simply update the vampire genre for the modern teen market -- Lord knows, that's been done. What it does is strip vampires of their murky erotic threat and present them as chaste, untroubling love objects for young teen girls. (Bella and Edward are supposed to be 17, but they don't act that way: Bella's never even had a date.) There's not a whisper of sex in the book, and none in the movie -- which is problematic. Pattinson, such an appealing presence in the Harry Potter films, has been directed here to smolder in such an outlandishly sultry manner that you wonder why he never displays any carnal interest in Bella. Is he gay? (That might have been interesting, actually.) And it doesn't help that he and his vampire brothers have been so heavily caked with face powder and overloaded with hair product that they look like a troupe of unusually fey mimes. (At the screening I attended, the young girls in the audience erupted in squeals of delight when Pattinson's name came up in the opening credits, but downshifted into what sounded like uneasy giggles when he put in his first actual appearance.)

It's the pretty Stewart who holds the movie together, bracing the largely passive character of Bella with glimmers of spirit and determination. She's solidly matched by Reed (who cowrote and starred in "Thirteen") and by Ashley Greene, who plays Edward's other sister, the clairvoyant Alice, as a cheery punkette. And I kind of wish the movie had more of Jackson Rathbone, who plays Edward's brother, Jasper, with a weird, demented intensity.

Certain elements of "Twilight" were doomed to fail on film. Vampire baseball, for instance, was already a tough sell in the novel; here, with all its leaping and zooming around, it looks like a special-ed Quidditch match. And one of Meyer's more curious inventions -- vampires who don't shrivel in the sun, but sparkle instead -- is a bizarre thing to actually see. When Edward soaks up some rays and goes all glittery, he looks like he just stumbled home from an all-night rave.

These attempted additions to the vampire canon seem all the more lusterless in light of the many genre staples that have been cast aside: no coffins, no bat transformations or crucifix panics, no silver-phobia. There's a very brief dream scene in which we see Edward bent over Bella's neck and then rising up with the traditional rivulet of blood running down his chin. It's a sudden reminder of how much dumb fun is missing from this oddly neutered neo-horror movie, and how little is being offered in its place. In "Twilight," the only characters drained dry are the vampires themselves.

8 Things We’ve Learned About Sarah Palin Post-Election

It’s been just over three weeks since Obama’s presidential win sent Sarah Palin back to Alaska, but that doesn’t mean the defeated VP hopeful has sunk back under the radar and into virtual anonymity. Far from it — Palin has been seen and heard more post-election than she ever was during the campaign, and frankly, I’m a little relieved. Like her or not, you can’t deny the woman’s charisma…and knack for providing media fodder like no one else has since, well, since Monica Lewinsky and her infamous blue dress. There’s just something about women, politics, and clothes, isn’t there? After the jump, 8 things we’ve learned about Sarah Palin since the elections, including, yes, exactly how she spent that $150,000 clothing allowance.

1. It was actually $152,335 What she could have bought with that $150K+

Vanity Fair has a full list of every item the dream wardrobe the Republican party purchased could have purchased for Sarah Palin during the campaign, including a Chanel suit for $11,755, the Valentino jacket that Palin wore at the 2008 Republican National Convention for $4,990, a pair of Christian Louboutin croc pumps for $4,300, and a Dior Leather trim jacket, which at $2,385 was just enough to push her spending spree to a cool $152,335. They went slightly over budget though, in their spree, spending $152,335. Since the election, Palin has returned everything she did buy and resumed dressing in her own clothes.

2. She cooks a mean salmon and halibut casserole

One of Sarah Palin’s post-election interviews was with “Today’s” Matt Lauer, whom she invited to her home in Wasilla and served a salmon and halibut casserole to. Lauer reportedly enjoyed it.

3. She thinks high heels are appropriate footwear for a 7-year-old

Also at that same home-base portion of her interview with Matt Lauer, Palin was joined by some members of her family, including 7-year-old daughter, Piper, who was wearing a pair of very high heels. They were probably her mom’s (let’s hope!), but still.

4. She likes wrist corsages

At the 50th anniversary bash for Alaska a few days ago, Governor Palin sported a rosy wrist corsage to complement her hot pink jacket. I didn’t know people were still wearing those. Maybe it’s an Alaskan thing?

5. She may be worth a $7 million book deal

Their looks may not be the only thing Sarah Palin and Tina Fey have in common. Palin is reportedly close to signing a book deal, which some insiders estimate could be for a cool $7 million. One can only hope she’ll name the book “I Can See Russia From my House…And Other Reasons I Love My Life.”

6. She hates the bloggers

In an interview with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren, Palin said with great contempt that regarding the many rumors surrounding her during the campaign, the “media’ shouldn’t have “gone on some blogger — probably sittin’ there in their parent’s basement in their underwear — bloggin’ some gossip or lie.” Well, that’s mainstream media for you — always goin’ on some blogger who’s justa gossipin’ and lyin’. For the record, the feeling seems to be mutual.

7. She’s a PC girl

In a photo taken poolside in Miami during a break from the Republican Governor’s Conference, Palin is pictured with a Dell on her lap, which settles this biggest debate since the whole chicken and egg question, I’m sure.

8. She may not have known what countries are part of NAFTA or that Africa was continent

Immediately following the election, Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, reported that “there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked ‘a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency,’ in part because she didn’t know which countries were in NAFTA, and she ‘didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.’” This information, it should be noted, originated from Palin’s own camp and not from a blogger “in their parent’s basement in their underwear.” Still, Palin denied the accuracy of this juicy tidbit and claimed the people who leaked it are just mean-spirited jerks.