A role to sink her teeth into (Provo Daily Herald) WASHINGTON -- "She's not what you expect as the lead in 'Twilight,' " says Kristen Stewart, of, really, herself, playing Bella Swan, the high school girl who falls in love with vampire, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), in the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novel. "She's not your typical damsel in distress. She really is a woman." "Twilight" opened Friday nationwide. us.rd.yahoo.com
No bad sex please, this is literature (CBC) Britain's Literary Review has picked its candidates for the worst erotic writing of the year and centred out such literary luminaries as Alastair Campbell, John Updike and Simon Montefiore. us.rd.yahoo.com
David Thomson on Julianne Moore (Guardian Unlimited) Do you remember The Hours? Nicole Kidman gave an unexpectedly fierce portrait of Virginia Woolf, writing her books, trying to maintain a marriage and a household, but advancing on her suicide in an English country river. Julianne Moore played Laura Brown, the wife and mother in Los Angeles, the woman who is reading Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, who very nearly kills herself, and who will desert her ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Crackdown proposed on British sex trade (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) The British government wants to make it illegal to pay for sex and is considering a plan to "name and shame" men who visit prostitutes -- a move critics say would turn back the clock to Victorian times. us.rd.yahoo.com
Pop Quiz, Hotshot (Toronto Sun) THIS WEEK'S ROUND us.rd.yahoo.com
Birgfeld investigation may have led to parlor bust (KJCT 8 Grand Junction) GRAND JUNCTION -- Police say they've infiltrated a massage parlor involved in all sorts of illegal activities--from prostitution to racketeering. KJCT NEWS 8 has learned the investigation may have been sparked while detectives investigated the case of missing Grand Junction woman Paige Birgfeld. us.rd.yahoo.com
Holiday movie offerings include some Oscar contenders (The Star-Ledger) What films can you expect to see this holiday season? us.rd.yahoo.com
In Tomorrow's Paper (EdmontonSun.com) Sean Penn plays the legendary San Fransisco gay activist politician Harvey Milk in the much-anticipated indie film Milk, opening this week. Here's a round on the love that dare not speak its name, but does get greenlit from time to time. us.rd.yahoo.com
Cybersex rules: Inside the world of ‘teledildonics (Independent) When I first deposited Journalist Hellershanks in Second Life, I wanted him to stand out. I gave him a shock of bright- orange hair, and a crisp white shirt, and I adjusted his height to about six-foot-four. He looked pretty good, I thought; but he was still missing something. And so, one morning earlier this month, I sent Hellershanks off to buy a penis. us.rd.yahoo.com
"Twilight" (Salon.com) Catherine Hardwicke's erotic vampire blockbuster finds the sweet spot where Gothic literature and the iPod meet. us.rd.yahoo.com
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