
Italian Twilighter YuN shares an excellent report in English of three days in Montepulciano, Italy watching the New Moon shoot go down. It’s well worth a read, and starts off with a bang–
On the highway everything is ok until we get near Chiusi: a car with a blue police flashing makes its way and I move aside to let it go ahead. As soon as it surpasses me I look back filled with curiosity and I’m about to collapse: Robert Pattinson and his agent are being escorted to Montepulciano on a police grey BMW, so it’s time for the first updates on Twitter, all while driving! Then I tried to keep the contact going at 140km/h {10 over the limit!} but they were driving so damn fast that a few minutes later the car was gone. I wonder who pays the fines!?
Read the rest at YuN’s Corner.
Kristen Stewart’s recent appearance at the MTV Movie Awards in a hot red and black Yigal Azrouël dress coupled with some dress-it-down black Chucks got rave reviews from Teen Vogue: they voted her #1 Best Dressed of May 2009.
[thanks TSH & Lydia!]
It’s official: Kristen Stewart is crazy about the shirt-knot. This is one trend that costs nothing to join–so what are you waiting for? Tie those knots!
Check out the rest of the awesome pics at Popsugar.
We finally have a first-hand account from the set of New Moon with the first of a five part series from Metro News in Canada. They recount–
Ready? Action! Jacob fastens a necklace on Bella. “It catches bad dreams,” he tells her. But Bella only dreams of Edward, played by Robert Pattinson. The British actor is leaning nearby on a car, a figment of Bella’s imagination. She is continually haunted by memories of this impossible love.
\As the cameras roll for the third take, Lautner forgets his lines. “Sorry, I’m totally lost,” he laughs. “Cut, reset!” orders Weitz. The cast had a 5 a.m. wake-up call. Lautner outdoes himself in the fourth take. “That was my favourite!” enthuses the director.
The heavy atmosphere of the Vancouver weather seems to temporarily lift as lunch break is declared. Even vampires get hungry, and Pattinson joins us for a quick bite and chat. In full vampirical make-up and sporting yellow contact lenses, we almost expect him to bite us instead of his food.
Read the rest of the thrilling on-set action at Metro News.

According to Lainey, Robert Pattinson recently had a photoshoot with Vanity Fair, as styled by Yigal Azrouel. That’s the same Yigal Azrouel that Kristen Stewart wore at the MTV Movie Awards. Check out the rest of the pics at Lainey Gossip.
[thanks, LMCullen!]


If you’re like me, you’re taking note of the liveblogging going on right now of the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference, where they’ve already announced new laptops, and may be introducing a new iPhone as well.
For a new book buying app for the iPhone, they just used a passage from New Moon in the demonstration!
The cast of New Moon can’t say enough good things about the new director, Chris Weitz. For example, Michael Welch, who plays Mike Newton says–
“When we all got on set the first day [Chris] gave us this packet of 30 to 40 pages of what he wanted the film to look and feel like, how he was going to shoot it, all of that stuff. The thing is, both Chris and Catherine—I don’t want to say one is better than the other. They are polar opposites in terms of style. Catherine can only succeed in chaos, really. But Chris is the exact opposite, he’s so calm and has all his stuff together. He really made this film great.”
Read the rest of the cast compliments at E! Online.
[thanks, Maoiliosa!]