In the latest issue of Vanity Fair with those fabulous pictures of Robert Pattinson the interviewer Evgenia Peretz compares Robert Pattinson to Leonardo DiCaprio as she writes…
“Not since Leo, circa Titanic, has a young actor been so aggressively beloved by 13-year-old girls worldwide,”
Now Vanity Fair writer Jessica Flint gives her thought on the Robert Pattinson phenomenon…
Peretz is right—and I would know. I was one of those teenage girls who got caught up in the “Leo-mania” fan frenzy in the late 90s. The first copy of Vanity Fair I ever bought was the January 1998 issue with Leo on the cover. I hung Tiger Beat and Teen Bop posters of Leo on my bedroom walls. And after I saw Titanic in the movie theater six times, one of my friends and I even created a Leo Web site, at a time when you could only access the Internet via a dial-up modem.
Sure, there were other Hollywood stars that set our teenage hearts a-flutter (Home Improvement’s Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Camp Nowhere’s Andrew Keegan, and Casper’s Devon Sawa come to mind), and the Backstreet Boys and N*SYNC boy-band craze that prompted one of my friends to paint her bedroom baby blue (it was Justin Timberlake’s favorite color) came close to rivaling the Leo pandemic. But among us teenagers, it was only DiCaprio who orbited in the true superstar stratosphere.
Although I personally don’t understand the infatuation with Pattinson (luckily, I grew out of my teenage obsession phase long ago), I certainly understand where today’s teenagers are coming from. But I’m still not sure that RPattz hysteria is as intense as Leo-mania was.
So you all know that Rob isn’t my (TSH) ‘cup of tea’ -I just hate that baseball cap!! BUT even I have to agree that he knows how to photo well and look breathtakingly beautiful when doing a photo shoot. BUT like most girls my age Leo was *sigh* just Leo….he was perfect and like most I cried my eyes out watching Titanic. I see Leo mania as something else because it was before high speed tinter-net, before the papz followed your every move and had pictures up with minutes of them being taken. I think Rob has it much worse because Leo wasn’t mobbed walking down the street and his every move plastered on the web in seconds of it happening. Its a hard comparison but the teenager inside me says that says Leo wins the battle of the heartthrob and he’d still win if was Leo V Taylor…sorry no one comes between a girl and her first major teenage crush! I do however still think that RPatz mania is worse than what Leo faced…what do you think and who wins in your eyes in battle of the heartthrobs?
[Source: Vanity Fair. Thanks Phoenix!!]














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