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This week we conclude a 2-part online series called 'Bringing Porn to the Populace.' In it, we grapple with America's growing enthusiasm for hyper-sexualized images and ideas—encouraged by the Internet, picture phones, TV, video games, books, magazines and Kevin Smith's latest movie.
  | | |  | | Darkness Falls After Twilight
As the first 'Twilight' movie arrives in theaters, the spotlight shines again on Stephenie Meyer's written saga. Is heroine Bella Swan the new Harry Potter? Merely another vampire groupie? Or something else entirely? We scoured the series to find out.
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Of all the games that have dive-bombed World War II combat action, few have taken the time to combine fighting action with a realistic-feeling examination of the apprehensions, fears, friendships and valor of the average squad of frontline grunts like this one has.
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A Twilight T-Shirt TangleAt least one girl was allegedly injured when an event featuring Robert Pattinson (who stars as Edward Cullen in the upcoming Twilight movie) turned violent. The event was to have awarded the first 500 people in line at a San Francisco Hot Topic store the opportunity to meet Pattinson and buy 'Twilight' T-shirts. But the meet-and-greet attracted more than 3,000 fans, and security wasn't prepared for the crush of zealous, starry-eyed girls who descended on the store. "All those who pushed, shoved and disobeyed should be ashamed of themselves," one attendee wrote on the Twilight Lexicon Blog. "It is stuff like this that will continue to propagate the stigma of 'Twilight' fans as uncontrollable screaming girls. I feel sorry for those who tried to be on good behavior and were injured in the process." Read more in Plugged In Online's weekly eNewsletter.
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