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Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) swooned through five blockbuster movies in the Twilight saga. CREDIT: Kimberley French/Summit Entertainment

New ‘Twilight’ Book Will Boost Olympic Peninsula Vampire Tourism, If COVID Doesn’t Put A Stake In It

The Twilight phenomenon gets an injection of fresh blood this Tuesday with the release of a new installment in the bestselling vampire saga from author Stephenie Meyer. The series of novels and subsequent hit movies spurred legions of fans to visit the fictional story’s real-life setting on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. But a predicted “renaissance” in vampire tourism could be bled by the resurgent virus pandemic.

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Radioactive Pike Screenshot - Woman pouring drink

FILM REVIEW: A Luminous Performance By Rosamund Pike Elevates A Radioactive Biography

Rosamund Pike stars in Radioactive, a biography of the pioneering scientist, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to claim it in two different scientific disciplines (physics and chemistry). The director, Marjane Satrapi, the Oscar-nominated Iranian-French graphic novelist and filmmaker (Persepolis), tells the story in an ambitious but uneven fashion.

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