Article: 'Edward Cullen/RPattz was created specifically to drive teenage girls wild'

The Couch Surfer

Last week the web spent about five minutes going totally loopy for a pair of very brief YouTube virals. One is a six-second clip of a yellow Porsche driving down a cobbled street in Italy. The other is also a six-second clip of the yellow Porsche driving down the cobbled street in Italy, from a different angle. That's it: no commentary, no explanation. And they'd both been watched by over 150,000 people in less than 48 hours.

What's the rush? Well, the clips are amateur footage of a scene being shot for New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight series, which stars Robert Pattinson as teen vampire Edward Cullen. You know you've arrived when you've got an internet nickname. ...

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