‘Twilight’ DVD bloodlust hits Boston-area stores

The “Twilight’ madness continues tonight with die-hard fans expected to line up at Boston-area stores and around the country to get a first taste of the DVD, slotted to be released at midnight.

Click here for a comprehensive list, but below is a handful of local stores tapped to participate including:

• FYE, 411 Washington St in Downtown Crossing
• Borders, 100 Cambridgeside Place at the Cambridgeside Galleria
• Blockbuster, 235 Massachusetts Ave. near the Symphony T stop
• Blockbuster, 541 Massachusetts Ave. near the Porter Square T stop
  

The “special edition” two-disc DVD set is going for $32 a pop. One disc gives you the movie, with extra-deleted scenes, plus commentary from Robert Pattinson, co-star Kristen Stewart, director Catherine Hardwicke. Also music videos featuring Muse, Paramore and Linkin Park.

British actor turned movie vampire Pattinson was greeted by thousands of screaming fans at Square One Mall in Saugus last November and insisted that his undead turn as Edward Cullen in "Twilight" was a warm-hearted effort.

"If I was doing [the movie] now, knowing it was going to be this audience, I think I probably would have done it differently. It’s a small story. It’s an intimate story and I think it comes across as being very human rather than being a big epic thing.”

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Author confesses in upcoming Boston event

Here's an e-mail from author Scott D. Pomfret. I'm setting up an interview with the satirist for EDGE:

I'm reading from my new book "Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir" on 1 p.m. on Monday, June 9 at Borders Books in Downtown Crossing and at 7 p.m. Friday, June 20 at Calamus Books, 92B South Street. If you're interested, I'd love for you to come and post on the events.

"Confession" is a funny, irreverent faith journey by a gay Catholic pursuing his Archbishop in the style of Michael Moore's Roger & Me that answers the perennial question, "What's a Nice Gay Catholic Part-time Porn Writer Doing in a Nasty Church Like This?"

As a practicing Catholic in a long-term committed gay relationship with a hardcore atheist, I try to reconcile faith with the hierarchy's bitter attacks on gay marriage, gay adoption, gay seminarians, Capri pants, innate style and anything else remotely homosexual.

Convinced that a meeting with the Archbishop would foster homo-Catholic rapprochement and world peace, I pursued the prelate from pulpit to Chancery to state funeral -- and ran into a host of motorcycle lesbians, gay priests, flaming friars, pious prelates, would-be Opus Dei monks, dozens of Irish women named Mary and angry orthodox bloggers along the way.

Addressing topics ranging from a firsthand account of a 1970s SWAT team raid of a gay Mass to "Ten Ways to Recognize a Gay Catholic" to Harry Potter's Satanism, Confession is one man's personal experience of wrestling with faith, doubt, sex, love and priestly undergarments.

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