A crowd cheers for the cast of Twilight at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn.
One dark, rainy night last spring, a young woman brought an offering to the rural Oregon movie set of Twilight . "She gave her infant to a vampire," director Catherine Hardwicke marvels. Actually, the Twilighter as the mostly female devotees of Stephenie Meyer's vampire romances call themselves had driven hours to get pictures of her baby with the cast. Even before Twilight hits theaters Nov. 21, the series' readers have exhibited enough excitement if not hysteria to persuade the studio, Summit Entertainment, to get screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg cracking on adaptations of the next two books....
