Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. ...more

November 20, 2008

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. That's when the hundreds of teenage girls at the screening I attended began shrieking. We're talking Beatles-at-Shea Stadium sort of shrieking. ...more

November 20, 2008

At 41, Angela Jane Cowden is already starting her third career. "I was a chemist," says Cowden. She was a researcher who studied polymers, until the company she worked for changed hands. ...more

August 11, 2008

Why do we love thee, Jane Austen? Let us count the ways: You gave us happy endings. The heroines of your novels live out that Cinderella fantasy every time. They may fret and flounder along the rocky road to romance, but eventually they snare Mr. Right. After more than 200 years, we still love your love stories. ...more

January 12, 2008

Film 'Becoming Jane,' biopic starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy; now in theaters ...more

September 4, 2007