Taylor Lautner, who has had a Ken doll fashioned in his likeness recently, has come on the record stating what R-Patz has pretty much written an entire dissertation on: Twihards are effing nuts! Said Lautner to the The Boston Globe: "It's great to know you have all those fans and all that support behind you. It may [frighten you] at first, but it's their way of expressing their passion for you and the series. We're definitely thankful to have them behind us. That's our driving force." And the driving force hasn't disappointed, already setting records for New Moon's release, a week ahead of its release.

It turns out that advance tickets for New Moon accounted for 86% of all sales on horrible movie webthing Fandango this past week, and that helped the Twilight franchise bust all kinds of records like Craziest Use of Cash in a Time of Belt-Tightening and Proof That Taylor Lautner Was Right About How Fanatical Twilight Fans Are. Other records the sales set were something that involved New Moon overtaking Star Wars Episode III as most successful pre-sale ever. Apparently, since pre-sale tix went live on August 31, New Moon has consistently been one of the Top 5-selling films. Meanwhile, Kristen Stewart approaches an epiphany that the rest of us, clothespins fastened to our noses, made a few millennia ago: Robert Pattinson is a heartthrob.