Postcards
Power Point: It's all about the hair
November 13, 2009: 6:00 PM ET"The hair is 75 percent of my performance."
-- Actor Robert Pattinson, who stars as vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen in the screen version of the literary sensation, Twilight. In a Q&A in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, Pattinson says that for New Moon, the franchise's second installment, he told the filmmakers, "Listen, I need to tone down the hair. Let's make it a little more real, a little bit more...Method."
Pattison's not the only one who understands the power of hair. Pattie has also written about the speculation over how business leaders part their tresses. You can check out Pattinson's "do" when New Moon hits theaters next Friday. --Jessica Shambora
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Book boom: the Twilight phenomenon
Am I out of it, or what?
Not until last weekend did I hear of the Twilight series. You know it? Twilight is the young-adult phenom that is the sagging book industry's greatest hope since Harry Potter. The last in the three-year-old, four-book series, Breaking Dawn, got a 3.2 million-book run. In the first 24 hours after its release last Saturday, Borders (BGP) reportedly sold 250,000 copies. Barnes & Noble (BKS) MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 7, 2008 2:04 PM ETPosted in: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, books, Borders, Breaking Dawn, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Katherine Courtney, Postcards, Power Shift, publishing, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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