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Robert Pattinson - Source: Reuters -
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Surely it is the blistering noonday of Twilight star Robert Pattinson's fame. On Tuesday night (NZT) he attended the premiere of his new flick Remember Me, featuring his handsome self, and Pierce Brosnan.
The showing, which, if the usual rules were observed, he actually didn't see, ducking out after the lights had gone down, was held at the Paris Theatre, right by what used to be the Plaza Hotel. It's a pretty little place, chic, like a bistro. Usually there are four crews lined up for the average red carpet event. To accommodate Pattinson-mania (and the shrieking Pattinson maniacs: this does include members of the press), they'd also erected a tent right out the front of the Plaza.
A pal was there (professionally, rather than personally), and he laughed as he described the deafening roar that accompanied the appearance of His Robertness, and the trough of silence that greeted poor old Pierce Brosnan. And to think, he used to be James Bond.
Pattinson showed up on the The View Tuesday morning in New York. How to describe that? Daniel in the Lioness's den, perhaps. The View is a show in which middle-aged women of differing political persuasions, and ethnic backgrounds spend half an hour arguing about trivia, while being applauded by a studio audience.
Given the preoccupations of the hosts, they grilled Pattinson about a comment he made to Details magazine that he really hates vaginas.
"You were joking?" asked Barbara Walters , who is the doyenne of current affairs journalists here.
Ooooh, awkward! What did you get from that? My reading is that he tried to pass off the vagina allergy story as a joke that went awry. Then he made the "joke" again, surrounded by middle-aged ladies, and with his mother looking on.
Extra cringe points for use of the word, "curse".
There's also another reading of this: Robert Pattinson, an icon for teenaged girls, is a raging kolpophobe. Yes, it is a condition. Look it up . (Children: Ask you parents first.)
Drop that one into a sentence. Your friends will be bewildered, and then impressed.
So, um, is he one? Well, he is British...
There's another explanation. He was talking out of turn. Sadly, the cameras were running.
I wonder if Robert Pattinson's handlers aren't accustomed to his propensity to what Americans call "mis-speaking". Of course there was a publicity junket for Remember Me and from what I understand, if reporters asked questions that the publicists didn't like (I was quoted one particularly anodyne example involving His Robertness's allegedly foul breath), they told the camera guy to delete the moment from the memory card.
Vagina allergy or not, Robert Pattinson seems to be suffering another "curse" - foot-in-mouth-itis. For that I'm grateful. Young stars should make mistakes. They should have fun with being the centre of a storm of inanity and over-scrutiny. They should say what they like. Saying what they think? That's another matter.
( Editor's note: And as if there wasn't enough hysteria at Pattinson's Remember Me premiere, his rumoured flame, Kristen Stewart made an appearance, too. Check it out here.)
