** twilight ** and the real teen trackers

Even if vampires aren't your thing, I defy you to ignore twilight, Hollywood's adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's New York Times Bestseller, scheduled for Thanksgiving week release amid already escalating hype.

I'm late on the scene of this 2005 teen read. I finished Twilight on Halloween, moments before 6 high school co-eds returned from trick-or-treating with my middle son. The girls nearly swooned at the book's cover.

"Don't you just looooove Edward Cullen?"

Vampires have nothing on marketers. Teenaged girls, though --- there's an economic force impossible to ignore.

But go ahead -- try.