Your biggest fanatics | Mark Lawson

Celebrity obsessives are not new. But Twilight's star and boyband JLS face a new, Twitterfied breedFor those interested in the derivation of language, the word "fan" has never been much fun. You guess that it must be a shortening of "fanatic", and this proves to be right. But, for observers of culture, the term is lengthening again. Two showbiz targets of teenage admiration have expressed horror at the level of passion they raise.Robert Pattinson, the young actor who plays the cute vampire in t...

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