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Robert Pattinson shares a few freewheeling details -- you listening, John Mayer?

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In the March issue of Details magazine, cover boy Robert Pattinson steps right up to what could’ve been the edge of John Mayer territory -- then cleverly walks away from that line, demonstrating that it’s possible to discuss lady parts, man parts, porn and more without ending up thrown to the media wolves.

One tip: Don’t run your mouth for years in advance like some sort of new-age, ‘meta-aware,’ cooler-than-all-of-us Twitter prophet.

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Some other takeaway guidelines we gleaned from reading the interview:

-- If you say you want to snort something, let it be wasabi peas, not Jessica Simpson.

-- If someone’s going to use an old-fangled word for black people, let it be the interviewer, not you.

-- It’s OK to mention your man parts as long as you don’t ascribe political beliefs to them.

-- If you’re going to discuss porn, discuss the quaintness of ‘80s porn compared with the no-holds-barred smut fest that’s available now, rather than relishing the fact that you can see 300 anonymous private parts online before you get out of bed in the morning.

-- If you’re going to admit that sudden fame (and the attendant gabillions of interviews that come with something like ‘The Twilight Saga’) gave you a sense that you had ‘a responsibility to be fascinating,’ rather than attempting to be fascinating for fascinating’s sake -- or as some would say, embarking on a ‘quest to be clever’ -- draw a parallel to an interest you once had in becoming a political speech writer. Which is sort of fascinating.

-- If you in the past possessed mad confidence, and admit to it, show that you now realize some folks might know more about some things (say, your career choices) than you might: ‘[Y]ou have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn’t progressing. So now I’m relinquishing a bit.’

-- Tell endearing stories about experiences with elephants.

-- Talk about how much you love your dog.

-- And, finally, don’t kiss and tell. ‘As an actor,’ he tells the magazine, ‘you can elevate the human condition or cheapen it. I would assume it’s the same with anything you do -- you try to elevate and maybe someday you will.’

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Pattinson’s Details interview is geared to adults -- we’ll link you to the one page without an f-bomb -- but it’s an interesting read.

And now we know that elephants purr.

-- Christie D’Zurilla

Click here and scroll down for lots of posts from the Robert Pattinson genre. And if you’ve missed recent John Mayer dispatches, here’s a heaping helping:

PREACH IT! John Mayer stops tweeting, leaves us with Tila Tequila

John Mayer and Playboy, Part 2: The self-loathing Twitterpology

John Mayer opens his mouth to Playboy and makes our brain hurt

John Mayer in Rolling Stone: Not over Jennifer Aniston, but an innovator in masturbation

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John Mayer back on Twitter; year 2010 now free to proceed

John Mayer equates dating with shame, presses on somehow

PREACH IT! Why pay for cable when you can watch celebrity Twitter wars for free?

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