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...always an embarrassment when a movie earns less than the low-ball figures its executives publicly predict. The Vampire's Assistant, envisioned as the launch of a franchise based on Darren Shan's horror-romance books, came with the creative pedigree of director Paul Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy, In Good Company) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential). Its distributor had a modest goal: "If it comes in with double digits," said Universal's Nikki Rocco, "that will be a win for us." Instead, it cadged just $6.3 million. Expect no sequels du Freak...
...We’ve got to get pressure on the QB, that’s a defensive back’s best friend,” Hughes said. “The only way to shut [Winters] down is to make sure the ball doesn’t come...
...Maradona's "divine" role was always bigger than the man himself. His dexterity on the ball was both the source and object of a kind of national ecstasy, but he is also a symbol of the contradictory dualities of Argentina reconciled in a way that strengthens a shaky sense of national unity: Maradona strides among the fissures of a nation divided between the haves and have-nots, between the descendants of its original indigenous population and those of European immigrants, and between Peronists and anti-Peronists. Born in a shanty town, he became extremely rich and famous at a very...
...find out? I found out the Jewish deli has certainly been going away for some time, but that hope isn't lost. Wherever there are deli lovers and people who salivate when they get a whiff of corned beef or when they put their tongues on a matzo ball, they're transported back to this pristine wonderland of their youth - whether they're Jewish...
Kevin King, Standish's mayor for the past six years, says most of his constituents want domestic inmates. But accepting detainees from Guantánamo Bay, he says, "is a whole different ball of wax." At community meetings in recent months, King says he has made the point to skeptics that terrorists have long been housed at U.S. prisons, and "you can't recite one terrorist attack by people trying to get out." He says he has received assurances from federal officials that should detainees be brought to Standish, no land near the prison would be seized to expand...