Word: likelies
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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News of the sagging revenues did not come as a shock, during what is traditionally one of the slowest weeks on Hollywood's calendar. All new movies are subject to the law of gravity, even a smash like New Moon. In 17 days, the interspecies love story sold more than 35 million tickets in North America alone, and it was bound to exhaust its fan base at some point. Meanwhile, The Blind Side's constituency, skewing older than New Moon's teen-vixen pack, took its time catching up with the movie's eloquent word of mouth...
...What's so great about Cadbury? The world's second-largest chocolate company would give Kraft and Ferrero muscle in markets where they are weak. Hershey, meantime, already knows what it's like to team up with the Brits; it's owned the license to the Cadbury brand in the U.S. for years. Like Nestlé, it would probably rather not stand by and watch a combined Cadbury-Kraft become the most powerful chocolate maker in the galaxy. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...chocolate makers call them "tablets" - category, owing mainly, to go by the comments of the six tasters, to its being neither British nor American. Or as Louise Thomas of The Chocolate Consultant in London put it, when I called her for an independent professional view: "The Swiss like their [chocolate] milky and creamy...
...didn't look a lot like Christmas yesterday or the day before, but starting tonight, Old Man Winter's making his way to Cambridge...
...break out the boots and the crimson-and-white scarves, head over to Burdick's for some exquisite hot chocolate, and make it out to the Yard to push around your loved one like the girl who dies from cancer in Love Story...