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...executives next month to discuss buying the rights to some DC Comics properties,” he reveals. “I’m interested in bringing some of the lesser known comic characters to the screen, I think that’s what made Blade such a pleasant surprise to so many people, he wasn’t a household name...
...cardiovascular benefit of a daily glass of red wine brought new meaning--and enthusiasm--to the toast "To your health!" Left out of the party was anybody who wanted the heart-healthy benefits of wine without the side effects--pleasant and unpleasant--of the alcohol it contains. Now, it seems, anyone can join the purple-mustache club. According to a small study underwritten in part by Welch Foods, unfermented Concord grape juice will also increase HDL--good cholesterol--while lowering the levels of two compounds linked to coronary artery disease. --By David Bjerklie
Dylan appeared graciously on stage at 8:15 p.m., only 15 minutes late—a pleasant surprise to those students who remembered the two-hour wait for Busta Rhymes last spring. “I was thrilled there was no opening act,” Ilyinsky said, referring the short recording of “Fanfare for the Common Man” that took the place of an usual opening...
They’re interested now, certainly. Those scouts from the 49ers, the Giants and the Vikings aren’t trekking out to Cambridge for the pleasant weather. But it’s too early to see how it will all pan out—if Fitzpatrick will be a Jay Fiedler or a Gavin Hoffman...
...scraping and searching for an identity. He used marijuana and tried cocaine. His grades slipped. He was acutely aware of the low expectations some white people had for him. "People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves," he wrote. "Such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry...