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OUT LOW GUCCI TOTE ANDUHOMMOLO BUM AIK SANOALS' AP Photo Blade (Wesley Snipes) takes care of some vampires in New Jne Cinema's thriller "Blade II” BEETLE BAILEY 'Blade II’ is better than the 'average vampire film t i t By David Germain AP Movie Writer (Norman Reedus) They’re reluctantly drawn into an alliance with the vampire overlord (Thomas Kretschmann) his daughter Nyssa (Leonor Varela) and their crack assassination unit the Bloodpack to fight a new breed of that threatens humans and regular bloodsuckers What follows is a series ot overlong setups where Blade and his confederates skulk around There’s a theory that movies about foul malevolent bloodsuckers are so common because Hollywood studio executives like to see themselves depicted on screen Whatever the reason vampires are among the movie industry ’& boogeymen of choice leaving many a multiplex littered with die rotting corpses of bad honor flicks “Blade II" is a better vampire movie than recent entries such as “Queen of the Damned” dank halls waiting to be attacked by the mega- or “Dracula 2000” That said Wesley Snipes’ return as slayer of the undead still is fairly anevampires called Reapers mic relying on blood glossy effects Heavily influenced by “The Matrix” (what soundtrack isn’t these days?) the action of “Blade II” is a combat and a fast furious blend of martial arts gunfire and rather than authentic chills and scares If you liked the original “Blade” based on explosions In between the fisticuffs though the movi$ generally lays down and dies unable the Marvel comic book you’ll probably like to maintain much interest beyond the occasion: the sequel which director Guillermo tel Toro al wisecrack from Whistler of similar action and with a quotient injects “Better get you some sunscreen Buttercup" even an count and higher body gore ' Whistler tells the leader of the Bloodpack vamn If the idea behind the first movie — a hero waging a blood feud pires (Ron Perlman) when Blade formulates a — of a race plan to confront the Reapers in daylight vampires against The visual effects are a big advancement made you want to giggle then it’s best to whis- -' over the original “Blade" though while watchtie on past “Blade H” As with the first film the only way to get ing vampires dissolve in showers of sparks is cool the first four or five times you see it it's disis there’s “Blade if If” complete through deadly dull the 20th And the image of the connection of that part of the brain that deterReapers’ jaws splitting open to reveal their mines when something is really really Silly dead-meimprovement on the vampire’s Give the premise the slightest critical thought fangs may put you off rare steak for a while while watching Snipes disintegrate vampires Besides repetitive action the movie simply with his bottomless pistol of silver bullets (or manicured-hedgerogoes on too long del Toro lingering endlessly stare too long at Snipes’ pn moody brooding buildups to fight suffer demonic fit a and of hair) you’ll likely sequences Snipes Kristofferson and Perlman the snickers ' manage as much charisma as they can from a The sequel opens explosively with Blade in story that leaves little room for anything but of rampaging through legions bloodsuckers posturing a mission to rescue his mentor Whistler (Kris There’s a hint of romance between Blade and Kristofferson) who seemiitgly died in the first Nyssa but with a lifeless performance from movie after being infected with the “vampire Varela (who played the title role in the TV virus’’ Turns out Whistler's being kept alive mini series “Cleopatra”) no sparks fly between in stasis by Blade’s vampire enemies them “Blade II " is rated R for strong pervaReunited Blade and Whistler return to their sive violence language some drug use and club headquarters vampire-hatesexual content Twq stars (out of four)' Blade’s h Scud mannedby geek ally super-vampir- HAGAR THE HORRIBLE r es Movie review high-kicki- ng head-bangi- PEANUTS ng half-ma- half-vampi- re I can't DECIDE IF YOU OK NOT-YO- I full-blood- ed LIKE ESPECIALLY WHEN THE TEACHER HAVE U CAU5 ON YOU fiMNY LOOKING HAIR at -- w MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM - alpha-vampi- re ' he-m- an rs high-tec- Garage Beautiful: Book examines garage’s role in American homes FOXTROT IT'S NOT FA ISN’T RMHT! rVp) REAL PAiKftVCirro' JUMPED Off A EVERYONE MS SOM- EflACE MUM AND AM FOR MoftCRMMS CUFF WOOD YOU Do THAT TOO? 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' ate “ Where else does the teen-aYou don’t go to the basement You go to the garage” she says v “Garage” (Taunton Press $32 hardcover) includes more than 200 color photographs of over 50 garages around dte country Among those featured is actor Dennis Hopper’s garage' floor and which displays cars on a k a contemporary art colleodonon caiugated- steel walla:' - This as Obolensky puts it is Garage Beauti-fu- L ' CLOSE TO HOME ADVENTURES says She cites' garages as the birthplace of such businesses as Ford Motor Co Co Medtronic Inc and Reader’s s MINNEAPOUS(AP)—TomoaAnini-capthe garage is simply a place to park a car or stash a lawn mower Maybe sit in a chair have a beer and watch life pass by the drive- - MU ITT) BEAT SYAYMD COULD Hewlett-Packar- BANKING HERE FOK ELEVEN YEARSAND YOU ‘ PUT A NOLP ON THE SAAfE CHECKS 2 YE BEEN DEPOSITING Among those featured in her book are: The subuiban garage where Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs and partner Steve Wozni-a- k built their breakthrough personal computer The shedlike garage where Walt Disney shot a series of primitive cartoons v The garage in Lubbock Texas where Buddy Holly practiced rock ’n’ roll in the 1950s In the United States Obolensky says the history of die garage starts with rich people who were the first to buy cars And because cars were expensive dte places that were built fo house diem were “pretty grand affairs” she eleven years: ' 'says’ In England garages were celled car houses1 Obolensky says “But in America we thought we needed a French word because that would be ever so much more elegant” she says ' Because the rich were unsure how kmg cars Tjvould be around early garages included other V--' features such as squash couhs or a clock tower floors and cluttered ? 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