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Jolie: I'd love to drink Billy Bob's blood

NEW YORK -- What's the definition of "corny romantic" to Angelina Jolie?

How about wearing a necklace holding a vial of dried blood belonging to her husband, Billy Bob Thornton?

That's what the lovebirds love to do, according to a profile of Jolie in Rolling Stone.

"It's us being corny romantic," the actress tells the magazine. "If there was a safe way to drink his blood, I'd love to.

"We've thought about it," says Jolie, 26. "You lay in bed and you just want to bite holes into each other. It's not about cutting yourself or some kind of weird thing -- now it's just, 'I want to eat him.' "

Jolie can be seen this weekend in "Tomb Raider," which opens nationwide Friday.

Bronstein weathers dragon jokes

SAN FRANCISCO, California -- Phil Bronstein, executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, said earlier this week he hopes to be back at work soon after a Komodo dragon made lunch meat out of his foot.

But will his rivals around town ever stop with the one-liners?

Ever since Bronstein was attacked by the dragon while on a behind-the-scenes tour inside the reptile cage at Los Angeles Zoo last weekend last weekend, San Francisco media has had a field day.

"At least Phil wasn't sitting on the Komodo when he was bitten," quipped P.J. Corkery in his rival Examiner column, adding that the dragon had reported that Bronstein "tasted like chicken."

On a radio talk show, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown -- who has been on the receiving end of some tough reporting by the Chronicle -- got into the act. "I only wish the person who suggested Mr. Bronstein remove his shoes had advised him to go in naked," Brown said, according to Reuters.

Despite nearly losing his big toe in the attack, Bronstein is in on the joke.

"I sort of understood the absurdity of it right away. You can't not find it bizarre. Any experience that has the word dragon in it has a special something about it," Bronstein told his own newspaper in a story published Thursday.

"Next time I'll stick to petting zoos."

Reeve to write another book

NEW YORK -- Christopher Reeve is aiming to inspire again with another book.

The actor, who was paralyzed in a 1995 horseback riding accident, is writing a book titled "Nothing Is Impossible." It will be published by Random House in the fall of 2002, according to The Associated Press.

"This book is about the path to realizing that nothing is unimaginable and everything is possible," Reeve, star of the "Superman" movies and author of the best-selling memoir "Still Me," said in a statement Thursday. "And the best news is, it doesn't take Superman. We can all do it."

Reeve, 48, will write about the importance of family, the need for community and "his newfound appreciation that sometimes we all must struggle to overcome seemingly overwhelming obstacles," according to the statement.

Puffy's traffic charge to be dropped?

MIAMI, Florida -- Sean "Puffy" Combs will be off the hook soon, according to his lawyer.

After a pretrial hearing was postponed Thursday, Combs' attorney, Jayne Weintraub, said a charge of making an improper lane change while riding a scooter will be dropped.

"I'm confident that once the judge sees the defense's evidence, the case will be dismissed," Weintraub told The Associated Press Thursday. "There is no case."

The incident happened in April, not long after Combs was found not guilty on weapons charges in New York.

Police arrested Combs and charged him with driving with a suspended license after they pulled him over in Miami Beach. Weintraub said the charge was later dropped. She said a paperwork delay was the reason the rapper's driver's license showed up as suspended when police stopped him.

The pre-trial hearing was continued because of the rap mogul's travel schedule. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Swartz has not set a trial date.