SMART COOKIE: MAN HAS 500 COOKIE FORTUNES

SMART COOKIE: MAN HAS 500 COOKIE FORTUNES

CHICAGO (Wireless Flash) -- A Chicago man is gaining a reputation for being a smart cookie: he collects fortune cookies. 33-year-old attorney Joel Delman has been collecting fortunes from Chinese restaurants since he was six years old, and he now owns more than 500 unique messages. Delman says he might own even more fortunes these days if he hadn't been so superstitious as a kid: He says he used to eat the paper fortunes thinking that would make them come true. However, he claims some of the fortunes did come true, including the one that predicted he'd have a future in law. Delman is the author of the new book "Smart Cookies: Wit and Wisdom From Fortune Cookies Around the World" (Element).

CONTACT: Joel Delman, ****1/2; Arrange thru Jeff Landis; Boston, MA; (617) 915-9400