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...starring roles on Broadway stages and in the movies Cluelessand The Object of My Affection as a likable personality and a credible romantic interest. In his new feature role in the early 80s ensemble film 200 Cigarettes, Rudd plays a lovelorn cynic with the best sideburns since President Van Buren and a secret crush on Courtney Love. Not bad for a guy who has no ambitions of becoming a big Hollywood star; he'd rather just play some darts...
FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWNS 1932: 6, Earl Clark and Red Grange (This was the first year the NFL kept statistics.) 1961: 18, shared by Steve Van Buren (1945), Jim Brown (1958) and Bill Groman (1961), an increase of 200% 1998: 25, Emmitt Smith...
...forced to stand trial three times before they were freed by a Supreme Court decision. Worse, their case became a playground for special interests: abolitionists not at all certain their cause wouldn't be better served if they allowed the blacks to be martyred; a President, Martin Van Buren, running for re-election and trying to appease the slave states by suborning justice; Spain's child Queen furious over the loss of one of her ships; the slaves' owners' demanding return of their property; even the officers of the ship that intercepted the Amistad claiming salvage rights...
McConaughey's lawyer wins his case before a series of judges and succeeds in having the slaves declared not the legal property of Spain and instead free. But President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) intervenes so as to appease the pro-slavery South, and the case eventually goes to the Supreme Court. Former President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) comes out of retirement to argue the case in that historic venue...
...depressions and human calamity as Hollywood. They have tended to write bad scripts, at least at first, for those Presidents who presided in moments of prosperity and tranquillity and kept them that way. Cases in point: George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dwight Eisenhower, William Howard Taft and Martin Van Buren...