Word: dahle
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Front runner in the summer sweepstakes is War of the Worlds, for which Steven Spielberg has added his patented parent-and-imperiled-child theme to H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel, memorably filmed in 1953. Tim Burton has imposed his lovable eccentricity on the Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp replacing Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. In 1974, Burt Reynolds starred as the football-playing con in The Longest Yard; now he supports Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in their replay. And if your memory of Herbie, the Disney Love Bug, is as rusty...
...beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes
...flying oompa loompa? The Great Glass Elevator in free fall? We don't know what the cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is staring up at either. Honestly! We'll all find out together next year, when the Tim Burton remake of the Roald Dahl classic hits theaters. JOHNNY DEPP, in the top hat, plays the off-kilter Willy Wonka, with FREDDIE HIGHMORE, far left, as Charlie Bucket. Let the hunt for a golden ticket begin...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The No. 8 St. Cloud State Huskies did not see the best performance from Grumet-Morris. St. Cloud coach Craig Dahl said that he thought Harvard’s goaltender “might have been off” during the Dec. 27 game when he allowed five goals on only 40 shots...
...Maybe it was fortunate for us we caught him on an off night,” Dahl said...