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Many of the early Presidents were not especially happy in the White House. Thomas Jefferson found his sojourn there a chore, and he called the presidency itself "a splendid misery." The first child born in the White House was Jefferson's grandson, James Madison Randolph, delivered in an upstairs bedroom in 1806. The second birth was a reminder of the nation's grim legacy: a child born in the basement quarters to two of Jefferson's slaves, Fanny and Eddy. No name is recorded for the child, who died before reaching age 2. The child's funeral was probably...
...greatest physical trauma in the life of the White House was its burning in 1814 by the British troops who marched nonchalantly down Pennsylvania Avenue; ate the meal prepared for James Madison, who had fled to Virginia; watched their commander, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, brandish Dolley Madison's chair cushion, declaring it would help him remember Dolley's "seat." The British sailors then torched the place...
Redoubtable First Lady Dolley Madison had watched for the progress of the British marauders through White House windows with a small telescope. When she saw the smoke from the fire at the Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced...
...think that Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore are among the top ten funniest movies of the last decade. 2) I find that Sandler is least funny when he's doing one of his "voices" (think The Excited Southerner on his lackluster comedy album, What the Hell Happened to Me?) 3) I think that the actor-comedian's last three movies The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, and Big Daddy sucked. With that in mind, one would probably conjecture that I wouldn't like Little Nicky, Sandler's latest sure-fire box office behemoth. The SNL alum indeed performs the 83-minute...
...heaven is a lot like the high school from Clueless, populated by vacuous, bubbly, seraphic teenagers. Witherspoon is perfect for the part. Like in all Sandler movies, the funniest moments in the film are the ones that seem to come out of nowhere (i.e. the hemorrhaging clown in Billy Madison, a comedic gem of the twentieth century). Fortunately, Little Nicky is packed with these random moments, and in the end, they are what make the film a hell of a lot funnier than anything else Sandler has done in a while...