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...such movies as A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen. She also released the hit album Metamorphosis with singles “So Yesterday” and “Come Clean.” Haylie Duff starred in this summer’s cult hit Napoleon Dynamite...
Ideal Date: Anything really, as long as it involves Bartley’s, Napoleon Dynamite and cooters...
...slavery. He eventually concluded that slavery must be abolished, though his own slaves were freed only after his death. He also understood precisely what his role in the new nation should be. Washington emerged from the War of Independence as a kind of god. Like Caesar before him and Napoleon after, he might easily have parlayed military glory into imperial power. But he performed his greatest service to his country by refusing to yield to that temptation. At the end of his second Administration, he turned down a third term, thereby establishing an enduring example of limited presidential tenure...
...those stingy fantasists who doles out, say, one spell every hundred pages), they come with consequences of both the intended and the unintended varieties. When Norrell brings to life the wooden figurehead of a captured French ship--he and Strange are enlisted in the fight against Napoleon--instead of divulging useful military secrets, the figurehead promptly cusses him out: "Having passed all her existence among sailors she knew a great many insults and bestowed them very readily on anyone who came near her in a voice that sounded like the creaking of masts and timbers in a high wind...
...telling whether the extra scene will boost the box office. But it should please the film's cult fans (including the 20,000 who are competing online to be president of the Napoleon Dynamite fan club). Let's just say it involves a white dress and a ride off into the sunset. Sweet...