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...Napoleon Dynamite, the offbeat comedy about a set of self-assured nerds at an Idaho high school, concludes with a hilariously spastic dance number. Napoleon and his posse might describe it as "sweet"--maybe even sweet enough to see again. But anyone who goes to the movie a second time will see something else too. When the indie film, which opened in New York City and Los Angeles on June 11, expands to 300 screens across the country this Friday, it will have a 5-min. epilogue--a brand-new scene, shot just four weeks...
...latest stunt in Hollywood marketing. DVDs often include bonus endings and other add-ons. And last year Fox Searchlight, Napoleon's U.S. distributor, extended the box-office life of its horror film 28 Days Later by adding an alternate ending (shot earlier but discarded) weeks after the film opened. But in Napoleon's case, the company actually flew the cast and crew back to Idaho and shot the epilogue after the movie opened. "We thought, Why not borrow something from the DVD playbook?" says Nancy Utley, Searchlight's president for marketing...
Move over, Kabbalah, there's a new sect in show biz. As JON HEDER, who plays a geeky Idahoan in the teen sleeper Napoleon Dynamite, explains, "Dude, it's cool to be Mormon." Heder and Dynamite's writer-director, Jared Hess, are members of the Mormon church, as are most of the film's cast and crew. RYAN GOSLING, the brooding heartthrob in the summer weepy The Notebook, grew up Mormon in Canada. But the toast (nonalcoholic) of Salt Lake City this July has to be Jeopardy! mega-champ KEN JENNINGS, who had won a record...
...favorite of Napoleon and Henry VIII, real tennis is the predecessor of lawn tennis, and has its origins in games enjoyed in castles and monasteries in centuries past. It is played today by about 10,000 aficionados on some 40 courts worldwide-some of which, like those at Fontainebleau castle near Paris, are exquisite historical monuments-and enthusiasts say the game is on the up. "Real tennis is in a much healthier state than it was 15-20 years ago," says professional player Peter Paterson of the Cambridge University Real Tennis Club. As proof, he points to the recently built...
...benefited greatly from the colonial strife next door. Broke after its Haitian defeat--"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon exclaimed--France sold a large region, 828,000 square miles, from the western banks of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, to the U.S. for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. at a cost of about 4¢ an acre. Alexander Hamilton said Napoleon would not have sold his claims except for the "courage and obstinate resistance [of the] black...