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Mon, 21 January 2008 13:14 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Dilemma of Watching Adam Sandler's Movie "Billy Madison"
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Barron Hilton is shown in this undated
publicity photo released to Reuters December 26, 2007. Hotel heiress
Paris Hilton's potential inheritance dramatically diminished after
her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate
97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charity.
REUTERS/Hilton
Hotels Corp/Handout Wed Dec 26, 10:23 PM ET |
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He's heir to the Madison
Hotel millions, but the only subjects Billy has studied lately are
babes and booze. When Brian Madison informs his goofball son that he
plans to turn over his Fortune 500 company to a scheming vice
president, Billy makes the bet of his life: He's going back to
school--grades 1 through 12--in 24 weeks! Can this bona fide
blockhead win his father's respect, the family fortune and the love
of his beautiful teacher? |
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Released |
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Universal Pictures
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In order to inherit his
father's estate a slacker must repeat grades 1-12 in two months. |
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Production Co.: |
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Robert Simonds Company,
Billy Madison Productions |
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Comedy |
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U.S. Box Office: |
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$25,441,250 |
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1 hr. 29 min. |
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Filming Locations: |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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PG-13 |
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United States |
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Last week, Trans-7 played some movies starred
by Adam Sandler, among which was "Billy Madison", produced in 1995 by Universal
Pictures. The story was about a slacker who must repeat school time, grades 1-12, in two
months in order to inherit his father's estate.
The moment of this movie played on Trans-7 was
a few days after the news about Paris Hilton's potential inheritance
dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced
plans on 26 December 2007 to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to
charity.
For me there was a dilemma about whether or
not I should watch the movie "Billy Madison". If I watched the movie, it would be like my relationship with Paris
Hilton was only about her wealth, while in fact from the beginning it
should be about my treating Paris Hilton as my bridge to heaven, related
with my consent to move to the eternity.
So my decision was not to watch the movie, in
the worry that it could only create a bias related to my relationship
with Paris Hilton. I should focus on treating Paris Hilton as my bridge to
heaven, related with my consent to move to the eternity.
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Date:
Mon, 21 January 2008 14:04 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal After My Genie Letters
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Louisiana Republican Gov.
Bobby Jindal takes the oath from Louisiana Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court Pascal Calogero, Jr. in Baton Rouge, Monday, Jan.
14, 2008. Jindal became the first elected Indian-American governor
in the United States. Jindal's wife Supriya holds the bible.
(AP
Photo/Bill Haber)
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Louisiana Republican
Governor-elect Bobby Jindal and his wife Supriya arrive at
his inauguration ceremony at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge,
Monday, Jan. 14, 2008. Jindal became the first elected
Indian-American governor in the United States.
(AP
Photo/Bill Haber)
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Jan 14, 3:38 PM ET |
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File photo of Bobby
Jindal (C). Jindal was sworn in on Monday as governor of
Louisiana to become the first Indian-American elected head of a U.S.
state. REUTERS/David Rae Morris
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Jan 14, 3:00 PM ET |
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Louisiana Republican Gov.
Bobby Jindal and his wife Supriya, hold hands with their
daughter Selia as they walk back to the State Capitol building after
Jindal took the oath of office in Baton Rouge, Monday, Jan. 14,
2008. Jindal became the first elected Indian-American governor in
the United States.
(AP
Photo/Bill Haber)
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Louisiana elects
first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction
updated 9:01 a.m. EDT,
Sun
October 21, 2007
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became
the nation's youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold
post in Louisiana since Reconstruction when he carried more
than half the vote to defeat 11 opponents.
Jindal, the Republican 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants,
had 53 percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the
vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday's
election outright and avoid a November 17 runoff.
"My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the
American dream. And guess what happened. They found the
American Dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana,"
he said to cheers and applause at his victory party.
His nearest competitors: Democrat Walter Boasso
with 208,690 votes or 18 percent; Independent John Georges had
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151,101 or 13 percent. Eight
candidates divided the rest.
"I'm asking all of our supporters to get behind our new
governor," Georges said in a concession speech.
The Oxford-educated Jindal had lost the governor's race four
years ago to Gov. Kathleen Blanco. He won a congressional seat
in conservative suburban New
Orleans a year later but was widely believed to have his eye
on the governor's mansion.
Campbell, a public service commissioner from Bossier Parish,
had less money but ran on a singular plan: scrapping the state
income tax on businesses and individuals and levying a new tax
on oil and gas processed in Louisiana.
The race was one of the highest-spending in Louisiana history.
Jindal alone raised $11 million, and Georges poured about $10
million of his personal wealth into his campaign war chest
while Boasso plugged in nearly $5 million of his own cash. |
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Something interesting about the winning of Governor Bobby Jindal as
the first non-white and for the first time a son of an immigrant from India
to
win the election of governor of Louisiana.
He won the election held on 20 October 2007 after my
previous letter of "Solomon
Islands Earthquake After 'Solomon's Path with No Political Part' "
dated 20 September 2007 and "Opening
of New Orleans Flood Gates" dated 4 October 2007.
His last name Jindal is like containing the word "Jin", an Indonesian word
for "genie". Prophet Solomon was known for having the miracle of
directing the genies to work for him. And Bobby Jindal won the election in
Louisiana, the state that contains the city of New Orleans.
Moreover, his sworn in took place after my letter of "Not
Passing the 25 December" dated 13 January 2008 about
TV series of "Supernatural", about a sibling
Dean and Sam Winchester who spend their life hunting bad genies.
Congratulation to governor Bobby Jindal.
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