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ChapStick, llamas, and tater tots are just a few things that appear in Napoleon Dynamite, a cult film shot for a mere $400,000 that went on to gross $44.5 million.

Garin Pirnia








Richard Roundtree stars in Shaft (1971).

On July 2, 1971, moviegoers caught their first glimpse of Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, the "black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks."

Kristin Hunt


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Dog owners are starting to get ecstatic with bring your dog to work day coming up on June 21. Having a pet at work can seem like another job to handle, but it is actually the quite opposite.

Tara Rahimi