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The 1 million dog march was Reese Witherspoon's idea.

 

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Elle: Hello, Patriots! I don't think I've been this excited since Gucci became a publicly-traded company.
Timothy McGinn: Oh my God, it's capital Barbie.
Reena: She's so... shiny.

 

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xD
aw thankyou! oh, and I forgot to tell you, you looked really pretty in those pictures before that concert
yes! they filled all the seats and pretty much most of the grounds with standing room
they had good food on the little green bit xD we had Johnny Rockets!
nom
anyway, I'm gonna go now!
...and try and get through tomorrow on 4 hours sleep yay
xD I have an alarm set for 6 45am. ugh.
ayyyy.
see ya guyss! talk soon m'dearies.

s'alright<3 and thank you!
oh my gosh that's awesome! and nomnom johnny rockets ;D
6.45am qurl u crazyyyy. 'night! x

 

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Elle: Ughhh. All day long I felt like white open-toed shoes after Labor Day.
Sid: I hate that feeling, whatever that means.

 

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Dog Spa receptionist: Your dogs are gay!

 

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde is the 2003 sequel to the 2001 film, Legally Blonde. It was once again produced by MGM, and again starred Reese Witherspoon as Elle, as well as Luke Wilson, Sally Field, Regina King, Bruce McGill, and Bob Newhart. The Japanese release was entitled Cutie Blonde 2: Happy Max.

Even though the movie took place in Washington, D.C., the movie was filmed in the offices at EnergySolutions Arena (then the Delta Center), the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. The supposed "aerial views" in the movie on Washington buildings were scale models built by the crew.

 

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Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) wants her Chihuahua, Bruiser, to reunite with his mother, because she would like Bruiser's mother to attend her wedding. Elle hires a detective to find Bruiser's mother, only to discover that the company that has her dog's mother is a cosmetics company that uses Bruiser's mother for cosmetic testing. She finds out that her law firm represents the C'est Magnifique Corporation.

Elle decides to leave Boston, where she had settled with her fiancé, and go to Washington, D.C. to work on Bruiser's Bill. Elle is so upset that her dog's mother is in a make-up testing laboratory, that she decides to take it upon herself to have a "voice for those who can't speak" and to outlaw animal testing.

While working for Congresswoman Victoria Rudd (Sally Field), Elle is met with skepticism and other barriers common to Washington politics. One of her new co-workers remarks that she is "Capitol Barbie!", (there has even been a Barbie doll based on Elle Woods). After a variety of ups and downs including a failed attempt to improve her work environment by having her co-workers write compliments about one another and place them in the "snap cup", Elle starts to lose her faith in Washington politics.

 

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As the story moves along, Elle discovers that Bruiser is actually gay, after she is paged by "The Paws that Refreshes: A Doggy Day Spa." Bruiser has been affectionate with Leslie, a Rottweiller owned by Representative Stan Marks (Bruce McGill). Elle also finds that Congresswoman Libby Hauser (Dana Ivey) was a member of Delta Nu (the sorority from the first film). As a result, Hauser warms to Elle and eventually comes to support Bruiser's Bill.

Elle also discovers that Congresswoman Rudd has been working against her. Rudd has been doing so in an effort to satisfy the interests of a major campaign donor named "Bob" (who is never seen, but with whom Rudd has several telephone conversations). However, Rudd is eventually blackmailed into supporting Elle's discharge petition, because Rudd's Chief of Staff, Grace Rossiter (Regina King) eavesdrops on a recorded conversation during which Rudd admits to Elle that she has been working against Bruiser's Bill in order to help Rudd's sponsors who want to continue with tests on animals. Grace and Elle eventually reach a place of mutual respect, even though Grace openly dislikes Elle.

Elle's discharge petition is successful, and Bruiser's Bill is brought to the floor of the House. Elle gets married in a park in D.C., albeit not at Fenway Park as she had planned, but standing on the home plate which has been delivered to D.C. by the UPS Guy (Bruce Thomas). In the final scene of the movie, when Emmett asks where to live, Elle says, "Oh, I think I know just the place," as they are driving by the White House.

 

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Reception
Although Witherspoon's performance was highly praised, the film overall received mostly negative reviews, and came in at #21 on Entertainment Weekly's Top 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made[1](2006). It currently holds a meager 37% on Rotten Tomatoes, the critical consensus being that "this blonde joke is less funny the second time around"[2].

[edit] Box office
The movie hit theaters on the Wednesday before the Fourth of July in 2003 and grossed nearly $40 million by Monday. However, the following weekend the movie saw sales are sliced in half and LB2 quickly left theaters in the coming weeks. Grossing about $90 million in the U.S., the film was a success for the studio, though many expected it to perform just as well as Witherspoon's last big movie, Sweet Home Alabama.

 

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Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt. It stars Reese Witherspoon as a bubbly, outgoing sorority girl who struggles to win back her ex-boyfriend by proving that she is "serious" enough to earn a law degree, along with Luke Wilson as a young attorney she meets during her studies, Matthew Davis as the ex-boyfriend, and Selma Blair as his new fiancée. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by Amanda Brown. Lutz based the film's sorority culture on her own experiences at James Madison University.

The film was released on July 13, 2001 and received generally positive reviews. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy[2] and ranks 29th on Bravo's 2007 list of "100 Funniest Movies". For her performance, Witherspoon was nominated for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the 2002 MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance.

The film's box-office success led to a 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, and a 2009 direct-to-DVD spin-off, Legally Blondes. Additionally, Legally Blonde: The Musical premiered on January 23, 2007, in San Francisco and opened in New York City at the Palace Theatre on Broadway on April 29, 2007, starring Laura Bell Bundy. The musical has since closed on Broadway, but opened to very good reviews and box office in London's West End.

 

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In her senior year as a Southern California college student, girlish sorority president Elle Woods (Witherspoon) majors in fashion merchandising and is seriously in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III (Davis), who will attend Harvard Law School next year. She excitedly expects him to ask her to marry him, but instead he breaks up with her, saying he needs a more "serious" girlfriend for his legal and political career.

Desperate to win Warner back, Elle studies for and passes the law-school entrance exam, applies to Harvard, and is accepted. At Harvard, her fellow students look down on her and Warner is engaged to another student, Vivian Kensington (Blair). The only friend Elle makes is Paulette (Coolidge), her divorced manicurist.

When Vivian tricks Elle into attending a party in a Playboy Bunny costume, Elle has a discussion with Warner and finally realizes he will never respect her. Now determined to succeed on her own, Elle studies hard and wins an internship with Professor Callahan (Garber), as do Warner and Vivian. They will work with Callahan and an associate, attorney Emmett Richmond (Wilson), to defend Brooke Taylor-Wyndham (Larter), a famous fitness instructor accused of murdering her billionaire husband, Hayworth Wyndham. Brooke was once Elle's fitness instructor and a member of her sorority. Elle believes Brooke is innocent, but Brooke’s stepdaughter, Chutney (Cardellini), and the household "cabana boy", Enrique (Serano), claim that they saw Brooke standing over Wyndham's dead body, covered in his blood.

Brooke refuses to provide an alibi, but when Elle visits her in prison, she admits that she had liposuction on the day of the murder. Public knowledge of this would ruin Brooke's reputation as a fitness instructor, so Elle agrees to keep it secret and refuses to tell Callahan about it. Impressed by her integrity, Vivian starts to befriend Elle.

 

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The case against Brooke begins to weaken when Enrique correctly identifies Elle's shoe style. Elle deduces that he is gay, and Emmett tricks him into identifying his boyfriend in court, proving that his testimony about having an affair with Brooke was a lie.

Impressed by her performance, Callahan discusses Elle's future with her, but he makes sexual advances on her, which she rejects. Vivian lashes out at Elle after seeing Callahan's attempt but not Elle's rejection, convincing Elle that she will never be taken seriously. Elle decides to quit law school, but a female teacher, Professor Stromwell (Taylor), encourages her to continue. Emmett explains Elle's encounter with Callahan to Vivian and Brooke, and Brooke fires Callahan, hiring Elle as her new attorney with Emmett supervising.

In cross-examination, Chutney claims to have been taking a shower and washing her hair at the time of the murder, with the noise drowning out the gunshot, but she also says she had her hair permed earlier that day. When Elle points out that washing her hair shortly after the perm would have ruined Chutney's curls, which are still intact, Chutney finally admits to accidentally shooting Hayworth because she thought he was Brooke, whom she hated for marrying him at such a young age. Brooke is exonerated and Chutney is arrested. After the trial, Warner tries to reconcile with Elle, but she rejects him, explaining that she needs a boyfriend who is less of a "bonehead" in her new career.

In the epilogue, Elle has graduated with high honors, is the class-elected speaker at the ceremony, and has been invited into one of Boston's best law firms; Vivian is now Elle's best friend and has called off her engagement with Warner, who graduated without honors and with no job offers; Emmett has started his own practice, is now Elle's boyfriend, and will propose to her that night; and finally, Paulette has married her delivery man and is expecting a baby girl to be named after Elle.

 

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WOAH MAMA CRAVIN SOME YACHTSMAN STEAKHOUSE ONION BREAD.
right, right,

GET OFF THE DIS EIMEAR
GOODNIGHT FOR THE LAST TIME.
until tomorrow night xD

 

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Top Hip Hop choreographers Napoleon and Tabitha D'umo choreographed the "Bend and Snap" routine before they achieved greater fame as choreographers for the hit Fox show So You Think You Can Dance.

Although the film's setting is Harvard University, it was actually filmed at USC,[3] UCLA,[4] Caltech, and Rose City High School in Pasadena, California. The graduation scene is filmed at Dulwich College, in London, England, since Reese Witherspoon was at the time filming her next project in the city. The real Harvard only appears briefly in certain aerial shots.

The film was originally set to take place at the University of Chicago Law School, but administration at the school disapproved the film, because of a scene in which a professor places his hand on Elle's leg.[5]

The producers intentionally gave Elle a different hairstyle for every scene.

The movie appears to make several subtle shout-outs to John Grisham novels, most humorously with the names of Elle's and Paulette's dogs—Bruiser and Rufus—who both share names with Grisham's sleazy attorney characters—Elle's chihuahua apparently being named after J. Lyman "Bruiser" Stone from the novel The Rainmaker, and Paulette's bulldog after District Attorney Rufus Buckley from A Time to Kill. Additionally, Grisham's novel The Pelican Brief features its own Professor Callahan with a penchant for inappropriate relationships with law students.

This was the second film that Witherspoon and Blair starred in together, the first being Cruel Intentions.

This is also the second film that Witherspoon and Alanna Ubach starred in together, the first being Freeway.

The opening song and main theme, "Perfect Day," was performed by Hoku.

 

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Legally Blonde was released on July 13, 2001 in North America. Its opening-weekend gross of $20,377,426[1] made it a sleeper hit, and it went on to gross $96.5 million in North America and $45.2 million internationally for a worldwide total of $141.7 million.[1] The film was also a critical success. Based on 130 reviews collected by review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 68% of the critics gave Legally Blonde positive ratings, ranking the film as "fresh". Most reviews praised Reese Witherspoon's lead performance, although some denigrated the overall merit of the film.[6] Metacritic reported that the film had an average score of 59, based on 31 reviews.[7]

The film made Witherspoon an A-list actress and one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. After Legally Blonde, she starred in the sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, for which she was paid $15 million, and the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama, and played June Carter in Walk the Line, which won her an Oscar for Best Actress.

 

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In 2006, a musical adaption premiered on Broadway to mostly positive reviews, starring Laura Bell Bundy as Elle, Christian Borle as Emmett, Orfeh as Paulette, Nikki Snelson as Brooke, Richard H. Blake as Warner, Kate Shindle as Vivienne, and Michael Rupert as Callahan. Other cast members included Andy Karl, Leslie Kritzer, Annaleigh Ashford, DeQuina Moore, and Natalie Joy Johnson. The show, Bundy, Borle, and Orfeh were all nominated for Tony Awards. Later, the Broadway show was the focus of an MTV reality TV series called Legally Blonde - The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods, in which the winner would take over the role of Elle on Broadway. Bailey Hanks from Anderson, South Carolina, won the competition.

Legally Blonde is currently playing at the Savoy Theatre in London's West End starring Sheridan Smith as Elle and Richard Fleeshman as Warner.

 

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Legally Blondes (also known as Legally Blonde 3) is a spin-off film of the Legally Blonde series from MGM. Elle Woods, previously played by Reese Witherspoon, does not appear in the film, but is mentioned several times. Witherspoon presented and produced the film. The film aired on ABC Family and Disney Channel, and is directed towards a younger audience than the first two films. The film stars Milly and Becky Rosso (Camilla and Rebecca Rosso) as Elle Woods' British twin cousins.

 

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Starting in England, Annabelle "Annie" and Isabelle "Izzy" Woods are introduced as clever twin girls with a love for pink like their cousin, Elle. They and their father are moving to California where they will be staying in Elle's home. Awaiting the girls are a pair of chihuahua dogs, their giddiness is cut short when they find out they are going to attend Pacific Preparatory, a private school requiring uniforms.

Upon their first day, Annie and Izzy meet Chris, who is almost immediately smitten with Annie. They also start off on the wrong foot with Tiffany Donohugh, the spoiled daughter of a primary funder of "Pac Prep." Tiffany later apologizes for her rude behavior and befriends the twins, although she is doing it merely to "keep her enemies close." Annie and Izzy believe Tiffany to be a sweet person, though she dislikes classmates on scholarship. Her true colors come out, however, when she embarrasses Annie and Izzy at a formal dance, revealing that they are on partial scholarship at the school.

Annie and Izzy rekindle their friendships with the other scholarship students, including Chris. Izzy wants to help Chris get closer to Annie, but in several instances, Annie believes Chris to like Izzy.

The twins and their friends believe the uniforms are stifling their creativity and they redo their clothing while still cleverly abiding by the school's many rules.

 

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Legally Blondes (also known as Legally Blonde 3) is a spin-off film of the Legally Blonde series from MGM. Elle Woods, previously played by Reese Witherspoon, does not appear in the film, but is mentioned several times. Witherspoon presented and produced the film. The film aired on ABC Family and Disney Channel, and is directed towards a younger audience than the first two films. The film stars Milly and Becky Rosso (Camilla and Rebecca Rosso) as Elle Woods' British twin cousins.

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Chris and Izzy are later accused of cheating on a big exam and they all set out to prove the school wrong. Annie and Izzy suspect Tiffany and Justin are behind this and find that Chris and Tiffany have the same backpack that comes with a lock and key. In Chris's locked zipper he keeps a master-key, that opens all doors in the school, for his work-studies to help pay off his scholarship. They discover that all the keys and locks for the backpacks are the same, any key will open any lock. On the floor of the teacher's private office, where the answers are kept, they discover red markings that match the marks that Justin's expensive shoes create. Tiffany told Justin the uber code to access the answers to the test. With this new piece of information, Annie and Izzy set to prove Izzy's innocence. In student court, Annie poses as Izzy when she is locked in the bathroom by Justin, and defeats her fear of public speaking. Even as Izzy escapes and returns to the court, Annie points out that Justin owns a new cell phone, one that hasn't yet been released to the public, and could only have gotten from one person, the daughter of the creator, Tiffany Donohugh. Annie wrote down the uber code and analyzed it with the markings and studied them in court and told everybody as Izzy that Justin is so expeled because only the creator can tell the person that is doing it.

Justin, who is irritated by noises such as pencils being sharpened and pen clicks, struggles to hold himself together as the entire courtroom click their pens. He finally admits to framing Chris and Izzy and that Tiffany was in on it too. Headmistress Higgins expels them both.

At the end of the movie, Annie and Chris dance together at a school dance and Izzy does the same with Brad who is also a scholar but kept it a secret, he had aided them in proving Justin's guilt. Tiffany and Justin are shown boarding a yellow school bus at a public school, Tiffany's worst fear came true. However, as the couples joyously dance, Ashley Meadows, Tiffany's former sidekick, icily warns them from afar that "it's not over, girls; there's a new brunette in charge" pointing out that there might be a sequel. If anyone sees the Evidence and uber code please sign a contract and contact with me Gabby A. Tucker