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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Glendale-born writer and director Jared Hess came out swinging with his first feature film, 2004's "Napoleon Dynamite," which ...

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Glendale-born writer and director Jared Hess came out swinging with his first feature film, 2004's "Napoleon Dynamite," which became a cult classic. Over the years, Hess has gone on to write and ...