Each generation throws up a coming-of-age comedy to call its own, whether it's "American Graffiti" or "American Pie, " and there are equal parts of both here.
Yet banks remain overloaded with souring loans, plagued by falling real-estate values and forced to battle each other for the scraps of a smaller American pie.
Other actors taking part include Oscar-nominee Gabourey Sidibe, American Pie star Jason Biggs, the US Office star John Krasinski and My Big Fat Greek Wedding actress Nia Vardalos.
The first featured a pilgrimage to the resting place of Buddy Holly whose untimely death was later declared in American Pie as the day the music died.
The diminishing returns may continue for "Revolution, " as the franchise seems to be teetering dangerously close to the quality level of long-running direct-to-video spinoff series like Bring It On and American Pie.
The success of comedies like American Pie hardly suggests that today's viewers despise the intellectually undemanding, while Keaton's The General is "arguably the greatest screen comedy ever made" according to the London listings magazine Time Out.
Sky customers will also get exclusive subscription access to classic NBCUniversal titles including Jurassic Park, Back to the Future and the American Pie series of films, as well as iconic titles such as Mamma Mia, Gladiator and Scarface.
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When Charlie (played stolidly by Chris Weitz, who co-directed "American Pie") rejects Buck's overtures, both amicable and sexual, Buck follows him back to Los Angeles, finds a place to live and promptly becomes his old friend's obsessive stalker.
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In 1890, Queen Victoria apparently summoned her baker to prepare an American apple pie.
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In 1881, a recipe for American Apple Pie was cited in print.
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So while the hackneyed saying goes, As American as apple pie, what we really should be saying is, as American as blueberry cobbler.
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"This is as American as apple pie, " said Sean Tucker, another top aerobatic pilot, from Salinas, Calif.
Judge Sotomayor, as a Puerto Rican, is, well, as American as mango pie.
When that happens, conservation will become an American as apple pie and baseball.
My answer is quite simple: I am about as American as apple pie, but my system is ready for the world.
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But some U.S. cities have names as American as apple pie, channeling the 253 year old founding principals of this country into geographic locations.
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Protection of trade secrets is as American as apple pie.
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This is as American as apple pie.
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This extraordinary film is a reminder that childhood is not the cutesy-pie concoction American filmmakers would have it be.
For communities, joining together to fight flab is now as American as second helpings of apple pie.
Now nobody likes doing anything that could be construed as damaging kids (or baseball, apple pie, or the American flag).
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Sports fans may project an all-American image of baseball and apple pie, but they are bilking most of the population out of billions of dollars every year.
"We invented the Boston cream pie, so we are the American iconic culinary institution, " Ritchie says.
As we celebrate Independence Day with hot dogs, hamburger and apple pie, we might pause to tell our personal stories of immigration to America, celebrating the uniquely American character of ambition, hope, daring, tolerance, and vision that will ensure the continued liberty and prosperity of our diverse peoples.
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