The real divide is less, the challengers say, toadies versus trouble-makers, or loyalists against usual suspects.

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Rigoletto's biting humor is lost in the extravaganza, to some extent evaporating that plotline and the reason for the anger of the Duke's toadies.

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The essence of his critique was that Mr Duncan Smith had revealed himself as a small man, attempting to surround himself with ideological soul-mates and political toadies.

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Uncle Arthur has long since vanished -- and his daughter Lucinda is now an old lady in the local asylum -- but Jared's discovery of his loosely bound notes reawakens the interest of the terrible ogre Mulgarath (Nick Nolte), who will stop at nothing to get his claws on them, if only he and his toadies can break the protective circle that surrounds the house.

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