ENTERTAINMENT
October 29, 2009 | Robert Abele
"Napoleon Dynamite" director Jared Hess is well aware that his particular style of aggressively quirky humor isn't for everyone. He's fine with that. The 30-year-old filmmaker admits that even his own grandmother -- with whom he shares a warm relationship and a love of western history -- is baffled by his oddball sensibility and his popularity with the youth of today. "She was talking to one of my younger brothers," Hess recounted recently over breakfast, "and she said, 'Well I'm glad Jared likes this history stuff, 'cause I tell you what, this comedy thing sure isn't gonna last much longer!