Word: gooders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...validate the decade's least likely retro trend - musicals! - opening in theaters today is Take the Lead, a gritty-weepie drama, "inspired by a true story," starring Antonio Banderas as a do-gooder teaching ballroom dancing to disaffected Harlem high schoolers. A few more of these, and nice could become a genre...
...protesters marched in Denver and Detroit. 1,000 marched here in Boston. According to press reports, many marchers were immigrants themselves; the children of illegal families have been both the leaders and the ground troops for event after event. This movement did not start with some wealthy do-gooder and it is not fueled by any liberal elite. The response to this new attack came from the individuals being attacked.These people are demanding the most basic of human needs: recognition. In the current debate, immigrant families have been little more than political props. The spectrum of debate on this issue...
Schutte talks of paying off her $2,500 student debt, getting state grants to go back to nursing school and eventually moving back to her hometown, Cedar Hill. All those things are going to take more than a few donations from a do-gooder group. But just like Lisa, Jessica Schutte had a choice when it came to having an abortion. And she decided, no matter how hard it gets, she wants to watch that choice grow...
Meanwhile, charitainment became a bona fide TV genre. Joining the ABC do-gooder hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Oprah's giveaways and crusades was Three Wishes, in which Christian-rock singer Amy Grant bestows largesse on needy people every week. Time was, the occasional celebrity like Audrey Hepburn would lend her profile to a cause. But Grant and Makeover's Ty Pennington are a distinct kind of charitainment star, celebrities whose good deeds are their chief claim to fame. Their shows aim not just to solve personal problems (help autistic kids, build a school library) but also to salve...
BRANGELINA Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, preternaturally good-looking--and do-gooder--celebrity couple...