Word: shirkers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dole's presidential campaigns, a GOP superstar was scheduled to appear in a splashy "turn things around" rally for Dole and make a surprise endorsement. The phone rang late the night before--the superstar was canceling the appearance, citing a "dental emergency." At least give that shirker points for creativity. Candidates know that national politics is a brutal Serengeti, and the animals that roam there have highly attuned survival instincts. When they start to flee, it is a sure warning of coming trouble...
...Mayor has 96 kids to whom he can devoted only 12 secs. each at breakfast time. After all those girls he had a son, JoJo, a silent, sulking lad in Goth attire. (In the original, and JoJo was unrelated to the main Whovian - just "a very small shirker" who performs a crucial role at the climax.) So the movie combines two kinds of parenting: literally, as the Mayor and JoJo find a project to bring them together, and figuratively, as Horton (a fine vocal job by Carrey) grandly represents the kindness of strangers...