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...Best Big City Mayors Chicago: Richard DaleyAtlanta: Shirley FranklinBaltimore: Martin O'MalleyDenver: John HickenlooperNew York: Michael BloombergHonorable Mention: Gavin Newsom / San Francisco
...Best Big City Mayors Chicago: Richard DaleyAtlanta: Shirley FranklinBaltimore: Martin O'MalleyDenver: John HickenlooperNew York: Michael BloombergHonorable Mention: Gavin Newsom / San Francisco
...Best Big City Mayors Chicago: Richard DaleyAtlanta: Shirley FranklinBaltimore: Martin O'MalleyDenver: John HickenlooperNew York: Michael BloombergHonorable Mention: Gavin Newsom / San Francisco
...Shirley Franklin isn't standard mayor material. For starters, she's a woman, which makes her the first female mayor Atlanta has ever had; in fact, she's the first black woman ever to run a big Southern city. All of 5 ft. 1 in. tall, Franklin is a divorced mother of three who dyes her hair platinum blond. Before she campaigned for mayor, Franklin had never run for an elected office. Outkast played at her inauguration...
...film is narrated by a cleaner (Shirley Henderson), who talks obsessively of the dirt of life, the things that cannot be changed or removed but that just build up. This is as much a personal commentary as it is a global one; Potter wonders how to move forward as an individual when so much death and bad blood has accumulated...