Plot
Small town girl Marcy (Tara Walker) comes to the LA with stars in her eyes, thinking she can make it big on "Search For A Star." Instead, with little money and no friends, she finds herself sleeping in her car. Things dramatically change when she meets Rose (Debbie Allen), living in a cardboard box, and Mort (John Savage), a wheelchair-bound Gulf War veteran. After first fighting over territory, these three lost souls bond in friendship, protecting and supporting each other in a story that is at once profoundly funny, heart-warming and poignant.
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Plot
Small town girl Marcy (Tara Walker) comes to the LA with stars in her eyes, thinking she can make it big on "Search For A Star." Instead, with little money and no friends, she finds herself sleeping in her car. Things dramatically change when she meets Rose (Debbie Allen), living in a cardboard box, and Mort (John Savage), a wheelchair-bound Gulf War veteran. After first fighting over territory, these three lost souls bond in friendship, protecting and supporting each other in a story that is at once profoundly funny, heart-warming and poignant.
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Frans J. Palmu: [when finding out that Mrs. Skof's death was not an accident] Every murderer makes a mistake. This one made two.
Inspector Palmu: Do you see what it says on that picture on the wall?::Detective Toivo Virta: [reads] God sees everything!::Inspector Palmu: That's what they say, that's what they say! A police officer can't see everything, but he is able to see something. Or at least he should be! What time it is?::Detective Toivo Virta: 10.01 a.m.::Inspector Palmu: They boys have already read the morning paper. There is a phone over there. Alert the murder squad!::[Virta rushes to the phone]::Inspector Palmu: . Every murderer makes a mistake, this one made two.::Detective Toivo Virta: [on the phone] Hey, boys! Come here! Mrs. Scrof, Rantakatu 2! Bye!::[to Palmu]::Detective Toivo Virta: They are coming! The murderers... I mean the murder squad!::Inspector Palmu: God timing! I'm sure that you noticed everything right away! The dog has been lifted on the mattres. That was the first mistake! If the dog had felt the odor of the gas, it would have go around the room and finally hide itself under the bed in panic. Besides, its neck is broken.::Detective Toivo Virta: Really?::Inspector Palmu: Yes. Maybe it attacted the murderer and he snuffed it out. The second mistake is the over-boiled porrige. Why wasn't the stove cleaned.::Detective Toivo Virta: Maybe Mrs. Scrof planned to do it in the morning.::Inspector Palmu: This woman was very tidy! The kettle is out of its place. Who has touched the kettle?::Detective Toivo Virta: I told you right away that it is a murder!::Inspector Palmu: Oh, you did? Well, you are undergraduate after all!
Frans J. Palmu: Oh, by the way: Where were you last night between 11pm and 12pm?::Judge Lanne: Me? I was at my club. I left after 12 pm.::Frans J. Palmu: What is the name of your club?::Judge Lanne: The Silent Pole Vaulters Club.
Frans J. Palmu: [to the murderer] It is true that you forgot that God sees everything, isn't?
Detective Toivo Virta: [voiceover] Of course it was a murder. Otherwise they wouldn't call the Criminal Investigation Police. And no-one forgets to switch off the gas.::Inspector Palmu: It was not a murder.::Detective Toivo Virta: I didn't say anything like that.::Detective Toivo Virta: No, but you THOUGHT!::Detective Toivo Virta: If Inspector had even a little bit of imagination...::Inspector Palmu: ...I would cut it off. Or leave my job.
[Kokki's first lines]::Detective Väinö Kokki: The murder squad has arrived, sir.
Ms. Hallamaa: I smell the odor of gas.::Janitor's wife: What?::Ms. Hallamaa: At the stairs! I smell the odor of gas at the stairs.::Janitor: Gas! No, it is not the odor of gas! [to his wife] Or did you smell it?::Janitor's wife: No, it is just the drainpipes that are broken.::Ms. Hallamaa: No, I'm sure that it is the odor of gas.::Janitor: That old woman, that old woman upstairs. She doesn't have the drainpipes repaired, because she is so stingy.::Ms. Hallamaa: What ever you say, this is the smell of gas!
Frans J. Palmu: By the way, where were you yesterday-evening from eleven o'clock to twelve o'clock?::Judge Lanne: Well... I was at my club. I left there after twelve o'clock.::Frans J. Palmu: What is the name of your club?::Judge Lanne: The club of the quiet pole jumpers.
A domestic worker is a person who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance, known as housekeeping. Responsibilities may also include cooking, doing laundry and ironing, food shopping and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within the household where they work.
The conditions faced by domestic workers have varied considerably throughout history and in the contemporary world. In the course of twentieth-century movements for labour rights, women's rights and immigrant rights, the conditions faced by domestic workers and the problems specific to their class of employment have come to the fore. In 2011, the International Labour Organization adopted the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers which covers decent work conditions for domestic workers. Recent ILO estimates based on national surveys and/or censuses of 117 countries, place the number of domestic workers at around 53 million. But the ILO itself states that "experts say that due to the fact that this kind of work is often hidden and unregistered, the total number of domestic workers could be as high as 100 million". The ILO also states that 83% of domestic workers are women and many are migrant workers.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.