For those who cannot get such regular jobs, a petty business is the next best thing.

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"It was probably the best thing for both of us in the long run, " Petty says of Kahne.

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In his most human film, the 1952 Ikiru, a petty bureaucrat learns he is dying of cancer and resolves to do one good thing: fight for the creation of a city park.

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