The Aquino camp questions Mr Villar's poor-boy-made-good story and suggests that he is being covertly backed by Mrs Arroyo.
"When you hear that a poor boy caught the world record, it gives you hope, " he says in perfect English.
Kes, on the other hand, dealt with the touching story of a poor boy who finds comfort in training a bird of prey.
In childhood he was told by his father, Manuel, the story of the 20-year-old, dirt-poor farm boy named George Washington Perry who caught a 22.3 pound bass in Georgia in 1932, establishing the current record.
The ploy meshes with the cynical story that follows, of a poor boy with a Machiavellian streak who takes to heart an apprenticeship as a croupier in decadent Monte Carlo and becomes a first-class cardsharp.
An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
Maybe Vegas ain't a place for a poor old country boy from New England.
Mr Villar's image is built on his description of himself as a boy from a poor family who worked hard and became a rich businessman.
The story is simple: a teen-age boy, Xu Yun, leaves his poor rural village in an obsessive quest to find his prodigal and newly prosperous father in the big city of Zigong.
Guests on the South Lawn included Catholic clergy, ecumenical representatives, Catholic schoolchildren, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Sisters of the Poor and Knights of Columbus.
Affleck, in his best performance yet, plays a local boy who has fought his way out of a poor Irish neighborhood and has been living well beyond his hundred-and-sixty-thousand-dollar salary.
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