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The first film I saw in a theater was “The Love Bug,” Disney’s 1969 comedy about a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie and the motley team who race him to many a checkered flag.

Through their perspectives, black humor flows freely, as the motivations and experiences that brought this motley crew together rise to the surface.

One of the key modernist figures formed her dance company 60 years ago as a motley troop of five women who danced spontaneously outdoors for passersby.

Yeoh describes “Section 31” as “Mission: Impossible” in space, with “a motley crew” of morally flexible spies.

To this day, she shares her home with a motley crew of horses, dogs and cats — either rescued or invited in because they arrived one day and refused to leave.

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